Perth Amboy evening news., 1904-08-31

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loaded with stone for lha break water
that was being rebuilt by line govern
ment, to wait for another shift of
! wind off shore. but it kept 1t up all
night and bringing the waves in OF Of
she lake into our little harhor until
we were doing quite n little rolling.
to add to our troubles a tug came
along and we we're ordered away from
where we were lying as The sea COM
PEELED the government boats. TO stop
work on the break water and come into
shelter ont of the sea as the wind was
driving into the break water. We had
let our steam go down so the tug
towed us across the harbor to another
dock, where we were told we would
be undisturbed.
Conneaut is a most interesting place
that has been brought to the front by
Andrew Carnegie and the Steel Trust
and hos been built for tho receiving
of iron ore from the Lake Superior
mines. The harbor consists of two
breakwater piers built abont 800 feet
into the lake and about $50 feet apart
and docks extending inland about q
quarter of a mile and-a little basin
about 800 feet In diameter at the in-
shore eud. 1t has been dredged out
so that the large lake steamers can
come to the docks and discharge their
oargoes of ore a system of cranes
that unload them in record time. Tho
steamer A. B. Wolvin, the largest
steamer on the Great Lakes. recently
~unloaded her cargo of $500 tons of
GRE at these docks in four and one,
half hours time. 1t is certainly a
wonderful thing to see the unloading
machines four of them at work at
once, diving their enormous SCOOPS in
to tile hold of these steamers and
scoop up ten to twelve toni Of ore and
lift it out of the ship AMI put it into
a car at the. rate of some forty tons
per minute. The larbor is SO crowded
with steamers that there ID times
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lake until a steamer comes out before
another one can get in. The longest
Of the ships cannot, turn around, hut
are lowed out into the lake, stern
foremost, to turn around. Just as we
were turning in for the night we were
compelled to move from the dock
where we lay and were again taken
in tow and shifted in order that a large
steamer could be turned around in the
little basin as the sen in the lake was
too high for the tugs to take tho
steamer out.
1t was a great piece of work turn
ing the steamer around in such a small
space without damaging any of the
boats crowded into tho little hai Dor,
as the night was dark and stormy and
the wind blew fiercely in from the
lake, but it was safely done and soon
tho iron monster crept slowly out of
the harbor between the vessels, in
some places having but a few feet to
spare and into the lake and On her
why over the stormy waters after an
otiier load of ore.
Aug. 18:-It was too stormy in the
morning to go on the lake again and
we had 10 wait until 80 p. M, when
tho lako Gained down We started
eastward from Conneant tolnd for
Ere, Pa, twenty nine miles from
Copntant. Rather rough for the first
ten miles, but it a~nietsd down as we
won't on and we reached Erie about 8
y. m. and found a quiet place to lie
up near a grain elevator for tho night.
Erie albor Is the finest harhor IN the
chain of Great Lakes and is entirely
sheltered from all winds and il large
enough to safes shelter all who poss-
IDLY have use for it and is used as a
harbor for a large number of steam
fishing boats that fish on the lakes
during the day and make a harhor
with their fish at night. ! was told
that there was about seventy s'eamers
engaged in fishing at this port.
Friday, Aug. l0:-Turned out at 2
a. m. and found a strong southeast
wind blowing as this was q off shore
wind we concluded to, try 1T on the
lake again as it was onIy seventy eight
miles to Buffalo and the end Of the
stormy lakes VIC ere very anxious
to get through and into quiet waters.
So at 5. a. m. we were doing our best
IN the way of speed toward Buffalo.
The wind blew hard, bnt as it was
off shore, keeping Gloss to the land we
were not troubled by the raves At
. a. m. the wind suddenly shifted TO
the northeast and blew gently for a
few minutes and went back to sonth-
east and did the same thing over again
about IL a.. m. lie duli storm clouds
began to make up all around us. but