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THE MARINE RECORD. is) Point; i Mattson, assistant, Portage Lake ship canal; Gustav irsch, keeper, Round Island, St. Mary’s River. _ Attorney General Maynard, A. R, Avery, Lincoln Avery, and Stephen Graham have returned from Bad Axe, where they represented the state of Michigan in the suit of the state vs. H. W.. Warner. The case involved an is- land of 1,500 acres in Saginaw bay, and land adjoining. ‘The case was tried before Judge Swan at Detroit, who ren- _ dered a’ verdict for Warner. It was tried again on the ground that it was a state matter and should go through the lower courts first. Judge Beach directed the jury to bring in a verdict for the state. The case will be carried to the United States supreme court. This decision will affect the title of about 8,000 acres of land at St. Clair flats. This is the first legal victory the state has won un- der the swamp land act. Warner has assigned his interest in the matter to a Wall street syndicate, whose special representative in the case is E. P. Erdman. oe oor FLOTSAM, JETSAM AND LAGAN. The majority of tonnage at South Chicago has been taken up. Duluth has chartered between 2,000,000 and 3,- 000,000 bushels of grain for spring delivery. That portion of the barge Sumatra, sunk near Mil- waukee piers, will be blown up with dynamite, as it is considered a dangerous obstruction to the navigation of that port. The tracks on the new car ferry Pere Marquette have _been found to be too narrow, and a gang of men from F. W. Wheeler’s shipyard are at Ludington making neces- sary alterations. Carrington is the name selected for the new steel barge building at South Chicago for C. W. Elphicke & Co. The barge building at the same yard for James Corrigan, of Cleveland, will be named Amazon. A sailor named Frank McLain has been awarded a verdict of $4,000, at Milwaukee, for injuries received while performing his duty on a steamer at the Milwaukee dry dock last year. His suit was for $25,000. At Boston, Mass., recently, bids were opened for $1,145,- 000 worth of dredging in Boston harbor, and it was found that among all the big dredging firms that bid, the Brey- man Bros., John and Eugene, of Toledo, were the lowest. Capt. Baxter, who has sailed the lighthouse steamer Haze since he left the schooner David Stewart, has been laid up all winter with a broken leg, sustained by a fall while laying up the Haze in Detroit last winter. He is just getting about. A special from St. Clair, under date of Feb. 8, says the ice is all out of St. Clair river, except a little adhering. to the banks. The ferry steamer Welcome will come out from her winter quarters today and resume her trips be- tween St. Clair and Courtright. Canadian Pacific freight which last season was delivered to the Soo line steamers at Windsor, Ont., will hereafter be carried to Midland, Ont., and there transferred to the Gladstone route. This is the new run had in view for the _steamer Lora, which is now being lengthened and par- tially rebuilt. Lake underwriters have raised the rate for grain for Montreal from Kingston or Ogdensburg on pin flat barges to 20 cents per $100. Canadian inspectors will exclude the pin flat from being considered a standard barge for the transhipment of grain. The decision is the result of so many accidents to this class of barges last season. ‘The Bay City Marine Railway has been doing quite a rushing business this season. The barge Mantenee has been given new solid upper works, new stanchions and four strakes of new plank, new bows, deck and rudder, new spars, also steel arches, to be completed about March 15th. The tugs Maud S., Giant and Florence are also on the books for a thorough overhauling ready for next _ season’s work. \ Of the steamers secured for the Lake Michigan east shore winter business the Osceola and Mary H. Boyce ‘remain tied up also, the George Farwell and City of Trav- erse at Manitowoc. With the exception of the City of _ Traverse all were to be run on the tonnage basis. For _the Traverse a lump charter was obtained by her owners, the Crosby Transportation company agreeing to pay $6,000 and the running expenses of the craft for the win- _ ter season. “Now, Bobbie,” said the teacher, “spell pipe.” “P-i-p-e,” said Bobbie. _ “That’s right. And now tell me something about pipes. _ What do people do with them?” “Well,” said Bobbie, thoughtfully, “boys blow bubbles - with ’em; plumbers put ’em in; Scotchmen blow music out of ’em; and men like Pa smoke ’em. It all depends on the kinds of pipes you want me to tell you about.”