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AROUND THE LAKES. NEWS CHICAGO. Special Correspondence to the Marine Record. # The steamer P. D. Armour was chartered Tuesday for a cargo of oats to hold. The tug Tacoma is in the Independent Tug Line’s float- ing dry dock for repairs to her stern bearing. The steamer Edwin S. Tice arrived here on the morning of the 24th of December with salt from Ludington. At Miller Brothers’ shipyard the steamer J. P. Ketchum was in dock for general repairs and some re-calking and re-ironing, James A. Calbick & Co. chartered the steamer James H. Prentice for wheat for winter storage and spring de- livery at Buffalo at 3 cents. \ Captain C. E: Little, recently master of the steamer C. lH. Green, has been appointed master of the steamer J. C. Ford, which will run between Kewaunee and Frankfort during the winter. The tug Crawford caught fire Saturday morning, and was damaged to the extent of about $400. The bursting of a steam pipe helped to extinguish the fire, which would otherwise have been more serious. The steamer City of Kalamazoo, of the Williams Line, running between South Haven and Chicago, which was recently badly burnt, will be repaired and put in first-class condition at South Haven during the winter. The Graham & Morton Transportation Co. will give the fine side wheel steel steamer City of Milwaukee, recently purchased by them, a thorough overhauling and an ele- gant fit out for her next season’s excursion business. i J. J. Rardon & Co. chartered the steamer Egyptian for t00,000 bushels clipped oats at 2 cents, the steamer City of Cleveland for 75,000 bushels wheat at 2 34 cents; both to hold for winter storage and spring delivery at Buffalo. E. T. Hitchcock, prominent in insurance circles—as an adjuster of marine losses and for many years past lo- cated at Buffalo, N. Y., has opened an office on the fourth floor of the Royal Insurance building, Chicago, where he proposes to make his permanent headquarters. Captain S. R. Chamberlain returned home from Mil- waukee last week, where he had placed the steamer Esca- naba in winter quarters, prior to which she received at the Milwaukee Dry-Dock Co.’s shipyard a $10,000 repair bill, comprising new planking, all around above the load line, a general overhauling, new pole spars and a new Sheriffs’ wheel. She now looks like a new Escanaba. The Marine Engineers Beneficial Association, Lodge 4, Chicago, will hold a meeting for the election of officers for 1897 on Friday evening, January 8th, at their hall, corner of Randolph and Clinton streets. Chicago. They have made arrangements to have their 22nd annual ball on Wednesday evening, February toth, at the Masonic Temple. They hope all their old friends and very many new ones will rally around and assist in making the event a great success. . Harvey C. Beeson has just returned from_a week’s trip covering ports on the west shore of, Lake Michigan, in- cluding Milwaukee, Sheboygan and Manitowoc. At the latter point Mr. Beeson reports Burger& Burger’s ship- yard full of work with plenty of it ahead. Manitowoc is and has been for the past year a very lively town, the building of immense storehouses and a grain elevator there, together with large dock extensions for the accom- modation of coal traffic and harbor improvements accounts for these improved conditions. The Dunham Towing. Company awarded to Captain James McGinn of the tug Mosher $100, the first prize as the best captain during last season, and $50, the second prize, to Captain E. B. Bowen, of the tug James Mc- Gordon. To John Carrick, engineer of the tug O. B. Green, $75, the first prize for the best engineer, and $40, the second prize, to Jerry Hubbard, engineer of the tug ’ Robert Tarrant. The decision as to the captains’ awards was based upon discipline, the care taken of the boat, the lack of damage done and the willingness shown in the way the work had been done in general. The decision as to the awards to the engineers was based upon the discipline _had in their department, the care taken of boiler and en- ‘gine, and conduct in general during the season. Captain Peter Peterson of the schooner Winnie Wing accompanied by his wife, and Captain John Peil, of the schooner Apprentice Boy, who left Chicago for New York recently on a trip to Europe, arrived at Bremen, Germany, on the North German Lloyds steamship Spree on Christmas Day, all safe and well after a very rough passage across the ocean. Captain Peterson and wife have gone to pay a visit to their old home at Frederica, Den- mark, which the captain left in 1860, and Captain Peil has gone to the City of Leer in Hanover, the place of his birth, and which he left 35 years ago, and where his sisters are now living. After visiting at their homes they will meet and make a tour in Denmark, Germany, France and England; from the latter country they will embark for America and hope to get home to Chicago in the spring. At a largely attended meeting of Chicago Lodge No. 3, of the Shipmasters’ Association, held at their hall on Wed- nesday afternoon, Dec. 30th, the following officers were elected for the year 1897: Captain H. F. Loftus, re-elected president; C. H. Hubbard, re-elected first vice-president; L. .B. Coates, second vice-president; Fred Weimar, mar- shall; Wm. Shaw, chaplain; J..O. Wood, warden; Geo. THE MARINE RECORD. — Cotterell, sentinel; Geo. Turner, treasurer; F. B. Higgie, secretary; J. H. Gallagher, delegate to the Grand Lodge atid to Washington with the president, Gaptain He, Loftus. Be. A happy and prosperous New Year to all.