MICHIGAN TRAVEL TIPS
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THE HOLOGLOBE PRESS
(The 183rd Edition)
by
Victor Edward Swanson,
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To open this edition of Michigan Travel Tips, I have to report about a event that took place on July 4, 2019, at Onaway, Michigan, at about noon. On that day, I was at Onaway to see a July 4th parade--which I could call an anti-communist parade or an anti-socialist parade. By the way, a Republican politician had a float of sorts in the parade, which had a blow-up elephant on it, and not one Democratic politician took part in the parade, but the Democratic Party in the United States of America is now a socialistic and communistic political party. I took a photograph of the elephant, since it looked cute. For at least thirteen years, I have seen the annual parade at Onaway, and one highlight is the sculpture that is made by staffers of Moran Iron Works, a business that exists at Onaway; a new sculpture is made every year. This year, the sculpture was the head of a man named Merritt Chandler, who was born near Adrian, Michigan, in 1843 and who was involved with, for instance, building the Onaway Courthouse and building a road from Rogers City to Petoskey and a road from Black Lake to Onaway. A little before the parade began on July 4, 2019, a somewhat young man was with a two-year-old boy (in a stroller) and with what appeared to be a teenage girl. For a while the boy was playing with a telephone-like device (an iPod-like thing) or whatever, and his thumbs were working away to do whatever he was trying to do. The man noted at one point that the two-year old boy was still not talking. I noticed how the boy was intensely focused on the electronic device, and it seemed to me it was no wonder the boy was not talking. During the young years, a child should be working to understand language and working to use words, and the brain should be developing to set up speech pathways and such. I would not be surprised to learn in a few years that the two-year-old boy is having a slow development in relation to speaking and writing and interacting with people and certainly researching things, such as history of Merritt Chandler, the founder of Onaway, Michigan.
On May 10, 2007, I published Michigan Travel Tips #37, and a part of that edition provided information about steam barge of the Great Lakes from 1871 to 1905 called The Joseph S. Fay, which sank near 40 Mile Point Lighthouse, which is about seven miles north of Rogers City, Michigan, and along Lake Huron. The focus of the section of that document was on David Syze, who died during the sinking event and whose story has been improperly told for decades, and that document can be reached by using this Travel #37 link. Since May 2007, I have done a lot of research about 40 Mile Point Lighthouse (or 40 Mile Point Light Station) and The Joseph S. Fay, and what I did not report in Michigan Travel Tips #37 is that the boat was always called The Joseph S. Fay and not (at least for a while) The J.S. Fay, as some people have pushed along. Certainly, I am about the most-informed person about the history of The Joseph S. Fay and 40 Mile Point Lighthouse in the country, having written a number of documents about them. And here I have to talk about The Joseph S. Fay and 40 Mile Point Lighthouse to show up people who are passing along crap about both things today, some of whom are members of the 40 Mile Point Lighthouse Society (a historical society--somewhat) and some of whom are tied to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (or NOAA), which has been involved in passing along false data to the country and the world about the climate data and which was and is tied to "Climategate" (the scandal about fake weather data and the idea of manmade climate change leading to the death of the planet), which can be learned about by seeing my document entitled "CAP AND TRADE" and Carbon Dioxide Facts and Nonsense (which can be reached through this Carbon link), and more on the subject of manmade climate change leading to the death of the planet can be learned by seeing my document informally entitled Countdown to the End of the World, which can be reached through this Countdown link.
I am a person who despises people, especially so-called journalists, who pass along false information to others, especially time upon time or purposely, and socialists and communists have a history of such actions, but then there are the stupid, too. Over the years, I have heard a number of idiotic stories about the sinking of The Joseph S. Fay. For one, people who should know better have passed along the idea that crewmen from The Joseph S. Fay were turned away by people in homes on the day of the sinking, refusing to offer help to the crewmen, who were wet and cold. In addition, I have heard stories about how the ship was carrying coal. The ship was carrying iron ore--it was heading south in Lake Huron. By the way, when a ship is carrying coal, the ship usually heads north--having picked up the coal at ports down in or near Lake Erie that had come from places farther south in the country. The biggest screw-up is that the first mate of the craft--David Syze--was drown trying to swim to shore or was hit by a wave and drowned. David Syze was the only member of the crew to die on the night of the sinking. Hold it! Maybe the biggest screw-up to history is the story that people recount that came from a crewman named George Rinley, who got to have his interpretation of the sinking of the ship put to paper by The Alpena Evening News in October 23, 1905.
