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_head of the lakes without having any down charter fixed as even 1c a bushel could not be had on Duluth wheat, though, of course, they might as well lay wait- _ ing cargoes there as here. : The estate of the late H. J. Webb has been recorded as amounting to $59,000. Mr. Luther Allen, secretary and treasurer of the _ Globe Iron Works Co. and ex-president of the Chamber - of Commerce, arrived in the city Thursday after an enjoyable trip across the Atlantic. The tug Sunol when taking the Wallula into Ashta- ‘bula harbor on Monday, managed to get between the _ lee pier and the steamer and received a $500 crush. _ .. The Weather Bureau offices at this port, removed from the Western Reserve, will hereafter be located in the _ Society for Savings Building. - The'steainer State of Michigan did not reach here on Monday evening as due. Owing to the heavy weather She sheltered in Pigeon Bay. The sidewheel steamer _ City of Detroit came along without any casualty al- . though bad weather was experienced. The will of the late Capt. William S. Mack has been admitted to probate. He leaves all his property, real .and personal, to his wife, Margaret A. Mack. Sheis appointed executrix without bond. No inventory is to ‘be taken of the estate or appraisals made, nor is there © to be any sale of the real estate. Besides his wife the . deceased leaves a son, who is secretary and manager of the company, and a daughter, Anna B. Mack. _ The depth of water has been fairly well maintained at this port during the season, and less trouble than ever through vessels grounding for lack of adequate dredg- -ing has been experienced. _. Nearly fifty vessels, among which are some large iron ~ and steel steamers, are now laid up here awaiting car- goes or a rise in freights. One of the busiest men, and yet one who accomplishes | ,more business in a business-like way during a stated period than almost any other man in the city is H. D. Goulder, Esq., counsel for the Lake Carriers’ Associag tion, and marine lawyer. | eS ee Being the only shipchandlery firm in the city, the large store of Upson, Walton & Co., River street, is - always a lively spot, and it is well that the mantle of - monopoly has fallen upon such righteous and capable shoulders, for, with the business conducted as at present, -there will never be need of any competition at this port. . The active and well directed competition among fuel- ing companies on the. lakes this season, has proved a wholesome blessing to owners and masters, as the prices and despatch has been better for the vessel than ever before. Besides, the fueling companies are supposed to _be able to stand it. Finishing and repair work is all that is now being carried on atlocal shipyards. There is nothing on the stocks, the yards are fairly well cleaned up and are likely to remain so, at least until after election is over. The following steamers were dry-docked by the Cleve- land Dry-dock Co. this week: Yakima, butts calked; R. EB. Shuck, for new fore-foot and 130 feet vf garboard on the port side; Roumania, butts calked, searched up and bows ironed. John B. Ketcham for new wheel and tightening up rivets. 2 . Work at the yards of the Cleveland Ship Building Co. is being pushed on the Bessemer Co.’s new steamer ‘James Watt, and with fair weather sbe will be ready to turn over to her owners in about ten days. After her trial trip it is likely that she will be put into commission, Gf the trade outlook is a little more favorable a few “weeks hence. The long, mild summer experienced on the lakes this season has prevented the largest and best equipped : y-docks from earning anything like fair returns on is Bd capital invested, as, outside of a blow during the latter part of May, little or nodamage has been caused to vessel property, owing to weather conditions. ‘The season, so far, has also been remarkably free from heavy collision or grounding damages. Whether thisis not due, in a great measure, to the safeguards thrown around navigation by the clauses in what is known as - the White ‘‘Steering and Sailing Rules,’’ as well as the new rules enforced in the piloting of the ‘tSoo’’ River, _ will, ofcourse, meet with a difference of opinion; but, certainly, the fine, mild weather prevailing during the - summer months, when lake traffic was at its height, has shad much to do with the immunity from casualties so noticeable this year. : It is to be hoped that the attention of the Weather : Bureau, or the Hydrographic Department, U. S.N., will