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THE MARINE RECORD. g SHIP BUILDING AND REPAIRS. NOTES AT THE YARDS. The continued dullness in all trades is mirrored in shipbuilding circles. ‘There is little prospect for new work for private parties, and it is evident that yard room will not be held at a premium during the coming year. Asa result, itis believed that several builders will see what they can do on the new revenue steamers which the Treasury Department proposes to have built for the lakes. The specifications for these have not been completed, and as yet no invitations have been ex- tended to builders to submit proposals. The new steamers will be planned much on the order o the rey- enue boat now building at the Globe shipyard, Cleve- land, but there will probably be a very great difference in their appe«rance, as the alterations which are likely ‘to be made will be large yin the rearrangement and re- duction in size of deckhouses. The topgallant forecastle will, it is expected,be considerably larger, and the mayy be built with poops aft. This will allow of more clear deck space amidships, and consequently guns can be handled to greater advantage, should it ever prove nec- essary to convert them into cruisers in active service. On the boat now building there is not much space for handling guns. The new boats, like the one near ‘completion, will doubtless be provided with torpedo chutes, and all three, when completed, will without question be rather formidable boats should any unpleas- antness ever arrive where interposition of force should become necessary. _ Therevenue steamer building at the Globe yard, which will probably be christened the Walter Q. Gres- ham, is to be launched about the 29th. ‘The Rockefeller steamer Sir William Siemens, sister ship to the Sir Henry Bessemer, will probably be delivered to her Owners on the 25th. The steamer Rosemount, built by Wood, Jenks & Co. | of Bill Quay-on-Tyne, Eng., for the Montreal Trans- ‘portation Co., of Kingston, has reached the lakes, and ‘will soon be in active service. The cost of the Rose- mount was $110,0 0. f ole The tug O. C. Steadman, built by the Ship Owners’ Dry Dock Co. for Huron parties, has gone to Huron, and is giving great satisfaction there. The dry-dock com- pany still retain the ownership. The steamship John Ericsson, built by the American Steel Barge Co. for the Bessemer Steamship Co., will go into commission sometime this week. Her tow barge, however, will not be ready for a month. The launch, ~ which had been set for Saturday last, had to be post- poned, but the management say that she will be deliv- ered on contract time. GENERAL REPAIR NOTES. CLEVELAND.—The enforced leisure of the boats is giving the dry-docks plenty of work, and there is just now rather a rush. At the Cleveland dry-dock the Saxon has a large bottom repair job, including twelve damaged plates and broken frame. The material was removed, and she went out of dock to let the Parks Fos- ter in for permanent repairs to the damage sustained at Sandusky some weeks ago. This damage is about amidships, and comprises ten damaged plates and several broken frames and badly jammed floors.. Her ‘repair bill will aggregate over $5,000. The Globe Iron Works Co. is attending the repair work. The Sag- more, which was in last week, had nine plates dam- aged. The D. C. Whitney goes in to repair some bottom damage. The steamer Bothnia (Br.) is expected to arrive Thursday, to have new steel arches put in: Some repair work has been done on the German. at the Globe yard, and several Menominee boats are booked for docking. At the Ship Owners’ ‘dock the H. A. Tuttle is still in. Her repairs are quite extensive, and include refasten- ing and recalking all over, some new keel and planking, part new stern, and repairs to rudder and shoe. The J. H. Devereux was in for five days while her shoe and rudder were being repaired. ‘The Globe people did the work. ‘There were also several plates taken off her for- ward, rerolled, and replaced. The Fedora goes in Thursday for repairs to her shoe and a new rudder. The schooner Yukon and tug Curtiss were docked for repairs to rudder and pintle, and the yachts Say When, Mina, Corsair, and Naya were in for a general over- work, and it is considered a very quick job. hauling before the yacht races. The tug R. K. Hawley is down from Huron and a new shaft will be placed in her. The H. D. Coffinberry, which was in over a week ago, had her bottom, deck, and part of her top-sides_ re- calked. Cuicaco.—Captain William Baker, who recently pur- chased the schooner Presto, has given her a. thorough overhauling comprising a new stern, new frames, part new decks, some new outside plank, new bulwarks and rail, new windlass and bits, and a new cabin on deck, besides recalking. The Presto is now ready for sea. DrErrorr.— The schooner Col. Ellsworth, which was re- .leased from the beach above. the Sault, is now at the upper dry-dock for repairs, which will not be so exten- sive as had been at first thought, as she appears in very fair c ndition. The Egyptian was in the lower dry-dock getting sufficient rep irs to raise her from an A2% to an A2 class. ‘The s-eamer ‘Thomas Wilson arrived Thursday for her new high-pressure cylinder, and got away Monday morning. S. F. Hodge & Co. did the The John Owen is at this firm’s dock for a new high-pressure cylinder. BuFFaLo.—The dry-docks haye two pretty stubborn wrecks to deal with for mid-summer. ‘The Samoa, which was supposed to be a small job, has loomed up into a veritable rebui'd. So many frames are broken or scraped away from their fastnings that she will need to be pretty nearly a new boat when she comes out again, which will not be until sometime next week. Over 60 of her frames were broken, and others badly stove. As to the St Louis, which was knocked ont by the G. F. Williams, it is not known how much it will cost to fix her up, but it will not be done for a penny by any means. J. l. Crosthwaitr, her owner, says she is ruined. Her bilge is badly crushed in, and her repairs will need a practical rebuild. STURGEON Bay.