—Williams. PORT HURON, MICHIGAN. Special Correspondence Marine Record. The steam barge A. Sumner is having a new engine, 18x20 put in her and a general overhauling. It is reported that Captain Lew Cary, who has taken up his residence in Detroit, is very sick at his home. The machine shops are very busy now on repair work, though there is not much new work on hand at present. Mr. Robert Logan, naval architect and surveyor, left for Bay City on Monday, expecting to return on Thursday. The marine engineers are coming home daily. En- gineers’ hall in the Boice block will be opened next week. There is very little work being done in the ship yards now, but after the holidays are over they will all start on what jobs they have on hand. The Wilson Transit Line steamer Wallula, about which there was such an argument felative to her being an actual or constructive loss, is now being rebuilt at the Ship Own- ers’ Dry Dock. The steamer Wm. Edwards, Capt. John M. Johnston, is also at the Ship Owners’ yards undergoing repairs. The Pennsylvania Railroad Company’s slip on the lake front, near the Union depot, will be dredged to nineteen feet and probably lengthened. It is now 600 feet long and the Cuddy-Mullen Coal Co., operating a fast loading coal plant, would no doubt find their work facilitated if the slip was made larger. * Capt. Thomas Cosgrove, the Canadian who was indicted for spiriting the schooner Aurora away from the custody of the United States marshal last summer, was held to trial in bonds of $1,500 by Judge Swan in the United States District Court at Detroit on Monday. The harbor of masters and pilots organized at this port last January is again in working order, or at least the national organizer, Captain B. F. Perkins, hopes soon to have it so. At a meeting held on Monday evening the captain, whose work has been on the coast, was heard in behalf of the new organization, which certainly has some very decided advantages. From his talk it appears that the new association is pushing vigorously many needed measures before Congress for the benefit of marine men, as well as the public. The careful education and examination of mates and pilots and a more careful pro- tection of their legal interests, on the one hand, and the extension of government supervision to all the marine in- terests of the country, on the other, were the good points which he made. The new association has also a carefully managed mutual insurance with only a light assessment. Wilbur Boynton, from the Engineers’ Association, spoke in favor of the new organization and a general discussion followed. © CLEVELAND. Special Correspondence to the Marine Record. Capt. M. Barry, of the Independent Tug Line, Chicago, visited this port on Tuesday. The steam tug Josie was libeled by the United States authorities yesterday on application of the River Machine and Boiler Company on a claim of $168.92. Mr. E. P. Motley, formerly of the Thunder Bay Island Life Saving Station and last season at Middle Island Sta- ' tion, is in port visiting his brother, Captain C. E. Motley, keeper of the station at this port. One of the most experienced Georgian Bay pilots now hailing from this port is Captain Ben Tripp,who was en- gaged to pilot the large steamer Spokane to Midland and return during her last trips. The captain was in the Geor- gian Bay and north shore of Lake Superior trade before the completion of the late surveys and when great care was necessary in the safe navigation of steamers. ‘Captain John Corrigan, owner of the large, staunch, wooden built steamer Aurora, enjoys the distinction of carrying the last-cargo of the season, Chicago to Buffalo; more than this, Captain John ferried along in the steamer himself, thus standing the brunt of the coldest weather on the lakes. There was no “fall fever” evident in this ex- perience of the owner of the Aurora and she is at it yet. Captain William Logie, who has been identified with the marine interests of this port for a number of years, died of apoplexy on Sunday morning, at the age of sixty- seven years. He was born on the Orkney Islands in 1829, and came to Cleveland about thirty years ago. For some years he was a master of sailing vessels, and in 1870 be- came identified with the Vessel Owners’ Tug Line. For a number of years he had charge of the tugs at night. There is some talk of a new tug line starting in next season at Ashtabula. The Beacon says: “Nothing definite has yet been announced, but it is certain that there is strong probabilities of Capt. Davidson’s new fleet of tugs being sent here and placed in charge of a competent man- ager, a resident of this place, and one that has had ex- perience. Two tugs belonging to this line are already completed and it is said two more will be built this winter and completed by the opening of navigation.” Officers of the Lake Carriers’ Association had a meeting with Congressman Burton here on Monday when the required extra aids to navigation were talked over. It appears that several