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10 THE MARINE RECORD. NEWS AROUND THE LAKES. DU_UTH AND SUPERIOR. Special Correspondence to The Marine Record. The preparatory work is progressing toward the con- struction of the extension of the Duluth & Winnipeg dock, and the pile drivers are already on the ground. As soon as the ice is thick enough to support them the piles will be driven. The piles are on theground and the work of sharpening them will begin next week. Mr. Peppard of Minneapolis has the contract. The ex- tension wiil be 900 feet long, and will hold 150 pockets of ore. The dock isnow about 700 feet in length, with 100 pockets. The extension will cost about $200,000, 4,000,000 feet of lumber and 500 tons of iron being used in its construction. ._ In about two months the Omaha Railway Company will commence hauling Minneapolis flour to its immense merchandise dock at Allouez Bay. The big warehouse, which occupies three-fourths of the dock, is about com- pleted and it is the intention to have it filled with flour from the Minneapolis mills so that it can be shipped down the lake immediately after opening of navigation. It is hardly probably that the Omaha company will do any further work in connection with the construction of the dock this year, as was at firstexpected. ‘The portion of the dock which was contracted for is now completed and it is thought will meet the demands for the first three months after the opening of navigation. Work will be commenced, however, on another portion of the dock which will be completed in time for the fall busi- ness which is always much heavier than in the spring. The grading and approaches necessary have been put in and it will be no great job to complete the other por- tion of the dock, as the only work in connection will be a little dredging and driving of the piles and the super- structure. - The flour to be handled over the new Omaha dock will be from Minneapolis and will be chiefly carried by con- tract with one of the large transportation companies ‘probably the Western Transit Line. The local mllls will thus be given better shipping facilities at other « docks, and the flour shipments for 1895 will doubtless - -show an immense increase. — Selwyn, Charles F. and John F. Eddy of Bay City, have completed the purchase of about 360 acres of iron lands in 57-21 from the Luther Mining, Co., of Illinois, for $100,000, subject to the right of way of the Duluth, Mississippi River & Northern railroad. Holland Montgomery & Graves, of Buffalo, have bought 879,000 feet of éxtra grade lumber from the Merrill & Ring Co., for spring shipment. Lumber shippers estimate that the amount of lumber which will be on dock in Duluth aud Chequamegon Bay at the opening of navigation next year will not exceed 225,000,000 feet. deal of bear talk in-reference to lake freights for next season, _ The Duluth & Iron Range railroad company has let a contract for the erection of another iron ore shipping dock at Two Harbors. This will be the fifth dock built ‘by the company for the shipment of iron ore. It will be 1,600 feet in length, and over 6,000,000 feet of lumber will beused in itt construction. The addition of the dock to the already existing facilities for shipping iron ore will make Two Harbors the largest ore shipping port on the lakes, and that means in the world. The Philadelphia & Reading contemplates extending its Superior dock 250 feet next year, increasing its storage capacity to 200,000 tons. The St. Louis & Western will probably extend its dock on Conner’s Point next season, so as to increase the capacity to 300,000 tons. PORT HURON. Special Correspondence to The Marine Record, Capt. Geo. R. Bennett and others have purchased from Runnels & Sinclair the steambarge Cleveland for $6,500 cash. She will continue in the lumber trade, towing barges Schilde, Magnet and one other. Capt. Bennett, who was three years on the Magnet and three on the schooner Savidge, will command her. Thompsons will build a new tug for the tug Ingeram’s machinery. ° The old steambarge Mineral Rock will be converted into a tow barge this wintér. The tug Lormer arrived up Friday from Detroit with schooner Lamb and barge Golden Rule, both laden with coal. The White Star left here with her tow of barges eu route to Detroit, where their cargoes of iumber are consigned. The Russell Wrecking Co. have had to give up the work of raising the Itasca on account of the weather. Their compressor would not pnmp the amount of pres- sure they wanted. and there wassomeice running that made it dangerous for a diver to work. They will re- sume work as soon as spring opens. All the coal was not pumped ont. That will be all taken ont in the spring, and she will be raised without any trouble. The tug Kittie Haight wasin the lower dry-dock to have her machinery removed. ; The tug Protector arrived here with the steamer St. Joe and barge Oneonto intow. She got them out of the ice in Saginaw Bay and brought them here. The St. Joe is in the Wolverine dry-dock. She was badly All shippers are indulging in a good cut up by the ice. They are partly loaded with coal, but it will prove a very losing trip for them. ‘The tug Protector left Saturday