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NEWS AROUND THE LAKES. CHICAGO. FREIGHTS A LITTLE WEAKER, WITH PLENTY OF TONNAGE— DEATH OF CAPT. ISAAC MORRIS. Special Correspondence to The Marine Record. CHICAGO OFFICE, MARINE RECORD, ) May 12, 1896. § Grain freights this week are slow and rates are 154c on corn and 1%c on oats to Buffalo. Receipts of corn have been light and the demand from Kastern markets small. The line steamers have beea carrying most of the grain that has been shipped. 5 The Lake Michigan Car Ferry Transportation Com- pany’s steeltug S. M. Fischer, recently built by the Craig Ship Building Co., Toledo, is expected at South Chicago with transports Nos. 3 and 4 about June 2. Barge A, built at Peshtigo, ison her way to this port in tow of the tug Crosby, and will load cars at the -Com- pany’s dock in Lighthouse slip, and be towed to South Chicago, where the cars will be transferred to Nos. 1 and 2, which will then be towed to Peshtigo by the com- pany’s tug J. C. Perrett. The steamer Fayette, Capt. W. H. Decker, has been chartered by C. R. Jones & Co., of Cleveland, for the season. The Fayette will tow the steamer Argonaut from South Chicago to Ksca- naba to load and then to Cleveland, after which she is to towtwo barges for Jones & Co. the remainder of the season. W. H. Singer was here from Duluth last week and purchased the tug D. G. Helm from the r- ceiver of the Vessel Owners’ Towing Company for $5.100. W. H. Singer’s new tug, building at EK. W. Heath’s shipyard, at Benton Harbor, will be named the Superior. Her dimensions are 80 feet over all, 20 feet beam, 11 feet depth of hold, ‘engine high pressure 22 x 24 inches, with steam reverse; marine boiler 8 x 14 feet, to be allowed 150 lbs. steam pressure, built by the Montague Iron Works. The supply boat Uncle Charley broke her outboard shaft and lost her wheel near Adams street bridge last week. The Independent Tug Line people are in full swing at their new offices at No. 1 Franklin street, recently and for several years occupied by the Vessel Owners’ Towing Co. The schooner J. J; Barlum, with 2,300 tons of Black Horse coal from Erie, arrived Tues- day morning and the steamer John F. Eddy, also from Erie, arrived Tuesday with 1,863 tons of Black Horse coal. Both are unloading at O. S. Richardson & Co.’s new dock near the north pier. The whaleback passenger steamer Christ- opher Columbus will commence to run excur- sions between Chicago and Milwaukee on June ~| 15. Capt. Robert Smith will be in command and W. ‘Ll, Webster will be chief engineer, Same as last season. Capt. Isaac T. Morris died suddenly at his residence, 359 {Chestnut street, Chicago, Mon- day night. ‘The deceased was an old-time lake captain. His son, Warren Morris, is at pres- ent sailing out of Cleveland. Since my last letter Capt. James A. Calbick has met with a severe bereavement in the loss of his youngest son, Sylvester James, who died on the 6th inst. of typhoid fever. He was a bright little fellow, nine years of age, and a great favorite. James A. Calbick & Co. chartered the steamer Toltec for iron ore from Escanaba to South Chicago; the steamer Maggie Duncan and consorts Tyson and Favorite for lumber from Ash- land to Chicago. The Hausler & Lutz Co.’s new tug Lutz made her trial trip last Saturday afternoon. She made a run be- tween South Chicago and Chicago in just one hour, without any hurrying. She isa well built and power- ful tug. H. W. Cook & Co. chartered the steamer Thos. David- son for corn to Buffalo at 134c; the schooner George J. Boyce for clipped oats to Port Huron at 13c. THOMAS WILLIAMS. DULUTH AND SUPERIOR. Lots OF GRAIN STILL AT THE HEAD OF THE LAKES, DESPITE HEAVY SHIPMENTS— SOME MAIDEN CARGOES. Special Correspondence to The Marine Recora. Duriutu, MAy 12. The first cargo of the City of Bangor, was 112,944 bushels of wheat, or about 3,390 net tons. The ore trimmers’ tnion is making itself conspicuous here just now. It is fighting for a foothold. At present the Missabe Railroad will not allow any men to go on its dock accept those who are employed by it, or whom it chooses to leave doso. This prevents the union men from competing for the work of trimming. ‘They asked THE MarwinE RECORD. Vice President McBride for permission to go to the dock and bid for jobs, but he refused. They then induced the mayor of the city tointercede for them, but Mr. McBride was firm. The matter has now been brought to the attention of the Chamber of Commerce, but whether it willtake any part in the matter remains to be seen. The nnion men claim they do not want to cut the scale but simply wish to compete for the work on the same basis as the other men. Wheat in store here is apportioned among the various terminal elevator lines as follows: Belt Line, 1,180,752 ; Consolidated, 2,280,380; Globe, 3,612,036; Great North- ern, 1,043,167; Superior Terminal, 1,397,356; Consolida- ted B, 184,719; Consolidated H, 37,669; total, 9,836,069. There is 17,906,931 bushels of wheat in store at Minne- apolis. TSH baieata of all kinds of grain from the head of the lakes have already reached 9,000,000 bushels, and there is still in store about 10,000,000 bushels. In spite of the heavy shipments there is now only 1,000,000 bushels of wheat less than last spring. On her first trip from Ashland the new steamer L. C. Waldo carried 3,131 gross tons of ore. She was not, however, loaded to the full canal draft. The Inman Tug Co. has fitted out another expedition to raise ithe copper jettisoned by the Centurion at Isle Royale. The Belle Cross was sent out with two divers and all the necessary appliances for the work. The expedition was accompanied by Capt. J. V. Tuttle, THE LATE CAPT. E. M. PECK. Pioneer Ship Builder, Owner and Master—See Page 3. of Milwaukee, who represents the underwriters who in- sured the copper cargo. The wheat rate continues here at 3 cents in spite of the rumors of a break. The rate came near going last week, but it seems to be strong again and the demand for tonnage is so good that a continuance at that rate is