4 THE MARINE RECORD. NEWS AROUND THE LAKES. BUFFALO. Special Correspondence to the Marine Record: There has been trouble at the unfinished Michigan Street bridge on account of the driving of piles on the channel side of the abutments to protect them. The temporary bridge is so near that this makes it impossible to get through with the larger craft, so a complaint was made and the piles are being pulled up. pot Coal freights have shaded off five cents to Lake Michi- gan ports and this is expected to be the beginning of the end. When vessels will see it better to remain idle than lose money or take long chances of doing so with iron ore, grain and coal practically at a stand still for medium sized tramp or wild steamers there is nothing to do but lay up and wait for brisker times. : : Last Sunday the British bark Snowden arrived in New York and a German sailor with a penchant for the “Be- lievers’ ” persuasion had turned all hands into a regular “Salvation Army Camp.” When the pilot boarded her off Sandy Hook instead of shantying they were going around the decks psalm singing. There were a few back- sliders in the course of a year’s cruise, but the German got them into line again all right. The steam barge C. F. Curtis, lumber laden, after pass- ing through the International Bridge river draw with con- sort turned in the river to moor at the Black Rock dock. She drifted too near the foot of Squaw Island, struck and broke one of the Provincial Natural Gas Company’s pipes and grounded. The natural gas escaped, throwing volumes of water 30 feet in the air and over the bow of the Curtis. The gas was shut off shortly afterwards. About the nearest ten straight cargoes of wheat that ever were handled since wheat became a leading com- modity of the world have come in this spring from the Canadian port of Fort William, says the Courier-Record. They were brought by the steamers Sauber, Manola, Rees, Curry, Oglebay, Uganda, Yuma, Yakima, Sitka and wooden Gratwick. The amount is 1,048,512 bushels, be- sides 34,320 bushels of oats on the Uganda. The com- merce of the world might be ransacked for a straighter million bushels of hard spring wheat. It was invoiced at about 80c a bushel and was therefore worth a round $800,- 000. The cargo of the Rees was the largest, and amount- ed to 152,155 bushels. It was worth $121,103.85, accord- ing to the invoice, and is an example of what the north- west can do in the line of wheat raising. : a oo CHICAGO. Special Correspondence to the Marine Record. The steam yacht Adele arrived here Friday from Mus- kegon. Capt. Simon O’Day brought her across Lake Michigan. The Independent Tug Line’s floating dry dock’ had the tug Viola in for repairs to stern bearing, the steam yacht Ollie for bottom cleaning and painting. Capt. J. C. Raleigh took command of the Goodrich Co.’s steamer Iowa on Monday. Capt. Henry Stines will go to Manitowoc to bring out the steamer Virginia. There has been such a decided increase in the passenger traffic on the Graham & Morton boats that is has been decided to inaugurate a daily steamer line between Ben- ton Harbor and Chicago. Capt. McGregor, of the M. H. Boyce, states that she has been temporarily withdrawn from the Ward line be- tween Duluth and Buffalo, owing to light business. The Boyce is now at this port. Thomas F. Joyce, the well-known purser of the Good- rich Trans. Co.’s steamer Atlanta, and Miss Marie Blanche Daily were married in Grand Rapids, May 18. “We wish them much happiness. At J. B. Bates & Co.’s shipyard the schooner Ada Medora received a new main mast and main and mizen topmasts, schooner Sophia J. Huff a new foremast and schooner John Nill a new jibboom. H. W. Cook & Co. chartered the steamer Kalkaska for ‘wheat to Cleveland at 11-2 cents, the steamer Tempest and consorts Coyne and Delaware for cedar ties, St: Jo- seph’s Island to Chicago, at 6 cents. The steamer Raleigh, owned by Weineman of Detroit, was libeled here last week on a claim amounting to be- tween $700 and $800 preferred by the Sheriffs Manufactur- ing Co. The steamer was bonded and released. The steamer Monteagle, drawing a little over 15 feet, spent an hour on LaSalle street tunnel Saturday. Imme- diate steps should be taken to lower the crown of tunnels crossing the river and we have several of them. A large quantity of cedar ties have arrived here during the past few days. The steamer Adella Shores and con- sort M. C. Neff brought along 31,000 ties. The schooners John Kelderhouse, Winslow and America also brought large cargoes of ties. _The steamer Soo City, Capt. Michael Driscoll, of the Holland & Chicago Trans. Co., arrived here Monday from Holland on her first trip this season. She has been put in excellent condition for the excursion business be- tween Chicago and Holland. The steamer R. W. Williams, Capt. John Boyne, of the Williams Trans. Co., arrived here Tuesday morning from South Haven on her first trip this season. She will make tri-weekly trips in connection with the company’s steamer Glenn, which has been running since April 1. J. J. Rardon & Co. chartered