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SHIP BUILDING AND REPAIRS. é NEW TONNAGE FOR ’97. In addition to the order already placed with the Chi- cago Ship Building Co. for a steamship for the new fleet of 1897, and the contract for the oil carrier recently awarded by the Standard, parties already promi- nen. in shipping circles are asking for bids from the leading builders on two large vessels for next year’s delivery. The bidding will be pretty brisk, and although an advance of $2 per ton in the price of ship and boiler plates was announced Monday, this would have no appreciable effect on the situation, as the increased cost for a large steamer would range between $3,000 and $4,000. Indications are that while next year is not going to show such a rush of work as this there, will still be great activity in the yards and engine shops. The Chicago & Northwestern people have decided to build nintey miles of new road into the timber section of Wisconsin, and to establish a line of car ferry steam- ers across the Michigan, with Manitowoc as their eas- teru terminal. It is hoped to have the boat liae in oper- ation by next season, and the contracts for the boats will probably be let within a few months. President Colgate Hoyt, of the American Steel Barge Co., was in Superior the latter part of last week. He stated in aninterview that his compauy was figuring upon the construction of two more whalebacks, and that itis not unlikely that the company will add another’s basin to its dry-dock plant soon. The tug Edna G., building at the Cleveland shipyard for the Duluth & Iron Range Railroad Co., was launch ed very successfully at 30’clock last Saturday afternoon the christening ceremony being performed by MisS Grace, daughter of Mr. A.C. Saunders. The Edna G. is admitted by all to be the finest tug on the lakes, her model and fittings making her really more of a yacht than atug. While of large Size and furnished with © great power, she will be very suitable for the harbor towing for which she is intended at Two Harbors. She has a bar keel and will draw considerable water, but will be all the more seaworthy on this account. She is 100 feet over all by 23 feet beam and 13 feet depth. Her engines are fore-and-aft compound, with cylinders 18 and 40 inches in diameter by 30 inches stroke. They are of a type entirely new on the lakes, really providing for treble expansion of the steam. She will have a main saloon finished in white mahogany, and the other apartments ih quarter-sawed oak. The pilot house and engine will be built after the style of sea-going tugs. Mr. Robert Logan superintended her construction. - The new barge which Alex. Anderson, of Marine City, is building for Connelly Bros., of Buffalo, will be launched either next Saturday or the following Tuesday. Her name is to be that of the firm, ‘‘Connelly Bros.’’ and she will tow behind the steamer Wotan. She is 210 feet long over all, with 200 feet keel, 36 feet beam, and 12 feet depth of hold. The Union Dry-Dock Co. is working as large a force ofmen asit can handle. The Conners yacht, nearly finished, occupies a position alongside one dock, and the Union liner, nearly in frame, the other. The two ex- cursion steamers will not need any yard room, as they are for Chautauqua and Hemlock lakes‘ and will go to destination in sections, while the steel oil tank will not be built this year. The hull of George D. Nau’s new tug which Andrew Johnson is building at Green Bay will be ready to launch next month. She measured 94x20x12 feet. Her engine is being built by Sutton Bros., of Buffalo, and her boiler by Johnston Bros., Ferrysburg, Mich. The car ferry barge in process of construction at Peshtigo for the Lake Michigan Car Transportation Co., for use between Chicage River and the Calumet, will be finished in about two weeks. Capt. Adolph Frietsch of Milwaukee, is making fair progress with his boat, the Schlitz Globe with which he expects to satl around the world. The bottom, which is already completed, is constructed of white oak plank two anda half inches in thickness and fastened with 300 . arriage bolts half an inch i in diameter. ‘‘I have agreed,” says Capt. Frietsch, ‘‘to construct the hull with my own hands, all but the painting and finishing, and the re- port that the Schlitz Brewing Company has engaged carpenters to help me is entirely wrong. The Schlitz Globe will undoubtedly be the strongest boat of her size THE MARINE RECORD. Ss ever constructed. I will have her ready for the paint- ers by the latter part of May.”’ GENERAL REPAIR WORK. CLEVELAND.—The.Hesper got out of the Cleveland dry-doek this week, and the: Rdward S. Pease was in to renew her steel arches. The Rival ‘is in getting some bottom repairs. The J. €. Lockwood is still in the Ship Owners’ dock. The Grace Holland is also in dock there for some new steel planking. The repair work on the May Richards and Nellie Red- dington and Escanaba is about finished. The Genoa has been getting some new spars and has had her hatch coamings and deck repaired. DErrRort.—The lengthening and rebuilding of the Fayette Brown at the Clark Dry-dock is about finished. Her carrying capacity is increased about 500 tons; but the width of hatchways is somewhat reduced because of aheavy steel stringer on each side the steamer, six feet wide. The Lansing is in the Detroit dry-dock for a new stern post. The ferry steamer Fortune’ has found a damaged plate 9 feet. below the water line, evidently done when releasing the Shenango No20n Lake Erie. The steamyacht Cynthia is getting anew Deering boiler to cost $2,500. The steamyacht Aza‘e. is’ biing remod eled in side at an expense of $3,000. .The steamyacht Pastime has been at the Detroit Boat Works, getting $3,000 worth of repairs, including work on boiler, new fender, strakes, bulwarks and mahogany rail with locust stanchions. The steamer George J. Farwell has been rebuilt into a double-deck boat at Marine City, and has come here for new boilers. ‘The State of Michigan will be sent to dock for a general over-hauling before being placed in the Mackinaw route. The Cherokee will come here from Marine City for a new shaft. STURGEON BAy.—The new port bow in the schooner H.C. Winslow has been completed. She is now re- ceiving new covering-board and deck-beams, and her center-board box is being rebuilt. "The barge Harry Johnson has received a new deck, and the schooner Mary Collins a new timberhead on the port quarter. Port HurRON.—The White Star is in the Wolverine dry-dock for some bottom planking and calking: ‘The barge Montgomery comes out of Dunford & Alverson’s dock Tuesday, and the Tempest goes in for a new stern pipe. The schooners Cateract and Japiter will go into the Wolverine dock this week for a general overhauling. BuFFALO.—The following is’a resuine of the winter re- pair work here. The work, or most of it, has already been covered correctly in the REcorD: Arabia, new deck and rail entire, besides other new work; Henry Chis- holm, new stern; Conemaugh, stem and other repairs; Cumberland, stanchions, covering-board, rail, etc.; J. F. Eddy, new upperworks aft; W. H. Gratwick (wood) new boilers; S. C. Hall, extensive general repairs; H. J. Jewett, steel deck; Juniata, extensive repairs to hull; Katahdin, large outlay in strengthening and stopping leak; Livingstone, repairs of collision damage to stern; Lycoming, newengine;M. Maytham, J. W. Moore, John Oades, A. Orr and Pathfinder, extensive repairs to bot- tom; R. P. Ranney, extensive repairs in hold and above deck; Roumania, rail, stanchions, etc.; Queen of the West, engine from the lost Calumet; Rube Richards, boiler from the lost Newburg; Russia, entire new bows to make good collision damage; Viking, extensive gen- eral work; Washburn, bottom plates and repair of col- lision damage; A. Weston, stem, planking, etc; B. Whitaker, pole spars and general repairs; G. F. Will- jams, extensive repairs aft to make good collision dam- age; Wissahickon, new decks; barge Adriatic, housed in forward and other. new upper work; Aurania, new pilot house, etc.; T. lL. Parker, entire rebuild, including pole spars; Wenona, general rebuild. Of the eight whaleback barges of the steel company wintering here several have been in dock for bottom repairs. NOTES. The steamer Inter-Ocean has received $8,000 in repairs at Ashtabula during the past winter. About $1,200 was spent on her consort, the Winslow. The new fueling scow which J. G. Laird & Sons, and Albert Swedenburg of Ashtabula, are building for M. A. Hanna & Co: She will be self-propelling, and her engine will operate the powerful crane necessary to handle her buckets, which will contain nearly a car load of coal each. The steambarge