NOAA has been and is involved in pushing defective history information about the climate,or it has been and is involved in pushing fake news. About three years ago, plans were started by people, such as staffers at NOAA, to get signs related to at least the Great Lakes Maritime Heritage Trail and the Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary set up at 40 Mile Point Lighthouse Park, which is officially controlled by the county government of Presque Isle County, which is based at Rogers City (of Presque Isle County). Early examples of proposed signs were offered to, for example, the board of the 40 Mile Point Lighthouse Society, whose purpose it is to see to history things related to 40 Mile Point Light Park, a part of which is 40 Mile Point Lighthouse, and the examples did not sit well with board members. This spring, new signs--already made--were delivered to 40 Mile Point Lighthouse Park. They were signs designed and produced by NOAA, and no one attached to 40 Mile Point Lighthouse Society or the county government provided any input to whether or not the text for the signs was worthwhile. That is, staffers at NOAA, who are not versed in history related to 40 Mile Point Light Station and The Joseph S. Fay, did not get approval in some way in relation to the wording on the signs. The signs were seen by people associated with the 40 Mile Point Lighthouse Society, such as Eric Klein, who is now also the caretaker of 40 Mile Point Lighthouse Park and lives at the lighthouse with his family, and Joan Scheel, the educational chairman of the 40 Mile Point Lighthouse Society, and they noted that two signs--those related to The Joseph S. Fay--were wrong or had wrong information, and they were not eager to have the signs posted. I later learned that staffers at NOAA might change the signs if the 40 Mile Point Lighthouse Society or the county government of Presque Isle County pay to have new signs made. I call that idiocy on the part of NOAA, which, you must remember, did not come to the 40 Mile Point Lighthouse Society to have text approved, and, in fact, today, I hear that NOAA stands by the information provided and pushes out the idea that it is up to the 40 Mile Point Lighthouse Society to prove that NOAA--whose background has nothing to do with The Joseph S. Fay and 40 Mile Point Lighthouse Park--errored or, as I say, screwed up. In essence, NOAA is willing to teach people crap information and leave bad signs up, which is not surprising, given it is tied to the "Climategate" scandal, instead of admitting to a screw-up [Note: That is a sign of arrogance on the part of people and the rotten nature of people at NOAA.].
Let me show off what is written on two of the signs provided by NOAA [Note: NOAA provided five main signs, only two of which focus on The Joseph S. Fay, and at least two direction signs, which need not be talked about.]. The dotted lines are used to show the main sections of text of the two signs, of course, and make you understand where each story starts and ends. By the way, each sign has additional text that is not pertinent to the discussion here.
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Joseph S. Fay
"The old boat pounded in the sea, which at every moment was growing worse and by midnight the waves were going completely over the boat." -George Rinley, surviving crew member
During a fierce storm on October 19, 1905, Lake Huron battered and eventually sank the 216-foot steamer Joseph S. Fay just offshore from this spot. Lake Huron claimed one crew member when a huge wave swept him overboard. The rest of the crew managed to scramble into a lifeboat and eventually made it safely to shore after a traumatic night at sea. The violent storm claimed a dozen ships in nearby waters that night.
No match for the power of the wind, waves and ice of Lake Huron, the Fay's wooden-hull has been torn apart and massive sections are scattered around the area. The main wreckage rests approximately 300 yards offshore in 19 feet of water. The clear water of Lake Huron gives drivers, snorkelers and paddlers the opportunity to explore this main section of wreckage and the cargo of iron ore that went down with the Fay.
Without getting wet, visitors can explore part of the Fay. The starboard side of the steamer's hull lies on the beach, a short walk to the left. Local students often visit this archaeological site for hands-on lessons in Great Lake history.
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Joseph S. Fay
"I have sailed for seven years...but Thursday Night was my worst experience" -George Rinley, surviving crew member
On October 19, 1905, the wooden freighter Joseph S. Fay set sail from Escanaba, Michigan, in calm, clear weather. Destined for Cleveland, Ohio, the Fay towed the barge D.P. Rhodes. As the ships sailed down Lake Huron, both heavily loaded with iron ore, the weather changed dramatically, Winds exceeded 60 miles an hour, and the Fay struggled to maintain a steady course as waves crashed over the decks. Unable to steer, the Fay and the Rhodes were at the mercy of Lake Huron. The towline to the barge was cut in a desperate attempt to save the Fay. The storm drove the Rhodes ashore. The storm was still too fierce for the Fay. After a massive wave washed the Fay's mate overboard to his death, the remaining crew escaped in a lifeboat as the freighter quickly sank.
Today, the broken remains of the Fay are a fascinating archaeological and recreational site. Most of the wreck is located in 19 feet of clear water only 300 yards from shore, ideal for divers, snorkelers and paddlers to explore. If you want to stay dry, look at the section of the wreck located here on shore.
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That covers the two signs.
