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THE MARINE FRECORD. & ant. It isinvaluable for the good it will accomplish in topping the depredations of river thieves. The only repair job of account in progress here now is that of the St. Louis, which had her stern smashed ‘by her collision with the V. H. Ketchum. The: bill will ‘be about $4,000, and she will not be out ‘for some time. The depth of water in. the Niagara River is improv- ing still, with nothing done to assist it. The schooner Richard Winslow went down as far-as Ferry street Monday, below all the obstructions, with a cargo of 77,- 000 bushels of wheat. The excursion country to the westward has turned over to us another boat this week, the. Sailor Boy, a rather trim steamer from Saginaw Bay.. A dozen years ago Buffalo had not a single excursion atesmens but the entire list now exceeds a dozen. JOHN CHAMBERLIN. DETROIT. Wasren, A SMALL EXCURSION STKAMER—CANADIAN Lines May ExtTenD To CLEVELAND—A FINE NEW STEAM YACHT. ee Correspondence to The oe Record, Derrtrort, June 17. ~The yacht Roberta, employed to run from the city to the Palm Leaf hotel, on Des-kre-shos-ka, is proving altogether too small. She is only intended for a private pleasure yacht, and her space is mostly taken up with _ her cabin deck house. The proprietors of the Roberta are desirous of getting a small passenger steamer, either on charter or outright, and the route is one which should pay a neat little steamer well. The Frank F, Kirby is now fully painted and re- paired for her summer excursion season. She will now _ run on Sundays to Put-in-Bay. : The agent of the Northern Steamship Company here reportsa large number of inquiries for passage on the _ North Land and North West, many more than last year. The directors of the Great Northern Transit Company and the North Shore Navigation Company, both of Col- lingwood, Ont., have been considering thoroughly the advisability of taking the best boat from each of their lines and running a line from Detroit to the Sault. The Killarney Fish Co., here, which handles a great many fish from Lake Huron during the course of a season, haye agreed to use their boats for their freight . should they decide to run. One Windsor and Sault line now has its southern terminus in Sandusky, and finds it a means of attracting much southern travel which otherwise would probably go another route. There is no doubt that a south shore Lake Erie port is the proper and natural terminus of sucha line, and there is no other port combining so many features of advantage as Cleveland. President McDonald, of the Killarney Fish Co., favors the idea of their running to Cleveland, ' and there is no doubt that more or less additional travel _ would result from such a course, especially as the boats are both new, and first-class in every respect, with all modern conveniences. This route would follow the east shore of Lake Huron, probably giving glimpses of the Georgian Bay Islands, and the small towns along the route, while for fishing and boating, to say nothing of the scenery, there is no better place in the country. ‘The route should prove a very popular one. _ The managers of the steamer Frank E. Kirby are looking forward to a very prosperous excursion and pas- senger season to Put-in-Bay. The opening of the Hotel Victory under new management, and greatly improved, will give a great deal more travel than for some years, and the hotel is in much better condition to bid for patronage than ever before. C. W. Morton, late of the Board of Trade, is doing most of the chartering here, which is very little. He said a few days since: ‘‘I do not expect much before the * fall. ‘There is no grain here and consequently no char- ters, but I look for considerable business as soon as the stuummer crop is ready for shipment.’’ The tug Arthur Jones, owned by Edward Hori; has ; : : SE ge ee ee a ee eee had a phenomenal run of work so far this season, not, being able to do it as fast as is wanted. She is com- manded by Captain William Fisher, who is a_ very steady, sober man, and is giving very satisfactory work. The Detroit Boat Works have just finished one of the finest small yachts on fresh water. She was specially designed and built for George A. Devlin, this city. The boat.is a model. of its kind, and.every available inch of space has been utilized in her construction. She is fitted with ice-chest, cupboard, oil and water reser voirs, and is equipped with a complete set of tableware, with rack receptacles for the same. ‘The engine and boiler are. placed a little aft of amidships, and are of the Day & Torbensen make, being double-acting fore- and-aft compound, and oil-burning, non-explosive boiler. The engine has four inches stroke and developes a speed of 12 miles an hour- 'The boat is 30.feet long and 6, feet 6 inches wide.. The hull is built on the double diagonal plan, with frames of white oak and planking of selected white pine. -The decks and interior are of mahogany, all finished in natural wood. There is not an iron nail in the boat, all the fastenings being copper, and her trimming of polished brass, tpholstered in blue corduroy. ‘The little boatcan accommodate twenty peo- ple nicely and has fully 18 feet of table room amidships* Mr. Devlinvhad her specially designed for.use on the St, Lawrence River and Gulf, and onthe Atlantic Ocean on the north and east sides of Prince Kdward’s Island, where he hasastmmer home. ‘The water tank holds sufficient to run the yachta month witnout replenishing. ‘Mr. Devlin will ship the yacht this week to Nova Scotia and will sail her from there to his cottage at Stanhope Beach. He has called the craft the Elinor after his daughter. It is‘Mr. Devlin’s intention to have another and largerboat for use on the Great Lakes next year, McC. DULUTH AND SUPERIOR. Two Lucky WHALEBACKS—CUSTOMS OFFICERS’ REPORT FOR MAyv—FALLING OFF. IN Coal SHIPMENTS. Spectal Correspondence fo The Marine Record. xf i DULUTH, JUNE 16. The schooner Armenia was loaded last Saturday with 100,000 bushels of:;wheat from Elevator D in 80 minutes. This. beats all former records for fast. work. Mr. Thomas Cranage, of Bay City, who formed the Michigan Salt Associotion, and who is also an extensive lumber man and vessel owner, visited the head of the lakes late last week. The fact that the barges 131 and 134 were practically uninjured by going ashore is another great point in favor of the whalebacks. Capt. Alex.- McDougall says they had made a good start to go into the woods, being almost high when he went torelease them. Coal receipts at the head of the lakes were very large during the first eighteen days of June, Duluth receiving about 36,000 and. Superior about 31,000 tons. Since that time there has been a marked decrease in the amount of softcoal which is coming. ‘This is due to the coal rate which has been made by roads east of Chicago. The rate from the Ohio mines to Chicago has been cut to $1.50 a ton, a drop of 25 cents. The same roads that made this cut refuse, however, to cut the rate from the mines to the lake ports. ‘The report of the custom house officers for the district of Superior in the month of May showed domestic ex- ports of $543,535, and imports amounting to $53,662. Goods to the value of $29,547 came into the district under consular seals. Twenty thousand dollars’ worth of goods came into the district for immediate transporta- tion without appraisal. The number of American ves- sels arriving at ports in the district was 1,171, and the number clearing was 1,156. Foreign entries numbered 149, and clearances 152. Capt. F. D. Herriman, of the Bureau Veritas,Chicago, was here this week to inspect the Gilbert while she was in dry-dock. Mr. Joseph R. Oldham, representing the British Lloyds, was here to inspect the Moran, before she departed down the lakes. The local production of flour held steady last week at 50,205 barrels. Shipments, however, were 17,000 barrels larger than the production, being 33,375 barrels for ex- port, and 33,925 barrels for domestic consumption, mak- ing a total of 67,300 barrels. The Minnesota Iron Co. announces that it will pay, on July 15, its second quarterly dividend for the year, of 1% per cent. _ : Wheat in store here is apportioned among ihe vari. ous terminal’ elevator lines as follows: Belt line, 956,010 bu.; Consolidated, 1,778,253; Globe, 3,208,686; Great Northern, 762, 858; Superior Terminal, 