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THE MARINE RECORD. “NEWS AROUND THE LAKES. BUFFALO. : Special Correspondence to The Marine Record. “The Inland Lloyds have not classed many of the older ~ type of wooden tonnage and will not unless it is shown that important repairs have been made. Grain rates remain steady. at 2% cents for wheat, Duluth to Buffalo, in spite of the trouble with the grain handlers at Buffalo. It is only a very few boats, however, that are willing to take chances just now. Mr. M. A. Hanna & Co., Cleveland, whose well-known furnaces are the Buffalo, at Buffalo, and Mabel and Claire, in the Shenango Valley, are selling also the product of the Union furnace, which is soon to be started up at Buffalo, making foundry iron. The firm has also taken the Frank- lin furnace at Franklin Iron Works P. O., N. Y., and will put it in blast. The inspection of the canal system of New York and ‘Canada by the Advisory Board appointed by the Governor is likely to be of great importance to the state. It is not too much to say that the future of the canal system may de- pend upon the decision of this board. Buffalois represented by John N. Scatcherd and Thomas W. Symons. The ‘board is scheduled to be in Buffalo on Friday night. There isa blockade of coal cars and the cailways have stopped shipping coal until the conditions shall have been relieved. This is the second time this year that the ship- - ment of coal:-has had to be stopped on account of the inability of the shippers to get boats into which to load the _. coal, but the first time there was not such a serious blockade _as now prevails and the outlook is that there will bea still worse blockade in the near future. ‘The market review of the Black Diamond has the follow- ing to say this week: Buffalo advices are that the anthracite “situation is strong and hopeful, but that dealers are buying sparingly. The strike of the grain scoopers is giving con- siderable anxiety, and as much vessel tonnage is tied up _ grain rates have already advanced. Shipments of coal have een materially reduced on this account. Shipments of ‘coal westward by lake for the week ending May Io, were 61,299 tons, distributed as follows: 22,500 tons to Duluth- a Superior; 15,500 tons to Chicago; 12,100 tons to Milwaukee; 4,250 tons to Lake Linden; 2,775 tons to Toledo; 2,704 tons to Green Bay; 850 tons to Kenosha; 820 tons to Racine and 800 tons to Gladstone. Coal rates on both hard and soft, are 40 cents to Lake Michigan ports, 30 cents to Duluth, 35 cents to Portage Lake and 25 cents to Toledo. The coal heavers’ strike at Milwaukee has held back shipments to -- that port. -. The present labor troubles will no doubt bring about the use of pneumatic grain elevators, and thus do away with the greater proportion of manual labor. . Though the initial cost of the steam power is somewhat greater in the pneu- matic system than the present method of handling grain, the cost of labor is over 400 per cent. less. Buffalo’s grain receipts by water for the last navigation season were 211,- -~.236,000 bushels. ting the grain to the leg at the present rate of $3.10 per 1,000 bushels, amounted to about $654,831.60. The pneu- matic system, it is claimed, is not only capable of doing the work, but also of elevating it to the scales or lofter leg for 75 cents per 1,000 bushels, or a total cost on last season’s re- - ceipts of $156,427, a saving to this port alone on shoveling charges of $496,404.60. It is estimated that the cost of 75 cents per 1,000 bushels for conveying the grain from the boat to the weighing scales includes the power required, necessary labor and the profit to the owners of the pneu- matic system. ’ ‘The animus in the grain handling question has spread to other lines anda general tie up is now imminent. When I wired the RECORD last week that the affair was settled it had every appearance of being so, the terms had been drawn up and both sides seemed satisfied. Let me point out how Praise stood on Wednesday : At a meeting with the presi- ‘dent of the union, Mt. McBrier, of Erie, said if any adjust- ment could be reached so that the shovelers could go to work, he was willing todo all in his power to aid it, but that if they were going to stand out in sympathy with all those who had a grudge against the grain contractor, he saw little hope. ‘‘If that is the case,’’ said he, ‘‘we are help- less.’? He then asked Mr. McMahon if he could not make a contiact with him for unloading his three boats, independ- ‘ent of the Lake Carriers’ Association, the contractor or any one else. ‘‘No,’’ said Mr. McMahon, “it could not be done as you suggest.’’ ‘‘Is there any way we can get this work done??? asked Mr. McBrier, ‘‘ There is,” said Mr. McMahon. “Give us $1.90 athousand and we will unload all the grain that comes, wet or dry, big or little, and be glad to doit.’’ ‘‘When can you begin?”’ ‘‘In-20 minutes,’? said Mr. McMahon. ‘‘And who am I to do business with?” ‘‘ Withme.’’ ‘‘Whom do you represent? ”’ “*Al) the scoopers.’’ ‘And will they stand by what you say?” ‘They wil.’ ‘Then I will close with you in five minutes to unload my boats,’’ said Mr. McBrier, but Mr. McMahon shook his head, and the other members of the - committees said no. There was the thorn in the flesh— the poison in the case,’ as Mr. McBrier put it—the con- ‘tractor was not out of the question and they would not lift a kernel of wheat until he was out of it, the Lake Carriers’ Association, personal owners or anything else to the con- trary notwithstanding. The shoveling charges, or the cost of get-. DETROIT. Special Correspondence to The Marine Record. Capt. J. H. Westcott says no lake steamer is powerful enough to break a 10-inch manila hawser by a steady, straight pull. A hawser that size will stand a strain of 75,000 pounds, equivalent to a straight pull of 37% tons. Lake Erie dredgers have been combining on bids for government work, thereby compelling Uncle Sam to pay higher prices. Monday, E. J. Preyer, of Houghton, Mich., was the lowest bidder by 50 percent. for the Sandusky harbor, as a result of which Col. J. A. Smith, engineer in charge, is considerably elated. The steamer Iron Age, owned by Parker & Millen, which went aground while trying to get into Port Colbourne recently, has completed her repairs at Port Dalhousie. The vessel’s bows were pretty badly damaged but the exact ex- tent of the damage is not yet known as the repair bills have not been forwarded. The Iron Age has left: Port Dal- housie to proceed to Prescott with her load of grain. The 11,000 bushels of the cargo which was damaged was trans- ferred to the schooner Flora Carveth, which will take it to an Oswego starch factory. The staunch little schooner Ganges, which the late Mr. Oades, her owner and builder, used to say never cost the underwriters a nickel, although always fully insured since she was built in 1874, has at last got into trouble. The steamer Presque Isle collided with and sunk her on Lake Erie between Colchester and the ‘““‘Dummy’’ on Tuesday night. The steamer rescued the crew of the schooner and brought them here on Wednesday. The position of the Ganges is given as about one mile south of the passage and nine miles east of Colchester. Captain A. B. Slyfield, captain and owner of the steamer White Star, which was sunk in collision with the steamer Vanderbilt in the St. Clair river last Thursday, succeeded in patching up the hole in the White Star’s bow, and after having her pumped out, took her to Algonac, where she’ will be repaired. Capt. Slyfield gives an entirely different version of the accident than that told by the captain of the Pennsylvania. Capt. Slyfield says that the White Star blew two whistles, and that the Pennsylvania did not answer; that it was the Vanderbilt that plunged into the White Star; in fact, the White Star was backing in the endeavor to get clear at the time. Frank D. Welcome, one of the best known and success- ful masters on the lakes, has been made general passenger and freight agent of the Buffalo & Erie Transportation Co., which will operate the steamer Pennsylvania between those two ports. The Pennsylvania, a new side-wheeler, built at Wyandotte, will begin work May 28th. She will make the round trip daily, besides side excursions, and her schedule is said to call for twenty milesan hour. W. H. McFall, of Detroit, is manager of the line and will be pur- ser of the steamer. By an agreement with the Cleveland & Buffalo line the latter will not stop at Erie and the Pennsylvania will omit Dunkirk. The handsome little passenger steamer Pennsylvania developed fifteen miles per hour on her trial trip this week, and will soon be placed on the route between Erie and Buffalo. She was built at the Wyandotte yards of the Detroit Dry Dock Co, She isa side wheeler with walking beam engines. Her length is 211 feet; molded beam, 32 feet, and depth of hold 12 feet. The paddle wheels are 23 feet in diameter and fitted with nine feathering buckets, of 9x4 feet surface dimensions. The engine hasa single cylinder 48x108 inches and is condensing. The boilers number two and are of the Scotch type. They are fitted with the Howden hot draft. The dimensions of the boilers are 13,feet 2 inches by 11 feet 6 inches. The engines are planned to develop 800 horse-power. The boilers are to be allowed a working pres- sure of 65 pounds of steam. In a suit brought by the Penberthy Injector Co. against the Lee-Penberthy Manufacturing Co. to restrain the latter firm from using the name Penberthy, the Supreme Court of Michigan has decided in favor of the plaintiff. I under- stand that this decision and change of name will not change the policy nor interfere with the manufacture and sale of the Lee injector and other goods manufactured by the firm; neither will the decision interfere with or have any reference financially to any party or parties who have purchased the Lee injector or transacted business with the Lee-Penberthy Manufacturing Co. in the past, or who may purchase Lee injectors or other goods manufactured by the Lee Injector Manufacturing Co. in the future. The decree of the courts has no bearing on the use of the name Penberthy in the past, but rule that it must not be used in any form in the future. : On petition of Frederick H. Prince, of Boston, Judge Swan in the United States district court on Wednesday ap- ointed Percival W. Clements, of Rutland, Vt., receiver of the Ogdensburg Transit Co. The company was organized in Michigan, with a capital stock of $800,000. It operated eight steamers between Ogdensburg, N Y.. aud, upper lake ports, in connection with the Ogdensburg & Lake Champlain and Central Vermont railroads. Mr. Prince relatesin his petition that he holds $70,000 worth of stock in the company and the step is taken for the protection of himself and other stockholders and creditors. He further statesthat the sum of $634,000 is still owing on bonds issued tothe amount of the capital stock, besides an outstanding indebtedness of $110,000. ‘The company has also defaulted on its annual payment of $15,500, which was to be placed in a sinking fund for the liquidation of the bonds. ‘the policy for fire. fs CHICAGO. ee Special Correspondence to The Marine Record. = The latest grain freights this week to Buffalo were quoted at 1% cents and to Kingston 3% cents. ‘ i cesar The steamer W. R: Linn, grain ladeu from Chicago, was f° the first to:pass throngh the Straits, April 27. The Wabash recently captured 1,000,000 bushels of oats from Chicago for export on a reduced rate of 12 cents. The steamer Orinoco is unloading 4,000 tons of bituminous _ coal at the Dnnham Towing & Wrecking Co.’s coal dock. J. J. Rardon & Co. chartered the steamer Wyoming for corn to Detroit at 1% cents; the steamer Rappannock to Fairport at 1% cents. The Dunham Towing & Wrecking Co., and the Barry — Bros.’ Independent Tug Line have entered into an agreement which practically gives them the control of the tug service at this port. The crews of all vessels trading to Chicago will have to be vaccinated. Dr. McInnery has been selected by the officials at the Marine Hospital, and three others will be selected during the present week. - ‘The schooner yacht Idler is in one of Miller Brothers’ dry docks receiving a thorough overhauling and calking. She will in future be used by the Naval Reserve at this port for crusing and training purposes. : The steamer Ferdinand Schlesinger has been released from Nine-foot shoal at the Death’s Door entrance to Green Bay and is now in dry dock at South Chicago for survey. She was not leaking badly. : ae The schooner A. G. Morey, which had come out of dry dock where she had received some new bottom plank and calking, collided with the steamer J. R. Langdon and carried away her jibboom when coming down the river. The schooner Oak Leaf, with a large cargo of cedar ties, arrived here Monday in tow of Hausler & Lutz’, South Chicago tug Lutz. Capt. Charley Roach, the veteran Chicago tug captain who is master of the Lutz, is always on the alert. The schooner Winnie Wing, Capt. Peter Petersen, which had her foremast and jibboom carried away in a heavy squall on a previous trip, arrived here on Saturday from : Manistee, where she had received a new foremast and jib- boom. ao The Goodrich Transportation Co.’s fine fleet of steamers will this season have a total passenger carrying capacity of 12,000 persons per trip, and the tonnage of their fleet will be 10,000 tons. The passenger carrying limit of the steam- % ers will be: Christopher Columbus, 4,000; Virginia, 2,000; Indiana, Racine, Georgia, Atlanta and Iowa, 1,000 each; Chicago and Sheboygan, 500 each. All sorts of insurance tariffs may be given out, but, on this side the English, or should I say British policy, is being accepted by all of the larger lines on risks including hull, freight and cargo insurance, there is also a liberal item in A vessel owner told me yesterday that Loyds of London will cover anything he desires and at rates that are away below anything asked by our own people. — _ Shippers were begging for boats to take grain to Buffalo Tuesday but vesselmen would not hear to sending any vessels to that point until the strike was in better shape. Private telegrams were of the most discouraging nature, with no improvement in sight. It is getting as bad as if one of the greatest outlets to the grain traffic in the world was suddenly blotted off the map without warning to pre- pare for the change. ie A telegram from Frank Owen, general manager of the Ogdensburg line of steamers, received Monday, ordered the boats now in Chicago into commission. The line will be operated by the Rutland Railroad, which recently purchased the Ogdensburg & Lake Champlain Railway. The connec- tion with New England will be over the Fitchburg—with the change in the ownership of the line the Central Vermont, which operated the boats for many years, will lose its con- nection to the West. Chicago vesselmen have decided to ask the Grand Trunk railroad, which does the lightering and transferring of grain for vessels passing through the Welland canal, to insure the grain against fire while it is in the railroad’s possession. At present the vessel from which the grain is taken and to which it is returned on Lake Ontario, is responsible for th grain while it isin course of removal the length of the canal. The Welland ought to be deepened enough so as to avoid lighting up while vessels locked through. e The Anchor Line Co. are doing a very large amount. business since May 3. Eleven of their fleet of steamers — have arrived at this port with full cargoes of merchandise from Buffalo and Erie, and loaded full cargoes of merchan-— dise otherwise known as packet freight. The following notice speaks for itself: The Anchor Line Co., due to t good work performed by their men since the opening — navigation, wish to announce that on all boats arriving on one a ey is ms eae rate of 25 cents per hour will e paid for all hourly labor. J. C. E ; . Be Grits. Foreman. z J.C, Evans, Seen a Last Thursday the Taylor street draw bridge was lifted from its center pier and floated off on two scows, to make — room for a bascule bridge which will be erected at this poin’ in the near future. The old center pier will be remove and the river dredged to a depth of 16 feet to conform t