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NEWS AROUND THE LAKES. if BUFFALO. Special Correspondence to The Marine Record. They say that the build of the Monteagle saved her from being torn entirely to pieces when she went ashore in the St. Lawrence. Her frames are solid, which make her bottom firm as a rock. She was built at the Mills dry-dock here. Charley Hebard has now dropped his last cane. He runs the Pickands-Mather ore dock and fueling busi- ness and broke his leg some time ago. But he was game and instead of lying abed all summer, was soon out again on two crutches. Gradually he went from crutch to cane and now goes it alone again. Steamboat men say that the average canal schooner behaves in about the same fashion when towed at an eight-mile rate or faster. The build of the hull is such that there is not enough motion of the water under the stern to afford steerage way, and the schooner changes the point of the compass so fast that an ordinary sailor would be scared half to death. Such a time as they are having with the settlement of the loss on the big lumber barge Mautenee. She was waterlogged on Lake Superior months ago, but is still at Tonawanda, where she has lain several weeks wait- ing for the surveyors. The experts who looked the cargo over disagreed for weeks but at last came toa settlement at $5,680, but the hull will have to be sur- veyed over again, as the first surveyors have given up any expectation of getting together. Navigation of Lake Erie by canal boat is getting. to be risky, but the boats still make the trip. Insurance men are a trifle doubtful of the safety, in a general way, of a canal boat, but the steel fleet is reckoned sea- worthy, as a sea would roll over the boats without swamping them. When the first tow came down from Cleveland there was consternation among insurance men. The steering gear of the consorts was insufficient and they came in standing in all sorts of directions The fleet laid up here is smaller than’ was supposed possible a month ago. lumber barge Taylor are about all except three or four Bradley boats and two Lehigh Liners. It is queer how a general sizing up of the situation goes amiss sometimes. In my last letter it was remarked that the line boats had fared well this season and before the line was in print the Grand Traverse, of the Lackawanna, Line, was cut intwo, Still there might be worse losses than this one. ee E Coal freights are not going up, but coal’ shipments are. Thecustom house report for. the week reaches 110,000 tons, which is a big average for any part of the season. And all the while it looks as though there was next to nothing doing in coal shipments, just because the cargoes are so much bigger than they used to be. It is now next to a certainty that the shipments from this port this season will exceed the amount for several seasons past. This is hardly in line with the predictions of late that the roads were absorbing all this business. They may be getting hold of the soft coal business, but the hard coal trade sticks to the water still. . They tell something of a story of the captain of the Siberia. He is reported to have had a difference with one of his deck hands on the previous trip and soon after he landed here some one handed a letter to him from a city lawyer who is noted for taking the cases of men who are trying to get even with their captains, But the captain in this case was wary. He well knew that the letter contained a summons to a parley and he quietly dropped it over the edge of the dock into the creek without opening it. This time down the deputy marshal was asking for him, which may mean a con- tinuation of the plan of attack. There is to be a new elevator and a new coaltrestle in the harbor. The W.-N. Y. & P. trestle, long known as Scott’s dock, as it was handled by Scott & Co., of Erie, will be torn down and a new one built in its place for the use of Coxe Bros., who have used it a long time. It, will be given about 7,000 tons capacity, which is some- thing like twice what it will hold now. ~The elevator is to be made out of the old Queen City flour mill at Ferry Street. The Ryan elevator has done so much business there during this and last season that it is supposed to have made a pile of money for its owners, and the millers will now see if there is not something in the bus- iness for them. Plans have been drawn for the changes -needed, but nothing will be done this season. The Ryan elevator is out of the pool and works on a cut-rate basis. Close to 11,000,000 bushels of grain and flour reckoned as grain! ‘This would be something to be proud of with- out stint if it were not for the half dozen cargoes left over Saturday night and obliged to stand the chances of another day or so of waiting this week. Of course there are special reasons for the waiting. The elevators are doing well, but,the canal fleet has been allowed to run down till it cannot supplement the roads as it should and there is no such thing as taking care of a fleet such as is coming in here by the railroads alone. Were the canal to be abandoned through the slack part of the season there ought to be a big fleet to set in operation in the spring and fallin order toact in the double capac- ity