In 1905, the head lighthouse keeper and the assistance lighthouse keeper were required to make daily reports in a "Journal" (a log book-type book), and in October 1905, a page was actually two pages--like the pages of an open book--and on the left page, the heading had "JOURNAL of Light-house Station at", and on the right page, the heading (in hand writing) was--"Forty Mile Point". In October 1905, the keeper (the head lighthouse keeper) or the assistant lighthouse keeper were required to make short reports about each day (as a rule), and to write entries, a keeper wrote all the way across the page set-up, starting at the left and going passed the center of the book and going to the right side of the book (instead of writing on one face (the left face) of the book till it was filled and then writing on the right face, which, when filled, forced the keepers to turn to the next page). For October 20, 1905, it was written--"at 8:30 P.M. last night the steam J.S. Fay came ashore here in a sinking condition. She soon broke up. most of the crew came ashore on the Pilot house. Three men swam ashore. The Mate was drowned.". And the entry for October 21, 1905, was--"Cleaned up the Signal, and patroled the Beach for the mates body.". Now, I jump to December 1905, to show entries in the real Journal for 40 Mile Point Light Station. The entry for December 4, 1905, was--"The Assistant found a dead man on the beach, about one mile up. We think it is the mate of the Fay.". And the entry for December 5, 1905, was--"Performed routine duties, the mates Body was taken to Rogers City by....".
In 1905, the newspaper published at Rogers City, Michigan, was the Presque Isle County Advance, and in 2007, I found an article about the finding of the body in the Presque Isle County Advance ["Body of David Syze Comes Ashore." Presque Isle County Advance, XXVI, No. 1339, 7 December 1905, p. 8.], and here is some of the article--those parts pertinent to the discussion of the nonsense in the story put forth by NOAA--"...The late storm seems to have brought ashore a portion of the deck and one hatchway of the boat about 20 feet wide and 40 feet long and the body of Syze was discovered protruding from the hatchway with the legs up to the knees covered by the floor of the deck. Word was immediately sent to Rogers City by David Baker who drove down and took back with him prosecuting attorney Reed and undertaker Albert Zinke, on their arrival the wreckage was carefully moved from the body and a careful examination disclosed the fact that upon the person of the corpse there was a wallet in which was found $185.00 in bills, receipts for lodge dues in the Maccabees and some other seaman's protective association, a note book, a small...." The story noted that the commanding officer of The Joseph S. Fay was Captain Fletcher, and the story noted that it seems David Syze's mother lived in Port Huron, Michigan.
Now, I must present information from a letter from "Department of Commerce and Labor -- Light-house Board" of January 29, 1906:
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Keeper, Forty Mile Point, Mich., Light-Station,
Thro' the Inspector of the Eleventh L.H. District,
Detroit, Mich.Sir:
The Board is gratified to learn from a letter of 21 Dec. '05, from Captain A. Fletcher of the Steamer J.S. Fay of the able assistance rendered by you and your assistant in rescuing the captain and crew of the vessel when wrecked on the night of 19 Oct. '05 near your light-station.
The Board specially commends you for this. The fact that you have been commended will be noted on the records of this Office and on those of the Inspector's
Office as a part of your official history.Respectfully,
Captain, U.S.N.,
Naval Secretary.
Now, let me show problems with the text of the two signs.
"huge wave swept him overboard"--This seems to be defective. Proof exists to show that David Syze ended up in wreckage of The Joseph S. Fay. He was found in wreckage on the beach.
"The rest of the crew managed to scramble into a lifeboat"--This seems to be defective, unless the keeper of 40 Mile Point Light Station lied.
"claimed a dozen ships in nearby waters"--This is defective. "Nearby waters" is unclear at least. On the Great Lakes, about a dozen ships were lost because of the stormy weather of October 19, 1905. The roughly dozen ships were not near where The Joseph S. Fay sank or near Rogers City. The "nearby" is wrong.
"No match for the power of the wind, waves and ice of Lake Huron, the Fay's wooden-hull has been torn apart and massive sections are scattered around the area."--This is defective. The writer should have had "wooden hull" and not "wooden-hull". Basically, the ship was torn apart in the storm of October 19, 1905, and not by the wind, waves, and ice of the last ten decades or so. Actually, the material is confusing to readers at first--when they see it--since it does not immediately note that the time factor is related to things happening over the years. Also, I do not think "ice" has helped much to scatter sections of the ship around over the decades.
"Local students often visit this archaeological site for hands-on lessons in Great Lake history."--This is goofy. Only from time to time over the last ten years or so have I heard of school groups coming to the lighthouse to see it; for example, between May 2019 and July 2019, only two school groups showed up (it seems). In addition, school groups do not get any "hands-on lessons" in Great Lakes history, and my research shows that some members of the 40 Mile Lighthouse Society balk at having to sort of give pretend demonstrations about how things were done by the keepers years ago, thinking it foolishness.
"Unable to steer, the Fay and the Rhodes were at the mercy of Lake Huron."--This is unclear and deceptive. The rudder of The Joseph S. Fay was working during the storm. Material should have been presented to indicate that the weather was making it difficult to steer the boat.