—The steamer J. EK. Rumbell was in Reiboldt, Wolter & Co.’s dry-dock this week for a new Sheriff’s wheel, 5 fect 2 inches in diameter. The BE. C. Hart had a new key and collar put on her shaft to hold the wheel better. The tug M. A. Knapp had her bot- tom calked and her bilges resheathed with iron. REPAIR NOTES. The schooner B. W. Parker is getting bottém repairs at West Superior, The City of Mt. Clemens had her bottom cleaned and some calking done at Gilmore’s dry-dock, Toledo. The steamer Volunteer is repairing disabled machin- ,ery at Alpena. The tug Crusader is to be thoroughly rebuilt at Port Huron. EDS FLOTSAM AND JETSAM. Frank Hagan, fireman on the Thomas Maytham, was killed by the cars at Fairport Friday. The little schooner Wollin, Capt. Kmil Poop, was sold under the hammer at Milwaukee last week for $1,140. Thomas King, deckhand, fell into the hold of the steamer Ira H. Owen at Fairport last week. He died on Friday. s A Milwaukee dredge is cutting a 19-foot channel at Ludington, between Lake Michigan and Pere Mar- quette Lake. Ray Ladue, fireman.on the Sanilac, was accidently drowned at Saginaw Monday night, while trying to board the steamer. : The old hull of the tug Tender (Br.) which was lying at Playfair’s coal dock, Midland, was destroyed by fire a few evenings ago. : The Aragon has passed through the Welland canal with the largest wheat cargo that ever went through the canal. It consisted of 81,500 bushels. The Lighthouse Board has awarded a contract for constructing seven cribs in Hay Lake channel, St. Mary’s River, to Eslow & Monroe, of Charlevoix, Mich., at their bid of $5,622. Capt. M. A. Tuttle, who has sailed the steamer Lora, of the Manistee Transit Co. for two seasons past, has beén given command of the new wooden steamer Appo- mattox. He is succeeded in the Lora by Capt. C.D. Ross, formerly her first officer. Andrew Cameron, diver, at work on Loch Treig, Scotland, dived to a depth of 200 feet recently. ‘This, it is said, is the greatest depth ever reached by submarine diving. Up till this the record dive was that at Brus- sels, where a diver named Valmont reached the depth of 160 feet. WRECKS AND: WRECKING, The past has been a week of mishaps, and while no total losses are recorded, the casualties are stich as will give the dry-docks a good deal of work todo. A collision between the schooners George L.. Wrenn and Appren- tice Boy is fully described in our Chicago letter. The little schooner Emeline capsized on Lake Michigan, and may not be recovered; but her crew escaped in safety. The City of New Baltimore had her pilot house wre. ked at Milwaukee on Monday of Jast week by col- liding with a bridge, the draw of which fai‘ed to swing in time. The only fatality occurred in a collision Sunday between the steamer Normandie and the yacht Azalea, in which the latter’s owner, Edward Hinkle, of Detroit, was killed. The Normandie was bound up and took a sheer when abreast of Port Huron, crushing the Azalea, which was lying at the dock. The dumage to the yacht is fully $2,000. The Normandie a'so struck the Sagi- naw lying at the dock breaking her stern and causing her to leak badly. The steamer Norseman broke her crosshead on Laker Superior Monday afternoon, and was towed to Hough- ton fur repairs, which will consume a week. The steamer Wm. H. Stevens, while tied up to a dock at the Sault Monday, was struck by the Panther, and . had her upper works badly smashed. The Panther re- ceived some slight damage to mast and cabin. The owners of the steamer George F. Williams, which struck and badly damaged the St. Louis at Buffal» the other day, allege that the accident was caused by the Williams’ machinery becoming steam-locked. The wreck of the schooner Dauntless, which was lost off Rond Kau July 9, was located in that vicinity Thursday. On the same day Capt. EK. Duna, of the D. G. S. Petrel, located what he believes to be the Little Wissahickin, twenty-two miles south and west of Rond Eau, and three miles north of the boundary line. The Little Wissahichon was also lost on July 9. The Thompsons, of Port Huron, have bought the wreck of the tug Crusader, which was burned at the Sault two years ago. She has been taken to Port Huron, and will be rebuilt into a first-class wrecking tug. NEW HYDROGRAPHIC CHART—GEORGIAN BAY. A long-felt want of Upper Georgian Bay navigators has been met in the issuing by the Hydrographic Office, of a chart, in large detail, of this bay from French River to Little Current and Cabot Head. This includes the greater portion of the shores of Grand Manitoulin and the neighboring islands, and the new ranges, and the results of all late soundings are carefully given. A scale of statute miles, extending the entire length of the chart” from top to bottom, greatly facilitates calculations for those accustomed to compute distances by this standard of measurement. The price is $1.25. Furnished promptly upon application at THE MARINE RECORD offices, Fourth Floor, Western Reserve Bldg., Cleveland. EE aa News has been received at Tacoma of the establish- ment of another steamship company at Tokio, to be called the Daito Kitzen Kaisha, with a capital of 2,000,- 000 yen (about $1,000,000). The Japan Weekly Gazette says the new concern proposes to open a regular ser- vice of steamers between Yokohama and Portland, with the object of effecting connections with the Oregon Railroad. According to the present plan steamers of 5,000 tons each are to be employed on the new line. The signatures of the projectors are being taken prepara- tory to applying to the authorities for a charter. It is said the proposed company, after official permission has been granted, may amalgamate with the Toyo Kizen Kaisha (Oriental Steamship Company). ED ee oe State Engineer and Surveyor Adams, of New York, has completed the plans and specifications for the first piece of work to be accomplished under the $9,000,000 canal improvement appropriation. The plans are for that portion of the Erie canal between and including locks 21 and 22 at Rexford flats, a few miles below Schenectady. The locks are to be lengthened and the canal is to be deepened two feet, while vertical walls are to be built between the locks. The work will cost $160,- 000 and is soon to be advertised by Supt. Aldridge, of the State Department of Public Works.