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NS a ee ae ern Transportation Co. are well closed in, all the ' are very backward with material for other ships yard. “dry-ddck this week. The German had work done ‘decks, deck beams, stanchions, and rail. ferent occasions, THE MARINE RECORD. SHIP BUILDING AND REPAIRS. PROGRESS AT THE YARDS. ce _ E. W. Heath, of Benton Harbor, Mich., has begun work on a fine steam yacht for M. J. Steffens, of Chi- cago, to be known as the Laura S. She will be 85 feet long over a'l and 65 feet at the water line, with 14 feet beam. She will be fitted with triple-expansion engines and a Warrington water tube boiler, with 250 pounds working pressure, and is expected to make 15 miles per = hour.. She will carry a large spread of canvas. At the yard of the Union Dry Dock Co., Buffalo, W. J. Connors’ new yacht is nearly all plated. A good deal of the joiner work is finished in the shop, and the engine _ and Taylor boiler are well advanced, though not yet ready for delivery. On the new Union liner the largest _ half of the bottom plating is on and two-thirds of the floors are laid. The King Iron Works, Buffalo, H. G. Trout, are erect- ing a triple expansion engine with cylinders 23, 38% and 64 inches diameter by 42 inches stroke, for the. package freight steamer now building at the Union Dry-dock. The boilers for thesteamer, four in number, and 11% feet in diameter. by 13 feetin length, are being built by the Lake Erie Boiler Works, of the same city. Work at the Chicago Ship Building Co.’s yard has been somewhat delayed by a strike of the riv- eters The first schooners ordered by the Minne- sota Steamship Co. and that for the Northwest- shell and water bottom plating being practically concluded, and most of the inside plating done. About a month’s work on each would fit them for launching. The Elphicke-Drake steamer has her water bottom almost completed. She is building for a Bureau Veritas classification. The mills at this yard, and they make little showing in the GENERAL REPAIR WORK. The steamship S S. Curry isin the large basin of the Ship Owners’ dry-dock. ‘The repair job on her is very heavy, about 32 plates having to come off. The Wallula is still in the south basin. The German and Cambria were in the Cleveland on two plates. One bottom plate on the Cambria is receiving some work and new fender strakes are being put on. - BurFaLo.—While repair work is not quite so heavy aS a year ago, dockages are more frequent, the jobs being on a larger number of boats. The iron steamer Arabia had some of. her plates re- paired in the Mills dry-dock, and is now at the yard of the Western Transit Co., herowners, who are putting in a new upper body, including frames, Other boats which have been in the Mill’s dock during the past few weeks are the Pathfinder, for replac- ing damaged bottom plates, the John Oades, for new frames, keel, forefoot, and bottom plank- ing; Roumania, for general repairs; the George F. Williams, repairs to bottom damage on three dif- and cutting by ice, considerabie calking being needed; the H. EK. Packer and R. A. Packer for bottom repairs; the Tacoma for a two weeks’ job of bottom planking; the Fred Mercur, for extensive bottom repairs; and the Juniata, for repairs to arches, arch posts, bottom and keel. The Livingston, which received only temporary repairs at Detroit, will go into this dock soon for permanent work. The Queen of the West is having her old machinery taken out at the Mills dock and will have some new bottom planking done. Whitman & Co., willput the engines of the old Calu- met into the Queen of the West, also the boiler that was taken out of the lost steamer Newburg. New bedplates for the engine are also being put in. Whaleback barges 115 and 129 have been receiviug some repairs to top-side plates at the Mills dry-dock. At the Union dry-dock a large job on the Owego was completed last Friday. She had 25 damaged plates, six being too badly injured to be replaced. The Russia will be outthis week. By reason of her collision with the Britannic last season, it was necessary to strip both her bows and rebuild them. She also had some bottom calking done. The John W. Moore is now receiving some bottom repairs, CuIcAGo.—At Miller Brothers’ shipyard the steamer J. &. Owen went out of dry dock Saturday and thesteamer Pascal P. Pratt went in on Monday to receive some new bottom planking and calking, repairs to her wheel and stern bearing, new-boiler house coamings and some general repairs. The schooner J. J. Barlum is receiy- ing a piece of new stem and some general repairs. The steamers Tasmania and. Syracuse are receiving some repairs. rr or DRY-DOCK ASSOCIATION OF THE LAKES. (SEE ILLUSTRATION). The annual meeting of the Dry-dock Association of the Great Lakes was held with a full attendance in the parlors of the Russell House, Detroit, Thursday morn- ing. Manager Edward Gaskin, of the Union Dry-dock, Buffalo, was chosen president. W. I. Babcock, of the South Chicago Dry-dock, vice-president; H. J. Mills, of the Mills Dry-dock. Buffalo, secretary and treasnrer. Resolutions of rerpect and regret were adopted ia con- nection with the death of Mr. J. C. Parker, of Detroit, vice-president ef the Association. Last year’s card of rates was adopted for the coming PRESIDENT EDWARD GASKIN. year, save that lay days will be charged a vessel begin- ning twenty-four hours after she is docked, regardless of the number of men employed on her. The 10 cent per ton chargefor