"The towline to the barge was cut in a desperate attempt to save the Fay."--This is defective. An article in The Alpena Evening News for October 21, 1905, page 4, put forth the idea that the towline broke when the ship hit ground. And it is reported that the ship went aground at 8:30 p.m., the time that was reported by the keeper of 40 Mile Point Light Station in the Journal.
"After a massive wave washed the Fay's mate overboard to his death, the remaining crew escaped in a lifeboat as the freighter quickly sank."--This is wrong. A wave may have hit the first mate, David Syze, and he may have been knocked off the ship. Then again, David Syze may actually may have been knocked to a place on the ship where others, such as George Rinley, could not see him. If David Syze was knocked off the ship by the wave, he was not killed. Proof is that his body was found in wreckage later, so he lived long enough to get tied up in wreckage.
And then there is a story from George Rinley, which, for one, was put in The Alpena Evening News of October 23, 1905, on page 5 ["STEAMER FAY." The Alpena Evening News, 23 October 1903, page 5.], and it seems to have been the basis for nonsense for years and years and even to this day. Stop! Hold it! NOAA is a big entity, which is involved with gathering data and information. A good and smart person should think that NOAA would do good research to come up with information that could be put on signs designed to teach truth to visitors of tourist attractions and such. My research shows that NOAA seemed to use only one source to get information to put on signs at 40 Mile Point Lighthouse Park. That is a screw-up! NOAA could have gotten information from the article in The Alpena Evening News of October 23, 1905, or from an entity that had gotten material from the article in The Alpena Evening News of October 23, 1905, such as a book, and I do not know that actual source since I have no access to the bibliography for the signs, but I can say that the main source ultimately was the article in The Alpena Evening News of October 23, 1905. The article is a mess! I am unaware whether the article is a mess because the George Rinley was a bad storyteller or embellished his story or said things that he believed were right but he had misinterpreted or because George Rinley told a shallow story and then the writer of the story embellished the story to fill in space in the newspaper. For one, text on the two signs made by NOAA certainly came from the article. By the way, one of the full quotations from George Rinley is--"I have sailed for seven years and was shipwrecked once before, but Thursday night was the worst of my experience.". In the the newspaper story, 40 Mile Point Light Station is never mentioned. The lighthouse--in 1905--had a light that could be seen for at least fifteen miles, and the "characteristic" for the light was about two seconds on and eight seconds off. In fact, the lighthouse had a rotating bullseye lens (which got replaced with another style in 1919 and was sent to a lighthouse in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan). On October 19, 1905, there was no heavy fog, and the Journal entries for October 18, 1905, October 19, 1905, and October 20, 1905, had no information about the fog signal being sounded at any time. Between 1897 and 1920 at least, there are entries in the Journal that show when the fog signal was sounded. Incidentally, in 1905, the fog signal was not a fog horn--it was a whistle; the fog-signal building had two fog-whistle machines or systems, and when one was being used, the other was not used [Note: There were two systems so that, if no one was broken or being repaired, the other could be used.]. In the newspaper story, there was no indication that George Rinley saw light from 40 Mile Point Light Station. That is odd. Remember--The wreckage of The Joseph S. Fay is very near 40 Mile Point Light Station, and there is no way in which a person could have missed seeing the light from the light station when within a half mile of the lighthouse. Also, keep in mind--In 1905, sailors knew the "characteristic" of each lighthouse on the Great Lakes, such as on Lake Huron, and each lighthouse had a different "characteristic," and it seems very likely that a "light-list book" existed on The Joseph S. Fay (and light-list books are still published today and, for one, report characteristics of the lighthouses and more information), and there would probably have been supplemental sheets of information on The Joseph S. Fay, which were sent out by the federal government, to note changes with lighthouses and such. By the way, in 1919, the "characteristic" for 40 Mile Point Lighthouse was changed. I have to talk about The Joseph S. Fay and The D.P. Rhodes. From 1871 to 1905, people called some boats "barges," but the barges were not like what people think of "barges" today, which are flat floating things, which, for example, might be pulled along by tugboats. The Joseph S. Fay was considered a "steam barge" since it had an engine, and The D.P. Rhodes was a barge. Both "barges" were, in essence, sailboats--that had masts and sails. If the engine on The Joseph S. Fay could not run, then the crew of The Joseph S. Fay had to work the sails. Between 1871 and 1905, it was commonplace for The Joseph S. Fay to pull (with a towline) The D.P. Rhodes, but that was not always the