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THE MARINE RECORD. ee ue SPA SI SE SS ES ESSE TEL NSE ISPS TS SEED EI TNOUAD INSETS eee eee EE NEWS AROUND THE LAKES. CHICAGO. A QUEER Tow From THE WINDY CIr?ry To THE SAULT —NAVAL RESERVES ON A CRUISE. Special Correspondence to The Marine Record. OFFICE OF ‘THE MARINE RECORD, t CHICAGO, July 29. At the Independent Tug Line’s floating dock the new sloop yacht Vencedor was in dock and received a new piece of bottom plank and had her bottom bronzed, She went out of dock Tuesday and leaves for Toledo to engage in the international yacht races. She was visit- ed by many visitors while in dock, and was much ad- mired. The U.S. S. Michigan left Chicago Monday morning with the First Battalion of the Illinois Naval Militia on board, bound for Camp Logan, afew miles north of Waukegan, Wis, where the battalion go into'camp for a week. The Goodrich Co.’s fine new steamer Iowa is expected here from Manitowoc on or about August 1, and will go into commission on her arrival. Capt. J. C. Raleigh, who got off the City of Ludington on her trip north two weeks ago to join the Iowa, willcommand her. Capt. Edward Carus has been given command of the City of Ludington. ’ The wrecking tug Brockway, Capt. A. Bonnah, with the steamer Mark Hopkins and schooner Yankee in tow, arrived in South Chicago on the 22nd inst. from Hay Lake, St. Mary’s River. The Hopkins had on board 450 tons of iron ore and the Yankee 700 tons, which was taken out of the Hopkins prior to raising her. The Brockway left this week for Hay Lake, towing the large World’s Fair dredge, also the boarding house, blacksmith shop, a fuel scow, and two dump scows, forming quite a circus procession. ‘The Brockway will return to South Chicago and tow the Hopkins to Port Huron unless some arrangement is reached between the underwritersand D. McMorran, who raised the Hopkins. The steel steamer Queen City loaded 202,000 bushels of © corn at C. Counselman’s elevator last week. ‘The cargo was a large record breaker, exceeding, it is claimed, all previous records by 37,000 bushels. ; The new steel steamer Senator (light) arrived at South Chicago, from Detroit Tuesday afternoon to take on - 300,000 bushels or more of oats at the Bartlett-Frazer elevator. This is the Senator’s first cargo and will no doubt be another record breaker as to the largest cargo of oats ever taken out of Chicago. Freights are extremely siow. Carr & Blair char- tered the steamer Senator for a full load of oats South 'Chicago, to Buffalo at %c; the schooner Cora A. for corn to Port Huron at 1%c.;J.A. Calbick & Co. chartered the steamer Toltec and consort Miztec for corn to Kingston at 2144c, Capt. John Prindiville chartered the schooner Emily B. Maxwell and West Side for corn to Goderich at 1%c. J. J. Rardon & Co. chartered the steamer Phoenix for wheat to Toledo at 1%c, the steamer Pasa- dena for corn to Port Huron at 1c; the steamer City of London for corn and oats to Buffalo at lc. H. W. Cook & Co. chartered tlie steamer New Orleans for clipped oats South Chicago to Buffalo at 1c, the steamer Fred Pabst for corn to Buffalo at 11gc. WILLIAMS. BUFFALO. GRAIN RECHIPTS KEEP UP FAIRLY WELL, BUT COAL, RECEIPTS FALLING OFF BADLY—SoME LINE STREAMERS IN ORDINARY. Special Correspondence to The Marine Record, BuFFALO, July 28. The bottom is about out of the marine business here, so far as the principal item, coal, is concerned, and there is no indication thatthere is to be a revival of shipments right away. Shippers do not appear to be very clear on the situation. Some say that there is a big surplus of coal at the head of the lakes, and others are of the opinion that if there are not some rapid ship- ments late inthe season to make up for the present slump, somebody will sleep cold on the other side of the lakes next winter. The thing which is certain is that the coal isnot here to go forward. One odd thing in connection is the way the custom house reports of ship- ments keep up. By that source the amount for the past week is 56,000 tons, but the shippers have not reported any stich amounts. There has been the usual amount of grain down at the Ryan elevator at Black Rock lately. The schooner Kelderhouse, one of the last to fold up her long yards when she needs to pull up alonside the elevator, was down there Saturday, and the big steamer F. L. Vance is there now witha second load. The Raymond elevator is also running, and tookout three loads last week in good shape. Both of these houses are out of the eleva- tor pool. Grainis still coming in fast, and there is prospect of a good movement right along, though it makes no show with such boats loose as the Queen City. There is rather more than the usual amount of Port- age Lake red sandstone coming down this season. It is piled up in the Frank Williams yard many tiers high, and many of the blocks are 16 feet long. One would think that such a piece of stone would go straight through