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THE MARINE RECORD. aS SSS SE SSS SSS Sst DG ll NGG ors CHICAGO. COMMANDER OF THE First STEAMER ON LAKE SUPER- tor Drap—DraTH oF HENRY F. LEroporp—A ‘HORSE’? ON A CLEVELAND MILL. Special Correspondence to The Marine Record. OFFICE OF THE MARINE RECORD, } CuHiIcaGo, September 9. Capt. D. Power, master and part owner of the schooner Granger, which went ashore near Seul Choix Point, arrived in Chicago last week. He had stripped the schooner and intends to let her lie on the beach until better times. Her hold is full of cedar posts, which are insured. They are being removed by the underwriters. ; The whaleback steamer Christopher Coluntbus gave her last excursion for this season between Chicago and Milwaukee Wednesday, Septeinber 9. She has been doing a big business since the beginning of July, hav- ing carried many thousands of excursionists, who have to thank the owners of the Columbus for having insti- tuted cheap round trip daily excursions between Chicago and Milwaukee. The fin-keel sloop yacht Siren went into dry-dock to get ready for the September races, opening with the free-for-all regretta of the Columbia Yacht club Satur- day. The Vencedor is now at Marinette, and will in all probabilities be here in time for the event. Whether the Vanenna will be home in time is not certain. All the yachts.are coming from their cruise to Lake Erie, the schooner Mistral arriving yesterday. The match race between the Charlotte K). and Valiant will not be sailed until after the Columbia club event. A strong effort is being made to match the fin-keels for a final struggle before the close of the season, and a race will in all probability come off. Cap. John Prindiville announces that he is not per- paring to sail any of one the of crack yachts in the Sep- tember races. “‘I sailed with Mr. Hayes the other day,’’ Capt. Prindiville said. ‘‘merely asa guest, and enjoyed the sail very much. When asked my opinion as to cer- tain points, Igave it freely, as I would for any one, but did not fora momement take charge of the Siren to tune her up, nor do I intend to sail her.’’ Receipts of grain continue heavy and grain freights remain steady on the basis of 1%c on corn to Buffalo. Carr & Blair chartered the steamer Rockefeller for wheat to Buffalo at 1%c; barge 137, for corn to Buffalo at 1%c; George T. Hope, for oats to Buffalo at 14gc; and to Black Rock at 1%c; steamer Progress, oats to Sarnia at 1c James A. Calbick & Co. chartered the steamer Geo. Burnham for salt from Ludington to Ashland, and for lumber from Superior to Chicago. The steamer W. P. Ketcham and consort George B. Owen were chartered for coal from Buffalo to Chicago; the steamer Toltec and consort Miztec for coal from Erie to Chicago; the steamer J. H. Prentiss and consort Halsted, for corn, Chicago to Port Huron; the schooner Constitution for salt from Manistee to Duluth. Capt. John Prindiville chartered the steamer Cadillac for wheat to Toledo at 1%c J.J. Rardon & Co. chartered the steamer Mecosta and barge Ashland for corn to Buffalo at 1% cts.; the steam- er Arizona for corn to Kingston at 25 cts.; barge Plymouth corn to Kingston at 244 cts.; schooner Scotia, clipped oats to Black Rock at 14% cts.; Hesper, corn to Port Huron at 1%. We very frequently read of quick dispatch in loading and unloading vessels, but we very seldom hear slow dispatch mentioned. The steamer Parnell, with 75,000 bushels of wheat, consigned to the Cleveland Milling Co., arrived at Cleveland on Saturday, August 29, at 8:30 a. m. and her captain was promised quick dispatch. Unloading was commenced at 3 p.m. Saturday, and went on continuously night and day until the following Tuesday aoon, when the load was all out, and then she had run 153 bushels short. The arrivals in Chicago river on the 6th and 7th of this month tumbered 73. Three-fourths of the arrivals were steam vessels. Henry F. Leopold, a resident of Chicago since 1869, and a pioneer in the Lake transportation died of heart disease Thursday afternoon, September 3, at 4 o’clock, at his home 1467 Michigan Ave., aged 76 years. He had been in good health until within a few minutes of his death, which was painless. The deceased and his brothers and brother-in-law, Joseph Austrian, estab- lished what is now known as the Lake Michigan & Lake Superior Transportation Co., about thirty years ago. He retired from the company about fiiteen years ago and went into private life. He leaye a widow, two sons, and two daughters to mourn his loss. Albert J. Averill died at three o’clock Sunday morn- ing at his residence, 2018 Michigan avenue, after an ill- ness of three months. He was seventy-three years old and had lived in Chicago nearly fifty years. In 1843 he came to