case (as I have learned by seeing old newspapers articles about The Joseph S. Fay since 2007), and The D.P. Rhodes was usually called the "consort." In the newspaper story in The Alpena Evening News of October 23, 1905, it is reported that men on The Joseph S., Fay escaped the ship on a "yawl." Maybe--maybe--the boat used to escape was called a "yawl," but I report here that a "yawl" is usually a two-masted sail boat, and I have photographs of The Joseph S. Fay, and I have not seen a "yawl" on deck of The Joseph S. Fay, and if there was a "yawl" on The Joseph S. Fay on October 19, 1905, how did the men get if off the deck of The Joseph S. Fay? In the story of The Alpena Evening News, it is reported by George Rinley that nine men got on the "yawl," and the story gave the impression that the "yawl" was nearly made to turn over when The Joseph S. Fay went under. Here is text (as best as I can determine)--quoted material--from George Rinley that was told to the writer of the article in The Alpena Evening News of October 23, 1905, and that appeared in the article--"'...We left Escanaba on Tuesday with the consort Rhodes in tow. We were favored by the best of weather for three days and little dreamed that the on coming storm would come upon us with such disastrous results. It was dark on Thursday evening when the wind started to blow. It increased in fury until about 9 o'clock in the evening when it had reached a gale. The old boat pounded in the sea, which at every moment was growing worse and by midnight the waves were going completely over the boat. I was at the wheel and the captain urged me to turn the vessel around. To his cries of 'hard over' I vainly tried to turn the wheel but would be thrown from one side of the cabin to the other, and could gain no control of the vessel. Another man was sent to aid me but the terrific sea proved too strong for us and we were forced to let the ship go her course before the wind. She drifted for some miles at the mercy of the sea at every turn the creaking of the timbers foretold the end. It was when we were about to let go the wheel the mate Geo. Syze, who was shouting orders from the deck, called out to hold steady. I looked from the cabin door and saw a huge wave strike him just as he uttered the words, and he was knocked from the deck to his death. In danger of my own life I went to the rail but could see nothing of his body. The wind was blowing from the northeast and nearly sixty miles an hour when we were ordered to man the yawl boat. The mate was gone and only nine were left to fill the boat, one of whom was a woman cook. It was about 2:30 o'clock when we left the side of the Fay which was then leaking like a sieve. The wind was so strong that we found it impossible to row against it and we were so near the steamer when she sank that the suction nearly overturned the yawl. The seas were running over the yawl and two men were kept busy bailing while the others tried to head the boat for shore. The boat sank about 30 miles north of Middle Island and is in deep water. We drifted from there to about three miles north of Presque Isle before the yawl struck the beach. Cold and hungry we found a house, but were refused admittance and were forced to walk to Presque Isle for warmth and food. We landed there about 10 o'clock Friday morning with but very few cents among us, all of our belonging having went down with the boat.'" Something really strikes me when I read the article. There are times when it sounds like the person who had talked with George Rinley was putting his spin on the story. In addition, I find more facts screwy. We know today that The Joseph S. Fay sank very near 40 Mile Point Light Station, within several hundred yards, and once the boat went down--loaded with iron ore--it went down, and it has not drifted for miles over the decades, since it was filled with iron ore--that is, it could not have drifted for a mile or two miles or more than two miles over the decades. In George Rinley's story, it is said that the men drifted a while in their "yawl," though they started out within several hundred yards of 40 Mile Point Light Station and within feet it seems of the sinking Joseph S. Fay, and then the men ended up near Presque Isle, which is miles and miles away from 40 Mile Point Light Station, maybe at least 20 miles away. And to me, it is odd that someone would say that The Joseph S. Fay sank in water that was deep and that was 30 miles or so north of Middle Island, which is some 35 miles away from 40 Mile Point Light Station. Why not say that the ship sank near 40 Mile Point Light Station or near Rogers City, which, by the way, between 1897 and 1905, the keepers of 40 Mile Point Light Station either rowed in a boat to reach or walked the shore (for about seven miles) to reach, since there was no good road between 40 Mile Point Light Station and Rogers City, which was south of 40 Mile Point Light Station, which was north of Presque Isle, which was north of Middle Island, which was north of Alpena? Overall, the times presented by George Rinley and the keeper of 40 Mile Point Light Station do not add up. And the story notes that it was "Geo. Rinley" and "Geo. Syze" and even "Geo. Fay" (as was noted in the final line of the article--"...The steamer Fay was in charge of Capt. Geo. Fay of Cleveland."), when it should have been "David Syze" and "Captain A. Fletcher".