the bottom of a boat without stopping. Most of the present consignment is to go into a big hotel that the Astors are building near the Waldorf on Fifth Avenue, New York. The steamer Kelly brought down a load of this stone last week. ‘There have been quite a lot of changes of captains late- ly that sail into this port usually. Captain James Carr, who was in the Adella Shores last season and went into the Nellie Mason when the new barge Vinland, of the Frank Gilchrist line, came out, has gone into the steamer Norseman, of the same line. Captain Gillies, of the Badger State, has given way to the mate of the Hudson. It was reported that Captain Vaughn had left the Northern Queen, but it is now learned that he has gone ona leaveof absence toattend his mother’s funeral, Captain Brown, of the ‘Tacoma, is sick in hospital, and his place is filled by Captain Burns, of the R. A. Packer, which is laid up here, There is prospect of a large fleet in ordinary before this time next week, unless freights improve. The two Packers and the Mercur, of the Lehigh Line; and the New York and Rochester, of the Union Line, are laid up here; and the Reynolds, of the Lake Erie Line, at Toledo. So far the wild boats have not had to be held here more than a day or two, though not a few have come in with no prospect of another load. The arrival in Cleveland of the canal steamer Alpha and the tow with 1,600 tons of sugar is an indication of the great increase of that traffic by water since the great refineries were set up in Brooklyn. The lake lines are having a set-to over the upbound canal rates and some of the managers say that they have it in for the Cleveland Canal Line—as well as each other. Of course everybody is talking of the 202,000 bushels of corn that the steamer Queen City brought down this week. She is not yet unloaded. Itis learned that she will not wait for all the coal in port, but will go up light to Two Harbors. As it looks now there will not be coal enough for. more than one or two such loads here this week. tr There is talk of a city committee to be appointed by the mayor that shall devise a plan for the development of the outer harbor.’ There is great need of dockage, especially for the excursion boats, and there is no rea- son why the three;quarters of a mile of water front on the lake facing the long breakwater should not be util- ized in some way. There are many disputed claims to the abutting propérty, but if the city should take it for dock property the claimants would have to prove ownership or drop their claims. There is great risk of the scheme falling through before anything is done. ‘The canalboat men are again pointing to tne exorbi- tant elevator charges made in Buffalo and New York and claim that nearly half of the amount in both ports is illegal. ‘There is no doubt that the charges are high, but there are two independent elevators at work here, and yet most of the grain comes through the regular houses. When the canal men get the grip on business enough to establish an elevator of their own, they can stop the abuses quickly; but they would then have no one else to lay their hard luck to. Capt. David Vance, the insurance agent, is down from Milwaukee this week. CHAMLERLIN. DETROIT. QuIET TO DEADNESS PREVAILS ALONG THE DocKs— VESSEL MEN UTTERLY DISCOURAGED. Special Correspondence to The Marine Record. DETROIT, July 29. Detroit men, who to this time had hoped for better things in freight rates, are now finally discouraged. Various are the reasons given for the depression, but all agree that the money question is more or less respon- sible for the panic among buyers of ore. The Living- stone and Palmer arein ordinary, and if rates do not advance, others will follow soon. IL. C. Waldo and others who made season contracts can now congratulate themselves. The sudden going of boats into ordinary fulfils the worst fears of those vesselmen who had hoped for more prosperous times in spite of the dreary outlook. Many now think that this autumn will be a repetition of 1893. Along the Detroit docks it is quiet to deadness, and men are much discouraged. So far the increasing panic has not affected the passenger business much, but passenger agents are fearful that they too will suffer soon. Itis something new to note the keen interest ves- selmen take in the political questions, and the strong stands they make. One would naturally suppose that the gradual growth of Windsor and Detroit would give the ferry company more and more each year to doin trans- ferring passengers across the river. But such is not the case. Superintendent Clinton says that this year’s traffic is less than last, and last year was worse than the year before. This he accounts for in the fall- ing off of work in Detroit, and the discharge of many employes. The Penberthy Injector Co. gavé an outing trip to Beauvoir last Saturday on the steamer Sappho, which was greatly enjoyed by their employes and other friends. It