morning to goto the as- sistance of the Jim Sheriff, astern in Lake Michigan. The tug J. P. Clark is laid up here. She has beén at work on the deep channel contract at Bar Point for two years, and will assume work there next spring. KENDALL. CHICAGO. Special Correspondence to The Marine Record. The Marine Engineers’ Beneficial Association No. 4, Chicago, at a meeting held at their hall. corner of Ran- dolph and Clinton streets, Friday evening, December 27th, elected the following officers for the year 1896: John Reif, president; Chas. Van Avery, vice president; D. W. Wise, financial secretary; Geo. Grubb, corres- ponding secretary; EK. KE. Morris, recording secretary; John Williams, chaplain; James Groves, conductor; John F. Conley, doorkeeper; James Donley, treasurer; T. F. Dowd, John Murdock’ and John Reif, trustees. 'T. F. Dowd and George Grubb were chosen as delegates to represent Chicago No. 4 Lodge at the 22d Annual National Convention of the M. K. B. Association, to be held at Washington, D. C., about January 20 The M. K. B. A. No. 4, Chicago, will give their twenty- first anniversary reception and ball at Brand’s Hall, corner North Clark and Erie streets, on Wednesday eAening, January 29th. All friends of marine engineers should rally around them on that occasion and help to make it an enjoyable evening. ie : Captains F. C. Hart and Marion Tenney are here looking after the repairs be’ng done on the steamer John Emory Owen and consort Michigan in dock. ” Captain John Isbester will have command of the steamer Josephene next season. Captain: John Massey, formerly of the Josephene, will command the steamer Arthur Orr. ' Coptain A. C, Johnson, captain’s clerk of the Masters’ and Pilots’ Association, last week handed to the widow of Captain John Ferguson, who lost his life on the tug O. B. Green, when the tug T. IT. Moeford’s boiler ex- ploded, a check for the amount of insurance payable upon the decease of her late much-respected husband, who was a charter member of the association. The installation of the officers of the Ship Masters’ Association, Chicago No. 3, will take place at their hall. at the LeGrande Hotel, on Wednesday afternoon, Jan- uary 8. : : The Dunham Towing & Wrecking Co., with their tugs Mosher and Perfection and a centrifugal puiip and some scows, succeeded in saving nearly -1,000 tons of coal from the wrecked barge Nicholson, last week. They also stripped the vessel of all her gear. The Nicholson’s stern is in very bad shape, otherwise she could be released. : The tugs Perfection and G. W. Gardener towed the steamer Mariska down:the river and to South Chicago Tuesday afternoon. The Mariska will go into the Chi- cago Shipbuilding Company’s dry-dock, © Capt. James R. Parker, who was chief mate on the steamer, John Harper last season, is now. acting as ship-keeper on her this winter. . ‘ : ies The Dunham Towing & Wrecking Co. have three of their tugs in the employ of the city, engaged in looking after the waterworks cribs, and the néw tunnels: build- ing under the lake, and to furnish them with supplies. - The company have taken into their employ Adam. Kiyoshk, the big Indian marine diver, formerly of the wrecking tug Favorite.” ec Bye Cullerton & McRae, owners of the tug Sill, have co n-° tracted with-the Illinois Central R.. R.°Co. to do the -: winter work of keeping the ice broken up around the work of pile driving in the inner harbor, ‘to. form the outside portion of the new Lake Front Park, es The many friends of Capt. Miles Barry of the Inde- pendent Tug Line, will be pleased to know that he is around again at his office after undergoing a. painful surgical operation to a broken cartilage in his knee, which necessitated his staying home for about two weeks. WILLIAMS. BUFFALO. Special Correspondence to The Marine Record, The ferry line which Capt, B. C. Maytham and others, contemplated starting between Black Rock and Victo- ria, Ont., as announced last week, is now a certainty. They have bought the old Detroit river ferry steamer Hope,and will have her rebuilt at Walkerville, She will go on this route in the spring, Bids were opened by the Board of Public Works last Friday for the construction of abutments, piers and ap- proaches for the new lift bridge over Buffalo river at Michigan street.. Delaney & Mul!en bid $48,000 for the work; the Buffalo Dredging Company, $54,000; Hingston & Woods, $64,980; and Dwyer & Huntington, $51,494. Lumber receipts for the Tonawanda ports in season of 1895 aggregate 421,373,000 feet against 406,538,000 feet last season. This stlll leaves the past two seasons con considerably below previous totals, as in 1892, 489,005,- 000 feet ; 1891, 505,512,000 feet ; 1890, 718,650,000 feet. It is believed that the upturn is now made on account of a real increase in handling and that the recovery will be rapid from now on. ‘Tonawanda is becoming known more and more as. a sales port, and as the forwarding falls off the actual sales will more than make up the loss. Receipts of shingles for the past season were 41,- 300,000, being more than 25 per cent above last year. reported lost by wreck from this district during the -Marine Hospital at Cleveland, reports as follows. for - 