Too much about George Rinley's story is nutty and screwy, so the story should be discarded as something that might be put on signs. It is always possible that the entries of the keeper of 40 Mile Point Light Station are weak, such as in relation to time, and maybe information from the keeper and the assistant keeper of 40 Mile Point Light Station should be seen as possibly suspect. In that case, a writer of the story has to go with facts that make sense. The Joseph S. Fay sank near 40 Mile Point Light Station because of a storm of October 19, 1905; the ship had been traveling south from Escanaba, Michigan, to Cleveland, Ohio, through Lake Huron, pulling The D.P. Rhodes, when the storm hit. Both ships were carrying iron ore. The Joseph S. Fay went into rocks near 40 Mile Point Light Station at about 8:30 p.m., and the towline broke, freeing The D.P. Rhodes, which would later end up at Cheboygan Point (near Cheboygan, Michigan, which is about thirty miles north of 40 Mile Point Light Station). During the storm, the crew of The D.P. Rhodes survived, and most of the men on The Joseph S. Fay survived, reaching shore near the light station, and the first mate was lost. Then on December 4, 1905, the assistant keeper of 40 Mile Point Light Station discovered the body of the first mate--David Syze--in wreckage of the ship that had recently washed up on shore about a mile north of 40 Mile Point Light Station. In January 1906, the keeper and the assistant keeper were given special recognition by the Naval Secretary for having helped rescue men of The Joseph S. Fay. The factual information that I have presented is enough to fill two signs, which also would have filler text, such as about staying dry and about paddlers.
By the way, versions of the main newspapers published Cheboygan around the time of the sinking that might talk about the sinking do not exist, and no edition of the Presque Isle County Advance that might tell the story of the sinking (such as an edition for October 26, 1905) exists today, such as in paper form or on microfilm reels (as I discovered in 2007). In addition, a search of "Chronicling America" shows that some newspapers scattered around the country passed on a bit of information about the sinking of The Joseph S. Fay --getting information by telegraph wire or wire service--and reported the first mate as "Joseph Syze" instead of "David Syze" and reported "Sheboygan" instead of "Cheboygan" (in relation to The D.P. Rhodes).
I have other problems with the signs. The county government of Presque Isle County, Michigan, owns the land where the 40 Mile Point Light Station (40 Mile Point Lighthouse) exists, and the government operates the park proper, and the 40 Mile Point Lighthouse Society runs the historical end of the museum feature of the park. The signs are clutter--for example, there are five signs that are four feet by three feet, and there are a couple other small signs. The park does not need such big signs. It seems the members of the county government and many of the board members of the 40 Mile Point Lighthouse Society lack the guts to keep so many signs out of the park or keep the number of signs down to one small sign or maybe one that is three feet by four feet, which might be put in the kiosk, covering information about The Joseph S. Fay, the Great Lakes Maritime Heritage Trail, the Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary, and The Messenger (a boat that sank in Lake Huron in 1890). The signs as they are make the 40 Mile Point Lighthouse Park look like another entity run by NOAA, which has no real authority to say what signs do and do not get posted in the park, and now the park probably looks like so many other tourist attractions that NOAA has pushed its way into and maybe pushed its way into without input from the operators of the tourist attractions.
I wonder how many other signs put up by NOAA around the country are defective in relation to--at least--history information.
To finish the story about 40 Mile Point Light Station or 40 Mile Point Lighthouse Park or the 40 Mile Point Lighthouse Society, I have to talk about how information is handled by a number of people associated with one or all of the three entities, and this information is only a portion of another document that I have, which happens to be a PDF-type document. That PDF-type document covers a number of topics, one of which is about a so-called or an alleged "threat" event, which has yet to be investigated by police, such as by officers of Presque Isle County and which resulted in a member of the lighthouse being kicked out of the society in the fall of 2018, and some of the people who should be interviewed Shawn Williams, Pat Williams, Leonard Lohman, and Carrie Lohman, who can be called a part of the accusing team [Note: I would be most pleased to have sheriff's deputies take up the investigation.]. Incidentally, Carrie Lohman is a person who put down U.S. President Donald Trump during a board meeting of the 40 Mile Point Lighthouse Society, which was highly inappropriate behavior, and Shawn Williams has been a person who has made it clear that she cares nothing about the history of 40 Mile Point Light Station, one part of which is 40 Mile Point Lighthouse, and Leonard Lohman and Pat Williams have been involved in so-called running the "Guest Lighthouse Keepers Program" improperly, and, for instance, Leonard Lohman has told people to not listen to, for example, any history information passed along by me, though I am one of the most-informed people about 40 Mile Point Light Station. By the way, Carrie Lohman pushed out the idea that she does not care what the Guest Lighthouse Keepers say to visitors as long as they are saying something, and at the board meeting of the 40 Mile Point Lighthouse Society of July 2, 2019, which was held at the public library in Rogers City, Shawn Williams pointed out that she does not like lighthouses (which was not said as a joke). And in late 2018, Shawn Williams and her associates were working to push through the idea that the "by-laws" (like the "constitution") for the 40 Mile Point Lighthouse Society should be changed so that the board alone could change the by-laws at will, leaving the members of the 40 Mile Point Lighthouse Society (which is a non-profit entity, in which no one is paid) without any say-so and any voting rights in relation to changing the by-laws (which hints at the idea of socialism). If you talk with such persons as Shawn Williams, Pat Williams, Leonard Lohman, and Carrie Lohman, you have to be aware that they promote the passing along of bad information, especially history information, and have a lot of bad ideas. They cannot be trusted!
