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4 8 He will make all haste to become more than 45 years old and only asks a reasonable time. After that is done maybe something else will happen, but if the Globe ever comes under his management the deal will have to be made yet. : The firm of Hitchcock & Wilcox, Average Adjusters, insurance and yvessebsbrokers, has been dissolved. by mutual consent. Mr.'Daniel H. Wilcox, having bought out Mr. Hitchcock’s interests, good will of the business, etc., will continue the business in new offices. Rooms 7 and-8, Bxchange Building, No. 202 Main street The tug Joe Harris arrived here Monday morning from Cleveland with the fleet of steel canal-boats. They are bound for New York on their first trip of the season. The time from Cleveland was thirty-one hours. The tug Cascade returned from Ashtabula to day. Tuesday, making the 117 mile run from pier to pier in nine hours. It is too bad that the excursion-boat managers have been able to do nothing so far this season but run their heads together. There is much need of a general co- operation and as the charges they make have always been low there is no one who wou'd object to a single management for that matter. But there is now a good prospect of every interest starting out strictly for it- self, and if there is not a deficiency to meet in more than one line when fall comes on it will be the first time. The lesson of the spring grain fleet so far is that it takes good grain as well as good vessels to store any grain, especially corn, afloat during the winter. When the Chicago fleet started out it was said that there would be very little difficulty with it, for the vessels were Al; and so it proved, for with the exception of the 21,000 bushels wet by the broken pipe on the barge Mclachlan there has been very little wet grain. The trouble is that the corn was often out of condition when it was loaded. This ought to release both vessel and in- surance people from liability. JOHN CHAMBERLIN. CLEVELAND. COMMISSIONERS APPOINTED TO. SPEND THE MONEY ApP- PROPRIATED FOR HARBOR, FLUSHING TUNNEL, AND OTHER PURPOSES. CLEVELAND, May 7. The Mayor has appointed as a commission to direct the work of improvements of the river harbor to the extent of $500,000, the following gentlemen: Lee McBride, Harvey D. Goulder, M. A. Bradley, Col. A. T. Van Tassel, N. A. Gilbert, Capt. C. EK. Benham, and Julius Feiss, The commission which is to have charge of the money to be expended on a system of disposing of garbage, and for constructing a tunnel for flushing the Cuyahoga River was appointed as follows: J. W. G. Cowles, president of the Chamber of Commerce; Samuel Mather, W. J. Crawford, Henry W. S. Wood, H. W. Case, and Dr. W. H. Humiston. The Vessel Owners’ Towing Company has opened a branch office on the Cleveland, Canton & Southern (Connotton) dock, for the transaction of business in the upper part of the river. The tugs Allie May and Cur- tiss will be stationed there. Joseph R. Oldham leaves tonight to look after the re pairs to the Emily P. Weed, which lost her rudder at the Sault. The helpers at the Cleveland shipyard went out this morning, demanding an increase in pay. The strike does not affect the mechanical work in the yard. Congressman Burton has interviewed Commander Wilde, the Naval Secretary of the Lighthouse Board, to hasten, if possible, the action of the board in locating” alightship and making other provisions for lighting Grosse Polnt cut, in the lower end of Lake St. Clair. The order for erection of the temporary light has been issued. Mr. C. T. Hitchcock, insurance adjuster,and late of the firm of Hitchcock & Wilcox, Buffalo, has been in the city most of the week. It is probable that Mr. Hitchcock will open an office in Cleveland. The new steamer Coralia, which left Escanaba at 3 o’clock Tuesday morning with the largest cargo of ore ever carried down the lakes, arrived off Ashtabula at 5 o’clock this morning, but was not able to enter port un- til daylight, by reason of thick weather. The Coralia is as good a traveler as she is a carrier. Her engines were crowded at no time, but she made an average speed of 13%4 miles, her wheel making from 70 to 72 turns per minute. She wasthe admiration of everybody on her way up and down. She steams easily, and was very moderate in her fuel consumption. Capt. George P. McKay, manager of the Mutual fleet, made the trip on her, accompanied by Major W. B. Stockman, local fore- cast official of the Weather Bureau. Both report a most enjoyable trip. CHICAGO. BerreR GRAIN FREIGHTS INCREASE THE ACTIVITY— VARIED