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THE MARINE RECORD. NEWS AROUND THE LAKES. Sis: cjstnie CHICAGO. Special Correspondence to The Marine Record. Grain freights remain steady on the basis of 134 cents on corn to Buffalo. Capt. John Prindiville chartered the steamer Ga Gs Hadley for wheat to Buffalo at 1 }§ cents. The niew steel fire-boat building for the city is drawing near completion and will probably be launched on Oct. 15th. ‘The I. I. Line tug Prodigy, arrived here Tuesday morn- ing with a tow of 6 schooners, as follows : Aldrich, Olga, J. L. McLaren, B. Calkins, R. Campbell, C. Crawford. The O, S. Richardson Fueling Co. had the steamers R. R. Rhodes and D. C. Whitney, and barge Dundee unloading bituminous coal at their north pier fueling dock last week. The I. T. Line*floating dry dock has their tug on receiving four strakes, new plank all around, from the water’s line down, new deck beams and decks, and a thorough overhaul- ing and calking. The lumber cargo of the wrecked schooner Mediator, . of thisiport, has been sold to Pryor & Son, and. the. vessel, was _ purchased by Joseph Croze, of Houghton, Mich., for $250.00. She may be rebuilt during the winter at the Croze shipyard. “The I. T: Line tug A. G. Van Schaick had her pilot house pushed. forward by the headgear of the schooner C. P. ‘Minch, which she was towing up the south branch of Chicago river Friday night. A jam at Randolph street bridge caused the trouble. The steamer Lawrence, of the O’Connor Transportation - Co., wound up her season’s work between Chicago and St. - Joseph on October rst. The steamer J. S. Krouse, recently built by Capt. R. C. Britain, of Saugatuck, will complete the season’s work. James Myers, of the firm of C. W. Elphicke & Co., -. returned from Cleveland Sunday, where he had negotiated forthe chartering of the schooner Thos, I. Parker to the Atlantic Transportation Co. The schooner left Cleveland for the Atlantic coast on Saturday. “At the shipyard here the steamer John Rugee is in. dock receiving a new stem, the steamer Westover was in for _ searching-up and bottom scraping, the steel passenger and _ freight steamer America for repairs to rudder, the barge Iron Quéen received 14 new stanchions, about 40 feet of new rail ~ and’ considerable covering board. fi The Burke Transportation Co., who have been running a daily line between Chicago, Waukegan and Kenosha with the steamer T. S. Faxton, finding that the business demanded a larger and faster steamer, have secured the steel passenger and freight steamer America, to replace the Faxton. The new service commenced Monday morning from the State street dock, leaving at 11 a, m. At the Chicago Ship Building Co’s. shipyard the steamer Minneapolis isin dock for repairs to her bottom. ‘Twenty plates have been ‘taken off, re-rolled and replaced; the steamer City of London was in dock for repairs to stern bearing and some calking, the schooner Charles Foster received some general repairs, calking, and a new cathead, _ the extensive repairs on the steamer Escanaba have been completed and she got away on Wednesday. Capt. Carris, of the Goodrich, steamer Georgia, was before Commissioner Bloodgood, at Milwaukee this week, to an- _swer toa charge of assaulting a seaman, which, in the eye of the law, is a serious offense. The charge was made by John O’Brien, a deckhand, who alleges that the captain struck him while the steamer was lying at the Goodrich dock in Milwaukee. Capt. Carris was bound over to appear Before the grand jury, and his bond was fixed at a very high . figure. : + Ji A. Calbick & Co. chartered the steamer W.-P. Ketcham and consort Geo. B. Owen for corn to Port Huron at 1% _ cents, the same vessels for dry lumber from Washburn to Chicago at $1.8734, the steamer Kalkaska and consort Aloha for corn:to Midland at 134 cents, the same vessels for lumber from Duluth to Chicago at $2.00, steamer James Sheriff and consort James Mowatt for corn from South Chicago to. Mid- land at 13/’ cents, the same vessels for lumber from Ashland and Washburn to Chicago at $2.00, the steamer Toltec and consort Miztec for lumber from Duluth to Chicago at $2.00, ~ The steam barge Pewaukee, Capt. Simon Christopherson, with lumber for this port, was towed in here Tuesday morn- ing by the I. T. Line tug Rita McDonald, and sank in the light-house slip soon after she arrived. The Pewaukee sprang a leak about 3 a, m., and the tug picked her up about 7 a.m. off Grosse Point. The water gained on her so rapidly that her fires were extinguished when off the waterworks crib. “The Pewaukee was built at Port Burwell, Ont., in 1873, and is owned by Leatham & Smith, of Sturgeon Bay, Wis. It was fortunate for her officers and crew that aid was not far distant, as there was a heavy sea running and the wind was high. ; oo or ~ Capt. W. H. Singer, of the Singer Tug Line, of Duluth, says that the flour from the wrecked steamer Colorado has _ been loaded on the barge Noyes and will be towed to Port Huron by the tug Zenith. The Singer Co., saved 600. tons of the cargo of the Colorado and did it justin time. Within twelve houts after the flour had been removed the vessel went to pieces. ° BUFFALO. Special. Correspondence to The Marine Record. Capt. F.'W. King was sworn in this week as master of the propeller P. H. Blanchard. The Neshoto after grounding at the Lime Kilns has been placed in the Mills dry dock for survey