[Note: The information within the brackets here was placed in this document on Tuesday, August 10, 2019. On August 6, 2019, another monthly meeting of the 40 Mile Point Lighthouse Society was held at the public library in Rogers City, Michigan. At one point during the meeting--while the topic of discussion was the signs about The Joseph S. Fay from NOAA, Al Byrnes (the president of the 40 Mile Point Lighthouse Society) noted that, since we have been telling the story about The Fay wrong for some 20 years, we might as well keep doing it. So the signs from NOAA were to remain, even the big one next to the kiosk, which--I state--is a hideous looking monstrosity, which does not suit the park in style or size. By the way, at the meeting, the a new person was put on the "board," though the person had had, in essence, no association with the 40 Mile Point Lighthouse Society, such as by having done something at or with the 40 Mile Point Lighthouse Society, which might prove the person worthy of being on the board. And that shows the nature of the museum entity related to 40 Mile Point Light Station or 40 Mile Point Lighthouse Park.]And if you go to 40 Mile Point Lighthouse Park (near Rogers City of Presque Isle County in the Lower Peninsula of Michigan) and see the two signs that I have talked about, you are seeing crap from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (and other entities).
Warning announcement! Because of incidents at schools for children and incidents at other places for people in general tied to "Sharia" or "Islamic Law" or even the religion/political system known as "Islam," I now regularly have this paragraph as a part of each edition of Michigan Travel Tips. The governmental system of the United States of America based on The U.S. Constitution and "Sharia" or, informally, Islamic law, are not compatible and cannot co-exist, and one reason is "Sharia" (et cetera) is a political system, in which there is one-party rule, and that one party is basically made up or controlled by religious leaders who base all the ways of their culture or society on "Sharia" or "Islamic Law." Those who uphold and practice "Sharia" have no tolerance for the existence of Christianity or Buddhism or Hinduism or non-religion, and that is a fact, and "Sharia" is a political system in which women are second-rate human bodies and in which clergy can be involved in determining business transactions, and there is no "freedom of speech" tied to politics in a society related to "Sharia." When you travel around Michigan and in other states of the country, watch for signs that rotten people are trying to teach you or family members, especially children, that "Sharia" is good and "Allah" is good and teach you or family members that the United States of America is bad and that, for instance, Christianity and Buddhism and Hinduism are bad, which I have evidence is happening and which is being brought about by people who are clearly working to make "Sharia" a dominant political system in the world (it is a political system as rotten as socialism and fascism and communism are, since it promotes violence and thuggery and coercion and killing under the face of religion). By the way, a society based on "Sharia" really creates nothing in the long run and does not advance the human society as a whole since it is too busy suppressing the ideas of people and keeping that ideas of the society based of ways of only a few minds up front (the political leaders), whose main purpose is too keep themselves enriched through the work of others, the many--it is a gang-run society really. Yes, if you run across people pushing the idea that Muslim stuff--particularly the true The Quran and not the translations of The Quran that are faked to hide the true nature of Islam--is better than the U.S. is, especially to little children, go public and make it known to other good people and fight back against it.
In the previous edition of Michigan Travel Tips, I talked about U.S. Representative Justin Amash, who has shown himself to be a socialist at least, given he has chosen to label himself an "independent." Over the years, I have learned that an "independent" (such as in the U.S. Congress) is really a socialist or communist; for example, Joe Lieberman was a U.S. Senator related to Connecticut from 1989 to 2013, and he passed himself off as an "independent," but he mostly voted in lockstep with the Democrats (the socialists and communists and such rotten people). Since I posted the previous edition of Michigan Travel Tips, Justin Amash has resigned from the "Freedom Caucus" of the U.S. House of Representative, which is an anti-communistic and anti-socialistic entity (or club of sorts). If a person distances the self from anti-socialism and anti-communism, then the person must support socialism and communism, given there is no other alternative. Also Justin Amash has called for the impeachment of U.S. President Donald Trump, though a smart and good person is aware there is nothing that can be used to show cause for impeachment, which must irritate Carrie Lohman, who is an anti-Trump person. Other rotten Michiganians in politics who are pushing for impeachment are such Democrats (a.k.a. communists, socialists, or democratic socialists, or the like) as U.S. Representative Dan Kildee, U.S. Representative Brenda Lawrence, and U.S. Representative Rashida Tlaib, all of whom you should see as people to hate and all of whom you should seen as people who are your enemies. Keep that in mind when you travel in Michigan, and teach that to your children.