of carriers and storage warehouses. ‘Take for in- stance a vessel that can carry 200,000 bushels of corn at twocents a bushel even, with the item of coal west to pay running expenses, to lose a single trip on corn there is a clean loss of $4,000. This alone would build more The Farwell and Rutter and the’ THE MarinE RECORD. than’one canal boat and when the day of trolley towing and exact time for canal trips is a fact, there ought to be capital that touches hands all-the way from the upper lake ports to the seaboard by means of canal fleets. JOHN CHAMBERLIN. DETROIT, MICH. Special Correspondence to T: he Marine Record, General Manager Carter, of the Detroit & Cleveland Steam Navigation Co., says: We will make arrange- ments this winter to give double daily service between Detroit and Cleveland next year. Boats will leave both ports every morning and every evening. If the plan cannot be carried out by the line’s present boats, a new one, similar to our larger steamers, will be built. Our passenger rate of 50 cents, including berths, and the rate of 20 cents a ton on the lowest class of freight, will be continued. Capt. J. C. Burton said it seemed to be an idea anrong many people that the insurance companies were having a pretty pleasant time of it this year, “whereas, the truth is,’? said the captain, “the insurance companies are not doing very well, and are still to go through the most trying. part of the season.’”?’ The captain rather inveighed against the Lloyds (foreign), and said they did not so much as have an attorney in this country, and did all their great business here through only two offices. Nor had they been admitted to do business under the laws of a single state, thereby avoiding the 3 per cent state tax, which placed them on an equal footing with the other companies when they underbid them by that much. ‘The captain concluded by saying that they should be regulated by Federal statute, in which case they could be controlled and compelled to pay their tax the same as the rest of the domestic companies. The Grummond management declare they are deter- mined to lead the fight against the D. & C. Line into another year, and in order to be prepared to effectually compete with them, have decided to build two large steel steamers, ‘which, they say, will be ready about the first of May next. ‘The steamers will be about 225 feet long, and will sleep 300 people each. They wil be screw wheelers. Grant Grummond said to THE REGORD: ‘Prices will never, again,be:as;high as in the past be- tween Detroit and Cléveland. Phat day has passed. I am not yet ready to give out the names of the stock- holders, but I may say that they will, be given out not later than ‘next week. We will organize for $500,000, perhaps $600,000, and each of the new boats wil! cost $150,000.% I have had.great success in petting stock sub- scribers, for there is-‘no doubt there is room for another route between Detroit and Cleveland. One-third of the stock has been taken“in Detroit, and the balance in Chieago and Cleveland.’’., James ‘Davidson, of Bay City, and John Craig, ,of Toledo, it is reported, have been asked for estimates. CHICAGO. ~ Special Corresponidence to The Marine Record. | Capt. William Dandy was appointed master of the schooner Sandusky last week. : : George Van Avery has succeeded H. N. Wadleigh on the Lehigh Valley Liner ‘Tuscarora. Capts. Gibbs, of Milwaukee, and J. A. Calbick, of Chicago, and J. W. Bates, shipbuilder, of Chicago, made a survey of the Haskell in the dock. Daniel Robertson, recently chief engineer of the steam yacht Hinder, has been appointed chief engineer of the L. M.and L. S. Transportation Co.’s steamer Jay Gould, vice B. Williams resigned. Capt. John Prindiville chartered the steamer Oscar T. Flint for wheat to Toledo at 236 cents; schooner Emily B. Maxwell for corn to Port Huron at2¥% cents; steamer Niko for flaxseed at 25g cents, and consort Churchill for rye at 254 cents, both to Buffalo. a The tug Morford which was assisting in releasing the Aragon, got a line in her wheel shortly before the steamer left Hyde Park Reef for South Chicago. The tug was towed to South: Chicago and a diver got the line out of her wheel and she came back to Chicago, J. W. Bates & Co., shipbuilders, have done some gen- eral repairson the steamers Alleghany and new Orleans, have calked the main deck of the steamer Jay Gould and put a new grain bulkhead amidships in the steamer Geo. W. Roby. A canal boat is receiving some new plank on both sides, new fender strakes and calking J. A. Calbick & Co. chartered the steamer J. H. Pren- tice and consort Halsted for wheat to Toledo at 2% cents; the steamer Robert Holland for lumber, Menom- ineee to Chicago, at 11 shillings per 1,000 feet; the steamer Robert Holland and consorts Warmington and Minch for lumber, Manistique to Chicago, at 11 shillings per.1,000. H. W. Cook & Co. chartered the steamer City of Glas- gow for clipped oats to Fairport at 1% cents; the steamer New Orleaus for clipped oats to Sarnia at 144 cents; the steamer Germanic and: consort Kmma C. Hutchinson for corn to Buffalo at 244 cents; steamer John H. Glidden and consort Aberdeen for corn to Pres- cott at 41% cents, free of tolls. Carr & Blair chartered the