Chicago, and when twenty-one years old was made captain of the steamer Independence, which he took to Lake Superior by transferring the hall on:rollers and the machinery by men and teams around St. Mary’s Falls. It was alwaysasource of pride to him that he commanded the first steamer on that lake. The deceased gave up sailing and settled in Chicago in 1855. During the first year of his settled life he engaged in the lumber trade, after which he turned his attention to real estate, and was for many years one of the largest ‘and most successful dealers. WILLIAMS. DETROIT. THE GRUMMONDS ESTaBLIisH A LINE 10. CLEVRLAND— May TAKE IN PELeR IsnAND NeXT YRAR. Special Correspondence to The Marine Recoré, DETROIT, September 9, Grant Grummond has determined to run the State of Michigan to Cleveland, and may next year add Pelee Island to his list of calling places. Pelee Island is fast coming to the front, and Mr. Grummond believes it could be made a summer resort of no mé€an proportions. ‘The State of Michigan has been repainted, relettered and otherwise refurnished, and will make a strong bid for patronage between Detroit and Cleveland. George C. Robinson, formerly clerk on the old Ward Line for several years, has just been appointed general freight and passenger agent of the new route. Mr. Robinson isa young man of very pleasing address, and should make a popular man in his position. The boat has been re-officered, being now commanded by Captain John Pearson, with James Barrow as clerk, James Brown as steward, and George Purvis as engineer. Her time- table can be found in the daily papers. The steamer A. D. Hayward has taken the State of Michigan’s Lake Huron route for this fall. ‘ The old schooner Fostoria is water-logged at her dock at the upper end of the city, loaded with cedar posts. The Oceanica is now lying at the foot of McDougal street on the bottom. It is understood that the Lehigh Valley Transportation Co. are much pleased with the result of their contract with Captain Baker. There was some very sharp bidding, and it was only by getting bondsmen that Captain Baker succeeded in obtaining the contract. His work in the past has been very suc- cessful as a wrecker, and his latest success will give him better acquaintance among large vessel interests than he has enjoyed heretofore. To-day John C. Shaw was notified that the Lehigh Valley Transportation Co. had filed a libel egainst the William Chisholm. The Sir Win. Fairbairn, the first of the Rockefeller boats to be finished by the Detroit Dry-dock Co., is tobe turned over to her owners on Wedesday or Thursday, and will'immediately go for a cargo. Her smoke-stack looks very small beside the great, black hull, lying over 400 feet along the wharves. She is now receiving her finishing touches. Her decks have been just painted, and her brasswork etc., is being polished, preparatory to turning her over to her owners. ‘The Robert Fulton, her sister ship, will be launched at Wyandotte Wednes- day or Thursday, and will be brought at once to the Dry-Dock Engine Works, where her boilers and engines await her at the hoisting derrick. The Frontier Iron Works have just sent a wheel to the Detroit Dry-Dock Co., who will put it on the steamer Shenandoah in dock. On Friday last the steamer City of Toledo had a pe- culiar and remarkable accident. She struck a ‘‘ dead- head,”’ or log floating end upwards, off Amherstburg, and tore out several blades of her starboard paddle wheel, and so sprung her wheel and tore her braces loose that she was disabled. The floors of two state- rooms above the paddle-box were ruined, one being torn out entirely. Fortunately, there was no one in either room at the time. The carpenter work can be completed Wednesday, but the work on the wheel will take till neat Sunday or longer. Excessive quiet prevails along the Detroit water front. Captain Ruelle has laid up another of his tugs, and now has only one in commission. Thos. Adams says the outlook is gloomy in the extreme. McC. re re THE FREIGHT SITUATION. Several owners who have had vessels tied up to the dock for some weeks past waiting for an improvement in freight conditions, have given up all hope of doing anything more this season, and a number of both steamers and consorts are being laid up till next spring, regardless of what may turn up later. This does not apply alone to smaller sizes, but a few of the big steel ore carriers are also being stripped, rather than allow their machinery to rust. The owners are not taking many chances, either; for while a big grain movement is anticipated for this fall, from both Chicago and the head of Lake Superior, the maximum amount of ore yet to come down will not ex- ceed 1,500,000 tons, or about what is usually carried in a single