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SHIP BUILDING AND REPAIRS. AT THE SHIPYARDS. The strike at the Globe Iron Works Co.’s shipyard, Cleveland, which grew so much as to lay idle some 600 men” was énded this week. Some delay has resulted, _ biit the lost time will be made good in every way pos- sible. ae The tt tug-yacht Edna G. will leave the Cleveland Ship . Building Co.’s yard this morning for Duluth. A small party from the Cleveland shipyard, and Mr. Robert 3 Logan, under whose inspection she was built, will go as af ae Detroit'ou her. She is a very handsome boat and is expected to do much better than twenty miles per howe. : “he work on the recently launched Queen City is digress favorably at the Cleveland shipyard, and the berth she lately vacated is occupied by the ship Ditilding for the Bessemer Steamship Co., which is to 2 finished by October 1st. The center keelson and a : mber of the keel plates are already laid, and the “work of putting in the floors has begun, As the pieces composing the floors have already been riveted in the shops, the work of placing these will go forward rapidly. The steamer Hope (Br.) which has been getting a re- build at Walkerville, stuck on the ways when an at- tempt was made to launch her. Hydraulic jacks will now have to be used. The schooner Vinland, which is building at Abram Smith & Sons’ yard, Algonac, will be launched before the 26thinst. Sheis built of white ash, and measures 210 feet on keel, by 37 feet beam'and 14 feet depth. Her frames are 6-inch flitch, with 20-inch centers. Her deck frames are made of natural bend wood, and her plank- ing is 4,5 and 6inches thich. She has a steel arch with _ chords 12x inches running full length and is basket strapped, with steel keelson p'ates one inch thick. Her cabin is made of fluted pine, laid diagonally, and lin- _ crusta ceilings. She is fitted out with a No. 5 Provi- dence windlass.and capstan, deck. hoist, two 8-inch pumps, and other modern improvements. Her capacity is 1,800 tons of coal, 70,000 bushels of wheat, or 1,250,000 feet of lumber. The Vinland, when completed, will be the property of F. W. Gilchrist, of Alpena, Capt. Harry Richardson, of Buffalo, and others. Vinland is a Norse name, and corresponds well with other names of the fleet, Viking and Norsemen. Capt. Claus Hansen. The Vinland is the sixth boat built by Abram Smith & Son, with Mr. J. H. Ihnken as superintendent, and is becoming better known each season for its reasonable prices, honorable dealing, and first class work. THE WEEK’S LAUNCHES. STEAMER E. W. OGLEBAY. The steel steamship ER. W. Oglebay, building at F. W. Wheeler & Co,’s yard, West Bay City, for David Whitney of Detroit, was launched last Saturday after- noon without special incident. She is a 4,000-ton car- rier, and measures 375 by 45 by 26 feet 7 inches. She has triplex engines, with cylinders 23,37% and 63 by 44 inches, a little heavier power than the City of Bangor which recently went into commission from this yard. The Oglebay has three boilers, 12% feet in diameter by 13 feet in length, with 170 pounds working pressure. FERRY NO. 3. The first of the two big car ferry barges in course of construction at the Craig Ship Building Co.’s yard was launched at 5 o’clock last Saturday afternoon. She is 317 by 46 by 14 feet, and is built with great solidity, with edge-bolted timbers instead of planking, and stiff- ened with heavy frames and knees inside. She is for the Lake Michigan Car Transportation Co., for whom the Craigs are also building a powerful tug and another barge. All will be in commission in July. A NEW TYPE OF Scow. At Laird’s & Son’s shipyard, Ashtabula, was launched Saturday forenoon the big fueling scow just built for M. A. Hanna & Co. She was named George B. Raser, in honor of her designer, the well known dock manager, and was christened by Miss Ruth Raser, his daughter. The scow is equipped with powerful machinery, which not only propels the scow by means of her turn screws, but which operates her loading machinery, which is a radical departure from the usual methods of fueling She will be sailed by