To close this edition of Michigan Travel Tips, I have to report about a event that took place on July 5, 2019, in Hammond Bay of Lake Huron starting at about eight in the evening. I heard a sound outside where I was staying, and I rushed to the beach to see what was going on, thinking it was a guy running a little four-wheeler and working to clean up the beach at his property (he had been out earlier in the day, and I had heard his machine seize up, and I thought maybe he had fixed the machine). I discovered a county sheriff's deputy tied to Presque Isle County talking with some people at the beach, and I saw a somewhat small boat out on the lake (or water of Hammond Bay), and people seemed to be looking for something or someone. A number of residents of the area where I was staying were standing out on the beach, and they were looking at what was going on, such as on the water. I asked questions of people, such as the sheriff's deputy. It seems a neighbor named Jeff [Note: I will not give his first name, though I know it.] thought he saw someone drowning out in the distance in the water, so he called authorities. Oh, the noise that I heard--I discovered--was coming from a small rescue hovercraft that had just come in off the water after being used in a search run. The small boat on the water was a small U.S. Coast Guard boat, probably one that is based in Cheboygan, Michigan, and I estimated that the boat had at least a crew of five persons, and there were probably at least six really. A little later, a U.S. Coast Guard helicopter showed up. I know not where it came from officially, but I know that U.S. Coast Guard helicopters of the region are based at Air Station Traverse City, which is not too far way from Hammond Bay, and the helicopters, there, are Jayhawk 60-Ts and no longer Dolphins. The helicopter was indeed a Jayhawk 60-T, and that is the first time that I have seen a Jayhawk 60-T flying near me. The Jayhawk 60-T and the U.S. Coast Guard vessel were out in the area till at least 10:30 p.m., though it looked as if the vessel at least was done taking up the search in earnest by then. By 10:30 p.m., there was no indication that a person had drowned or that a person had been or was in trouble. Jeff thought the person may have been a kayaker. No abandoned kayak or canoe was found. There was nothing wrong in Jeff's calling authorities, though no bad was found. And that what was going on on the evening on July 5, 2019, in the Hammond Bay area of Lake Huron, sort of where The Joseph S. Fay had been in trouble some 104 years previously. Hold it! Searchers did find a blow-up flamingo.
By the way, on Friday, July 5, 2019, NOAA weather predictions (which I get by going to "doppler radar national mosaic" on the Internet) were saying that it was going to be a sunny and dry day on Saturday, July 6, 2019, in the upper half of the Lower Peninsula of Michigan, and then on Saturday early in the morning, the weather predictions from NOAA had "sprinkles" for the day and it was overcast where I was, and then by noon on Saturday, the forecast was "scattered showers" for the area that I was in, and yet people believe NOAA staffers when NOAA is involved in predicting the planet is going die in twelve years or so because of manmade global climate change. [Note: Again you are urged to see my document entitled Countdown to the End of the World, which can be reached through this Countdown link.]
Enjoy your traveling in Michigan!
Stay well!
Victor
P.S. #1: Remember: While you travel in Michigan, remind your children or grandchildren that they should never pledge to be a "servant to Obama" or a servant to any politician or sing the praises of Barack Obama, and to help you remember other matters that you should teach children about bad politicians, such as Barack Obama (who can be described as an "enslave"), see such other documents of mine as Conservatism for Children and What Conservatism Means (which can be reached through this link: Conservatism) and Lessons for Children about Politics and Dangerous People (which can be reached through this link: Children). (Note: I first passed along the subject of not being a "servant to Obama" and the like in the publication entitled T.H.A.T. #58, which can be reached through this link: T.H.A.T. #58.)
P.S. #2: While you travel in Michigan, it is easy to come across evidence of rotten people or to meet rotten people. One really rotten man is Richard Bernstein, who is a new member to the Supreme Court for the State of Michigan. Evidence of his rottenness can be found in my document entitled Richard Bernstein--A Man Who Hopes You Are Blind to His Rottenness, which can be reached through this Bernstein link. Yet, on Monday, January 12, 2015, the Detroit Free Press did a story about Richard Bernstein to sell Richard Bernstein as something good, though he is not (Ahern, Louise Knott. "State's 1st blind justice aims to be inspiration." Detroit Free Press, 12 January 2014, p. 4A.). I report--I urge anyone who runs a business and loses a court case in which Richard Bernstein was one of the presiding judges to have the decision thrown out or killed through another case, since Richard Bernstein, while running to be elected to the Supreme Court of Michigan, made it clear that he was going to be biased against businesses if he were to be elected to the Supreme Court of Michigan, and that is a fact. Richard Bernstein is a rotten man!
Your travel tip in this edition of Michigan Travel Tips is:
40 Mile Point Light Station, near Rogers City, Presque Isle County, the Lower Peninsula.
Note: I found the article related to George Rinley (and the entire newspaper) of October 23, 1905, of The Alpena Evening News in PDF form on the Internet a few hours before a woman at the Alpena County Library would sent me a PDF version of newspaper for October 23, 1905, and here I thank the staffers of the Special Collections area of the Alpena County Library.
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