1,553,143; Consol- idated B, 110,504; Consolidated H, 44,152. Aggregate, 8,412,806. In store at Minneapolis, 17,049,638. CLEVELAND. CONVENTION OF BorER MakERs ApjourRNsS—Goop EXCURSION BuUSINESS—LOCAL, Gossip. Special Correspondence to The Marine Record," CLEVELAND, JUNE 18. ‘The Boilermakers’ and Iron Shipbuilders’ convention, which has continued over a week in this city, ended Tuesday at noon. It was determined to establish a dis- trict lodge for the cities along the lakes. This district lodge will endeavor to fix a uniform scale of wages for all men who work on the same class of work along the lakes. At present different cities are governed by dif- ferent scales, but the union will carry out all present contracts before enforcing a change. Tee Johnson was re-elected grand president; EK. S. Gilthorpe, grand sec- retary and treasurer; Chas. Carr, first vice-president; F. H. Schiller, grand organizer; Chas. P. Patrick, dep- uty organizer. A body washed ashore east of Lorain was thought to be that of Captain Peterson, of Cleveland, master of the schooner Nellie Duff, lost last fall. Mr. Peterson went to Lorain but failed to identify the body. The friends of Mrs. John McGinness, of the Globe shipyard, will be interested to know that he is the happy father of a fine boy, some three weeks old. Mr. H. R. Rogers, late General Freight Agent of the C. & B. Line, is now snugly ensconced in his new office at No. 222 Bank street, where he has assumed his new position as contracting freight agent of the Cleveland Terminal & Valley Railroad, really the Baltimore & Ohio. - Capt. C. KE. Benham is circulating, a neat card of sail- ing distances which bears his advertisement as adjuster and vessel agent. Mr. EF. H. Smith, who was with Capt. Alex McDougall when he operated the fleet of whalebacks on the lakes, and who entered the employ of Pickands, Mather & Co., when they were given charge of the whalebacks, has resigned his position with Pickands, Mather & Co., to assist Mr. Bowers in the management of vessels of the - Bessemer Steamship Co. The City of the Straits is once again in commission, and is running regularly on the Toledo and. Put-in-Bay routes. She is as bright and fresh-looking as a fresh- blown rose. The familiar faces of Capt. Duncan Mc- Lachlan and Engineer Middleton are once again seen about the docks. The management of the Euclid Beach Park Co. are running their boats—Duluth and Superior—about every hour, and are doing an excellent business at their pop- ular resort. Euclid Beach has a finished appearance which makes it almost impossible for a visitor to believe it has been in operation only a short year. The dancing and amusement pavilion, the dining hall and bath house, the crystal maze, are all substantial and attrac- tive buildings, and nothing in the way of popular fam- ily diversions has been onmiitted. ‘There is neither ice- boating nor skating—‘‘skates”’ are certainly tabooed at the park—but there is rowing, swimmiing, pony riding, etc., ad libitum. Mr. J. C. Gilchrist’s family have removed ‘to their summer home at Vermillion for the remainder of the season. Jacob L. Case, employed by the lighthouse depart- ment in the Kast, has been visiting at his home in Mere million. © Capt. W. H. Moody combined business with pleasure after his wedding two weeks ago. His wedding tour consisted of two trips on his steamer, the C. W. Elphicke, his bride, of course, accompanying him on the boat. —<—<—<—$—$_———— oe aaa _ FOR AMERICAN SHIPPING. The St. Louis convention will, it is said, adopt the following plank in its platform: We favor restoring the early American policy of dis- criminating duties for the upbuilding of. our merchant marine and the protection of our shipping in the foreign carrying trade, so that American shipping, the product of the American labor employed in American shipyards, sailing under the stars and stripes, and manned, offi- cered, and owned by Aniericans, may regain the folic ing of our foreign commerce. ————_—_—_——— ee Ee The last issue of THE MARINE RECORD, of Cleveland, the leading marine paper on the lakes, contains a fine picture of the handsome commander of Middle Island life-saving station, Capt. M. A. McLennan.— Alpena Pioneer. :