Steam Shovel and Dredge Volume 19 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915 Excerpt: ...Interesting News Notes for Our Marine Interests on tne Great Lakes Blueprints providing for improvement of the channel between Lake Michigan and Lake Harbor at Muskegon, Mich., including extensive dredging of the waterway and the building of a big dock, have been mailed to marine contractors with a request for bids. The specifications call for a channel 30 ft. and 250 ft. long with a beam depth of 10 ft. The revetment will be 2S0 ft. long, 100 ft. running out into Lake Michigan, while 150 ft. of the dock extends into the channel. The Heights Improvement Association of Muskegon is back of the project. A committee consisting of Congressman James C. McLaughlin, Mason li. Morton and Martin Schoehburg, representing the organization, went to Grand Rapids recently to confer with the United States Engineer there as to the cost of the improvement. When bids are received a campaign to raise funds for the work will be made. + While taking a line from the steamer Sierra, at the entrance to Sandusky harbor, the night of August 10, the tug Sandusky of the Great Lakes Towing Company was rolled over and two members of the crew were drowned. The men that were lost when the tug turned turtle were George Maston of Port Clinton, engineer, and Elmer Bahnson, fireman, also of Port Clinton. The bodies of both men were recovered. The body of Engineer Maston was found in the engine room wedged between the crosshead and the cylinder and it was with much difficulty that it was recovered by a diver, who was sent to Sandusky from the wrecker Favorite. The Sandusky, which is a steel boat, was built at the Cleveland yard of the Great Lakes Towing Company. The passenger steamer Eastland, which capsized in Chicago harbor, July 24, was righted August 13 by Captain Alex Cunning, wrecking mas...