expected. The Williams, Green & Williams Dredging Co. has sent a dredge to the sonth shore for the purpose of deep- ening the chanuel approach of the harbor, there is to be a uniform depth of 13 feet 6 inches. It is expected that considerable lumber will be shipped from here as soon the boats are able to get in and out easily. The Duluth & Winnipeg ore docks on Alloneze bay, shipped their first cargoes of ore a few days ago. The Lehigh Coal & Iron Co. has reorganized as the Lehigh Coal & Coke Co., with the same officers as for some time past. The reorganization is made for the purpose of straightening out the company’s affairs and securing the advantage that comes from the addition of new capital. ‘The company’s general offices have been removed from Superior to St. Paul. The Northern Steamship Company has leased from Capt. Inman the barge Clement for use as a lighter in the harbor. ‘She will deliver freight from Northern boats to docks, which are not easily accessible. Port Collector Olund has appointed two deputy col- lectors of customs for the Missabe ore dock, which was aa ak authorized a few days ago. W.S. Braun is day deputy collector and D. T. Murphy night deputy - collector. This arrangement will be a great accommodation to vessel men in the ore trade. ae ' The United Empire came into Duluth the other day and ran her nose into the Northern Pacific docks for a distance of 30 feeet. The bells connecting with the engine room failed to work. a The work of widening the channel approach of the new Missabe railroad has been begun. : ee. EK KE. BEEBE, BUFFALO. oe MAKING A TWENTY-Foot HARBOR AT THE FOOT OF THE LAKE—THE FLOUR STORAGE QUESTION. ~ BUFFALO, May 12. . ‘The ice is not only gone, but the coal shippers are get- ting slowly into line, and there is water enough to float the fleet. Of course there would be deeper loading if there was more water, but the oth: r harbors as well as - the river passage will not let the long-legged craft get down here, so we are safe from that difficulty. There hasn’t been a boat aground in the harbor in more than a week, and the dredges are hard at work Some $82,000 it tobe expended for that sort of work this summer. . The dredges are busy just now where they are most needed, but they will keep at work till there is 20 feet of water in the inner harbor. ‘The work will take all sumer, but when it ic done the other deep harbors will not be in it with us. ; hae Se There is some discussion of the case of the steamer Hodge and her exp’oits. on her fir-t trip down. When she wet her grain it was at first said that her stern bearing was broken, but it turned out th t the packing had merely worked out. Th+n some people who recalled the way such things used to be r+ garded said that she would run a smart chance of. havin to stand the loss. It turn sont, though, that they are convicted of being students of ancient his- tory. Once this might have been’ the case but notin the d:ys of the new marine policy and the Harter law. Between them the vessel is not made liable for much of anything. If the vessel is fitted out properly and the captain has the regulation qualification there is not much that the insurance can sadd’e on the vess l The Harter law was in’ended to promote inter- nal and coastwise navigation, and the new competing policies have done tre rest. The marine writers at Cleveland got the pace a little too stiff on the George Stone when they made herarrive here on Thursday afternoon. loaded with grain and leave, Cleveland next night loaded with coal. That. would oblige her to unload, fueland load again in less than tenhours Do let u: allow posterity some chance of beating. us. The Stone arrived here on Wednesday, anyhow. oe ae aay It appears that Chicago has managed toscoop Toledo and Detroit out of their long-maintained. graia business by lake. They used tosend us grain by the millicn bushels before the Chi- cago fleet could get here, but so far Detroit has sent us nothing and outside of the jags in the line boats, the little schooner Thomas: Dobbie has brought us the only load from. Toledo. The Lake Carriers’ Association is. pretty squarely committed against the bills in Con- gress discriminating against foreign sailors and foreign vessels. Mr. Goulder’s argument against the latter ought to dispose of _ it, in spite of the vociferous support it has ob- tained from such ultra-protec ionist papers as Seaboard. President Brown asks why there should be objectioa to employing an immigrant sailor on a vessel till he had been in the coun'ry six months when all other imm grants. may goat work at once. The labor union idea in the bills is too plain to be missed. : hae The old steamer Donaldson appears to be renewing her age. She went to Tonawanda with five barges and 2,500,000 feet of lumber. The new Erie coal trestle is not finished, but isin | working order and has already loaded several vessels. The fact that this port is two coal trestles short this year and promises to remain so has no hing to do with the capacity for handling coal here. The added size of the vessels themselves would make up the dificiency, even if it happened to be large; but the fact is that the reduction of the number of. trestles is an advantage from an economic standpoint. There is a new problem up inthe charging of storage on flour and other stuff in lake warehouses after 20 days. It always used to be held free, even through the winter, bad a discrimination as it was against.the lo: al mil-ers avd dealers, but they stood it without complai: ing. Now that the bout is o: the other foot, here 1s a terrible kick, | and a claim that it will drive the western millers out of the lake trade. ( are mostly wiliing to see all treated alike. ¥ Manager Farrington, of the Northern line, has been here for the greater part of a week, it is supposed with an eye to the building up of the dock property that the acquired of the Pennsylvania Coal Co., but nothivg has been made public on the subject as yet. The site is a Nobody would like to see that, but they : o ; a z ! : : E