be called to the action of the gale which swept over the - Jakes this week. It appears to have been a well- developed, cyclonic storm, within a rather small area. "The direction is reported as blowing from the north at Chicago, north-east at Detour, east at Port Huron, and ‘south-east at Buffalo. Other reports ought to be at hand to complete the circle, and the barometer readings, with the maximum and minimum velocities, given for each _ point, as a future notice and guidance to mariners, as ‘well as others interested in lake commerce and trans- portation. SWAIN. ——— ee —e ee MAY BE TRUE ENOUGH. : Capt. George McLeod, wrecking master and insur- ance surveyor of Buffalo, makes no secret of his - admiration of a good skipper, even if he does have to _ tmake some comparisons. He is quoted as saying: THE MARINE RECORD. ‘‘When I went to Prince Edward Island this summer, I sailed out of New York in a fog so thick that not one of the passengers on the steamer saw a thing until we were within a hundred feet of the dock in Halifax. The course is not only crooked, but it lies through the Bay of Fundy, with its heavy currents.. There is a sharp turn in the bay, but we madeit to a nicety and we made the whole coursé by exact science. The lead line was in use when we made the bottom at 100 fathoms. When we reached our destination I bought the captain a bottle of wine. ‘The steamer was about the size of the Tioga. WhenI find some of our lake captains going ashore the minute they have to run a course after dark, no matter how familiar they may be with it, I am disgusted.”’ rrr rr INLAND LLOYDS SUPPLEMENT. Capt. D. McLeod, manager of the Inland Lloyds Ves- sel Register, has just issued the October supplement (No. 6) to the annual which is published solely for the purpose of effecting insurance on lake vessels under the American flag. The tew steamer Sir William Fairbairn, 3,182 net tons, built by the Detroit Dry-Dock Co. for the Bessemer Steamship Co., is given an Al rating with a valuation of $240,000. She was built under special survey and carries the Register’s star. The City of Kalamazoo also carries the highest rating and a valuation of $45,000. ‘The steamer Charles Reitz is classed A2 and valued at $15,000. Tug Island Belle, of Detroit, is classed Bl at $1,500, and the small schooner Lena M. Neilson, of Ludingtor, Bl at $3,000. The new Minne- sota Steamship Co.’s new barge Magna, built by the Chicago Ship Building Co., is given the highest rating and valued at $130,000. She is 3,125 net tons. The Bessemer Steamship Co.’s new tow barge James Na- smyth, 3,162 net tons; built by F. W. Wheeler & Co,, West Bay City, was built under special survey and re- ceived the Al rating with a valuation of the same as the Magna, viz., $130;000. The barge A. I. Bliss has been withdrawn andis now without aclass or insurance rating. ' —_—— rr ee 2 LOST ON LAKE MICHIGAN. The tow-barge Sumatra, consortof the B. F. Arnold, from South Chicago to Fort William with a cargo of -1,300 tons of railroadiron, sprung a leak and foundered off Milwaukee on Wednesday morning, with the loss of four lives. The master, Charles Johnson, West Bay City; mate John Burback, West Bay City, and the cook Ira Purser, of West Bay City, were rescued. The names of the lost are: Arthur Burnsted, West Bay City, Charles Hemmer, West Bay City; Patrick Peterson, West Bay City; Peter Anderson, West Bay City, Mich. The foundering occurred about a mile and a half from the entrance to Milwaukee harbor, with a tugboat in close attendance, and the life-saving crew on hand, but so suddenly did the vessel gofrom under their feet, that the crew had little chance of being rescued in the nasty sea then running. PRE ts The Sumatra left South Chicago on Tuesday morning after waiting two or three days for favorable weather. ‘General Freight Agent Keefe, of the Illinois Steel Co., ‘places the value of the cargo at about $35,000, consigned to the Canadian Pacific Railroad: It was insured for its full value with Smith, Davis & Co., of Buffalo; David Vance & Co., of Milwaukee; and C. W. Elphicke & Co., of Chicago. The underwriters have decided on immediate salvage, and meastress will be taken to secure the entire cargo before the close of navigation. The Sumatra was built by Quelos, at Black River, O., in 1874. Net tonnage, 803, rated A2 and was valued for insurance purposes at $18,000, at the time of her loss. She was owned by the Mills Transportation Co., Port Huron, who are also the owners of her late convoy, the steamer B. W. Arnold. os rr € IMPENDING NAVAL CHANGES. Among the impending changes at the top of the naval ist is that of Capt. Robley D. Evans, of the battleship Indiana, who is expected to go to Washington in a week or two as a member of the Light-House Board. He will take the position vacated by Capt. John R. Bartlett, who will be detailed to sea service. Capt. Henry C. Taylor, president of the War College, will relieve Capt, Evans on the Indiana, ——0———0 oe eee ooo REPORTED BY THE LOOKOUT. Two gas buoys have been placed by the Canadian fishery cruiser Petrel in the Pelee passage with suf- ficient supply of gas to last for seven weeks. The bull of thetug C. A. Tomlinson, built at Bay City by James Davidson for B. B. Inman, of Duluth, will be towed to Duluth by the steamer Rappahannock, where she will receive her machinery. It is reported that the Canadian Pacific steamer did so well this summer, carrying about twice as many pas- sengers as last season, that her agent at Detroit, Cor- nelius Sheehy, will endeavor to have the Manitoba, a larger and more comfortable steamer, put on her route between Windsor and Port Arthur next season. There are more stateroom on the Manitoba. The master of the schooner Badger, which stranded least week near Monaghan’s landing while loading cedar, speaks in the highest terms of the able and skill- full assistance rendered so cheerfully by Capt. McLen- nan, keeper of the Middle Island life-saving station and his crew. It is noticeable that this station always comes in for warm thanks from those in distress in that locality, and it was markedly so under its former splen- did keeper now stationed at Duluth. Capt. Jonn Smith, master of the large steel steamer E. C. Pope, showed rare pilotage skill a few days ago by taking his steamer inside of the Middle Ground at Port Huron, and thereby avoiding the detention if not causalty with a schooner that occupied the channel. It is of as much importance these times to know where there is water as to be acquainted with the shoal spots Firms engaged in wrecking, salvage and towing busi- ness on the lakes say that this is proving to be one of the poorest seasons for their business within recollec- tion. The almost total absence of storms has been the chief cause of this, but there are many others. One is that the excessive rains have raised the lake levels several inches, almost entirely doing away with the groundings in the rivers, especially between Lake Erie and Huron, ee —eE BUFFALO’S GREAT COMMERCE. The Buffalo Courier furnishes the following con- densed report of the trade of that port by lake: During the month of September 20,252,023 bushels of grain were delivered at this port by incoming vessels, which exceeds last year’s September receipts by almost 5,000,000 bushels. For the season 104,933,226 bushels of grain came forward against 64,508,722 last season up to October 1. Of flour the receipts up to date this season are 5,686,913 barrels, against 5,015,030 for the corres- ponding period of 1895. The receipts of grain (includ- ing flour) thus far this year are 133,367,791 bushels, against 89,583,872 bushels last year to October 1. ‘The season’s receipts of grain are the largest on record for this port, and exceed the receipts of 1893 by over 9,000, 000 bushels. Coal shipments during the month of September ag- gregate 337,047 tons and for the season 1,574,081 tons— an excess over last season’s shipments up to October 1 by 79,900 tons. Shipments of grain this season by canal are about double what they were last year, but are nearly 10,000,- 000 bushels less than in 1894, Lumber shipments by lake are away behind last season’s, but the receipts of other commodities are fairly up to the standard. A comparative statement of the lake and canal traffic of the port is also published in detail. EE ee A LAKE ONTARIO STRANDING. An underwriters dispatch received at Chicago on Wednesday reports that the well known schooner, J. I. Case has been Griven ashore at Bath, Lake Ontario. The seas were driving the vessel high upon the beach. The Case was bound to Lake Michigan with coal. As- sistance was promptly wired for to be sent from Kings- ton, and D. H. Hitchcock left for the scene of the stranding to represent the underwriters’ interests. The J. I. Case is now owned by P. M. Arthur of Detroit, is still on her first letter and valued at $1,800. Doe The new steel steamer City of Buffalo, owned by the Cleveland & Buffalo Line, will winter at Detroit so as to facilitate some changes that are to be made by her builders, the Detroit Dry-Dock Co, ;