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any. case, this they no doubt expect and will Senin. so that ina few days, when ali interests get ue ether, the entire loss will no doubt be amicably set: ‘he e general passenger and ticket agents are always up to, if not atrifle ahead of the times. Now we find Mr. Herman, general passenger agent of the C. & B. ine, not satisfied with the ordinary circular announc- g withdrawal of service for the season, but he has sent out a very neat, glossy card with half-tone cut of e City of Buffalo breaking her way through heavy ice with the title,‘“Laid up for the Winter.” This an- unced the last trip from Cleveland Nov. 28, and from Buffalo ake 30. NAUTILUS. aS Ue rr FLOTSAM, JETSAM AND: LAGAN. 3 dhe Milwaukee life-saving station will be closed De- cember 10. The steamer Edwards ade the schooner Golden Age will be rebuilt during the winter. _ The life-saving crew at Muskegon has been ordered out of service December 5. po It has been decided to have the paecles Sawyer re- _ built‘at Green Bay this winter. _ The work of the dredges on the straight channel at Toledo has been suspended for the season. Lifesaving crews on the east shore of Lake Michi- a gan will go out of commision on December 5 this season. i he engine of the steamer Continental is to be com- pounded by the Frontier Iron Works at. Detroit during _the winter. John Craig, watchman on the steamer S. FE, Sheldon, as caught between the steamer anda dock at Duluth and badly bruised. On the last run down from Milwaukee to Buffalo the steamer Thomas Davidson and consort Baltic covered the distance in 95 hours. The old passenger steamer Chief Justice Waite sold 3 eer the hammer of ‘the United States marshal at Chicago recently for $810. The schooner J. I. Case has just asta extensive ‘repairs at Toledo. She has new deck, new hatches _and new winches for loading timber. i The Bessemer Line steamer Siemiens is given ‘the . cargo ‘record last week from Lake Superior by carrying 177,000 bushels of wkeat, equal to 5,370 tons: _ The George E. Hartnell carried the largest cargo of coal into Milwaukee on her last trip that ever was re- - ceived at that port, viz., 4,776 net tons of anthracite. Drake & Wallace have purchased the machinery of _ the steamer Calumet, formerly running on the Calumet River, and are laying the keel for an 80-foot steamer to ply on the St. Joseph’s River. _ ‘Thomas O’Hara, a watchman on the steamer Selwyn Eddy, was dragged overboard last Saturday by the > weight of a fender he was handling at Two Harbors and was drowned. He was 21 yearsold and livedin Detroit _ Mr. Mose Bowe, the well-known ship carpenter of - Toledo, has gone to Marine City to become foreman for Mr. Alex Anderson, who has the contract for building two large scows for Geo. H. Breyman & Bros., of Toledo. Reiboldt, Wolter & Co., Sturgeon Bay, Wis., have closed a contract to rebuild the schooner Joses during the winter. The Joses is owned in Racine. The ship- yard firm expect to close several other contracts at an early date. THE INFANT SUNDAY SCHOOL.— Young Lady Teacher: “The idol had eyes, but it could’nt——”’ Chorus: ‘‘See.’’ “It had ears, but it couldn’t——” “Hear.” “It had lips, but it. couldn’t-—”’ ‘‘Speak.” ‘It had a nose, but it couldn’t—~—”’ ‘‘Wipe it.’” Bait etc., | has been closed for 1896 on Lake Superior, and will « close on December 10 on Lakes Huron and Michi- gan.’ On the lower lakes, Erie and “Ontario, it will operate five days longer. _ Shipments from Duluth and Superior for the season _ up to December 1 are: Wheat, 47,095,734 bushels; corn, -shels; ore, 3,345, 227 tous; lumber, 206,574,582 feet. _ The steamer City of Berlin ran into the water main n the river at Manitowoc this week and broke it in two. A new main will be laid immediately, and will be put deep enough to prevent any; further obstruction to navigation. If only «something like this could be done _ with those street railroad tunnels in Chicago River it would be a God send to vessel masters and owners. ‘Jerry Gorman. and Frank Richardson, sailors on the : teamer Inter-Ocean, were arrested at Escanaba Friday | The signal service denoting changes of wind, storms. | 453,182 bushels; oats, 4,328,223 bushels; rye, 1,215,459, . bushels; barley, 6,560, 511 .bushels; flax, 5,580,797 bu-~ ' firms: or individuals interested in shipping. ‘ ments to this work will be issued semi-monthly. The