the steamer Phoenix for corn to Fairport at 1 1-8 cents, the steamer Italia for wheat to Buffalo at 1 3-8 cents, the steamer Bulgaria for flax seed to Buffalo at 11-4 cents, the steamer Aurora and consort Aurania for oats to Buffalo at 1 1-8 cents and the steamer Progress for corn to Buffalo at 1 1-4 cents. : The large schooner building at the yards of the Chicago Ship Building Co. for Capt. James Corrigan, Cleveland, will be launched about the end of this month, May 29 be- ing mentioned. Capts. James and John Corrigan have always gone for big vessels, but this one, to be named the Amazon, is the biggest yet, and lays over anything of her class now on the lakes. The Graham & Morton Trans. Co.’s sidewheel steamer City of Milwaukee, Capt. J. Stewart, arrived here from St. Joseph Tuesday morning on her first trip this season. She has undergone very considerable alterations and im- provements during the winter and her saloon has been recarpeted and refurnished throughout. She is now one of the finest and best excursion steamers on Lake Mich- igan. : eT he schooner Ida, when going up the south branch of Chicago river Saturday morning in tow of the tug W. H. Wolf, had all three of her masts taken out of her close down to her deck load of lumber by collision with Jack- son street bridge. The accident was occasioned by the bridge tender swinging the bridge on to the schooner. He had immediately before let the schooner Guido, in tow, through the bridge and did not notice the Ida com- ing along behind her. The steamer City of Grand Rapids, Capt. Joseph Smith, arrived here Tuesday morning. She has been put on this season by the recently formed South Haven and Chi- cago Transportation Co. to run between South Haven and Chicago daily, leaving the dock at south side of State street at 10 a. m. daily, except on Saturdays, when she leaves at 2 p. m., and leaving South Haven daily at 9 p. m., except on Saturdays. She is licensed to carry 500 persons and has sleeping accommodations for about 75 passengers. She has been put in excellent condition. Capt. Smith who has charge is part owner and is well known as a very energetic old-time captain, and I wish him much success in his new venture. oo or DETROIT. Special Correspondence to the Marine Record. The libels against the Grummond steamer State of Michigan have been satisfied. These lumber charters have been made here: Steamer Martini, five loads, Georgian Bay to Bay City; propeller Hayward and two consorts, Georgian Bay to Chicago at $1.25, the boats will carry 1,700,000 feet; the propeller Cleveland and two consorts from Lake Huron ports to Ohio ports, going rates; the Ogemaw, for H. M. Loud & Co. for the season. The steamer Riverside, which at one time was employed in the freight and passenger trade between Detroit, Wy- andotte and the islands and also tried the excursion busi- ness out of Chicago, has been converted into a wrecking tug by L. P. & J.. A. Smith of Cleveland and named Chauncey A. Morgan, in honor of the manager of their tug line at Cleveland. For a certain class of tonnage the lumber trade is quite brisk as it would appear to be the desire of importers to get all of the lumber they possibly can across from Can- ada before the tariff is settled. Clarence A. Parker has taken hold of the lumbering charter business here and places cargoes by the score at improving rates. One large firm have moved their plant over to Byng Inlet on the Canadian side and will carry on operations there instead of in Michigan and perhaps it is a money making move too. Frank E. Kirby, for the Grank Trunk road. owners of the car ferry Lansdowne, and William F. Daly, for the London Lloyds, who hold her insurance, are surveying her to fix on the amount of damage sustained by the steamer in her recent collision with the Michigan, owned by the Canadian Pacific road. On the port side of the Lansdowne 87 feet of upper works was carried away. The paddle-box and the starboard paddle-wheel went with it, but below the waterline no damage was done. It is thought that the damage will amount to from $12,000 to $15,000. The seamer will also be given two new boilers. She will be put in the Orleans street dock for repairs in a few days and her owners will pay 25 per cent duty on all the new work. : or oo CLEVELAND. Special Correspondence to The Marine Record. Quite a few vessels have suspended their insurance this week, awaiting a brighter outlook in the freight market. Mr. Robert Curr has returned from Duluth, having com- pleted his superintendency of the building of the large steel schooner Constitution. Acting Secretary of the Treasury Hon. O. L. Spaulding announces that the U. S. Revenue Cutter Johnson will be sold at public auction at the shipyard of the Globe Iron Works Co. at noon on Monday, May 3r. The masters of the Menominee and Mutual (Lines of steamers speak very highly of the gas buoys placed on ‘well. ' ports. the route between Ashtabula and Escanaba. They have already derived much assistance from them. This aid to navigators is known as the Pintsch system of gas-lighted