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2 4 ed : THE MARINE RECORD. NEWS AROUND THE LAKES. : CHICAGO. Special Correspondence to The Marine Record. Capt. M: W. Humphrey, of Detroit, was in this city on Tuesday. ; Grain freights are steady at 1$ cents on corn and 1 cents on: oats to Buffalo. The tug Protection had her stem badly damaged by col- lision with the steamer Italia on Sunday. James A. Calbick & Co., vessel and insurarice agents, have removed into their new offices at 12 Sherman street, ‘room I. The schooner yacht Toxteth is in the Independent Tug . Line’s floating dry dock receiving some calking and a new piece of keel. + -The Anchor Line steamer Clarion arrived back here early Monday, she having been compelled to run before the fierce gale after getting within 25 miles of the Manitou Islands. *’ The Canadian Pacific road announces the opening of its steamship lines for the season. The first boat left Owen Sound on May i. The Fort William line began on May 4. The Alberta will start for Detroit and Windsor on June 6. The schooner Lookout, from Chicago to Green Bay, -was driven ashore during the gale last Thursday, four miles north of Two Rivers, Wis. Capt. Oleson and his crew were rescued by the Two Rivers life saving crew. The schooner will become a total loss. She was built in 1855 at Buffalo, N. Y. Chief Swenie, of the Chicago fire department, will adver- _tise for bids for constructing the new $50,000 fireboat in _ July, which the council provided for in the appropriation - bill for the current year. The boat will be the largest and best equipped of its kind in the country and will be ready _ for service October I. H. W. Cook & Co. chartered the schooner Thos. How- land for clipped oats to Sarnia at 1 cent and hemlock ties, Alpena to Chicago, at 7 cents, the steamer L. S.. Porter and consorts Brainard, Cahoon and Maxwell for lumber, - Grand Marie to Chicago, at $1.37 per M. feet, steamer M. C. Neff and schooner Fitzhugh, dressed lumber, Manistee to Cleveland, at $1.50 per M. feet. It will of interest in vessel circles to learn that W. S. Canright, who is at present with the Great Lakes Line, managed by John Gordon, Buffalo, has accepted the re- sponsible position of purchasing agent of the Goodrich Transportation Co. A week ago last Sunday, Mr. Can- right received a dispatch from Chicago, offering him the position of purchasing agent of the well known passenger line of steamers on Lake Michigan. He accepted it and will leave Buffalo about the middle of May to perform the extensive business required by that line. Mr. Canright had been connected with the Goodrich Liné, except for a few years, from boyhood up, and his qualities as a pur- chasing agent are generally known. The three tugs built by James Davidson at West Bay . City, Mich., for the Barry Towing & Wrecking Co., of Duluth, are named the Prodigy, Industry and G. A. Tom- linson. The latter was named after the popular vessel agent, G. Ash Tomlinson, of Duluth. The Barry Towing -& Wrecking Co. expect to shortly add three more tugs to their fleet, which will give them the most powerful line of tugs at the head of the lakes. Their Duluth office is situ- ated at the foot of 5th avenue west.. The company is con- ducted by the Barry Brothers, the well-known owners and operators of the Independent Tug Line of Chicago. Miles Barry is the president and manager and Peter Barry secre- tary and treasurer of the Duluth company. f Bec eee See) Sikes se5 5: CLEVELAND. . Special Correspondence to The Marine Record. A stranger climbed aboard of the steamer Olympia as she lay at the dock on Monday night, and by some means fell in the hold and was killed. - Capt. John Mitchell is of the opinion that there will be an improvement in business circles, freights and char- ters before the close of the month. _’The Globe Iron Works Co. will launch the steel schoon- er Antrim, built for the American Transportation Co., on Saturday next, at 11 o'clock, standard time. Captain Thomas Wilson has sold two-thirds of the tug Oscar Steadman to Valentine Fries, of Milan, and Joseph Dewhirst, of Huron, and the vessel has been transferred to the Sandusky district. ‘The reductions in freight rates have taken place, not- withstanding an increase in ore shipments from less than 2,000,000 tons in 1880 to 10,500,000 tons in 1895 and a little less than 10,000,000 tons in 18606. _ The steamer Norseman is in the Cleveland Dry Dock for re-calking, some new bottom planks, new rudder, and repairs to stern bearings. The Progress is booked to go into dock after the Norseman comes out. The large steel steamer Coralia is in the Ship Owners’ Dry Dock for bottom repairs. Several plates will be taken off and re-rolled or renewed, as survey determines. It : expected that she will be out of dock by Saturday night. ; : - It has been decided that the yacht squadron will start from the club house on Monday morning, May 31, and after a sail to some point, yet to be decided upon, return to the club house in time for lunch. Music will be rendered at the club house during the day and evening. The re- ‘trim shows the form of the new lake-built hulls. gatta committee will meet later and decide where