On Sunday the schooner Snow Drop, Capt. Buzzard, was caught out in the big gale in Lake Michigan and had a narrow escape from foundering. The Snow Drop was bound from Sturgeon Point to Harrisville, and on the trip experienced one of the heaviest seas ever seen on that lake. When off Harrisville Capt. Buzzard ran up signals of distress, which were promptly responded to by the life saving crew in command of Capt. James Henderson, who worked all of Sunday and Monday night pumping and saving the vessel's cargo of lumber. Detroit Tribune, Nov. 5.
Evidently the quill wielder who materialized the above doesn't know the marine geography of Michigan nor what he is talking about. In the first place Sturgeon Point and Harrisville are on the west shore of Lake Huron. In the second place the schooner Snow Drop wasn't caught out in any gale or storm in Lake Michigan, but was lying at the Harrisville lumber docks, in Lake Huron, laden with lumber at the time mentioned. There was considerable sea, and the schooner pounded against the dock somewhat and sprung a leak. Then Capt. Buzzard put up his distress signal, and the crew from Sturgeon Point (five miles above Harrisville, in Alcona county, on Lake Huron, State of Michigan, U. S. A.) came to the relief of the schooner. We are willing to forgive the editor of the Tribune this once, on the presumption that he didn't know any better; but the editor of the Bay City Press, who copied and published the above item from the Tribune, will be passed by us as being too grossly stupid to receive mercy on this occasion. He knew better.