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1890 continuedfrom Vol. 111(2) Septembers, 1890 The Congress conferees on the U.S. River and Harbor Bill have reached an agreement. It appropriates $24,981,295. The ownerof the steamer Isaac May gave bonds for $7000 at Buffalo, double theamount of her appraisal. She will be towed to Port Robinson, Welland Canal, and be thoroughly rebuilt. On Sunday the propeller W.H. Stevens reported theschooner Parker, consort of the steam barge John Cades, ashore atthe lower cut ofLake George. The Red Can Buoyis out of place - about 150 feet to the eastward. The keel isalready laid and some ofthe frame up for Capt. John Ellison's new steamer atPort Stanley. She will be 85 feet keel and is expected to make 14knots anhour. It isexpected she will beready for launching this fall. The steam barge W.H. Barnum collided with adock atSamia on Simday night, doing about $500 worth ofdamage to the dock and more or less injuring the barge. Itrequired three hours' time for a tug topull the Barnum out ofthe wreck. The four gates ofLock 18 onthe new Welland Canal between St. Catharines and Thorold were run into on Monday afternoon by the steamer T.D. Stimson of Chicago. The collision occasioned abad break, which will require several days to repair. The banks are washed away for a considerable distance. There were fortunately very few vessels in the canal at the time. automatic system ofgas lighting is about to be given apractical test by the Domimon Marine Department and ifsuccessful will be aboon to shipmasters and pilots, inasmuch as it will afford a greater variety of lights and so render the different localities more readily distinguishable. The system will be tried on the gas buoy at the west end ofBeaujea Channel in the St. Lawrence, which will be changed from afixed to an [rest ofparagraph missing on original] September 12, 1890 The steamer Monteagle arrived here on Tuesday morning, bound up, having broken her steering gear in Lake Erie. The necessary repairs were made and she left m the evening. Judge Chipman's Bill extending the criminal jurisdiction ofthe U.S. Circuit and I3L •] jOUi 1Jj j®LL_l ^ r- iiU I' fU, p rr r r> r- I I 1 District Courts to the Great Lakes and their connecting rivers has received the signature of the President. Aspecial from Port Dalhousie estimates the damage done tothe Welland Canal at $5000and statesthat the Government will attemptto hold Matthews & Bros, of Toronto, owners ofthe steamer Stimson, responsible for this amount, claiming that thebreak was caused through thenegligence of theStimson"s officers. The broken gates have been repaired. The ferry Sappho released the George G. Hanley onMonday that was ashore nearthe St.Clair cut. While thenewironpropeller Seguin wascoming through the canal Tuesday aftemoon her steering gear went wrong and she was towed to Detroit by the Sappho and from there to Toledo. This isthe Seguin's first trip and she is considered the best furnished propeller on fresh water. September 19, 1890 An international question has been raised at Chicago by the sailors' umon persuading the crew ofthe Canadian schooner Sligo to quit work. The men were getting $20 amonth and the union rate of$2 per day. The captain ofthe Sligo has lodged a complaint with the British consul, setting up the claim that the rights of Canadian seamen have been infiinged. Vessels are now carrying wheat from Chicago to Kingston for three cents a bushel - abig drop since the days oftwenty years ago when they got twenty cents. The Ogdensburg people are endeavoring to strike at the Kingston trade by erecting elevators for transferring the wheatto the barges that go through the St. Lawrence canals to Montreal. Kingston should look alive or she may be out-manoevred. The American lake vesselmen are in hopes of obtaining a yearly tonnage bomity of twenty cents from Congress. Canadian carriers are in hard lines, as will be seen by the following from a correspondent at Kingston: "To give an instance ofhow very dull trade is at present, it might be stated that some weeks ago atow left with 5000 tons of railway iron for the West. The vessels were compelled to return to Kingston light. Captains are being paid off in some cases, there being no immediate prospects ofthe carrying trade improving. Not only the grain but the lumber trade is dull. This season all the timber for rafting for Quebec and the old country was carried ina few months; in other words, the work was rushed for all it was worth. Now timber vessels are being laid up for the winter. Heretofore they have laid up in October."