THE MARINE RECORD. with crane and buckets. In the George B. Raser buck- ets and cranes are dispensed with, and the conyeying is done by endless chains and carriers. The scow, which is 180 feet in length. has a trough four feet wide, from end to end, on the what would be the line of keel if she had one. This troughislined with boiler steel. Hach side of the scow is divided into eight pockets, each hav- ing a capacity of 30 tons, the total capacity of the scow being 480 tons. Hach pocket has a steel covered bottom inclined toward the middle trough at an angle of nearly 45°, and is connected with it by agate which can be opened or closed at will: “The trotigh is traversed by an endless chaln with conveyors, and as the coal drops out of the pocket into the trough it is conveyed to the end of the scow. Here it is dropped into an upright conveyor, which is operated on the same principle as conveyors in grain elevators, and after reaching the proper height is dumped into a spout through which it slides into the vessel’s coal bunkers. In this way a ves- sel can be furnished with 150 tons of fuel per hour, and the scow can be loaded from the car dump in-half an hour when everything gets into line. MISCELLANEOUS. At Devney’s shipyard, Ashtabula, there was launched at 7 o’clock Saturday evening, the little passenger tug built for the Ashtabula Passenger & Fishing Co. She was christened Effie B., in honor of Miss Effie Blackslee, neice of Capt. Wm. Dunn, one of her owners. She will be finished at once. She has avery pretty model and will, it is predicted, make a good business boat. At-Buffalo, David Bell has launched the steel steam yacht he built for George Moon, and will soon launch the smaller one he is building on his own account. The Moon yacht will be called the Alert and will be put on the rlver for parties. neat craft. GENERAL REPAIR WORK. CLEVELAND.—The George W. Morley is still in the Cleveland dry-dock. It was found necessary to give her nearly one-third new bottom, with a corresponding number of frames and area of ceiling. She also received extensive repairs to decks and bulwarks. The F. C. Leighton, which has been getting new ends and new ceiling and planking, will succeed the Morley in the dock, to complete her rebuild. The Cleveland Dry-dock Co. is also doing several odd jobs about the river. The Inman tug Bob Anderson was brought down from Duluth by the W. B. Castle of the same line, and has reeeived a new boiler at the Cleveland shipyard. At the Ship Owners’ dry-dock the schooner John Magee has been having some leaks stopped. Capt. John W. Moore’s yacht, the Liberty Ware, has had a boiler and engine put in, with a reversible wheel. Her ma- chinery is nOw being tested. Bay Crry.—The MacKinnon Manufacturing Co. have had several boats in the slings during the week. The tug Tom Dowling had her shoe repaired and the C. H. Davis gota new wheel. The Arundel broke a bucket off her wheel, and has the opposite blade knocked off. She will be furnished with a new MacKinnon wheel next week. A wheel was shipped last week to the tug Aldrich, at Cheboygan. CuHiIcaco.—At the Chicago Shipbuilding Co.’syard the steamer Brazil wasin dock to have a leak stopped. The steamerMatoa received some new stanchions and rail;the schooner James Mowatt some new deck plank and calk- ing. The steamer Onoko is receiving repairs to her pilot house and stanchions and rails, and other damage sustained by her collision with the schooner Mary D. Ayer. At Miller Brothers’ shipyard the schooner S. A. Wood was in dock for some new bottom plank and recalking; the schooner yacht Crusader for a new false keel. ‘The latter also received a gasoline engine, shaft and wheel. The steamer Hecla was in for searching up and some calking; the schooner Robert Howlett for recalking; the steamers Josie Davidson and Cyclone to have leaks stopped; the schooner yacht Mystral to have her bottom calked, scraped and painted; the tug Commodore, to have a leak stopped; the steamer J. D. Marshall for some bottom calking; the schooner T. Y. Avery for re- calking bottom; the steamer Uncle Charley for a new wheel. DETROIT.