Record is a standard American classification .of ship-> . THE MARINE RECORD. and sentenced 40.90 days in: jail for: ‘assault with’intent to'kill.» Theassault'was madé ‘upon Capt. Wex, of the Inter-Ocean. After beating him for discharging them, they attempted to..throw him into the bans His. cries brought help to his rescue. ~ David D. Spaulding formerly a member of the Thun- der Bay life-saving station and later assistant keeper of Spectacle Reef light, lost his life after leaving Che- boygan for the light. His wife had a presentimént that her husband would meet his death by drowning, which was his main reason for severing his connection with the life-saving service. He was a member of Granite Tent, K.O. T. M., and held a life insurance policy in that order. The large steel steamer Crescent City, now under construction at the yards of the Chicago Ship Building Co., will be equipped with a quadruple expansion en- gine and Babcock & Wilcox boilers guaranteed 250 potinds steam pressure. ‘The cylinders of the engine are to be 19, 28, 41 and 60 inches in diameter and the stroke 42 inches. The engine is to be built at. the Ship Building Co.’s works and will be the first introduced on the lakes on a cargo steamer of large size, A short time ago an old lady went on board Nelson’s flagship, the Victory. The different objects of interest were duly shown to her, and on reaching the spot where the great naval hero was wourded (which is. marked by a raised brass plate), the officer remarked to her: ‘‘Here Nelson fell!”’ “And no wonder!’’ exclaimed the old lady. fell there myself.’’—London Answers. While working at the shore end of the old south har- bor pier, at Sheboygan, the dredge encountered the hull of a submerged vessel. “Some claim that the wreck is that of a small schooner named the Niagara, which stranded and was buried in the sand many years ago. The growth of the. lake shore is well shown by the posi- tion of the old? ‘hull It was buried underneath many feet of soil and”’at least 50 féet from what is now the water’s edge, The wreck of the Baltimore was encoun- tered a short time ago and the prow is now lying on the beach. A report comes from ee Bay, Wis., that the Australasia wreck still holds. out first-rate, and is not so very badly used up. Considerable of her cargo washed ashore and has been picked up by people in the vicinity. The wrecking company had writs served on these people by the sheriff last week to prevent their using the fuel and compelling them to have the same delivered at the piers at Jacksonport. ‘The beach was covered with the coal previous to the recent storms and piles several feet deep were nothing unusual in close proximity to the wreck, but the recent.southwest gale has caused the sand to cover the coal and bury it out of sight. “T nearly a TO IMPROVE CHICAGO RIVER The Chicago River and Harbor Improvement Asso- ciation has authorized Gen. T. J. Henderson, who rep- resented the Association at Washington last year, to confer with the Secretary of War and ascertain how the appropriation of $700,000 isto be expended in improving the river. If the secretary rules that the money must allbe spent in dredging, General Henderson is to try to secure an amendment to the law allowing the. money to be used for widening and - sBtenightering, as well as deepening the stream, _ i —o EEE OE THE twenty-ninth annual voltme of the Record of American and Foreign Shipping for 1897, will be ready for delivery to. subscribers about December 21, 1896. This volume will contain reports and particulars of about eighteen thousand vessels engaged in the American, inland and foreign trade. Rules for the construction of iron, steel and wooden vessels. Rules for the construc- tion of steam machinery for vessels.. Rules:for the in- stallation of electric lighting and power apparatus on ship-board. A list of representatives of marine under- writers throughout the world, and other valuable infor- mation of special importance to underwriters and ‘all Supple- ping, published by the American Shipmasters’ Associa- tion, No. 37 William street, New York, to whom applica- tion for subscription may be mace. “LARGE STEEL CASTINGS") ThePenn Steel Casting and Machine Co., of Chester, Pa., seems. now to be taking“the lead in making large steel castings for vessels:. Saturday. “last: -a ran“6f metal weighing over 70,000. pounds was successfully cast, forming a