was in celebration of the manufacture and sale of their 100,000th injector. The company furnished a very nice lunch forover 200 people who composed the party, with handsomely boxed candies for the !adies. Dancing on the boat, bicycle races and baseball at the Flats were the features of the occasion. On Sunday afternoon the yacht Josephine, of Detroit, had a violent tussle with the fierce electric storm which swept over Detroit and Lake St. Clair The Josephine started home from the Flats, though her baromerer fell lower than the captain said he had ever seen it before. When about two and a half miles north and west of the lightship, the storm struck the yacht and in a moment she was fairly buried in the swirl under bare poles. Her yawl was sunk as deep as the painter would allow it to go, and though pulled on board and emptied over, it immediately refilled on being launched again. The yacht drove along like a steamer without a stitch of can- vas, and worked well over to the eastward. Suddenly the sky cleared and the squall was over. It was quite narrow, for the crew could see both sides of the cloud. The storm was circular in its motion, and was undoubt- edly a mild cyclone. Only the staunchness of the yacht brought her safely through. On the Detroit River there has been a great deal of thick weather this summer, owing probably to the fre- quent rains. The master of the Thomson Line steamer Douglas told THe RECORD that on one trip on Lake Huron, from Rogers City to the mouth of the St. Clair River, he could not see a single dock he landed at fifty feet away, and the rime dripped heavily off his boat all the way down. He said he had never seen the fog so dense and long-continued. H. McC. DULUTH AND SUPERIOR. THE NorTHERN PaciFic aND DuLurTa & WINNIPEG RaILRoaps Sond at AvucTiIon—THE STRIKE PRac- TICALLY ENDED. Spectal Correspondence to The Marine Record. DULUTH, July 28. A very important event which occurred in Duluth last Friday was the sale of the Northern Pacific Railroad, which has so long been in the hands of receivers, at pub- lic auction. Mr. Edwin W. Winter, of St. Paul, on be- half of the reorganized Northern Pacific Railroad Co., ~bid in the various parcels for a little over $13,000,000. The formality has to be repeated in each state through which the road passes. On Saturday morning the Duluth & Winnipeg road was sold in a similar manner by order of the court. In this case as in the other, there was but one bidder. John A. Garver, of New York, representing the reorganiza- tion committee of the bondholders, bid $2,373,719.44, and the property went to them at that figure. The bond- holders are Canadian Pacific people, and that company now becomes the virtual possessor of the Duluth & Win- nipeg road. It is considered practically certain that the road will be extended to the Canadian boundary line very soon, and there is a plan for tapping the Mes- aba range for a share of the iron ore traffic. . The strike of the ’longshoremen’s union seems to be at an end, having resulted in the defeat of the men, many of whom have left for the Dakota harvest fields. More non-union men than are needed are at the disposal of the contractors. Wheat in store at the head of the lakes is apportioned among the various terminal elevator lines as follows: Belt Line, 685,758; Consolidated, 1,449,987; Globe, 2,904,- 877; Great Northern, 256,155; Superior Terminal, 1,426,- 562; Consolidated B, 116,550; Consolidated H, 178,375; total, 7,018,264. There is 15,135,744 bushels in store at Minneapolis. Over one-half the necessary dredging for the new Duluth-Superior bridge has been completed, and the construction of the center pier has begun. City Clerk Romming, of Superior, isabout to advertise for bids for the dredging of Howard’s pocket, and the work will be commenced as soon as possible. The American Steel Barge Co., has experienced much inconvenience because of the condition of the channel at this point. EE BP FLOTSAM AND JETSAM. ‘ Capt. F. B. Hackett, of Amherstburg, has picked up three anchors from the bottom of the Limekilns. Mr. H..M. Hanna’s yacht Comanche will soon re- turn to the lakes via the St. Lawrence River. It is expected that the new Lake Superior & Ishpem- ing Railroad will be completed within a month. Capt. James Carr has been transfered from the barge Nellie Mason and given command of the steamer Norseman. The little steamer Columbia, with Captain Louis Goudreau in command, and Nathan M. Bowen as en- gineer, is making regular trips between St. Ignace, Mackinaw Island, and Mackinaw City. At Menominee fifty lumber shovers loaded 650,000 feet of lumber on board the steambarge I. Watson Stephenson on Saturday in twelve hours, and it was a feat unparalleled in the history of vessel loading. EEE Be Why do you not send us a copy of Beeson’s 1896 Marine Directory ordered some time ago? We need it now.— Youghiogheny River Coal Co., Ashtabula, May 1, 1896. $5 at MARINE RECORD Office. :