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blast furnace docks, a matter of about 1,000 feet. 10 —— NEWS AROUND THE LAKES. BUFFALO. * special Correspondence to The Marine Record. A special effort is being made to bring the city coun- cil to see that the best thing the City of Buffalo can do is to make some harbor improvements on its own re- sponsibility. State funds pay for dredging out the Ohio basin, and the government appropriations for outer har- bor improvements are rather large; but there yet re- mains a great deal to be done to make this port what it should be and city money expended in this direction will certainly prove a good investment. : There is no better guage for the tiecessities of a har- bor-than the statistics of arrivals and.-departures, as this ‘indicates precisely the need for room and for proper facilities for getting in and out of port. The following figures show Buffalo’s commerce, as com- pared with other important lake cities: Buffalo entries—Coastwise trade, 3669 vessels of | 4,400,547 tons; foreign trade, 737 American vessels of 241,466 tons, and 352 foreign vessels of 41,979 tons; total, 5,758 vessels with a tonnage of 4,684,093. Buffalo clearances—Coastwise trade, 3,752 vessels of 4,482,576 tons; foreign trade, 666 American vessels of. 165,383 tons and 339 foreign vessels of 37,739 tons; total, 4,727 vessels with a tonnage of 466,568. Chicago entries—Coastwise trade, 7,593 vessels of 4,588,954 tons; foreign trade, 41 American vessels of 12,- 239 tons and 3 foreign vessels of 1,315 tons; total, WOS tice: vessels with a tonnage of 4,602,508. Chicago clearances—Coastwise trade, 7,577 vessels of 4,521,419 tons; foreign trade, 107 American vessels of 63;100 tons and 3 foreign vessels of ‘1,315 tons; total, 7,687 vessels with a tonnage of 4,585,834, - Cleveland entries—American vessels, 3,286, with a tonnage of 2,735,889; foreign vessels, 477 of 93,473 tons; total, 3,763 vessels of 2,829,362 tons. Cleveland clearances—American vessels, 3,155 with a tonnage of 2,696,758; foreign vessels, 566, with a ton- nage of 123.407; total, 3,721 vessels of 2,820,165 tons. - Milwaukee—Arrived, 5,485 véssels of 3,529,919 tons; cleared, 5,408 vessels of 3,715,315’'tons. Capt. Wm. Clark visited Albany last week, and had a long consultation with engineer Adams in regard to additional water for the harbor of Buffalo and the. western lerfts of the Erie Canal. It is proposed to take out about 200 feet of the Bird Island pier, and to build out a-wing damso as toturna large part of the river currents into the canal. Last fall many boats were un- able to leave Buffalo for weeks because of low water. It is desired that this work be done under the’ provis- ions of the canal bill. ‘ ee Capt. Symonds, of the Engineer Corps, U. S. A., now located here, says that it is high time that the various marine and allied interests get together and decide'upon. exactly what they want in the line of harbor improve-' ment, so that a solid front may be presented at Wash- ington. Solong as there is.a division here as to the proper direction for harbor enlargement to take, just so long will congress postpone giving any attention to the matter. — Capt Symonds has received from Washington the petition from Niagara Falls asking the setting aside of the $5,000 left over last year from the appropriation for dredging out the entrance to Schlosser. and using it for, cutting across the bar at the end of Buckhorn Island and opening the river route on the west side of Grand Island, where the water is about three feet deeper than it is on the east side. He will probably report in favor of the petition. He is also in favor of the extension of the government survey far enough north of Tonawanda to include the Work will proceed on the obstructions at Strawberry. Island as soon as spring opens. ; The Buffalo River Commissioners have filed their re-. The port on the proposed straightening of the river. Legislature authorized the city to do this work and to expend $200,000 on it, and the estimates of the commis- sioners—George Clinton, James A. Menzies, and Peter Maischois—estimate the cost at $130,000. This will allow John Kelderhouse $37,625 for about 