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THE MARINE. RECORD. & win dade WRECKS AND WRECKING. “All sides seem to be preparing for a lawsuit in the collision case of the Waldo and Choctaw, which occurred at Sault Ste. Marie on Wednesday morning of last week. H.'D. Goulder, of Cleveland, and Judge EB. S. B. Sutton, of Sault Ste. Marie, have been retained by the owners of the Choctaw, and Oren & Webster and John Shaw, of Detroit, will look after the Waldo’s interests. <A Marguette‘correspondent antiounces that according to thé wreck report the whistle of the Waldo was stated to have been broken, thus making it an unavoidable acci- dent or holding the Waldo responsible. THE RECORD was told the story of the collision by an eye witness to the disaster, however, who made no reference to the breaking of any whistlecord. As the Waldo is provided with a wire in addition to her whistle cord, it is difficult to see how stich an occurrence, at the distance the ves- ge¥swerd apart, could have had sucharesult. The facts, as they ‘will come out in case the matter goes into the courts, will without doubt, be found radically different from that told in the papers, and the placing of the blame will be correspondingly altered. Both Capt. Ward, of the Choctaw, and Capt. Dutidleson, of the Waldo, very properly declined to talk except to their attorneys. Capt. Waldo has since gone to California, where his wife was dangerously ill. She died last Friday evening. The tug Favorite has been wrecking on the Choctaw, and the ‘Waldo came to Cleveland for repairs after lightering 250 tons of ore. * Collision caused another total loss last Thursday morning, May 21, when the schooner Sunrise, after safely passing the steamer W. H. Gratwick, (wood) was struck by the latters consort barge 133, in the middle of Lake Michigan. ‘The crew escaped with their lives, bit with little else. The damage to the 133 necessitated the removal of three plates on the port bow. The barge is insured, with collision liability covered, and the Sunrise Was not insured. Steamer and barge have already been libeled. The Sunrise belonged to Henry Scheele, Jr., of Sheboygan, and was valued in Inland Lloyds at $5, 000, with a ‘Bi. : Another fatal accident occurred Saturday tmoraing off Thunder Bay when the Rhoda Stewart blew out one of the large flews of her boiler. Harry Keston, second engineer, of Alpena, Fireman Robert McNerton, and Court Schrader, deck hand, were fatally scalded. The damage to the steamer was not heavy. _ The steamer V. H. Ketchum, with the Wadena i in tow collided with the steamer St. Louis at 6 o’clock Monday morning off Point aux Barques, Lake Huron. The stem of. the Ketchum was broken and the stern of the St.. Louis damaged. The Ketchum’s headway was stopped so that the Wadena came on, striking the Ketchum amidships. About 50 feet of the steamer’s rail was torn away and a hole was made in her star- board side, from the rail nearly to the water line. ‘The repair bill will be heavy, but the Ketchum was able to proceed with an apron over the hole. ‘The barge Nelson, in tow of the Folsom, got beyond control above the Canadian lock at the Sault Wednes- day night, and struck the pier, staving in some plank- ing on her starboard bow. She sank in 20 feet of water. An unknown schooner has been reported ashore on North Manitou Island. . , Car Ferry No.1, while passing through Sturgeon Bay Canal Saturday night, damaged the government dredge there to the extent of $1,000. The tow line was too long. The Cranage, light, South Chicago to Escanaba, went ashore on Plum Island Monday morning ina dense fog. The tug Monarch will undertake her release. It is stated that the American Salvage & Wrecking Co. is about to charter the H. A. Root on which an ex- pedition will be sent to try to work on the steamer Pewabic, lost in 1865 off Thunder Bay, Lake Huron. Capt. Jay. Hursley has succeeded in getting the Moon- light off Chocolay Beach, and she and the Kent, bothin good shape, will be taken to Duluth. Itis likely that J. C. Gilchrist will buy the schooners as they are and will rebuild them. They are now on their way to Cleveland. It is now proposed to continue the search for the lost Dean Richmond by means of a balloon, experience hay- ing proven that persons high in air can see to a con- siderable depth in reasonable clear water. The loss on the Acadia (Br.), which caught fire recently in the Welland Canal, has been fixed at $150 on hull and $2,500 on cargo. Achannel has again been dredged to the stranded