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sioner for Michigan. ‘‘The present talk of shu:ting whitefish catching off on October 15 practically excludes fisheries from Michigan; and then, too, fish should not be raised in a hatchery, but be allowed to grow from spawn in the natural waters where they iive when grown, and some arrangements should be made for that purpose. Carefulstudy of the fish question and much experience lead me to believe that the towing of rafts and running so many vessels kills as many fish as are caught in nets, especially whitefish and gamey fish, such as black bass and brook trout.’’ This is certainly a novel idea and one which may some time engage the attention of vessel owners, : McCorMIck. PORT HURON, MICH. Special Correspondence to Lhe Marine Record. _ There is not very much prospect of any shipbuilding or repair work here this winter. , The schooner A. J. McBrier has been libeled, also her cargo of lath for wrecking and dry-dock bill. Thedays for such small ‘vessels are a thing of the past. If she sells for enough to pay the costs of the court she will do well. Capt. A. Hemenger, of the wrecking steamer Fern, has given up the job of raising the old wreck of the steamer S. C. Clark which is sunk in Black River at the Jenks Ship Building Co.’s yard. He has removed the boiler and engine, but has abandoned the hull. The location for the life-saving station has caused a great deal of kicking on account of its being sent up the shore. Everyone who'signed the petition signed it with the understanding that it would be on the light- house reserve, but it seemsit has been located about 2% miles from the light-house. It does not seem right to locate it up there, as the water is shoal for about 150 feet out, so that it will be a very hard matter to launch the boats. COLLINGWOOD, ONT. Special Correspondence to The Marine Record. Messrs. Leslie Bros. launched a new tug at nek Sound last Friday. The new craft has been named Allegro. She is 46 feet in length by 9 feet beam, fitted with,a compound engine and a large boiler, The tug will be engaged in fishing next season. It is altogether likely that the people of Collingwood will witness a busy scene around the docks and the dry- dock during the ensuing winter. We learn that a num- ber of tugs will be built, one by Messrs. Noble & Co. and another by Messrs. Ainsworth & Ganley, and that it is the intention of the G. N. Transit Co. to spend con- siderable money on their steamer Pacific. The hull will be overhauled and the steamer strengthened by the ad- dition of steel arches. Ine dry-dock company are also fig- uring on anumber of contracts, one for lengthening a steam barge and others for new hulls. With this work in view at the present time, the prospects for a busy season are very bright. Fea ae ri 0 ae LAKE SHIPBUILDING. As we haye mentioned in previous issues of THE RECORD, lake shipbuilders are doing considerable figur- ing on new contracts, aud it is almost certain that further orders will be closed before the end of the week. There will, not be as much tonnage fuged gut. this year a. we The schooner sehien the Globe Iron Works Co. will build on their own account will be a duplicate of the Bessemer barge building at that yard. She will be 376 feet long, 46 feet beam, and 26 feetdeep. She will come out early next season, and if uot sold she will tow with one of the steamers managed in the office of M. A. Hanna & Co.; but it is safe to say that the ‘‘Globe’’ build will be sold at an early date. Furthermore, the trade requires just such tonnage, and manager Pankhurst is about level headed in putting up such craft, even if he went half a dozen better, for the Cleveland built tow-barges as well as steamers are always saleable. Following the demand for new tonnage we find an order placed by the Interstate Transportation Co. with the American Steel Barge Co. for the construction of a steel tow-barge 390 feet long over all, with 44 feet beam and 26 feet niolded depth, to be ready for business by the opening of navigation in 1897." The craft is not to be of the whaleback type, but as nearly «as possible a duplicate of the Rockefeller barge James Nasmyth. She will have carrying capacity for 4,000 gross tons of iron Ore... Again, Buffalo is by no means going to be neglected, as it is now on the bill that the new steel barge for the Standard Oil Co. will be launched about Christmas, to make way for a new steel steamer for the Union Steam- ship Co. This steamer will be a duplicate of the