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4 THE DULUTH-SUPERIOR BRIDGE. The Duluth-Superior Bridge Co. has at last adver- tised for proposals on a new bridge connecting Connor’s Point, Superior, and Rice’s Point, Duluth. The plans and specifications were prepared by the com- pany’s consulting engineer in New York, and have been received here. ‘The contract will be let in three parts, the dredging, substructure, and superstructure. About two months must elapse before the contract is finally let. As will be seen by the illustration, the project for a double deck structure has been dropped. The plans show abridge which will be able to accommodate all the traffic which, will pass between the two cities for many years tocome. ‘The structure is to be of stone and steel, and the entire length over all, including the approaches, which are also to be of steel, will be 1,300 feet. The approaches are to be not over 200 or 300 feet, and the rise will be about 12 feet. The bridge is to be built. in three spans, the center one of which isthe draw for the accommodation of the vessel interests. On either side of the draw span are two fixed spans, each to be 302 feet in length, while the draw span will be 483 feet long. It will have 200 feet in the clear on either side of the center pier. This pier, on which the bridge will turn, will be 40 feet in diam- eter and of solid masonry. The turning power to be used is electricity andit is estimated that the bridge can be opened in less than one minute. The lowest portion of the bridge is 20 feet above the level of the water, which will allow tugs and other small craft to pass beneath. In the center of the bridge will run two railroad tracks for the steam cars, and the portion used by them is to be walled up along the sides to prevent the unnec- essary frightening of teams. ‘The walls will be of iron THE MarinE RECORD. with the above firm he occupied high offiicial positions in a dozen other business firms at Providence, and his death means a severe loss to the commercial and man- ufacturing community. rrr ee ———__—_—_—_— THE FREIGHT SITUATION. The outlook in the freight market is decidedly more encouraging than last week, when it was necessary to look some distance ahead for something to tie to. While the grain rate at Duluth remains at 2%c, the feeling is firm, and chartering is very active. This has stif- fened the ore rate so much that an advance to $1 is expected to-day or to-morrow. The Marquette rate is still quoted at 80c, although a scarcity in the boats which cared to load there necessitated a payment, during the week, of 85c on several cargoes. From Escannaba the rate is still 55c to Ohio ports, but several charters to carry ore to Buffalo furnaces were made at 65c. Several season contracts have also been closed at 70c, a very encouraging feature. The Chicago corn rate con- tinues steady at 1%c to Buffalo, with a disposition to take all the limited capacity that is offered. Coal rates continue firm but the strength is not suf- ficient to justify any hope fer an advance, although boats have no difficulty in finding cargoes. The rates remain 35c to the head of Lake Superior, 50c to Mil- watkee, and 40c to Gladstone. The Lake Michigan Car Ferry Transportation Co. has made another reduction in its St. Paul-Chicago rate, cutting it to 40c per cwt. on first class freight to meet the rates made by the Lake Superior steamboat lines. The all rail rate is 50c. rr 6 eo ie THE RECENT TORNADOES. The lake fleet, by reason of the efficiency of the ST’ RAY TRACK yO i SHOE Hyne, yey Ly } Ml. vy (ie a se C72 aaa (4 A/C, eee eee CCITT Gee CS he Ms Mi aa Vary ie THE SUPERIOR-DULUTH BRIDGE. The Sectional View above shows the arrangement of railroad and street car tracks and sidewalks. sheeting. The entire width of the bridge will be about 58 feet 6 inches. The middle or railway section 1s 26 feet between trusses. Outside of the steam railway portion of the bridge upon either side is the roadway and sidewalk for teams and foot passengers. Hach of these outside portions, one for going and one for com- ing, is 13 feet wide, of which 9 feet is devoted to the road and 4 to the sidewalk. The street railway tracks are to be laid in the center of the roadways. il DEATH OF CAPT. C. C. BLODGETT. Capt. C. C. Blodgett died Sunday at his home, No. 56 Hastings street, Detroit, after two weeks’ illness, the result of a cold contracted two weeks previous, while in Cleveland. Capt. Blodgett was 68 years old, having been born at Conneaut, O., in 1828. When 15 years old he began sailing on the lakes, and followed the calling for more than forty years. He ‘secured interests in several vessels, and was associated with Capt. Eber Ward in a number of enterprises. One of his vessels was the old Seabird, which ran to Lake Superior. Capt. Blodgett accumulated considerable property, and has for some years remained ashore and contented himself with its management. His wife survives him, as well as four daughters—Mrs. Edwin W. Smith, Mrs. Wm. Craig, Misses May M. and Adelaide Blodgett—and two sons, Messrs. Ralph and Charles. The funeral services were held at the family residence on Tuesday afternoon. rr ¢ <r 2 HENRY C. CRANSTON DEAD. Henry C. Cranston, one of the most eminent and suc- cessful business men of Providence, R. I., and president of the American Ship Windlass Co., well known on the west lakes, died suddenly at his home in Providence on Wednesday of last week, fault of a stroke of apo- plexy, at the age of 64 years. Besides his connection Weather Bureau and the reliance placed upon it, suf- fered very slightly from the late severe storms which wrought such disaster elsewhere. The marine losses of the United States occurred chiefly on the Mississippi River, where the devastation wrought inthe neighbor- hood of St. Louis was something terrible. The total losses, according tothe Waterways Journal, printed at St. Louis, number fifteen craft, the City of Cairo, Ar- kansas City, Bald Kagle, Libbie Conger, City of Quincy, J. J. Odil, Dolphin No. 2, and Harvester, tow boats, H. lL. Clark, S. B. Wiggins, Napoleon, Milliken, Wm. Christy, ferry boats, George A. Madill, and Henry Sackman, transfer boats; and the Austria, a steam pleasure yacht purchased only a few months