schooner Coinmerce in Seul Choix Bay, and the wrecker Favorite will make another attempt to pull her into deep water, The insurance on the Escanaba is $29,500. divided as follows: Marine Insurance Co., $5,500; Union Marine, $5,000; St. Paul, $5,000; Western, $3,300; North Ameri- can. $3,000; Commercial Union, $2,000; Mannheim, $2,000; Detroit, $2,000; Htna, $1,500. —_— O06 FREIGHT NOTES. Marquette’s ore shipments for the week ending May 16 were 57,292 tons and for last week, 50,499 tons. Ashland ore shipments for the week ended May 23 were 72,000 tons, and for the season 216,000 tons. Last week’s shipments. from Buffalo were: Coal, 64,374 tons; cement, 24,507 tons; salt, 9,516 tons; sugar, 29,003 barrels. Gladstone shipments for two weeks ending May 23 were: Ore, 21,100 tons; flour, 2,000 barrels; grain, 2,100,- 000 bushels; cedar, 80,000 pieces; lumber, 375,000 feet; pig iron, 900 tons. Stocks of wheat in store at the head of Lake Superior are apportioned among the various terminal elevator lines as follows: Belt Line, 977,869 bushels; Consolidat- ed, 1,315,703; Globe, 3,541,360; Great Northern, 1,058,747; Superior Terminal, 1,435,683; Consolidated B, 113,979;- Consolidated H, 41,984; total, 8,485,324; in store at Min neapolis, 17,467,414 bushels. Hs The east shore steamer lines on Lake Michigan trans- ferred from Milwaukee during the month of April 362,- 757 barrels of flour, 33,184 bushels of wheat, 98,120 btush- els of barley, 164,710 bushels of oats.and 6,987 tons of millfeed: Most of this consisted of the accumulation which remained over from March, and the record there- fore justly belongs to the winter business eastward across the lake. Thus-the grand total of freight han- dled by the different routes is swelled to 1,670,018 bar- rels of flour, 289,058:bashels of wheat, 1,226,331 bushels of barley, 2, 076, 030 bushels of oats, 5,000 bushels of rye, and 31,836 tons of millfeed. Total of grain, 3,596,419 bushels. The April shipments were divided as follows:. Flint & Pere Marquette line, 143,620 barrels of flour, 97,410 bushels of barley, 164,410 bushels of oats- and 2,964 tons of millfeed; Grand Haven line, 90,304 bar-: rels of flour, 1,184 bushels of wheat, 307 bushels of oats, 170 bushels of barley and 2,588 tons of millfeed; Muske- * gon line, 73,473 barrels of fiour, 5,000 bushels of wheat, and 1,175 tons of millfeed; St. Joseph line, 55,360 barrels of flour and 360 tons of millfeed. SEIU IEEeineeenes netics stints eee PORTABLE STEAM HAMMERS. A most useful tool for shipyards is the portable steam hammer for welding up stern and rudder frames. It has always been a most difficult and rather imperfect opera- tion to unite these parts properly by hand hammers, and they are usually too broad to be accessible to the ordi- nary fixed steam hammer. ‘Two large parts of a stern frame have usually to be heated in stu, while placed to gether in the position which they are to occupy when welded. ‘They are heated at the parts of the junction in _ open fires. When brought up to a welding heat the fires have to be withdrawn quickly, and the piece called a “glut”? is brought at a welding heat from another fire, and is hammered into the space where the joining takes place. This has usually been done by a heavy sledge hammer having three or more shanks, and handled by as many men. But by this mode the welding is very un- reliable. The hammer is much too light to make a solid weld, and the work is done at a great disadvantage, and with harassing labor. The portable steam hammer has altered all this. It resembles the ordinary smithy steam hammer, except that’ instead of the cylinder being at- tached to a fixed column, it is carried by a jib, like a crane, can be raised or lowered, swung around, or moved to and fro until it is exactly over the work, and by a few heavy blows the welding is done most effect- ually. The workman who manipulates the hammer and the racking gear is stationed at the base of the crane, quite out of the way. It was first brought out by Messrs. Bennie, of Glasgow, and was first set to work on stern frames in the works of the Parkhead Forge Co. of that city. The kind of work this hammer does could not easily be executed by a hydraulic press.