— Harper’s Round Table. The annual reports of the Metropolitan Iron and Land company, which owns and operates the Norrie group and the Pabst mine on the Gogebic range, show that during the year 1896 the total amount of iron ore shipped by the company from all its mines was 398,035 tons. This is against a total of 968,693 tons shipped from the same mines during the year 1895. Last year shipments were only made during about half the season, owing to the light demand for ore and also to the fact that docks at Lake Erie ports were crowded and there was little room for additional cargoes. The outlook for 1897 is much better than at the beginning of 1806. The Rochester & Pittsburg Coal & Iron Co., which has the handling of the ore that goes to the new furnaces of Rogers, Brown & Co., of Punxsutawney, where the coke ovens of the Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburg railroad are situated, is preparing to put in two Brown hoists at the dock on the Blackwell canal to assist the McMylers now in use there.. The furnace is to be blown in for the first time this week. Thirty thousand tons of ore were sent up there last season, and the arrangement is to ship 100,- ooo tons there annually hereafter. The ore does not go into stock at the docks, but is loaded into cars and goes direct from the vessel. : The Pittsburg Chronicle Telegraph of the 28th ult. says: Capt. Callie L. French is reported lying seriously ill aboard her showboat C. O. at New Orleans. Her hus- band, with the Ruth, is up the Bayou Teche, and has been dispatched for. It was intended that both boats should re- turn up the Ohio in tow of one of the Mississippi towboats ‘on Wednesday, but Mrs. French’s illness may prevent. Callie French was the second woman to procure a mas- ter’s license, and the first in the Cincinnati district. Mrs. Mary E. Miller was the first woman that Uncle Sam ever licensed, and she held both those of master and _ pilot. There are now scores of others on rivers, lakes and gulf. Plans and specifications for continuous contract work on the Keweenaw peninsula canal were not completed in time to permit of the furnishing of an estimate for an ap- propriation at this sesion of congress. Nevertheless, it is stated that bids for the work will soon be advertised for. ‘Last season the government engineers spent about $7,000 removing sand from the channel of the Kalamazoo river at Saugatuck, Mich., and to show how little was the per- manent benefit obtained, it is reported that for more than half a mile there is not sufficient depth of water to float a light draft tug, and the present condition of the harbor would not indicate that a single yard of sand had been re- moved. It will require the services of a dredge for six or eight months in the spring to open a channel sufficient to let boats out, and continuously thereafter to enable them to continue running. _ A wealthy lady is reported as having crossed the At- lantic 250 times, néver having missed a trip since the Lucania was fitted out. On her last trip, a few weeks ago, she was seized with an attack of pneumonia, which caused her death at the age of 74 years. It is said that the mas- ter of the steamer and several of the officers have been left handsome bequests, $50,000 being mentioned as the amount bequeathed to Capt. McKay. If.this is so, he won't need to plow the briny any more for a living. In this connection a personal acquaintance of the writer’s, George Paynter, has a record of crossing the Atlantic 804 times. He has been in the Cunard service for forty-five years, the last eleven being spent on the Etruria. He has sailed in that steamer ever since her first trip, as purser and barkeeper, in charge of the wines and liquors. He is seventy-five now, and still hale and jovial, but he thinks of retiring. He has been thinking of it, by the way, for “many years past. The Advocate, Sturgeon Bay, Wis., states that the canal schooner D. S. Austin was sold under the hammer of the United States marshal at that port on Monday, and she was knocked down to Capt. Samuel Neff, of Milwau- kee, for $2,550. The bidders were Jacob Jacobson, of Milwaukee; Kimball and Fredicks, of Chicago, and a rep- resentative of salt blocks located at Ludington, Mich. The bidding was started by a representative of the wreck- ing company, which held a claim of $1,300 against the ves- sel, this amount included the wrecking and repair bills. The purchaser, Capt. Neff, will utilize the Austin in the salt-carrying trade out of Ludington and Manistee under a contract entered into by him early last season. The Neffs now own a fleet of five vessels, the steam barge Ed- wind S. Tice, barges City of Toledo and S. O. Neff, schooners C. N. Ryan and D. S. Austin. The