and repairs. A Golden patent propeller wheel has been placed on the tug Dunbar, but no conclusive test of the new propelling device has yet been made. : Maj. Symons Corps of Engineers U.S, A. has selected a site for the proposed lighthouse supply station, which he feels Congress will approve. The location selected is on the south pier, in the rear of the lighthouse. After lightering 600 tons of her ore cargo, the schooner May Richards, which went aground near Germania Park, was raised sufficiently to be patched. She loaded coal for Lake Linden and will be given final: repairs at some upper lake drydock. The private yacht Duen, owned by the Countess Schin1- melmann, of Copenhagen, Denmark, arrived here from St. Catherine, Ont. ‘The countess is on board and will make a visit to Buffalo extending over several days. She will then proceed to Chicago, where she will pass.the winter. Capt. F. D. Chamberlin, of the. Philip D.. Armour, ap- peared by proxy in the municipal court at Buffalo and pleaded guilty to violating a city ordinance by blocking Michigan street draw. The fine was femitted, defendant paying the costs and promising not to repeat the offense. ~ The schooner Maia made her first trip to Buffalo, this week, bringing down a cargo of ore. The Maria is a new vessel, built at Chicago for the Minnesota line, and is the largest Schooner afloat ou the lakes. This is her second cargo and is said to have been a record gainer for vessels of her class, amounting-to 5,909 tons. Col. D. S. Alexander has been notified of the findings of the government commission, which recently met in Buffalo to consider the matter of the width of the draw of the proposed new bridge at Grand Island. It is understood that the report favors a 200-foot draw, clear of all obstructions. This is in accordance with the wishes of interested parties. The coal rate to Lakes Michigan’ and Superior has been : steady all week at 30 cents and 20 cents respectively though some Lake Linden cargoes paid 30 cents, a new dock at Waukegan paid 50 cents and on account of the shoal water as well as slow handling of cargoes the Racine rate for small tonnage advanced from 35 cents to 4o cents. The big propeller Superior City which broke the record as a grain carrier, by bringing down 195,000 bushels of wheat and 40,000 bushels of flaxseed, also gained the record in time consumed in discharging and getting away. Her cargo was consigned to five different elevators, and thirty-six hours after she began unloading, she was out on the lake on her return trip. Canal boats will not be classed as marine property. Judge Childs of this city decided Saturday that the state, rather than the admiralty courts have jurisdiction over them. The case was that of Timothy Bray, of Middleport, who fur- furnished supplies for the A. S. Rache. He failed to secure his-pay and obtained a writ of attachment against the boat. The case was fought by the boat’s owners on the ground that it should justly come under consideration of the ad- miralty. Judge Childs held adversely. “Speaking of modern improvements on lake craft,’ said Capt. John C. Fitzpatrick. ‘‘can you tell which vessels have been pioneers in adopting them? Really, it has not been the boats one would naturally expect to take the lead. The first boat adopting the stockless anchor was the Alva, built by the Cleveland Ship Building Co., for M. A. Bradley. The Onoko was the first to put in a steam steering gear. The Onoko was built by the Globe Iron Works Co., in 1882 and, with her net tonnage 1,933, was considered a mam- moth vessel.’’ Mrs. Jesse Graves, whose husband is now serving a 16-year sentence in Auburn, on a charge of manslaughter, visited District Attorney Kenefick this week and asked him to aid her to get her husband pardoned. Mr. Kenefick declined to interfere, however. Capt. Graves was indicted in 1895 on three charges, murder, manslaughter first degree and riot- ing. He pleaded guilty to the second count. He was in- terested in the riot on the lumber docks at Tonawanda on August 31, 1895, when Capt. Lorenzo Phillip and his son Charles were killed. United States Assistant Engineer William T. Blunt says that in the harbors from Conneaut to Monroe the depth of water in nearly all is 17 feet at mean level, and the surface, whichis now eight or nine inches below this level, will probably continue to fall during October and November, as those months usually bring much westerly wind. The en- gineer also talks a good deal about overloading though he should know that ballast trim would be deep enough for some of the ports and a vessel in light trim is surely not overloaded. Like the man with the new hat, his head was not too large it was the hat that was too small, so with the ports, vessels are not overloaded but the water is too shoal. In any case owners, masters and brokers won’t ask the en- gineer to charter load or handle their vessels, his duty seems to be to report depths and not» talk too much about vessels overloading as that if proved vitiates their insurance. William St. John, general agent of the Safety Car Heat- ing and Lighting Company, of New York, writes the Courier © this week as follows: ‘In your issue under date of Sep- tember 14th, I notice in regard to the ‘breaking away fro its moorings of a gas buoy off South Bass Island,- that yo say ‘the buoy is an expensive affair, the government hav. ing paid $4,500 for it in Germany.’ You are somewhat i error. These buoys did cost the ‘government $1,450, before the present tariff; now with the duty added the cost amounts to $1,830 each. They are built of steel and weld- | ed; the lantern is constructed thoroughly wind and water proof and contains a very expensive lens, besides aregula- tor: The price at which these buoys are furnished the goy- — ernment I do not consider excessive, in view of, the. sub stantial manner in which they are built and the valuable a they are to navigation.’’ ‘ beeen bee i 2 DETROIT. Special Correspondence to The Marine Record. . Following the practice of certain plate mills, the Detroit Dry Dock Co., at its Wyandotte yards, now uses magnets for handling plates. Two magnets, one at. each end of a plate, are employed, and thus upheld the plates will be con- veyed by means of a crane, - Capt. Hogsdon, commander of the cutter McCulloch dur ing the battle on Manila bay, is now in command of t revenue cutter Fessenden. Capt. Davis, who lately he command of the craft, has gone east to the cutter Morril He expects to get her up the St. Lawrence and through th canals before the close of navigation. In the suit of Bradley, Miller & Co. ys. the Bessemer Steamship Co.-et al, a motion was made before Judge Swan’ to remand the case from the Circuit Court of Bay county to the United States Circuit Court on the ground that the Bes- semer Steamship Co. has its residence in West Virginia, and on other grounds. The motion was taken under advisement’ by the judge. John S. Gray, of the firm Gray, Toynton & Fox, owner of — the steamer Toledo, which is sunk near the entrance to Port- age Lake canal, has received notice that the wreck is an ob- struction to navigation and must be removed. This will be done as soon as possible. Mr. Gray does not know whether it will pay to raise her. He has been able to locate only two of the Toledo’s crew. The steamer was not insured. C. F. Bielman, of the Star-Cole line of steamers, has re-_ turned from New York, where he has been inspecting some of the vessels on the Hudson river with a view of choosing model for a new,boat for his line. Mr. Bielman has abou decided to have the new steamer built after the model of the | passenger steamer New York, which is 430 feet long, 75 feet beam and carries 4,000 passengers. The present intention is to have the boat built at Wyandotte, and to be ready for use by the opening of the season of 1900. Capt. A.C. Cuson died at his residence, 135 Sixteenth St., on Thursday last, of consumption, after a longillness. Capt. Cuson was born in this city 53 years ago, and has always lived here. He sailed the lakes for many years. At the age of 21 he was entrusted with the command of the brig Andes. — He sailed one of Capt. EK. B: Ward’s steamers for many years and alsocommanded the Missouri, Michigan and Monhegan. His last vessel was the barge D. M. Wilson.. Failing health compelled him to retire from active service about eight years. ago. Capt. Cuson was a prominent member of the A. O. U. W. A widow survives him. The funeral took place from the residence Sunday afternoon and at Emanual Presbyter- ian church. The burial was at Woodmere. : Capt. Alexander Ruelle, the well-known tug boat owner, died at his residence, 157 Joseph Campau avenue on Tues- day. Capt. Ruelle had not been well for two years, but he stuck to business until last July, since which time he has — been confined to the house. The cause of his death was en- largement of the heart. Capt. Ruelle was of French de- scent, his ancestors having settled in lower Canada in the early days. His father moved to Detroit, and in 1836 Alex- ander was born and lived here all his life. He began his career as a sailor on the lakes when yery young, and was but 18 years old when he had charge. His last vessel was the schooner Floretta, which he left in 1874 to engage in the tug business. Since that time the Ruelle fleet of tugs has been well known on the river and the genial captain was well known to many sailors on the Great Lakes: Capt. Ruelle leaves a widow and four children, alt grown up. One of his sons will carry on his late business. A year ago last March F. W. Wheeler & Co., gave th Union Trust Co., a $250,000 mortgage upon their plant at Bay City, and last May a lot of creditors whose claims ag- gregated $20,000 got a chattel mortgage running to H, Wickes, of Saginaw, as trustee. The Bessemer Steamship Co., under a contract clause, took possession of three boats that were being built for it, and began finishing the vessels on its own account. In doing so it appropriated about $15, ooo worth of beams, rivets and other material in the yard The creditors secured by the chattel mortgage objected, be- cause this material was claimed to be the most valuable of their security, and as Wickes refused to take possessi under the chattel mortgage, they applied for the appoi ment of a receiver in place of Wickes, and an injunction restraining the Bessemer company from using the materi Judge Maxwell granted a preliminary injunction. T Bessemer company tried to get out of the tangle by havi the part of the litigation concerning itself transferred to the federal court, and on Monday Judge Swan heard a motio to send the Bessemer end of the case back to the State cour on the ground that the issues are thoroughly mixed up and Pua be separated. He will decide the matter in a few Be TSO Ue Mareen 2 pike