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THE MARINE RECORD. 5 eS WRECKS AND WRECKING. What may prove one of the few total losses of the sea- son occurred on Lake Stperior at 8 o’clock Wednesday morning, August 26, when the schooner Phineas S. Marsh, owned by Capt: J e Doville and sailed by Capt. William Somerville, both of Cleveland, waterlogged with a cargo of 850 tons of stone five miles east of Two Heart River. The schooner had sprung a leak, and filled rapidly. Master and crew, nine in all, were taken off with great difficuity by Capt. Robert M. Small and his crew, of Crisp’s Point Life-saving Station. The Marsh was valued in Inland Lloyds at $12,500, rating A 2, and was insured for $9,000, divided as follows: Union Marine, $2,250; Reliance Marine, $1,000; Marine, $1,750, beside covering a freight list of $1,200; Sea, $1,000; British Ametican, $1,500; Greenwich, St. Paul ‘Fire and Marine, and Providence, of Washington, $500 each. Capt. Doville was advised by telegraph ‘Thursday morning that the Marsh had come ashore near Two Rivers, but was in a badly wrecked condition. The Canadian tng James Clark, owned by Capt. J. Craig and J. W. Darling, of Collingwood, Ont., was found by the water’s edge near Mitchell’s Bay last week. She was valued at $5,000 and was partly cov- ered by insurance. Under the superintendence of Capt. George McLeod, of Buffalo, the steamer Wm. Chisholm, sunk by colli- sion in Lake St. Clair, had the 19x10-foot hole in her quarter patched by a diver, and was floated Monday, the 24th, without lightering a pound of her 1,800 tons of ore. She reached Cleveland Tuesday and discharged her cargo, going into dry-dock Wednesday. ‘The result of her survey is given elsewhere. The contract for raising the Oceanica, which collided with the Chisholm, has been awarded to Capt. H. W. Baker, owner of the wrecker ‘IT. W. Snook, at a stipu- lated price, said to be $6,000. It is expected that Capt. Baker will have her in dock in less than two weeks, judging from the excellent results he has accomplished in former years on the schooners David Stewart, S. B. Pomeroy, O. J. Hale, and others. ‘The Oceanica’s decks are well under watér and her bow is badly opened up, so she is a much more difficult job than the William Chisholm, especially as, being a wooden vessel, she has no water bottom. All vessels are requested to check down when passing the wreckers. Rough weather in the region of the Straits has greatly retarded Capt. James Reid in his operations on the sunken Cayuga, as he has been able to work on an aver- age of only about one dayin seven. If easterly winds prevail for a period of ten days, she will be ready for a lift. He hopes this will come before Septemcer 21. Mr. Carlos D. Myers fixed upon Sunday. last as the date for his test trip with his diving machine, but so far no announcement has been made regarding the results. In addition to the machine itself, considerable para- phernalia had to be put aboard the steamer EF. H. Jenks, which has been chartered for the trip. This includes a large ‘derrick: for raising and lowering the car, which weighs four tons. Connected with the derrick is a large wheel, 9 feet in diameter, with 12 grooves for the air hose. This reel will carry about 200 feet of pipe and will, of course, allow the car to descend that distance. A small steam engine has been provided to work the electric dynamo and the air pumps. The object of the expedition is to find the steamer Norinan, sunk off Middle Island, and to place chains under her, prepara- tory to raising her; but should the wreck not be located the expedition will be a marvelous success of the ap- paratus is given a satisfactory test. The H. D. Root wrecking expedition, with the inven- tion of Mr. Smith, of Milwaukee, is still at work search- ing for the wreck of the Pewabic, and if unsuccessful for so long, will continue the search as long as the weather will allow. On Wednesday morning of last week a trunk washed ashore near Ashtabula, which was evidently the prop- érty of Capt. George McKay, master of the Little Wissa- hickon, who was lost with her July 9, on the north side of ake Erie: ‘The trunk was upside down, open and empty. Strewn about were papers of various sorts, besides