the fleet shall sail to. The Priscilla, Neva, Commodore Gardner, Shamrock, Corsair, Mona, Alert, and others of the fleet are expected to take part, as well as several naphtha and gasoline launches which have been recently added to the membership of the club. j : Tonnage is not being:sent out with the customary dis- patch and a large number of boats will remain in ordinary. The Illinois Steel Co. and Minnesota Iron Co. contract af- fords business for a good part of the fleet managed by Pickands, Mather & Co. Fifty cents is offered for “wild Marquette tonnage. é Capt. Orville Cin cleared the steamer Griffin at the custom house this week. There is no master thinks more of his command than Capt. Green does of the Griffin. He has sailed her since she was built and he knows that he has got a good vessel under his feet. He takes care of her, too. + ~ There is talk of a general meeting of vessel owners with a view to. laying up all tramp or wild steamers for thirty days. Such a move, it is thought, would have a beneficial effect on the freight market. Several of the larg- est lines; including those of M. A. Bradley, J. C. Gilchrist and Mitchell Bros., are holding their tonnage in port and not competing for the miserable rates of freight now of- fered. The Mutual Line steamer Cambria reached Ashtabula on Monday night with the first ore cargo to arrive there this season. The first arrival at that port last year was on April 2oth, and by May 1, 20,000 tons had been carried there. However, it was May 5 before the John W. Moore got in to Ashtabula with the first cargo of the sea- son.in 1892. A number of vesselmen inspected the standard auto- matic releasing hook to be attached to the lower blocks of davit tackle falls, and on exhibition here in model form a’ few days ago. The local steamboat inspector of hulls, Capt. DeWolf, Mr. B. L. Pennington, Mr. Fraser, shore engineer of the Bessemer Line, and a number of other gentlemen; pronounced the device perfect. Capt. Ray- mond, of 22-24 State street, New York, is making a tour of the lakes in the interests of the company manufactur- ing the patent. : Although there is but little doing in the freight market the latest built tonnage are making records in carrying bulk cargoes. The new steamer James Watt, leaving here on her maiden trip Wednesday, loaded 5,500 net tons of coal and 270 tons of fuel on a mean depth of 15 feet 43 inches, and this cargo was taken aboard at the new Cuddy- Mullen lake front slip in ten and a half hours. Carrying such a load on what is considered on the coast ballast The time of loading and trimming cargo and fuel is not to be sneezed at either. a oO oo DETROIT. Special Correspondence to The Marine Record. Several of the Parker & Millen fleet are laying to an arichor below Belle Isle bridge on waiting orders. The railroad car ferry Landsdowne is running with only one wheel since her collision with the car ferry Michigan. “ The Grummond Line steamer Flora is being fitted out to go on the route between Cleveland and Port Stanley. She will start about the roth. The Horn Bros.’ new tug will be all ready for work by the 12th. She is a fine looking boat, powerful, and quite an addition to the local fleet. The two gas buoys for the Middle Ground and South- east Shoal at Pt. Pelee are now at Amherstburg. It is hoped that they may soon be placed in position. The Canadian steamer Rosedale, which was ashore in the St. Lawrence, went into the dry dock here on Monday for eight plates and several frames. She will also be given a new propeller. Repairs will occupy about a week’s -time. oe BUFFALO. Special Correspondence to The Marine Record. There is little or nothing doing in chartering here this ‘week, although there are quite a number of arrivals and receipts of grain have been quite heavy, but it is thought that the rush is now about over, and until there is a brisk movement in iron ore and coal, vessels will continue paying off their crews and keeping down expenses. The line boats manage to keep moving, at least those that were fitted out, but the several wooden boats of the Lehigh Valley Line have not yet made a move nor are they likely to while cargoes are so scarce. Coal charters only show 20 cents to the head of the lakes and 25 cents to Lake Michigan, nearly eleven thousand tons being shipped on Wednesday. —————————— OOOO SS FLOTSAM, JETSAM AND LAGAN. Vessels of the Rockefeller fleet will not discharge or jus cargo on Sunday, either at their own or any other ock. -- The composite steamer Lewiston, which had 48 feet 2 inches added to her length at South Chicago, is ready for service, The new lighthouse on the south point of Put-in-Bay is nearing completion, and it is expected that the light will bein operation ina few weeks. The lamp formerly in use - only one more vessel to complete, the barge Amazon for in the lighthouse at Gibraltar, Detroit river, will be exhib ited in this new lighthouse. = ; 2 The cost of fitting the steel steamers Ira H. Owen anc Parks Foster with gangways and hoisting apparatus Cleveland was about $5,000 each. oo ' ye The Anchor line steamers will run to Gladstone this sea son. These boats, several years ago, touched at Gladsto for