Friday, June 21, 2019

Evanston: more on Capt. Holmes

        I thank Chris for finding a snippet in the NEW YORK TRIBUNE on October 14, 1900, that a Captain Charles Holmes had been charged in Cleveland with manslaughter when the yacht IDLER, of which he was captain, foundered in a squall off that city on July 7.  The two owners and five other members of their family drowned.  Assuming it was the same Charles Holmes, as seems likely, he was still on the Great Lakes..  Many voyages talked about are never sailed.