20 acres of land which will be taken for the connecting channel; Arthur W. Decker and Kmory P. Close, seven acres, $15,500; John F. Harck, house and lot, $2,040; J. L. Davidson, house, $1,580; John Sedenberg, lot, $2,966; Charles T. Sloan and John R. Walters, lot, $1,494; Bar- ber Asphalt Co., lot, $325. State Engineer Adams, of Albany, has called atten- tion to the $9,000,000 canal appropriation law, which provides for six weeks advertising before awarding contracts. This is generally objected to, as the delay thus caused will prevent much of the work being com- pleted this year in time to be of any especial benefit to navigation. The work between Buffalo and Lockport should be done early in the spring, and it is probable that the Legislature will amend the law. CHICAGO: Special Correspondence to The Marine Record, J. J. Rardon and Co. have chartered the steamers Cal- edonia and C. Tower, Jr., and barges Moravia and Tasmania for corn at 25gc for winter storage and de- livery at Buffalo in thespring. Captain JamesO. Wood has been appointed master of ‘case has not yet been made.- dredged opén. A dock’may some time be built THE MARINE RECORD. the steamer Thomas Davidson; Captain John McAvoy master of the steamer Walter Vail; and Captain Thomas O’Donnell master of the barge Baltic. ips The tug Mosher released the steamer Geo. T. Bur- roughs, which got stuck inthe ice off Chicago, last Wednesday. The Independent Tug Line claim that among their patrons there are Kings, Queens, Dukes, Chiefs, States, Cities and also a Pope. Captain H. F. Loftus, Robert Young, George W. Flood, John Jenks, and George Tebo, and Louis Wind- mueller and Dan McCarthy left Chicago this week for Washington to attend the Ship Masters’ convention. Captain George Tebo went to Washington to attend the convention of the Masters’ and Pilots’ Association in behalf of Chicago harbor. The Chicago Towing Co. towed the steamer Mecosta to Coxe Bros.’ coal dock to unload. The Independent T'ug Line towed the schooner Mary McLachlan, graintaden, from South Chicago to this port to go into winter quarters. The steamer Niko and barge Brightie were taken to Armour’s ‘‘E”’ elevator to load grain; the steatner Pasadena from Coxe Brothers coal ‘dock to her winter quartersin Burlington slip; the steamer City of Glasgow to Coxe. Bros. coal dock to unload. mee es : =. ‘The Dunham Towi ig Co. towed the steamer Omaha to the Indiana elevator and the steamer V. H: Ketchum and barge Olive Jeannette to Armour’s ‘‘K’’ elevator to load grain; the steamer City of London to Miller Bros’ ‘dry-dock. : WILLIAMS. FLOTSAM AND JETSAM. The City of Toledo may be operated between Toledo and Detroit next season. Lake Shore Dredge No. 3 was damaged $400 by fire at Ashtabula Sunday morning. The Ann Arbor No. 2 lost her wheel twice within a few days by striking bottom at Frankfort. One of the cars washed off an Ann Arbor steamer floated ashore at Lily Bay, a few days later. It will take the Ann Arbor steamers at least a month to catch up with the freight traffic they have on hand- ° The assessment of damages in the Orr-Smith collision United States Clerk Kurtz, at Milwaukee, is referee. > H. B. Vincent, president of the Ohio Fish and Game Commission, will meet Lake Erie fishermen at San- dusky to-day (Thursday) at;411 o*clock. men The Lighthouse Board bas directed the removal of the light and fog” signal: at Genesee to the end of the pier, which has teenextesded lately. _ .Kishman. & Sons, of Véritiillion,, have recovered their tug Telephone, which was* confiscated by Canada for illegal fishing, and sold at-auction. Henry Kishman 2% bid her in for $1,075. <*, - The directors of the new Ashtabula Tug Co. have or- santiago electing C. E. Grover president, D. R Hanng* ¥ice-president, and W. A. Collier secretary, treasu nd géfieral manager. ‘ The steamer R. J. Stewart has gone to the scene of the Centurion’s” stranding on Isle Royale with two divers, two sleighs; two teams, and a hoisting engine, with which to recover jettisoned copper. ' Thé Cedar Point (Sandusky) Pleasure Resort Co. have decided that it is impracticable to build a dock o%it into the Iake and keep a channel off.the lighthouse point. The