cargo, but finally abandoned that pert. = = The tug Fritz Karste will be sold by the United State marshal at Two Rivers at 12 noon on May I1, to satisfy a claim for wages made by Charles H. Berger. — . From a record kept since 1864 the first arrivals at Mar- quette date from April 7 in 1884 to May 2r in 1893. Fi arrivals during other seasons aré between these dates. The work of dredging Ashland harbor under the $15, government appropriation began last week. The a will work several days at Ashburn, and the balance of th season on the Ashland side of the bay. co 2) 0 The Central Freight Association has adopted a-resolu-- tion to. withdraw all dividends and percentages from the Detroit and Cleveland Steam -Navigation Company, both freight and passenger, if it does not make up on rates with the Grummonds before May 1. er = Now that the steamers St. Paul and Minneapolis have been launched, the Chicago Shipbuilding Co: has & James Corrigan, of Cleveland. She is only partly in frame, but will be completed by July 1. : ; It is announced that. the old revenue steamer Andrew Johnson will become a training ship for the Cleveland naval reserve. The steamer will be auctioned off to the highest bidder within a few days at the Globe shipyards. Vesselmen say that the boat will not bring $2,000. The Lake Michigan cargo record last fall was 6,210 net tons, while the largest load brought down from Lake Su- perior was 5,699 net tons. The season of 1897 will un-~ doubtedly see many cargo records broken. Deeper water and the vessels which were produced last year and this year augment the possibility of surprisingly large cargoes. It is reported that the steamer Dean Richmond, which was sunk near Dunkirk in 1893, and of which’no trace has ever been found, had been located by Capt. Sweet of the tug Ruby in about ninety feet of water. The report could not be verified as it is said that Capt. Sweet wishes to keep the story quiet in order to make arrangements concerning salvage. aie The Rockefeller steel tow barge W. Le Barron Jenny was launched last week at West Bay City. She is 380 feet long over-all, 366 feet between perpendiculars, 44 feet beam molded and 26 feet depth, with a carrying capacity of 3,950 gross tons on a draught of 14 feet 6 inches. The, double bottom is 4 feet 6 inches deep. Collision bulkheads forward and aft extend up to the spar deck, and the hold is divided into three compartments by two bulkheads. | _ aes It is said that railroads connecting Lake Erie ore receiv- ing ports and the Mahoning and Shenango valleys are in- clined to grant the request for reduced: rates -which has been made the past week. It has not yet been determined what the reduction will be, but the furnace operators have asked for a tariff which will remove some of the disad- vantages under which they would otherwise labor in com- petition with Carnegie. Roads carrying ore from ore ranges to the docks have reduced rates and the vessel own- ers have also been forced to accept lower freights. It is claimed also that the ore carrying roads in Ohio and Penn- sylvania must contribute to the reduced cost of iron and steel products. 3 : ae Capt. Charles Ainsworth, of the steamer City of: Venice, has started out well. He is in his first boat as master this year, and on his first trip pulled the steamer Eber Ward out of a bad place. The steamer City of Venice found the Ward hard on at Keweenaw Point. Fortunately she struck a sand beach. The: report was sent out that she released herself, but this was not true. The City of Venice had all she wanted to do to release the Ward. The: City of Venice pulled five times on the Eber Ward before she slid off into deep water. Three tow lines were parted in the operation. The Eber Ward went on the beach at a Ewelve mle aaa clip, but does not appear to be dam- aged. pice Sie ee iace cystine Lance beac a aoe dears od ——— a oo or FROM PORT TO. PORT. Two large sailing vessels have just arrived at Liverpool after voyages of a remarkable character. The vessels sighted each other in the South Pacific on the 8th De- cember, and from that date until. April. 1st, when both docked at Liverpool, their progress may: be described as literally neck and neck. The following is the report sup- plied by Captain Curd, master of one of the ships, the “Narcissus,” owned by Mr. C. S. Caird, of Greenock:—On the 6th December in about 2° S. of the Line, in’the Pacific, fell in with the ship ‘‘Eudora,” and-on the Saturday in each successive week she was in company till we got down to Cape Horn, when we parted company, the ‘‘Eudora” being rather the better of the two during the heavy weather. Neither saw one another till their arrival in Fal- mouth, where the “Narcissus” arrived about twelve hours before the “Eudora.” The ‘“Narissus” left Falmouth two hours before the-“Eudora,’ both bound to Liverpool; saw each off the Longships, and then had a very thick fog all the way up the channel. . Off the Skerries the fog lifted, and then the “Eudora” was sighted. The “Nar- cissus” arrived in Liverpool two hours before the “Eu- dora,” both docking in the East Waterloo Dock by the same tide. The “Eudora,” commanded by Captain Og- ilvie, is owned in Dundee. es.