—J. Arthur Gray, in Cassier’s Magazine. Laxe Carriers’ Association, To consider and take action upon all general questions relating to the navigation and carrying business of the Great Lakes, maintain necessary shipping offices and in general to protect the common interest of Lake Carriers, and improve the char- acter of the service rendered to the public. PRESIDENT. J.J. H. Brown, Buffalo, N. Y. VICE PRESIDENTS. H. A. Brown, Cleveland. C. A. Eddy, Bay Cit J. W. Millen, Detroit G. G. Hadley, ee 8. W. P. Henry, Bufialo. James McBrier, J. G@. Kent, Chicago, ce Starke, Muviaukes: G. A. Tomlinson, Duluth. F. J. Firth, Philadelphia. Frank Owen, Ogdensburg. SECRETARY. Cuar.us H. Kursp, Buffalo, N. Y. TREASURER, Guorce P. McKay, Cleveland, 0. COUNSEL. Harvey D. Gou.per, Cleveland, 0. s BOARD OF MANAGERS. S. D. Caldwell, Buffalo. KE. M. Peck, Detroit. Peter P. Miller, Buffalo. D. C. Whitney, Detroit. E. T. Evans, Buffalo. Wm. Livingston; Detroit. James Ash. Buffalo, cf oy Parker, De roit. W. Bullard, Buffalo. W. Westcott, Detroit. J.J. H. Brown, Buffalo. b. T, Helm, Chicago. W.C. Rinearson, Buffalo. Jesse Spaulding, Chicago. John Rice, Buffalo. J. 8. Dunham, ‘ Chicago. John Gordon, Buffalo. Jobn Keith, Chicago. M. M. Drake, Buffalo. Jos. Austrian, Chicago. W. P. Henry, Buffalo. W. R. Owen, Chicago. Edward Smith, Buffalo. C. W. Elphicke, Chicago. James McKenzie, Buffalo. W.M. Egan, Chicago. H. C. French, Buflalo. J.J. Rardon, Chicago. Thomas Wilson, Cleveland: James A. Calbick, Chicago. M.A. Bradley, Cleveland. George G. Hadley, Toledo. James Corrigan, Cleveland. W.S. Brainard, Toledo. H. M. Hanna, Cleveland. L.S. Sullivan, Toledo. George P. McKay, Cleveland. James Davidson, Bay City. H. G. Dalton, Cleveland. Charles A. Eddy, Bay City. Harvey H. Brown, Cleveland. 0. - Blodgett, Bay City. John W. Moore, Cleveland. F. W. Wheeler, Bay City. B.L. Pennington, Cleveland. B. Boutelle, Bay City. John Corrigan, Cleveland. Thos. Cranage, Bay City. W.J. White, Cleveland. J. W. McGraw, Bay City. Henry A. Hawgood, Cleveland. Alex. McDougal, Duluth. W.C. Richardson, Cleveland. F. Be LaSalle, - Duluth. J.C. Gilchrist, Cleveland. A. B. Wolvin, Duluth. W.D. Rees, Cleveland. G. A. Tomlinson, Duluth. John Mitchell, Cleveland. David Vance, Milwaukee. R,. R. Rhodes, Cleveland. Rk. P. Fitzgerald, Milwaukee. Caleb E. Gowen, Cleveland. J.C. Ricketson, Milwaukee. Wm. 8. Mack, Cleveland. Conrad Starke, Milwaukee. C. KE. Benham, Cleveland. F. W. Gilchrist, Alpena. P. J. Minch, Cleveland. Alvin Neal, Port Huron. C. F. Palmer Cleveland. . TI. Morley, Marine City. J.mes W. Millen. Detroit. R. H. Schuck, Sandusky. W. A. Livingston Detroit. Frank J. Firth, Philadelphia, Davld Carter, Detroit. Frank Owen, Ogdensburg. COMMITTEE ON FINANCE. H. M. Hanna, Cleveland. D. C. Whitney, Detroit. H. H. Brown, Cleveland. W.P. Henry, Buffalo. James Corrigan, .Cleveland. J.J. H. Brown, Buffalo. . A. Hawgood, Cleveland. David Vance, Milwaukee. Thos. Wilson, Cleveland. R, P. Fitzgerald, Milwaukee. {. A. Bradley, Cleveland. John G. Keith, Chicago. . ©. Gilchrist. Cleveland. J.8. Dunham, Chicago. K. M. Peck, Detroit. VESSEL TRANSFERS. : The underwriters have disposed of their interest in the steamer V. Swain, which burned a year or so ago, to J. C. Gilchrist for $5,000. Capt. Henry Johnson. and Messrs. Chard, Cobb, and others who had uninsured interests, retain them, Mr. Gilchrist managing the steamer. Mr. Gilchrist is figuring on the purchase of the Moonlight and Kent to tow behind the Swain. The following transfers of vessel property have been recorded : : ‘ Tug McCormick, whole, by Boswell, Benton Harbor, to G. G. Hadley, Jr., Toledo; consideration not stated. Propeller Bloomer Girl, whole, by Mrs. F. J. Preston, to Capt. Thomas Richardson, Milwaukee, $6,104. Tug D. T. Helm, whole, by receiver of Vessel Owners’ Towing Co., to W. H. Singer, Duluth, $5,100. Schooner Sardina, whole, by Capt. Ole Groh et al. to Capt. W. McDonald, of Manitowoc, $900. Steamer City of New Baltimore, whole, by M. Free- man, Green Bay, to Capt. Chas. Graves, $3,500. Tug Grace (Br.) whole, by J. W. Taylor, Wallaceburg, to Capt. I. Mayhew and Wm. Allen, of Mooretown; Ont., $700. Steamyacht Hattie Ray, whole, by Richard Barrett, Muskegon, to C. H. Burke, St. Joseph; consideration private. Schooner Driver, one-fourth, by Halvor Halverson, of Sheboygan, to Vascus Roberts, of St. Joseph, $300. rr + a MORE GAS BUOYS, Among the items added in the Senate to the’ sundry civil bill are the following: ‘To establish gas buoys at or near the following places in the St. Lawrence’ river: One at Charity Shoals, one at Featherbed Shoals, one at Rock Island Point, one near Sister Island light, one at Sunken Rock, one at Bay State Shoals, one at the Lower Narrows, and one at the entrance to the upper harbor, Ogdensburg.” For this $4,000 is appropriated.