War. Department is evidently paying some atterition to the request of the Cleveland Chamber of *Commerce that an army“post be established there. The bluff just west of Rocky River is considered a very eligible sight for a' fort. Capt. Andrew Johnson has sold the tug Annie D. to GC. W. Strichenbach and . C. Schiller, of Green Bay. Consideration, $1,000. The craft will be.used for picking up fish along the shores of Green Bay and in doing miscel- laneous towing at her home port. The W. & M. Railway Co. has had a small crew in charge of an engineer making sound- ings through the ice at Peshtigo harbor for the past week. ‘They contemplate more im- provements in the spring, and this is a pre- liminary to doing some dredging. The English government, it is said, has entered into a contract with the officials of the New York, Ontario & Western for the delivery of 1,000,000 tons of coal to points along Lake Ontario and the Canadian borders. It is thought to mean that England is to supply her coaling vessels at Canadian ports, if not to establish and supply new ones in case war should ensue with United States. oe F. C. Geeke, of Charlevoix, Mich., has sold the Maggie Sanborn to the Two Rivers Manufacturing for $2,500. ‘The Sanborn will be used to make upr for the Temple Emory and in doing such other work her comparatively light draft will permit. any George G. Hadley and J. P. Nagle, who have recent formed a vessel brokerage partnership and marine in surance agency at Toledo, have bought the tug Wis sin, and have another tug in view. They will do bor towing when the season opens. ; Congressman Cobb, of Missouri, has introduced a b amending the navigation laws so as to require ferry boats, canal boats, yachts, and all other small craft o f like character, propelled by gasoline, naphtha or mo power, to be subject to the steamboat inspection serv John A. Zangerle and others, of Cleveland, have put chased the summer resort known as Oak Point fo $25,000, from Charles R. Shepherd and Isaac Co The new owners expect to establish a regular boat li from Cleveland with a view to attracting excur and picnic business next summer. i . It is said that a Detroit man has discovered the art of tempering copper so that the metal: may be util ized in place of steel where corrosion puts steel at disadvantage. He has made both coiled and flat springs and good knife blades, and is able to weld th metal itself and to iron and steel. re Col. Jared A. Smith, Engineer Corps, U.S. A., h been fixing the harbor lines at Toledo, subject to th approval of the Secretary of War. The lines make th channel 650. feet wide at the Lake Shore bridge, th width gradually incréasing toward'the mouth, where i is 1,600 feet. This will, it is thought, prevent the form ation of ice gorges. : At the annual meeting of the Metropolitan Iron an Land Co., held at Milwaukee Saturday, S. S. Curry was” ‘elected president, John A. Whaling, treasurer, and S. Hazelton, secretary. The latter’s report showe that the total output of the company’s mines was 968, 693 tons, as follows: Norrie, 449,689 tons; Kast Norrie 125,696; North Norrie, 163,095; Pabst, 219,960; Davis 10,253. : Ro ae The writer of the very interesting communication it last week’s issue regarding Buffalo harbor was Capt. H ‘Zealand, of Port Huron. The date and signature was omitted through a printer’s error. oe ED ee —e JACKSON & CHURCH’S DOUBLE SPOOL HOIST. The illustration shows a well-built and powerful dou- “ble spool friction deck and dock hoist such as is success fully used on freight boats and docks where one or two lifts are worked at one time. When wanted they put friction spools in place of gypsies on ends and shaf working four lifts with one set of engines. They are built in six sizes, being 6 x 6 in., 6x 7in., 7x 8in., 7 x9 in., 8x 9in., and 8 x 10in. cylinders, or larger if required JACKSON & CHURCH’S DOUBLE SPOOL HOIST. This concern also builds one of the best deck hoists om: the lakes, having between 200 and 300 in use on fresh a salt water. Also afriction dock hoist used in coal:yards and pile driving, and twin engines for dredges, etc. =) Jackson & Church, Saginaw, Mich., will furnish further information on application. %