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206 HISTORY OF ERIE COUNTY
then a bedding of Avoven banding tarred, and outside of all an armor
of ten No. 7 galvanized iron wires spirally laid. The diameter is fiveeighths
of an inch and the Aveight 4,050 pounds to the mile. The Put-in-
Bay terminus is near the steamboat landing and the cable strikes the
shore on the south side of Mouse Island, a short distance from OttaAva
City. Thence the line runs to a point about a mile east of Gypsum
Station on the Lake Shore Railroad; thence along the railroad line
crossing the draAv by a short cable to the Big Four Railroad; thence to
the city, the line being about 19Vu miles long. The first despatch Avas
sent June 25, 1873.
In the summer of 1873 a project was set on foot to establish a steel
rolling mill at Sandusky, to manufacture Silicon steel rails. The
Register of August 28 contains a five-column description of the process,
which like many other subsequent projects went up like a rocket and
came down like a stick. The mill Avas established south of the Lake
Shore track on five acres of land contributed to it by Sandusky citizens
and built with the proceeds of $165,000 Avorth of bonds subscribed for
by Sandusky people. The sole remnant of this large expenditure at the
present time is the history of the project set forth in the case of West
vs. Klotz, 37 O. S. 420, where an interesting point of law was settled.
The Register of July 18, 1873, contains a two-column account of the
opening of the Sandusky Wheel Company, whose buildings had just been
finished at the southwest corner of Water and McDonough streets, but
have since been destroyed by fire. It must have been some time. The
Great Western Band was present and performed the Anvil Chorus with
an anvil accompaniment, executed by workmen of the establishment.
The assembled guests inspected the various departments of the fourstory
building and rode up and down the elevator. Mr. John R. Minor,
the manager of the company, was presented with a gold-headed cane, and
at nine o'clock in the morning in the third story some toasts were drank
in champagne. The premises occupied an entire block on Water Street,
one building being 136x99 feet. The first story was devoted to bending
material and sawing and planing. The second story to wheel and hubmaking
and bending, and the third story to manufacturing bodies, seats
and gearings by the Sandusky Seat Company, the fourth story being
used for storage.
On July 4, 1879, there Avas a Fourth of July celebration here and
Gen. James A. Garfield Avas the orator of the day.
The Register of September 21, 1878, contains a complaint that the
town clock, then located in the tower of the Congregational Church,
does not run, and says the clock cost $1,000.
The Register of April 9, 1880, contained the following editorial about
the old town clock: "Yesterday it was reported in our city columns
that the old toAvn clock in the belfry of the old Congregational Church
is to be sold and its proceed given to the Hospital. We question the
propriety of such a sale. Mrs. General W. H. Mills was the first donor to
the fund for the purchase of the clock and the late Mrs. Martha Cooke