Ramapo. ' The changes in the Owego and Chemung and the rebuilding of the New York and the Rochester, which have been definitely settled upon, ought to fur- nish business at the Union shipyard all winter. While THE MARINE RECORD. there is a possibility of some of this work going over another year, it is now expected that it will all be done before spring, unless it be that the steamer may not be finished till a little late in the season. I. W. Wheeler & Co., of West Bay City, as well as Capt. James Davidson, are both busy and figuring well ahead on new tonnage, while the works of the Chicago Ship Building Co. are already assured of business enough for the winter, Taking it all round, lake shipyards will be kept quite busy during the close of navigation. We may also announce that Arlington U. Betts, of ‘Toledo, will build a steam yacht somewhere between 85 and 100 feet in length, flush decked, schooner rigged and fitted with triple expansion engines. Mr. Bettshas not yet decided where he will build this handsome craft, but we might venture to guess that itis more than likely to go to the Craig Ship Building Co. _ 0 a0 WEEKLY FREIGHT REPORT. The freight market is not strengthening up as it should do and the figures quoted are little better than last week, except on coal, which commodity has some- how taken a splurge, as it should do, for the carrying of cargo at the ballast rates begin to make owners of vessels nearly tired. During the week grain rates from Chicago have fluct- uated from 2 cents on corn, back 134 cents, although the former figure now prevails, and 3% cents has been paid from Duluth, 4 cents to hold until spring and the market is much firmer at this writing. Ore rates are practically quiet, anc there is little or nothing doing, or rather the contract boats seem to have it all. Only 75 cents has been offered from Marquette. In coal, we are pleased to advise of a slight advance during the week, to the head of the lakes, 50 cents; and Lake Michigan paying 60 cents. $$ $$$<$<—td a THE CANADIAN MANUFACTURER. (TORONTO, ONT.) The editor is in receipt of a letter from Capt. John Swainson, editor of THE MARINE RECORD, Cleveland, Ohio, in which he says: Permit me to congratulate you on the success of The Canadian Manufacturer under your excellent editorial management. The Manufacturer is always newsy, spicy and well edited, and among our most valued ex- changes. The Canadian Manufacturer has cone noble work for the industries of the Dominion during its ca- reer, and I sincerely trust that as we progress onward and upward it may be in the van in all industrial affairs. Amid the turmoils and bustle of life it is exceedingly pleasant to encounter those who so considerately have kind words to say to a brother laborer. EDO NEW PUBLICATIONS. There comes to our exchange table this week two new publications, ‘‘The Weekly Shipping Record,’’ of New York, published on Wednesday’s, and the ‘‘New York Nautical College Quarterly.”’ Let us say that the Shipping Record seems to super- sede the o!d Maritime Register, or ratheraspires to. It is a clean, smart paper and will no doubt obtain consid- erable support, especially as there are practical men working it, and they will, if possible, distance the Reg- ister in printing the latest and the best news that they can obtain. Pies The Nautical College Gunrtenly. is published by Capt. Howard Patterson, who is principal of the college, and being kept upto the standard of the first issue is sure to gain a large circle of friends. We might also state that the publication offices of the Quarterly are at 130- 132 Water street, New York, and no doubt a sample copy would be forwarded on due notice. One article the Quarterly has, which we have often dealt with, and would like to again quote, is as follows: “It is not generally known that there is no law upon our statutes requiring masters and mates of American sailing vessels to possess certificates of com- petency. Any American citizen is eligible to command or officer one of our nation’s vessels (from the coasting schooner to the clipper ship) without being obliged by law to pass even the shadow of an examination in order to prove professional fitness for the berth he signs to fill. In fact, itis well known that there are men who go to sea nominally as masters, but who carry an act- ing captain to handle and navigate the’ vessel. Such men generally ship as ‘mate, with the understanding that they are to attend to the regular master’s duties in addition to their own, and for such service are to receive compensation in the way of extra pay. These mates are known as ‘nurses.’ Isn’tit about time that Uncle Sam treated himself to a few sensible laws regulating this evil?” e eee eee: eee FLOTSAM, JETSAM AND LAGAN. The following boats are laid up at Toledo: Oliver Mitchell, Schuette, Fred Kelly, Hopkins, Kdward Kelly. The Menominee and Marinetté Vessel Loaders’ Union have consolidated under one president, and the rate of 50 cents an hotr will be maintained for the balance of the season. Capt. Hagan, of the Majestic, has been ebiisened: to leave his boat on account of sickness. Capt. Edward Thorpe, of the John Owen, now laid up at Detroit, will take charge of the Majestic for the remainder of the season. Iron ore has been frozen in the cars at Ashland the past ten days, and great difficulty was experienced in loading it into vessels. Three engines by night and five by day have furnished the steam to thaw it out. Ship- ments from Ashland are fast closing, and it is only a question of a few days before ore shipments will cease entirely. The report that the Union Steamboat Co. will cut down the speed of the Owego and Chemung to get more freight room, is confirmed by Manager Paine. Two of the six boilers will be taken out of each vessel this win- ter and the engines changed. The alterations will in- crease their carrying capacity by 400 or 500 tons. The $4,000 appropriated by Congress for the improve- ment of Oconto harbor has been expended, and a por- tion of the amount left over from a former appropria- tion, has also been paid out on recent improvements. Dredging has been in progress since the first of Sep- tember, under the direction of G.C. Young, government inspector, and a channel 70 feet wide and 8 feet deep cut from the mouth of the river to Spies’ mill; 48,000 yards of dredging have been removed. The contractors who have been at work on the re- building of the government piers at South Haven, Mich., have discontinued work for the season. About 700 feet of new wooden work has been rebuilt, but there is a large amount of work yet uncompleted. It is expected that early next spring work will be commenced again and the piers oxtendod into the lake 200 feat farther than at. present, to prevent the forming of sand bars every time there is a storm. This will piri gic an appropriation of $30,000 to $35,000. David Mack, a retired sdpuileed of Essex, Conn., who has just celebrated his 90th birthday, vividly re- members a raid made by the British during the war of 1812, when boats from the fleet in Long Island Sound: ascended the Connecticut River and burned the shipping at Essex. He picked up some hot spikes from the burning vessels and _ recalls the unpleasant sensations. Mr. Mack’s wife died three years ago, after they had lived together for 67 years. ‘The shipyard in which he built about 100 ves- sels is now grown over with trees, and the channel in which they were launched has filled up. ‘The first of the two tugs building at Davidson’s ship- yard, was suceessfully launched on Thursday last. The tug measures 90 feet keel, 20 feet beam and 10 feet depth of hold, fitted with fore and aft compound engines, steam steering gear, and all the modern improvements for general towing service. ‘The engines, which were built by the Frontier Iron Works, of Detroit, have been shipped and will be placed in position this week. The second tug will be ready for launching in a few days, and will be a duplicate of the one already launched. On account of the lateness of the season the tugs will not be put in service until next spring, when they will be in shape for a general towing business on the bay and the lakes. Once again has the American Line steamer Paris demonstrated the great value of twin-screw propulsion. On a previous occasion it was the efficient sub-division of the vessel, rendered possible by there being two dis- tinct engine rooms, which was the main factor in obvi- ating what would in all probability have been a disastrous loss of life. ‘The latest mishap, the breaking of the star- board propeller shaft when ouly a few hundred miles on the eastward passage from New York, has showr the ad- vantage of having more than one propeller, as by means of the port propeller an average speed of over 12 knots was made, a distance of about 2,700 miles being trav- ersed after the breakdown of the starboard propeller, against very heavy gales and the high seas prevailing for a large portion of the time. Beyond three days’ delay the passengers had suffered no inconvenience,