A. Y. Gowen received athorough re- build at Sandusky during the winter, and is already in commiission. THE RIVER AND HARBOR BILL... <5 (NN ee FROM PAGE 4.) ments on this ake are: ition Hay Cuifats $30;000, and for improvement of harbor of refuge, maintenance of channel and pier, $5,000; Menominee, $7,150; Green Bay, $25,000, Kenosha, $24,000; Kewaunee $25,000; Mani- towoc, $24,500; Racine, $27,000; Sheboygan, $26,000; Charlevoix, $20,000; Frankfort, $15,000; Grand Haven, $20,000; Manistee, $12,000; Muskegon, $30;000; Benton Harbor Canal (St. Joseph), $30,000; South Haven, $15,- 000; Ludington, $20,000; Saugatuck, $10,000; Ahnapee, $5,000; Holland, $8,000; Pentwater, $5,000; White Lake, $5,000; Petoskey, $8,000; Port Washington, $5,500; Two Rivers, $5,000; Pensaukee, $1,000; Oconto, $4,000. On Lake Superior a continuous contract is provided for Duluth and Superior harbor, involving an expendi- ture of $3,080,553. For continuing work $50,000 is pro- vided immediately, $30,000 for the Duluth and $20,000 for the Superior sections. Other appropriations on this lake are: Two Harbors, $30,000; Ashiand, $27,000; On- tonagon, $10,000; Portage Lake harbor, $25,000; Portage Lake Canal, $50,000; Marquette, $24,000; Point Mar- quette Bay (Presque Isle Point Bay), $20,000; Grand Marais harbor of refuge, $24,000. A contract is authorized to involve $1,065.000 for im- proving the water communication across Kewenaw Point in addition to the $50,000 elsewhere mentioned for Portage Lake Canal. On Lake Huron $16,000 is appropriated for Sand Beach harbor of refuge; Cheboygan gets $12,000, _ and Alpena, $2,500. On Lake Ontario, Oswego is allowed $60,000; Ogdens- - ' burg, $20,030; Charlotte, $12,000; Cape Vincent, $25,000, Great Sodus Bay, $8,000; Little Sodus Bay, $8,000: Cas:. sarie Bay (?) $10,000. In addition there is provided $25,000 for eheving the shoal between Sister Island and Cross-Over light. . Provision is made for the survey of Oswego River, Oneida Lake and Mohawk River, so as to connect them. Alexandria Bay and Black River at Dexter are.also to... be surveyed. In addition to these the following sums were: pro: , vided for the improvement of rivers in the lake region: ae Detroit -River, removing shoals, $30,000; Rouge River, $5,000; Black River (Port Huron), $4,000; mouth of, Black River, $4,000; Sebewaing River, $5,000; Clinton River, $10,000; St. Pine River, $5,000; Grand River, River, $5,000; Fox River, $37,500; St. Croix River, $10,000. Saginaw River gets $56,000, of which $16,000 is: to: be Michigan, Z Joseph River, $500; : $5,000; Kalamazoo used above Bay City. A survey is directed with a -view-.: to securing a,channel 200 feet wide and 14 feet: deep’: from the head of Saginaw xriver to Third. street,: Bay.- City, and 16 feet deep thence to Saginaw Bay; also’ to» submit plans and estimates for improving the west~: channel between the middle ground and West Bay City,;’ ‘dredging to 14 feet; also to dredge the Shiawassee.River.: from Saginaw River to Bad River to theviilage of Sty: Charles and Flint River from the Shiawassee.as hai asi practicable. For improving Menominee River $15, 000 was approsi: priated, to widen the main channel to 250 feet for 600°: feet down the river, from the present west line of the: channel to be 16 feet deep, and to extend the present » main channel from its west line up the river 425 feet to. the west line of Wells street, to be 16 feet deep. The total appropriation carried in the Dill is $9, 767, - 630. The estimates vf General Craighill; Chief of Eyn- gineers, were about $12,000,000. In addition to thé cash” appropriations, which will be available July 1, contracts). are authorized in the bill for amounts aggrégating.”™ $51,000,000. it $11,478, 180. 0 <9 The last river and harbor bill carried with The steambarge Dominion was sold at Owen Sound on Thursday, subject to the approval of the judge of the _ Admiralty Court, Toronto, at auction, by Capt. Boyd, marshal of the admiralty of Toronto district, to Mr, Alex. Fraser, Toronto, for $1,200. sailed for the last three seasons by Capt. Sidley, of Belleville, and was sold under an execution issued by him for a claim of wages. four years since she was purchased for $6,000, which amount was realized up tothe close of navigation last i season by her carrying freight. This ship has been She is valued at $3,500. Some _