schooner has a net measurement of 268 tons, a Bi rating and a valu- ation of $3,000 in the Inland Lloyds’ register. She was built in 1872, by the Bailey Bros. at Toledo. RECORD OF AMERICAN AND FOREIGN SHIPPING. The volume for 1897 of the Record of American and Foreign Shipping, which is the twenty-ninth annual issue of this valuable register and classification of shipping, is now being delivered to subscribers. The Record con- tains full reports and particulars of about 18,000 vessels of all classes and nationalities, rules for the construction and classification of iron, steel and wooden vessels, rules for the construction and survey of steam machinery and ~ boilers for vessels, provisions for the installation of elec- ~ tric lighting and power apparatus on shipboard, and much other valuable information of special importance to un- derwriters and all firms or persons interested in shipping. Besides the usual information for the benefit of subscrib- ers in the way of rules for construction, with their ac- companying illustrations and tables, all of the utmost prac- tical and technical value, the work contains such features as lists and addresses of prominent shipbuilders, dry docks, marine railways, marine machinery and boiler constructors of the United States, list of vessels whose names have been changed; also, compound names indexed as per last name, names and addresses of owners of ves- sels classed in the Record, all of which is nowhere else so completely classified. This Record of shipping has been made still more valuable by the addition of about 1,800 vessels navigating on the Great Lakes, which makes it the only book now published containing reports and particulars of all American vessels. The work is ap- proved and indorsed by the important boards of under- writers in the United States, and is accepted by merchants and underwriters throughout the world as a standard register and classification of shipping. The new Record is quite up to the standard of previous issues, reflecting credit upon the compilers, whose complex work shows great care and absence of errors, the printing and binding being in the usual handsome and attractive style. Pub- lished by the American Shipmasters’ Association, 37 Will- iam street, New York. : oo or or WORTH MORE DEAD THAN ALIVE. Sir Wemyss Reid tells a story redolent of a grim shrewdness characteristic of canny Novocastrians. “There was a worthy, long since forgotten, in my time, who was a prototype of Rogue Riderhood in ‘Our Mutual Friend.’ He was known as Cuckoo Jack, and he lived upon the Tyne in a well patched old boat, picking up any trifle that came his way from a derelict to a corpse. One day an elderly and most estimable Quaker of Newcastle, in step- ping from a river steamboat to the quay, slipped and fell into the stream. Cuckoo Jack was at hand with his boat and quickly rescued the luckless friend and landed him dripping on the quay. The good man drew half a crown from his pocket and solemnly handed it to his preserver. Jack eyed the coin for a moment with a lack luster gaze, spat upon it solemnly ‘for luck’ and, having placed it safe- ly in his pocket, said in a matter of fact tone to the soaked Quaker: ‘Man, ah’d hev gotten 5 shillin’ for takin’ ye to the deadhoose.”—Ex. eo ABOUT RIGHT. “With the exception of the cook, who was a mulatto, hailing from St. Kitts, W. I., and ourselves the whole crew were Welsh. We soon found out that, not being Welshmen, we were ‘no good.’ The captain, a short, square-built: fellow, of the name of Jones, was a typical Welshmen. Sundays, after we got into good weather, he was accustomed to sit in the cabin in plain sight of his tell-tale compass, with the skylight open and a glass of Jamaica rum at hand, and read the Welsh- Bible in such a loud voice that he would keep the watch below awake for hours, stopping occasionally to curse the man at the wheel for being off his course. One of the crew, who was something of a joker, was at the wheel one day, as we were running the trades down with top mast and. lower studding sail set forward. Jack reported in a low tone, so as to be heard only by the old man in the cabin, ‘Sail on the weather bow.’ The old man ran up the companion stairs, asking, before he reached the top, ‘What does she look like, Jack?’ ‘A lower studding sail,’ says Jack. The old man stopped gave him a quick look, and, saying: ‘The hell it does, went below again. Oe Stockless anchors are in constant demand on the lakes for all new tonnage. The Tyzack stockless anchor is widely endorsed and the manufacturer is represented by the well-known firm of De Graw-Aymer & Co., South Street, New York.