cargo In docking laden vessels was also restored to the card. EE BP Oe IN THE INTEREST OF UNIFORMITY. An informal conference of metal ship builders on the lakes was held at the Russell House, Detroit, Thursday. Matters of general interest to the trade were discussed, with the object of securing a more uniform policy along certain lines of detail. Such dry-docks as do their own metal repair work were also represented at the meeting. <6 ee 9 ee TEH NEW HYDROGRAPHIC OFFICE CHARTS Are meeting with great favor among vessel masters. One of the charts covers Lake Huron, Georgian Bay, and the Straits of Mackinaw, all on a single sheet. Lakes Michigan and Superior appear on single sheets. A chart of Lakes Erie and Ontario, also one of St. Joseph’s channel with St. Mary’s River from Hast Neebish to Mud Lake have been issued. The Hydro- graphic Office does not engage in the sale of any of its publications. All charts, sailing directions, etc., can be procured from THe MARINE RECORD, 144 Superior street, Cleveland. NEWS AROUND THE LAKES. 5 nen eeeeeeneateENEEREEEeeReeeeee | CHICAGO, Special Correspondence to The Marine Record. Capt. John Prindiville chartered the steamer Niko for corn at 4% cents, free of canal tolls, for winter storage and delivery at Kingston in the spring. ‘The Dunham Tug. Company towed the steamers George Spencer and George S. Hope to Armour’s east elevator to load grain, the steamer Mecosta to Coxe Brothers’ coal docks and the steamer Sauber to the Youghiogheny Company’s coal docks to unload. The Independent Tug Line towed the steamer Kittie M. Forbes to Armour’s east elevator and the steamer Moravia to the Dolly Varden elevator to load grain, the steamer Pasadena to Coxe Brother’s coal dock to un- load, the schooner Mary Mclachlan and steamer Josephine to South Chicago and the Iron Cliff and Iron Queen from South Chicago to Chicago. Capts. H). M. Peck and L. C. Waldo, of Detroit, were in Chicago on Tuesday. They paid a.visit to the Chicago Ship Building Co,’s shipyard at South Chicago. The freight rates on grain continue at 258c on corn, with supply and demand about equal. At South Chicago there is a fleet of 70 vessels in win- ter quarters. The Lehigh Valley Company are erect- ing a new elevator, which will have capacity for 800,000 bushels of grain. They are also building a new coal dock. The Reading Company have just com- pleted a large new coal dock. The grain ele- vators at South Chicago have capacity for 6,000,- 000 bushels. The Lake Michigan Car Ferry Co. is a great addition to the business of this port. With a breakwater, which is much needed, South Chicago would make one of the best harbors on the Great Lakes, as the depth of water enables the largest vessels on the lakes to go to their docks without delay. The Goodrich Transportation Co.’s steamers City of Racine, Indiana and City of Ludington continue fo run daily from this port to ports along the west shore. The Racine and Indiana runing as far as Manitowoc, and the City of Ludington as far north as Green Bay. They have ex peri- enced but slight inconvenience from ice so far this season. The officers of Chicago, Lodge 3, of the Ship- masters’ Association, were installed by Grand Master C. EK. Benham at a meeting held at their hall last Wednesday afternoon. WILLIAMS. ' PORT HURON, Spectal Correspondence to the MarinPiy aa cae ae The barge Montgomery that was wrecked last fall in tow of the steamer J. B. Ketchum is at “Dunford & Alversen’s dry-dock and if not sold in her present condition she will be entirely rebuilt and put in first class condition. Capt. John Symes, formerly of the steamer Cadillac, is dangerously ill at the home of his father-in-law at Sarnia with no hopes of his recoy- ery. : Parties here are figuring for a large tug with parties on Lake Michigan. If adeal is made there will be one more tug added to the towing fleet_ on St. Clair and Detroit River. The river is filled up with ice as far up as the head of Mills Island (formerly Stag Island). The steamer Mary is laid up here. ‘The machine shop on the river bank known as the Dry-dock Iron Works, about which there has been so much litigation, is to be heard in the cir- cuit court the latter part of the week. ‘The case - is McMorran vs. Fitzgerald Bros., and the plaintiff sets forth that Fitzgerald Bros., notwithstanding the decree and order of the court still continue to conduct and carry on the business of the Dry-dock Iron Works on the bank of St. Clair River opposite the plaintiff’s residence. He asks that they be arrested for contempt of the court’s order» and held in custody until the buildings shall have been removed. Capt. Chris.Smith, ofthe steamer L. R. Doty, has sold his five-acre farm in Kimball township to George Pike, for $200. KENDALL. - MANISTEE. Special Correspondence to The Marine Record, The boats in winter quarters here are the steamers Edward Buckley, Mark B. Covell, Robert C. Wente, Ida EK. Maggie Marshall, Charles Reitz, Islander, Minnie M., and Ossifrage. and schooners Isabella Sands, A. W. Luckey, Arendal and Green. In an article in your paper of Jan. 2d, I noticed the destruction by fire of the Graham & Morton steamer Puritan. The Puritan did not belong to Graham & Mor- ton, of Benton Harbor, but belonged to the old Seymour Transportation company, of Manistee, of which the chief stockholders reside here. O.S. O. -__ P —— THE MARINE RECOBD is the repository for all en- gineering and nautical publications. Hydrographic charts always on hand,