more gas buoys will be asked for. They are inexpensive at first cost and their keep up is only about $100 for a season, These lights burn continuously for any period, according to the capacity or size of th buoy containing the compressed gas, the usual sizes burn ing from ninety to one hundred and eighty days. 225 Marine engineers can obtain one of the handsomes calendars of the Ney Year, free of charge, by addressing The Roberts Safety Water Tube Boiler Co., 41 Cortlandt St., New York City, and giving their full name and ad- dresses with the name of the last vessel on which they were employed. These calendars are a perfect picture and even superior to those issued by The Roberts Co. last year. They are sent in a mailing tube. Six cents in post- age can be remitted if desired but is not insisted upon. ‘A meeting of the harbor of the American Association of Masters and Pilots of Steam Vessels was held on Tues- day night and officers were nominated. Next Tuesday night they will be elected. Capt. B. F. Perkins, grand secretary of the association, will be here. Capt. Perkins - has visited nearly all the upper lake ports organizing har- — bors. The grand harbor will meet in Washington Jan. 25 and delegates are expected from all the subordinate lodges in the country. The harbors on the lakes have prospered since last April and have increased in membership 50 per cent. The heaviest fog of the year, and in fact for several years past, held this port in a close embrace up to noon Thursday. It is fairly a London smoke and traffic is Se considerably impeded. If the fog extends over the lake % it will give the Aurora a hard time to get into Buffalo and ‘ in any case she will have to feel her way very carefully — to keep off the bottom. Had the weather been clear she could probably have made another Toledo trip; then again, if it had froze down hard she would have stood a poor chance of making port after leaving Toledo. In any case, December 31 is about late enough, considering that she is the only cargo boat now out. : A large number of friends and people in humble cir- cumstasces will be sorry to learn of the illness of Chaplain J. D. Jones, of the Floating Bethel. His rather critical condition was brought on by incessant work, and as Cap- tain Thomas Wilson remarked a few days ago, Rey. Mr. Jones “permits his heart to run away with him.” During © the business depression in 1893 he was investigating cases and rendering aid to destitute families almost constantly. Often he would not reach his home until after midnight. This fall he has been working very hard, too hard for his health. As a result of the chaplain’s poor health the hun- dreds of well-filled Christmas baskets and warm clothing collected and distributed each year at the Floating Bethel was not observed as usual. The chaplain says he will pull through all right after a while. ; IRON ORE SHIPPING PORTS. In its large and finely illustrated industrial issue the Detroit Free Press of Dec. 30 has furnished a truly met- ropolitan daily and a paper that its publishers and staff may well feel proud of. Relating more distinctly to ma- rine interests we find the following: Residents of Michigan may themselves be surprised to know that the Lake Superior region supplies more than ss per cent. of all the ore mined in the United States. Yet such is the fact. It is no exaggeration to say that no other part of the world possesses so many advantages for handling and transporting vast quantities of ore. From the mines to the furnaces is practically an all-water route. This fact alone makes this region valuable beyond computation, for with all-rail transportation the produce. of the mines could not be moved to the far distant fur- naces. Beginning in 1852, when the first iron ore was shipped from Marquette up to the close of 1892, a total of 18,644,- 203 tons was shipped from the docks of this port alone. _ Until 1879 Marquette held the lead in quantity of ore handled, but in that year Escanaba took the first place. This port now has four docks equipped with all the mod- ern improvements, ranging from 42 to 47 feet above water, with a total capacity of 82,000 tons per day. } L’Anse became a shipping port in 1873. Its dock is_ 38 feet high with a capacity of 8,000 tons. St. Ignace has been a shipping port since 1882, and has handled 610,315 tons of ore. Escanaba has maintained the lead she won in 1879 and her aggregate tonnage of iron ore in 1891 and 1892 led the world. Shipments began in 1865 by putting _ the Marquette range under tribute; in 1877 the new Men- ominee range began to empty her treasures into the lap of the coming iron port of the world; in 1892 her ship-_ ments were 4,012,197 tons, nearly half the entire ore ship- : ment of the whole Lake Superior region, and the stupen- dous total of 33,875,454 tons of iron ore has passed through her gates en route to lower lake receiving ports. i At Ashland the Wisconsin Central railroad has one dock 46 feet high, 1,404 feet long, with 234 pockets, 3 tracks and a capacity of 28,250 tons. os Gladstone, Mich., shares with Escanaba the care of t Menominee range product, and an occasional cargo 0 Gogebic and Marquette ore goes out of that port. ments began in 1880, and attained an aggregate of 45 tons at the end of 1892.”