linen. ~The trunk had not been riflled, but had been torn open by the sea. Among the papers, which all bore the name Little Wissahickon, there was an envelope addressed to Capt. McKay, Bay City, and post- marked April 16, 1896, Capt. McKay’s master’s certifi- cate, a time book, and large account book. ‘These have by th’s time been recovered by the dead man’s family. The wrecking tug Boynton, with a full wrecking out- fit on} board, has been stationed at Sailors’ Encamp- ment, St. Mary’s river, in charge of Capt. Hendricks, for the remainder of the season. : rr 0 tr NOTICE TO MARINERS. GAs Buoys IN St. LAWRENCE RIVER. Notice is given by order of the Lighthouse Board that on or about August 25, 1896, the following-named spar buoys in the St. Lawrence River were replaced by gas buoys: Bay State Shoal Buoy, No. 5.—A 20-foot black spar: buoy, marking the SW. end of a small 5-foot shoal, 144 miles below Cross-Over Island on the E. side of the channel. Limpire Shoal Buoy, No. 6.—A. 20-foot red spar buoy, mark- ing the outer edge and upper end of an 8-foot shoal, on N. side of the channel, just below Sister Island Light- house. Chapman Shoal Buoy, No. 14.—A 20 foot red spar buoy, marking the SK. point of a shoal 1,370 feet WSW. % W., from the W. end of North Colborne Island. Bearings are true, and distance are in statute miles. EEE OE THE FREIGHT SITUATION. "Mr. W. A. Livingstone, of Detroit, has made a most excellent suggestion, which appears in our Detroit letter, to the effect that owners of vessel property get together and agree to lay up one half of their boats. As so many are now in ordinary perforce, it seems that such a combination might be made to work for the bal- ance of the season, as it is the only means by which vessels can be miade to pay and profits. Grain rates went off to 1%c on corn from Chicago to Buffalo, but through the efforts of the vessel men, who see no more business in sight at losing than at living rates, a re- covery tol%cresulted. Duluth is paying 14 to 13c on wheat to Buffalo. One or two wild ore charters have been made at 40c from Escanaba, and boats are being placed for both hard and soft coal at 20c; but the volume of business in these lines is best described by the chemists’ term of “‘trace.’’ : Wheat in store at the head of Lake Superior is appor- tioned among the various terminal elevators as fol- lows: Belt Line, 598,256 bu.; Consolidated, 953,400; Globe, 2,569,857; Great Northern, 286,649; Superior Ter- minal, 619,516; Consolidated B, 80,339; Consolidated H, 79,771; total, 5,187,788 as compared with 4,376,612 bushels a year ago. There is 12,542,306 bushels of wheat in store at Minneapolis, a decrease during the week of 669,440 bushels. t ED oo Or NORTHERN STEAMSHIP COMPANY—LOW SEP- TEMBER RATE. The Northern Steamship Co.’s regular passenger sea- son has practically closed, and Gen. Pass. Agt. Heard now announces a series of September sailings at low excursion rates. He also calls attention to the fact that the month of September, particularly the first half, is the finest of the year. He thinks the inducements of- fered cannot fail to bring those, who for various reasons, have been compelled to postpone their summer onting. The rates are: From Buffalo to Mackinac Island, $10.75; to Sault Ste. Marie, $12; to Duluth, $20; to Chicago, $18, From Cleveland to Mackinac Island, $7.50; to Sault Ste. Marie, $8.75; to Duluth, $17; to Chicago, $13. From De- troit to Mackinac Island, $6; to Sault, $7.50; to Duluth, $14; to Chicago, $13. Mackinac Island to Duluth, $12.50; Sault Ste. Marie to Duluth, $9.50; Duluth to Chicago, $20. Excursion rates to Duluthand St. Paul will be $5 higher than the Duluth rates. The same rates hold going op- posite ways. Sailings will be as follows: Leave Buffalo Sept. 1, 4, 8,and 11; Cleveland and De- troit Sept. 2, 5,9, and 12; Mackinac Island and Sault Ste. Marie, Sept. 3, 6, 10 and 13; arrive Duluth Sept. 4, 7, 11, and 14. f Leave Duluth, Sept, 1,5 and 8; Sault Ste. Marie and Mackinac Isiand, Sept. 2, 6, and 9; Detroit and Cleve- land, Sept. 3, 7, and'10; arrive Buffalo, Sept. 4, 8, and’11. rE Oe The Georgian Bay Lumber Company’s mill at Port Stevens, Ont., was fired by lightning and completely destroyed on the 16th instant. Loss $50,000, COMMISSIONER CHAMBERLAIN TO VISIT THE LAKES, The commercial interests of the Great Lakes are al- ways glad to learn of any proposed visit of national government officials, from either the executive; legis- lative or judicial departments to the inland seas. No columns of dry statistics, no matter what showing they may make, can produce such lively impression of the vast extent of our fresh water commerce as is made by even a short trip along the track of this great merchant fleet. Therefore, it is with a sense of great gratification that it is announced that Mr. Kugene T. Chamberlain, Commissioner of Navigation, expects to take a trip up the lakes early in September. The visit is partly at least, in the nature of duty, as the commissioner doubt- less desires to see for himself just what are the condi- tions that require such careful navigation through the Sault, and to take a look over the ground in order that he may decide more intelligently upon the requests which will come before him during the fall and early winter for the remission of fines imposed for violations of the new regulations. But this visit will certainly deepen the thorough appreciation which Mr. Chamber- lain has already shown of the importance of lake in- terests. ——e—an 0 DEATH OF CAPT. JOHN FITZGERALD Capt. John Fitzgerald, president of the Milwaukee Dry-Dock Co., and for years one of the most prominent men connected with wooden shipbuilding onthe Great Lakes, died at his home, No. 817 Marshall street, Mil- waukee, early Saturday morning, at the age of sixty- three years. He had not been well for two or three years past, and for the last three weeks had been con- fined to his bed and suffered greatly from ulceration of the bowels. Capt. Fitzgerald was a well-known lake navigator in the days of the sailing fleet, and had a number of com- mands, including the bark Parana. The last vessel which he sailed was the schooner Joseph Paige, which he brought out in the spring of 1872. The following winter he went into the tug boat business in Milwaukee ; with the Starke Brothers. About a year later he bought the Milwaukee shipyard, in the Menomonee Valley, and continued at the head of that until 1891, when his com- pany acquired the Wolf & Davidson plant, and thus se- cured control of all the shipbuilding and repair work at that port. ; Capt. Fitzgerald leaves a widow, a son, William BE. Fitzgerald, secretary and treasurer of the Milwaukee Dry-Dock Co., anda daughter, Mrs. Josephine (F. W.) Smith. He is also survived by four brothers, R. P. Fitzgerald, the well-known Milwaukee vessel agent; William Fitzgerald, United States Inspector of Steam Vessels at Milwaukee, and Edward and M. Fitzgerald, of Port Huron. Mrs. Lamb, a sister, lives in Dakota. The funeral was held at 3 o’clock Monday afternoon from the family residence on Marshall street, and was largely attended. The service was conducted by Rev. Judson Titsworth, and a brief address upon the person- al character and great worth of the deceased was delivered by Col. Fallows, of Chicago. ‘The pallbearers were ky, S. Stone, of Oconomowock, Fred Stark, George C. Markham, A. M. Joys, and J. G. Joys, Milwaukee, and J. G. Keith, of Chicago, all warm friends and bus- iness associates of the deceased. The interment was at Forest Home cemetery. The Milwaukee Wisconsin recalls a famous voyage from the east shore of Lake Michigan, made by Capt. Fitzgerald when in the Parana. He was caught out late in the season. Nothing was ‘heard from him. and there was considerable anxiety felt for the craft. She finally came into port looking like an iceberg, loaded down with tons of ice. Capt. Fitzgerald had to go to the masthead to navigate her, in order to see over the; « steam that was rising from the ice. eae Capt. Fitzgerald’s death has been keenly felt among his many old friends and associates in the marine fra- ternity, and suitable expressions of grief and. sense of loss have been adopted at several lake ports. EEE ee — ea The big steel barge Aurania broke the Marquette cargo record by taking out 3,900 tons of ore. The steamer Queen City has broken all previous records by bringing down 207,000 bushels of corn from Chicago to Buffalo. She drew 16 feet 3 inches forward.