ram stern post: for the battleship’ Kearsage now under construction at the yards of ‘the: Newport News Ship Building and’Dry-Dock Co. The castin ng i is con+ sidered by experts as one of the finest that: has emer been produced from open-hearth steel. The, same corn! pany has also a long list of orders for work to’ go into the battleships, gunboats, torpedo- -boats, etc., now build: ing. $$$ + + LAKE LEVELS. j519 no diay Boel The effect of the Chicago-drainage. canalon’ thé. level of the lakes is still a matter of dispute ‘between. New York and Chicago dailies. The eastern. papers express anew the fear that the steady. abstraction, from, ‘Lake Michigan. of. 300,000. cubic feet of .water ‘per minute through the drainage canal will lower the lake level ‘so as to render useless many costly harbor improvements, and make many stretches of waterway unnavigable, The Chicago folks suggest. that if such: serious: got quences follow, they may be remedied by: buildiog! a dam across Niagara River to maintain, a, higher level on Lake Erie, and another at the head.,of ,St.Clait River to raise the levels of Lakes Huron and Michigan It is pointed~out, however, that the difference i inthe level of Lake Huron and Lake Erie is 13 feet, and that adam at the Niagara River high enough to. make slack water all the way would submerge considerable portions of nearly all the lake cities, together with millions: ot acres along the shores. And Canada would have: as much to say about such a damming. project: ras; the United States. Of course all this has been said, writtet and talked about for the past several years. The Pioneer Press says that probably nothing can be done inthe matter by our government until the drainage canal is completed and its effect.on the lake Ievel is ob- served. Then, if it is found that the evil consequences predicted are actually coming to pass, and thata great continental waterway. is about being ruined by ‘the am- bitious project -of Chicago, the government’ will promptly close the canal, and the Windy City will have to devise some means less expensive to the. continent at. large for flushing its sewers. Chicago itself has. a larger interest than any other city in the maintenance of the lake waterway unimpaired—an interest which’ would be protected by its people. at whatever cost. But; it is to be hoped that these theorists may: prove: to be in: the right who claim the subaqueous sources: ‘from which’ Lake Michigan is alleged to draw its principal’ Supplies will be called into greater activity by the. demands of the drainage canal so that no injurious lowering ofthe surface can take place. If this theory proves correct’ Chicago will rejoice in a magnificent triumph of sani- tary engineering, and its editors will, remind, their. ‘provincial’? New York contemporaries that eased eens some schooling in modern science. & Meanwhile, however, what is vaeetaed? as. “sanitary. engineering”’’ for Chicago, : is looked upon asa piece of de-. cidedly unsanitary engineering for St. Lonis, which gets) its water supply from the Mississippi through a gigantic system of settling basins, aqueducts and reservoirs, St. Louis scientists declare that the dilution of the sew-. erage coming through the canal into the Illinois and: hence into the Mississippi river, and the sediméntation’ taking place on the long journey from Chicago are not. sufficient to purify or render it innocuous, especially in: times of low water; and they are urging measures: to compel some other disposition of the poisonous current. The cause of St. Louis is the cause of other cities on ‘the Mississippi, so an interesting fight is ahead, whatever the result of the canal upon the lake level. eee For grain receipts at Buffalo the season will cidiodBee edly go down on record as the banner one, as they now. exceed any previous receipts by over 22,900,000 bushels: . The total receipts of grain’from the operfing of naviga-’ tion to December 1 were 154,338,921 bushels, agairst 132,37 808,238 bushels in 1893—which year held the former. record.. Of flour, 9,245,790 barrels -were received- thus far this seasou, which éxceeds last ‘year’s receipts ‘by 1,345,340 barrels, but are over 1,000,000 barrels less than in 1893 and in 1894. The.total receipts . of grain,. “flour; included as grain, amount to 200,567,871 bushels, exceeds ing the receipts of 1893 (highest previous record) by 14,479,193 bushels,