ago by Capt. Wm. Zuite from the Marine Iron Works, Chicago, The list of boats that can be saved is as follows: City of Providence; City of Vicksburg, almost a wreck; City of Monroe, stacks and part of cabin gone; Pittsburg, cabin gone; Belle of Calhoun, sunk in water up to her cabin; Harbor Boat, pilot house gone, part of cabin demolished, and stacks broken off; also tugs S. C. Clubb, Reserve No. 2, and Baton Rouge Belle. The losses total up about $380,000 on floating property. ‘The loss entire to St. Louis marine will closely approach $1,000,000. -o ES 2 -—G MARINE RECORD DIRECTORY. THE MARINE REcoRD DirECTORY of MASTERS and ENGINEERS is now on sale. It is an attractive book of about fifty pages, of convenient size for the pocket. The names of ships‘ are arranged alphabetically, with their masters and engineers, and the names of latter are also arranged alphabetically, with the boats on which they are engaged, Sent to any address on re- ceipt of 25c. i a cS ES A ER EN A dredge is at work deepening the harbor at Pesh- tigo, Wis. ' and are likely to have that to finish, as the job has go NEWS AROUND THE LAKES, BUFFALO. Mvucu DELAY IN THE ERECTION OF MICHIGAN STREET BripGkE—THE DAMAGE To THE St. PAvL—FALsE REpOTS IN REGARD TO FUEL ABUSES. “ Special Correspondence to The Marine Recora, zs BuFFALO, June 2, 1896. Buffalo is the scene this week of one of the most uniq ne strikes on record—a body of unemployed men being out, while those who have been working for more than a year are still contented. It isan effort on the part of © the old union to get a hold on the grain shoveling here, which is controlled by Mr. James Kennedy. The lead- ers of the so called strike at first succeeded in creating an impression that some labor troubles really existe but this soon wore off, although they called in ‘a boc upon the Mayor and asked for protection from the men who are quietly holding down their own situations. Capt. Brown has had a tilt with the Coal Trade Journal lately. ‘The Buffalo correspondent of tha paper sent in a statement that the old abuses in vessel fuel were as bad as ever again. This was a queer pro- ceeding at best, as the paper is supposed to be pub- lished in the interests of the coal shippers and to rush — in with such a story was ungracious at the best. Some- one sent Capt. Brown a paper and he wrote a contradic tion of the story, asking that if it was published not to use his name, for the reason that he is getting int print lately more than is to his mind. The editor re plied personally in a very uncomplimentary fashion, still trying to stick to the story. The fact is, as Capt. — Brown took as his principal point that the vessel own- = ers are not complaining of the fueling, which is quite — enough to prove that there is nothing amiss in the — business. a Hingston & Woods, the dredgers, are very full of business this seaso., with contracts all the way from the Sault to Oswego, including Erie and Conneaut, and now they are in for some they did not ask for. The were bondsmen for the waterworks tunnel contract away from the workmen and the hole will fill up with water in spite of everything. Next the city has pulled them up for dumping to near the mouth of the harbor, and a set to is expected there. , ea But the worst limbo any contractor is in appears to be the predicament of the people who are building th bridge across Buffalo Creek at Michigan Street. Wor was begun along in the winter and has gone on without stopping. Yet the only real progress made yet is the removal of the old bridge to a point below the street and the taking out of the old foundation. ‘The coffer- dams will not dump out, or if they do they fill up agai before any new foundation can be put in. It. looks as though the contractors would spend much more than they get out of the job and that snow would fly again before the new bridge was up. Peart Se Some queer things happened in the collision between the V. H. Ketchum and the St. Louis last week. The St. Louis is undergoing a survey of her smashed stern at Tonawanda and is said to be in decidely bad shape. ‘The owners are unable to see how she could be struc in the stern by a vessel going in the opposite direction and then the other vessel be hit amidships by her own consort. Besides it is found that the steel arches of the St. Louis, instead of being strained and broken, are ac tually buckled several inches in the other direction showing that the direction of the blow received was up instead of down. i ee Grain tallymen say that the cargoes run more eve now than for along time. Grain has been pouring i at a surprising rate, but the total giving out of win wheat will cut down receipts now. Dealers say tha there is not a cargo of it to be had anywhere, and the now depend on spring wheat and hard Kansas. Be The struggle over package-freight traffic is still on The abuses have been so great that the rail lines hav taken a stand that they will not recede from, no matter what the shippers say. It has been the regular prac- tice, year after year, to use the eastern rail-and-lake ~ warehouses for storing flour, and now that a storage 3 charge has been put on the flour shippers are accumu lating their stuff at the receiving lake ports, for these roads are not in the new arrangement and do not charge storage. Lake men say that there is 1,000 tons — of flour at Gladstone, most of it held there becaus there because there is no final destination for it yet and to leave it here would be to incur a charge after 2 days. Milwaukee is apparentiy trying to boycott the lake lines. A demand has been made for a lower rate but this is in the interest of the local lines, and appears” to have been made to help them. a The monthly custom-house report shows the heaviest — grain movement on record, the total receipts for the sea- son being 46,378,000 bushels. The highest previous year shows 33,638,000 bushels. This was in 1892, and only three season have exceeded 30,000,000 bushels. There was only a fraction over 24,000,000 bushels to-th first of June last season. ‘The great excess is in wheat and oats, both being well towards three times as much as last season to date. 3 If lumber would only start there would be a good ~ movement all along the line, but it is about as dead as