—The Iron Age will get an entirely new boiler. The City of Toledo and Darius Cole have been getting aspring overhauling. The boilers of the J. J. She is 75 feet long and a very Hill are being repaired. Capt. FE. A. Hanley is over- hauling the steamer Island Belle in the River Rouge. BUFFALO.—The steamer Haze has been in dock for an overhauling. The J. C. Gilchrist and barge Levi Raw- son are in for bottom calking and other repairs. ToLHxDO.—The tug Wisconsin, which sank off Lorain; has been placed on Skane’s marine ways, and will be thoroughly overhauled. She will be ready for work in a week. The schooner Ed. Kelley has been getting new bottom planking and calking at Gillmore’s dry dock. The Valley City, which is to go to Galveston, Tex., has been in Craig’s dry-dock getting ready for the trip. OwEN Sounp.—The schooners H. M. Stanley and Dolly Morden were docked for calking, their oakum having been pulled out by ice. ‘The Majestic is getiing repairs to rudder and shoe. ~ SUPERIOR.—A preliminary survey was held Saturday on the John V. Moran, damaged by collision with the Grover. Capt. J. H. Killeran, of the Northern Steam- ship Co., represented the owners, and J. R. Oldham, of Cleveland, the underwriters.’ ‘The port side was found broken through from bilge to deck; her starboard side planking was also broken and forced out amidships, and her decks are bent over to starboard. Repairs will take about three weeks and will cost some $14,000. Port Huron.—The big lake tug John Owen, which has been getting a rebuild at Alpena this winter, was in dry-dock here getting her stern bearings lined up. Last winter the tug was docked and her hull put in good shape, with new deck beamsand entire new deck. Her machinery was also thoroughly overhauled. The Rhoda Stewart came out of Dunford & Alverson’s dock Thurs- day after a thorough rebuild. The barge Magnet has also received a general overhauling. MAnrrowoc.—The Green Bay steambarge Liberty is being generally overhauled and will receive a new boiler; the little steamer Allie E. Shipman is undergo- ing repairs and is being housed over. The Shipman is to ply between Esconaba and Rapid River, having re- cently been purchased by the E.& G. T. Co. The Good- rich line sidewheel steamer Sheboygon was docked for recalking. REPAIR NOTES. The steamer Jim Sheriffs has been found to be a constructive total loss by the underwriters, who will sell her as she is. The schooner Norma is getting repairs at Monk’s dry-dock, Sandusky. TEE aa Mr. ly. Black, of L. Black & Co., dealers in optical and nautical instruments, Detroit, was in Cleveland Tues- day. The firm expect to remove their establishment from No. 145 to No. 156 Woodward avenue, Detroit. They are also leaving at the offices ‘of some of their friends, some large and handsome thermometers. ED a Owing to the delay in the mechanical work of getting out our Directory of Masters and Engineers, it has been decided to'make the price uniformly 25 cents to all. The directory will comprise about 50 pages, with the names alphabetically arranged, of about 1000 vessels and masters, and of about 600 engineers, ene Beeson’s Inland Marine Directory is now on sale at the MARINE RECORD office, Fourth floor Western Re- serve Building. Hach purchaser will receive free a copy of the MARINE REcoRD Pocket Directory of Masters and Engineers. rrr 0 The Vulcan Iron Works Co., Toledo, is making two large steam shovels for the Oliver Mining Co., of Vir- ginia, Minn. ‘The machines will weigh 93 tons each and capable of moving 4,500 tons in 10 hours. EEE ee THE Standard Oil Co. has decided not to send a barge in tow of one of its tankers across the ocean this year. The company has been thinking of this BECIPEL for about five years. : ; $< oe, Major Adams, the lighthouse engineer, invites bids for the excavation of 7,000 cubic yards from the light- house slip at the foot of Mt.Elliott avenue, Detroit. Con- tractors have until noon of today to put in their bids. ii ee The steamer Pine Lake is for sale by the Charlevoix Lumber Co. A number of other bargains are to be found in our special column on Page 15.