buoys. A shipper said this week that he cannot understand why owners are sending their vessels to the head of Lake Su perior with coal at 20 cents when there is nothing in sight to come back. ‘If the oremen are unable to get business for their own vessels,” he said, “there is not much chance for outsiders.” : : Be Under the auspices of the Euclid Beach Park Co. a ladies’ bicycle race for prizes aggregating $1,000 will be — commenced on Sunday, May 30. The handsome little steamers Duluth or Superior will leave foot of Superior street several times a day. There are already quite a number of entries for the contest. : 2G The steamer White Star and consor, Eva Robinson was chartered on Wednesday for ten trips from Thes- salon, Georgian Bay, to Sandusky. The White Star is in charge of Capt. A. B. Slyfield, oldest son of Capt. L. L. Slyfield, who now remains ashore at Port Huron. Capt. Slyfield of the Detroit Liner City of Mackinac also belongs to this family and is a nephew of Capt. L. L. Slyfield. The steel steamer Cadillac, after being released from Starve Island reeef, was taken into Sandusky,where she dis- charged her cargo of grain and proceeded to this port for survey and repairs. After drydocking it was found that the bottom damage was rather extensive; say $10,000 to $12,000, involving a couple of weeks’ work. The survey and estimates of cost of repairs were made by Mr. Robert Logan, representing the owners, the Cleveland Cliffs Co., and Mr. Joseph R. Oldham, for the underwriters. The new steel schooner Constitution, just turned out from the yards of the American Steel Barge Co., W. Superior, Wis., carried on her maiden trip 4713 tons of iron ore, and allowing the usual 1 per cert on this for wet ore, the cargo would show 4,760 gross tons on a mean draft of 16 feet 4 inches. To be certain of not touching bottom in the “Soo” River, 65 tons of her cargo was lightered, which she re-loaded after getting through all Mr. Robert Curr, of this port, superintended the construction of the new vessel for her owners, who feel well satisfied at her large carrying capacity. The present facilities of the Cuddy-Mullen Coal Co. miners and shippers of steam coal, with general offices at Cleveland, are as follows: Cargo department, Erie, Pa.; — car dumper, Cleveland; car dumper and for fueling, eight pockets having 1,000 tons capacity, three steam derricks and a lighter. The car dumper is also used at Erie for fueling purposes. In Detroit River the fueling arrange-— - ments are all that could be desired, as at Amherstburg there are four pockets and three steam derricks. At Sandwich, ten pockets and two steam derricks. ..At Sault River branch has two docks at Detour equipped with pockets and steam derricks, formerly known as the Anthony and Wason docks. : oi FLOTSAM, JETSAM AND LAGAN, The whaleback steamers Colby and Bartlett are in ordi- nary at West Superior. The tug Joe Dudley was sold at Duluth Monday by the United States marshal for $2,700. Donald McLean, master of the steamer City of Duluth, has been fined $50 by the Collector of Customs at Duluth for neglecting to surrender his license for renewal. The first cargo of iron ore to be shipped to Philadelphia from Imataca, Venezuela, arrived there last week, on the steamer Mercedes (Br.), which had 1,005 tons on board. The steamer Niagara, building at F. W. Wheeler & Co’s yard for J.L.Crosthwaite of Buffalo and others, will probably be ready for launching by the last of the month. S. I. Kimball, general superintendent of the Life Saving Service, advertises in this issue of the Record for bids on annual supplies for the service for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1808. shipment seldom Toledo to Chicago. recorded is whate from Mr. B. L. Pennington, managing owner of the large steamer C. B. Lockwood secured such : a charter this week. BES oe Last week three steel stéamers delivered 11,246 tons of coal at Sheboygan, Wis.—the Andrew Carnegie 4,807 tons; and the Harvey H. Brown, 3,532 tons. The cargoes of two were bituminous, that of the last named anthracite. Marine business is unusually brisk at Portage Lake Heavy copper shipments are being made from Hancock, Dollar Bay and Lake Linden, and the mining companies are taking advantage of the low freight to bring heavy shipments of coal. : Capt. James H. Green of the Lackawanna line steamer Scranton stated at Milwaukee that the vessel was struck by lightning on Lake Erie. The fore-topmast was shiv- ered for 15 feet and the fore hatch broken open. No other damage was done. : Sand washing through a break in the south pier of the entrance of the canal connecting Lake Superior with Lac la Belle in Bete Grise Bay has filled the channel so that a depth of only 5 feet of water now exists. The tug Jay Morse attempted to reach Lac la Belle a few days ago, but could not cross this bar. Mr. A. W. Strong, a local promoter, of companies, an- nounces that capitalists from the east and west are willing to improve the lake front east of the river in the way of new docks and freight houses to the extent of $1,000,000