steamer George W. Roby andconsort W. D. Becker for corn to Buffalo at 2% cents; the steamer Lindsayxfor corn to Oswego at 4 cents; the schooner J. C. Fitzpatrick and steamer - Pro- gress for wheat to Buffalo at 254 cents; the steamers Manola and George T. Hope for corn to Buffalo at 214 cents. At the Chicago Ship Building Co.’s shipyard the / some of his salt water experiences. steamer Aragon was in deck and received repairs damage sustained by her running on Hyde Park! The damage to her bottom was but slight, the | sheathing outside the steel plating having saved from much larger damage. The Anchor Line steame Wissahickon is in dock to have a leak stopped and son calking. ea The steamer Aragon, with iron ore bound for Sou Chicago, ran on Hyde Park Reef last Friday mornin, in a dense fog. She was re!eased Saturday mornin; after lightering about 500 tons of her cargo and wa towed to South Chicago by the tug T.C Lutz, and afte her cargo was unloaded she went into dry-dock for re pairs. She loaded grain at Chicago Monday and le for the lower lakes Monday night. The schooner Cora A. is a record breaker. She lef Ford River, Mich., Tuesday night at 7 o’clock with 488,000 feet of lumber for Chicago, consigned to the People’s Lumber Co. in the north branch, unloaded her ~ cargo aud got back to Ford River the following Friday night at 10 o’clock. This certainly is a splendid show-- ing for a sail vessel. The Cora A. is one of the newest and smartest schooners on the lakes and Capt. A. An- derson is justly proud of her. : At Miller Bros.’ shipyard the steamer Charles Reitz was in dry-dock tora new stern bearing; the steamer T. Y. Avery for some new bottom and calking; the steamer William A. Haskell is in dock for repairs to damages done by her going on Squaw Island Reef on her way up. The repairs will comprise 60 feet of new keel amidships, 39 feet of new keel aft, six new frames on the starboard side forward, six pieces of new gar- board, 24 new bottom planks and some general repairs and calking all over. eo Hiram H. Wadleigh, chief engineer of the Lehigh’ Valley Transportation Co.’s steamer Tuscarora, was taken ashore from the steamer on her arrival here, Sat- urday morning, and conveyed to St. Luke’s hospital, where he died on Sunday morning, aged 59 years. He was one of the oldest and best known engineers on the lakes, and was held in high esteem among his fellow engineers and his many friends. The deceased served under Farragut, being second engineer of the Meta comet at the battle of Mobile Bay. He was on duty on the Mississippi River for two years, and at the close of the war came to Chicago where he has seen: 35 years’” service on various steamers, among which were th Tuscarora, Saranac, W. H. Wolf, Jim Sheriffs and Mary Groh. He leaves a widow and two sons and two dau ters, the Rey. Thos. B. Wadleigh, pastor of the Met odist church at Spring Valley; H. N. Wadleigh, Jr., of this city; Mrs. Ella McDonald, St. Louis; Mrs. J. H. Randall, Minneapolis: The funeral was held Tuesday afternoon from 161 Twenty-second street, from whence * the remains of the deceased were taken to Oshkosh, Wis., for interment. WILLIAMS, yn MILWAUKEE, WIS. Special Correspondence to The Marine Record, The Davis Brothers’ Manufacturing Co. have co pleted a marine fire box boiler 63%4 by 11% to be allowed _ 150 lbs. steam pressure for the tug S.S. Coe. oy ieee The Milwaukee Dry Dock Co.’s offices, storerooms an blacksmith shops which were burned down.in August last have been replaced by more commodious and im- — proved buildings. To the offices has been added a directors’ office, in all the offices, modern improvements for convenience and comfort have been supplied. The oil room on the building has been built fireproof and the storerooms for iron and steel and a separate one for oakum,also the blacksmith’s shops are enlarged and much more complete than those in the former building. ? WILLIAMS, CLEVELAND, O. Special Correspondence to The Marine Record. Capt. J. A. Holmes has resigned as master of t steamer George W. Roby, and Capt. Charles: Hinsl formerly master of the steamer Specular, has taken charge. : 3 The most enjoyab’e fall weather possible has been« perienced here this week and it certainly has had th effect of brightening up business on and around the water front. ‘oa The new daily maps promised some time ago by th Weather Bureau have been issued this week. The} are, I think, a great improvement on the old form of de: tailing local weather conditions. Orestes C. Pinney, Hisq., lawyer and, proctor in ad miralty, has removed from his late suite of offices in the Perry-Payne building, to more commodious and con veniéfit rooms on the third floor, Nos. 316° and 317... The new Bessemer Co. steamer, James Watt has been completed at the yards of the Cleveland Ship Buildi Co., and, as she will not be fitted out this season, was towed up the old river bed this week for winter moor- ings. BS Mr. H. Wendt, chief officer 6f the steamer J. C. F a vessel built by the late Wm. Kirby, of Grand Ha Mich., paid us a pleasant call this week and relat : Mr. Wendt will cross to Europe this winter and visit his friends in Bremen, but chiefly to see his mother. me There are now twenty-six of the Shaw and Spiegl