CAREER OF A PIONEER MastER—W. J. Con- NERS’ NEW QUARTERS. CHICAGO, May 6. Special Correspondence to The Marine Record. The steamer Progress, light, arrived from Detroit May 2, to load grain at this port. The Independent Tug Line towed the steamer Thomas Davidson to Keith’s elevator; the steamers . P. Wilbur THE MARINE RECORD. and Progress to Armour’s A elevator; the steamer Oceanica to the Santa Fe elevator; the steamer Ocean- ica to John Murray’s coal dock at Chicago Ave.; the steamer William Chisholm to O. S. Richardson’s coal dock at South Halsted street; the schooner Thomas Quayle to Driskie’s coal yard. ‘The Dunham Towing Company towed the steamer R. P. Fitzgerald to the Atlantic elevator; the steamer John Plankinton to the City elevator; the steamer Wiley M. Eagan to Armour’s A and B elevators; and several line . g steamers to elevators. Grain freights are improving; 2c on corn to Buffalo was reached on Tuesday. H.W. Cook & Co. chartered the steamer Normaadie for wheat to Cleveland; the steamer John Spry and consort Johnson, for iron ore, Duluth to South Chicago; the steamer W. P. Ketcham and consort George B. Owen, for coal from Oswego to Chciago; the steamer Robert Holland and consorts Minch and Warmington, for lumber, Duluth to Chicago; the steamer Adella Shores and consort Middlesex, for coal from Oswego to Milwaukee. W. J. Conners, the well known freight handler, has re- moved his place of business at this port to 46 River street, where he has much more commodious and con- venient offices. His business here is entrusted to the management of Messrs. John Bohen, A. A. Gillespie and Edgar W. Burns, who are well qualified to look after his interests. Capt. Chas. A. Kirtland, now of the Hurson ‘Transpor- tation Company’s steamer City of Fremont, is hale and hearty at the age of three-score years andten. His early life was spent on the New Engiand coast. a fitting school for so worthy a member of his cloth. ‘The Cap- tain atan early age acquired a liking for wrecking operations. Thirty-two years ago he was engaged by the Goodrich company to release their stranded steamer Sea Bird, which he successfully accomplished, after which he was given command of the Goodrich liner - Comet, and remained in the company’s employ many yeaas. In 1872 he bought an interest in the wrecking tug Leviathan, and was in charge of her in the wreck- ing business until about 1884, when’ he sold out his interests. Capt. Kiruand has patented a very complete sounding apparatus for finding depths when a vessel is under way. Several of the machines are now in use. The steamers Seneca, place one on the steamer Saranac. This. sounding machine of Capt. Kirtland’s is practicable, ,reliable, and almost automatic, so that if its merits were more widely known scores of steamers would no doubt be fitted with them. In addition to s€€ing-tests made of the sounding machine, I observed important alterations being made in the saloon cabin of the City of Fremont so as to give more accommodations to, the largely in- creasing passenger traffic of the Hurson Transporta- tion Co. between this port and Milwaukee. THOMAS WILLIAMS. é FLOTSAM AND JETSAM. The schooner C. W. Ryan will go into the Lake Michbi- gan salt trade. The steamers Dove and Sterling will run between Toledo and Monroe. The government depth of water in Sturgeon Bay canal is 13.7 feet. The last of the old St. Ignace ore docks is being raised and remodeled for lumber shipping purposes. Vessels have been somewhat blockaded at the Sault canalof late. The Canadian canal will be opened today. Port Clinton wants a lighthouse at the end of the pier and the Lighthouse Board has asked for a report from Col. Smith. Thomas W. Swift has been appointed assistant in- spector of hulls, and D. W. Lanigan, assistant inspec- tor of boilers at Milwaukee. The Star-Cole Line has cut the Detroit-Port Huron rate to 25c. for both, one way and round trip business, to offset the greater speed of the Unique. The W. & M. Company have not succeeded in chang- ing the Perrett’s name. The Perrett is now equipped with a search-light of 8,000 candle’power. At Buffalo 8,200,000 bushels of grain were unloaded from vessels by the new elevator system last week, the largest quantity ever handled at one port in the time. The steamer Helena reached Uhrig & Son’s dock, Milwaukee, with a full load of soft coal at 8 a. m., April 29 and finished discharging at 10 a. m., the following day. The government has begun dredging the harbor at She- boygan. The work is being done under the old appro- priation Sheboygan receives $26,000, just what it asked for. The Canadian revenue boat Petrel has seized 13 American gill nets in Canadian waters within the week, as wellas a quantity of fish. The catch was made near the Old Hen island. Collingwood complains that the Ontario government Ts nt aoe -in repairs this season.’ © Chemung and Northern Light are © each carrying one, and the Captain is now about to: “way south from the Pelee lighthouse... The cable will is disappointing her in not furnishing money for har- bor improvement. The municipality has started some expenditures. oy, ee en The Canadian government has made the canal tolls the same as last season. os ae Bissell’s big dock at Detroit has received about. $2,000 — The lower Limekiln light was carried away by a raft, — Tuesday night, but has probably been replaced by this — time.. 2°: gOS a ee ‘Recent discoveries of ore in the Republic mine war- — rant heavy production for some years to come. There are now 350 miners working there, and 150 more will soon be employed. ee cas The Ogdensburg Transit Co.’s Central Vermont Lines — will charge a rate 10 cents lower per hundred pounds from New York to Milwaukee and. Chicago, via the Great Lakes, than on the all-railroutes. This line may get into the Lake Superior trade thisyear.-. 0 The western -onnections of the Union Transit Co., — which has recently purchased five boats which it form- erly had under charter, are the C., St. P., M, & O. and ~ the Northern Pacific at Duluth, and the Kastern Minne- sota and the Great Northern at West Superior. inh a Senator Blanchard has introduced a bill providing — for fine and imprisonment of anybody who shall dis-_ charge or deposit ashes or other solid matter in the water of any barbor or navigable channel for the im- provement of which the government has appropriated funds. . die eee Work has been commenced on some important im- portant improvements to the Sage & Co., property along, — the river front at West Bay city. The dock for a dis- tance of 600 feet south of Midland street will be rebuilt and put in first class condition for public use. John street will be opened from its: present terminus to the — river, sidetracks will be laid on. the property and a street running parallel with the river and about 300 or 400 feet back will be opened. Achwge : The first work performed by the: new .Plum Island Life-Saving crew was on April 16,. when the. scow- schooner Agnes Behrman went adriftin the ice, She dragged anchor and the ice was fast carrying her toward Death’s Door passage. Capt C. O. Peterson called upon the life-saving crew for help and they. im-- mediately responded. A kedgeée anchor and 1,000 feet of line was run out from the vessel. and by heaving she was catried clear of the anchor ice. The crew worked all day in saving the vessel. t : preteens The Pelee Islandtelephone cable has been repaired, after heavy damages by ice and-anchoring vessels. As soon as proper arrangements can be made the cable will be taken up and relaid, starting from the end of Point Pelee, running southerly to the Dummy lighthouse, thence south-easterly to a point about one-third of the in this way be out of all anchorage ground, and the Dummy light keeper will be able to report immediately — accidents, etc., as they are seen from the Dummy. The following is the Windsor, Ont., ’longshoremen’s schedule of rates for 1896: Car sills, 40c. per M.;. tama-_ rack and hemlock ties, 2c each; cedar ties, 1c. each; _ cedar posts, dry-peeled, 25c.° per cord; unpeeled posts, — 30c per cord; grape posts, per:cord, 40c; telegraph posts, per thousand, 28c; 1 and 2-inch white pine, 23c; 1 and 2 inch Norway pine, 25c; 1 and 2-inch hemlock, 30¢; strips, 23c; cut-offs and shorts, 23c; hardwood, 1 and 2-inch, 30c; hardwood over 2-inch, 35c; lath on deck, 5c; lath in hold 6c; shingles, 5c; land 2-inch basswood, 25c; timbers, 35c; timbers in hold, extra 10c; 3-inch plank, 18 feet and under, 30c. rE DEATH OF CAPT. JOHN RICE. The marine fraternity all around the Great Lakes a are shocked to learn of the death of Capt. John Rice, who passed away at his home, No. 336 Linwood Avenue. — Buffaly, at 3 o’clock Wendesday afternoon. Some time ago he fell down a flignt of stairs at his home and sus- tained severe injuries. It was known he was still suffering from these, but all his friends counted con- fidently upon his recovery. ‘ Capt. Rice was about sixty years old, and was one of the best known vesselmen onthe chain of lakes, re- maining actively in business up to the time of his dis- ablement. He was president of the Mills Dry-Dock Co., and manager of the Red Star Line,