297; outside patients, 1,082*relief furnished outside pa- CLEVELAND. at the Floating Bethel Saturday afternoon to the dren of the Sunday School of the Floating Bethel < the Hamilton street mission. One hundred childre: were made happy with as many neat little’ baskets taining liberal supplies of candy, raisins and. nuts, sides more substantial gifts in the line of. mitten stockings. Chaplain Jones does a fine work in people of his district, and indeed all over the ci bills for.coal, sent’ to poor’ widows and houses where ssickness makes inroads on the family pocketbook, very heavy. The Chaplain always personally in gates cases before giving relief, and has had to experience in his 28 years of mission work to be imposed upon. Funds sent to the Chaplain at the Floating Bethel, on River street, to Capt. Thomas Wilson, Pei Payne Building, or to J. W. Walton, of the Upson-W. Ne ton Co., will find their way to the Floating Bethel wo Capt. John Mitchell, Capt. Alfred Mitchell, Capt. S. Stratton, H. S. Hills, John F. Wedow, and Philip Mo ris, of Cleveland, and Capt. J. H. H. Brown, of Buffal have organized the Etna Steamship Co., with a capi stock of $200,000, to operate a steel steamer building a F. W. Wheeler & Co.’s yard, West Bay City. meee Capt. George A. McKay, marine clerk of the Cuya- hoga customs district, gave to the press Wednesday-his annual report of the lake commerce of the dis 5 Some of the most important features are as follows: Coastwise receipts, value—Cleveland, $24,649,434; Lo- rain, $1,245,259; Fairport, $4,558,044; Conneaut, $1,037,- 896; Ashtabula, $8,756,736. Coastwise shipments, value —Cleveland, $18,387,883; Ashtabula, $2,225,024; Con- neaut, $250,825; Fairport, $938,239; Lorain, $810,625, Cleveland’s foreign imports amounted to about $1,000,- 000, but at other ports of the district were inconsider- able. The value of foreign exports was as. follows: Cleveland, $862,890; Lorain, $34,540; Fairport, nothing; Ashtabula, $263,479; Conneaut, $273,197. . Entries, both domestic and foreign, Cleveland, were 3,763, with a tonnage of 2,829,362; Lorain, 383, or 193,- e 724 tons; Fairport, 580, or 701,793 tons; Ashtabula, 1,536 ‘or 1,918,861 tons; Conneaut, 205, or . 486,382 tons. Clearances were as_ follows: Cleveland, 3,711, or 2,820,165 tons; Lorain, 381, or 188,262 tons; Fairport, 568, or 705,615 tons; Ashtabula, 1,627, or 1,192,402 tons; Conneaut,407, or 484,174 tons. - - %, There are enrolled in the district for the year 1895. 286 vessels with a tonnage of 258,843.67 tons, compared with 278 vessels, of 241,693.81 tons in 1894. There were 15 vessels of 17,768:15 tons gross, added to the enrolled tonnage of the district during 1895. Two vessels of 6,828.33 tons gross, were built in the district but e rolled elsewhere. Nineteen vessels, formerly enrolled elsewhere, were transferred by sale to the Cleveland district during 1895, having a total tonnage of 11,882.61. Seventeen vessels, with a total tonnage of 9,463.92 were year. Nine vessels, of 3,066.29 tons were transferred by sale from the Cuyahoga to other districts during 1895. Dr. R. M. Woodward, past assistant surgeon, U.S. the fiscal year ending June 30, 1895: hospital patients, tients, 1,528 times; relief furnished’ hospital‘ patients, 9,074 days. Twelve patients died. - Capt. Orville Green, of the steamer Griffin, has gone pik ‘Mrs. Green to California, where they will spend the winter. Ce ee ES ae ' FLOTSAM AND JETSAM. : ; The Canadian government will sell the-confiscated fishing tug Telephone at Malden, January 8. ASS Capt. D. P.. Wright;-of Geneva, formerly in the P. P. Pratt, as ‘accepted, the Command of steamer Alex Nimick- Me =f ; The Johnson Company are arranging for the construc- tion of the ore hoists at their furnace docks on Black River. Capt. John McNeff, who has sailed the Germanic for a number of years, will be on the City of >Glasgow next season. . ; The Canadian and United States Deep Waterway Commissioners are arranging by correspondence the date of their first meeting. ; ae The common council of Green Bay have accepted the plans of City Engineer Shaw, of Marinette fora new iron drawbridge. It will be built over Kast River and will cost $10,000. IS Harris F. Dunbar, of Sault Ste. Marie, Michi, has purchased the interest of his father, C. F.. Dunbar, of Buffalo, in the dredging plant, shipbuilding yard; and repair shops of Dunbar & Sullivan, at the Sault. The life-saving stations at Bailey’s Harbor and on Plum Island have been completed and turned over to the government. No keepers have yet been appointed. The currents of the St. Joseph river having changed during the late floods, a bar has formed near the mouth of Benton Harbor ship canal which blocks navigation — for boats drawing more than ten feet. SO tate Senator McMillan has prepared for early introduction a bill appropriating $200,000 for a new revenue cutter. to take the place of the Fessenden, and designed so as to be quickly convertible into a gunboat. — oid Toledo Lodge of the M. B®. B: A., elected’ officérs as follows: President, George Reynolds; vice-president, George Curtis; corresponding and financial secretary, EK. Locke; recording secretary, John Marshall; treas- urer, F. W. Weis.