month. Shipments of all other lines are falling off, and with big carriers in operation that can hold almost all the grain raised in some counties, it does no take many cargoes to aggregate a million bushels. The Chicago corn rate is now 1c, and the Duluth wheat rate 1%c on wheat to Buffalo, both being practi- cally the same figure. Thisis a low rate for even the big carriers, and will have to improve considerably be- fore boats are coaxed ont of ordinary. It was thought that bottom had been touched when the coalrate went to 25c to all ports; but on the few cargoes that are now going to Lake Superior, steamers are loading at 20c and schooners at 15c, the lowest soft coal rate on record. FLOTSAM AND JETSAM. Alpena has shipped 55,550,000 feet of lumber, 4,320,000 shingles, and 2,290,000 lath so far this season. The Superior iron mine, at Hurley, Wis., is on fire, and it will take a month 10 extinguish the flames. Marquette ore shipments for last week were 43,925 tons, about half what they were for the previotis week. The owners of the William Chisholm have libeled the Oceanica and the owners of the latter have filed a cross libel. The new dock at Ashtabula, operated by Pickands, Mather & Co., and just opened, has a capacity for 400,- 000 tons of ore.’ ; Tug captains report that a number of dangerous logs are floating in and near the straight channel through Maumee Bay. Mr. Carrs, of Smith’s Falls, Can., has purchased the little steamer John Milue, at Collingwood, and will place her on the Rideau canal. The V. H. Ketchum struck a sunken scow at Ashta- bula a few days ago. It is a serious obstruction, and ought to be promptly removed. The flash-light on the Peninsula at Erie, Pa., is being raised 17% feet by the addition of brickwork to the top of the tower, making the total height 70 feet. The lighthouse board has appointed Joseph Schuster assistant keeper of the light station at Round Island, Mich., and Bartholomew Whelan assistant keeper of the station at Fourteen Mile Point. Two large Pintsch gas buoys ordered by the. Do- minion government have arrived at Ambherstburg. ‘They will be placed and maintained below Point Pelee by the United States light-house tenders, The Canadian parliamentary select committee on standing orders has reported favorably on the applica- tion of the St. Clair & Erie Ship Canal Co., to revive an old act of incorporation and extend the time for com- pleting the work. Capt. John S, Barber, who has been engaged in the sand trade at Toledo for twenty-five years, most of the time with J. C. & J. H. Davis, died at the home of his daughter, in Roudout, N. Y., last Sunday. His remains were laid to rest at Roudout. Capt. Adolph Frietsch has started on his trip around the world in the Schlitz Globe. His voyage from Mil- waukee to Racine was a very stormy one, and a few guests whom he carried with him were very badly frightened. j John Walker, engineer of the St. Lawrence Marine Railway at Ogdensburg, was caught, on Wednesday evening of last week, by the power gear used in haul- ing the ship carriage from the water, and was crushed to death. Fred E. Curtis, purser of the steamer North Land, was recently presented with a handsome gold watch, a set of diamond cuff buttons and a set of diamond studs, by the crew of the steamer. The presentation was made by Capt. Stone. The old propeller Empire, which was built at Cleve- land in 1861, and which was run on the bank several years ago at the foot of Warren street, Sandusky, near the B. & O. docks, has been sold to Weier Bros., junk dealers, who are taking the machinery out of her. Ashtabula ore receipts to Sept. lare as follows: April, 27,583 tons; May, 98,393; June 508,517; July,°416,789; Au- gust, 314,927; total 1,666,209 tons, or a gain of 3,075 tons over the same period last year. Ashtabula’s coal ship- ments for August are reported as 131,091 tons. During August only 7,490,000 feet of lumber was shipped by water from Saginaw River. All season till September 1, the shipments were 47,334,117 feet of lum- ber, 1,800,000 pieces of lath and 200,000 shingles. ‘These shipments are the smallest since the records of ship- ments have been kept. Secretary Carlisle has made the following appoint- ments: Samuel F. Rogers, lightkeeper at Spectacle Reef, vice F. R. Bogan, removed; John Duffy, keeper St. Clair Flats range, vice Rogers, transferred; Andrew G. Bourrissan, keeper at’ Beaver Island, vice Edward Lasley, deceased. Capt. Samuel McCumby, of the wrecking tug Wright, which has been working on the Mattie C. Bell, ashore on Summer Island, Green Bay, had one of his arms broken and his head badly bruised by the wheels get- ting away from him and throwing him out of the pilot house, one day last week. He was taken to the hospital at Escanaba, ;