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NEWS AROUND THE LAKES. pee CLEVELAND. Special Correspondence to The Marine Record. ‘Mr. C. B. Calder, of Detroit, visited this porton Wednes- day. - Owners who chartered for the season find that their by- gone business tactics are at a discount and say that there _will be less ‘‘ fixing ahead”’ in the future. The Craig Ship Building Co., at Toledo, is quite busy at the present, having three steamers destined for the coast pair work. Some of the Cleveland tug men have pointed out the fact that in talking of the tug trust all of the tug men on the lakes have said that if there was anything in this movement ~ they do not know of it. Each of them in interviews at dif- ferent times have made use of this expression : ‘‘ All I know of it is what I have seen in the newspapers.”’ _ Figures furnished the Iron Trade Review directly from Lake Erie docks show that the amount of ore at lower lake ports May 1 was the smallest in seven years, save 1896, when stocks were about 125,000 tons less than at the begin- ning of the present month. The aggregate is 2,073,250 tons, as against 3,167,915 tons on May 1, 1898, 3,356,497 tons May 1, 1897, and 1,949,698 tons in 1896. _. he Bourne-Fuller Co. has recently sent to its patrons celluloid pocket match boxes, top and bottom of nickel, _ bearing the company’s name and lines of trade—iron, steel and pig iron. In the introduction to its May stock list the company makes a suggestion in line with the developments of the past few weeks—that customers will save money and inconvenience by specifying early flr any iron and steel they will require for the next few months. Capt. Benham, of the steamer Wallula, was fined $10 at Duluth for clearing from a Canadian port where a consular agent resides, without a bill of health. He was let off very light, however, as the maximum penalty is $5,000. While this smallpox scare is on, vessel masters should not neglect getting a clean bill of health when clearing from a Canadian port. The Marine Hospital Service attends to the crew list at United States ports. “It is somewhat late in the day to start grumbling about _ the breakwater here, after the plans have been before the marine fraternity for so many years; yet, there are now some kickers who would like to see the breakwater moved out a _ mile or so further lakewards. Considering all the made Jand on the lake front, the tremendous increase in the size of the boats and the expansive ideas of our citizens, it is - possible that the breakwater would be much better if situated a half mile further off shore, but who’s going to _ stand for it? Suppose the city pays half the cost of removal, ete? - _ What appears to justify the publishers’ claim that it is the most complete crane catalogue ever issued, has just been put out by the Brown Hoisting & Conveying Co., describing the _— “Brownhoist’’ cranes, and, besides showing standard types of. cranes generally made by crane builders, illustrating anany machines never before shown inany catalogne. Ship- builders and those engaged in marine work will be interested in the illustration of the 15-ton pillar crane, 30-foot radius, with rotating gear, now employed in the New York Navy Yard. There are also others in this country, as well asin __ European shipyards. Instead of being in pieces on Cana Island, as it was re- ported she would be by this time, the steanver Davidson, _ which stranded at that point last week, is nowin dry dock at Manitowoc. She was released on Saturday by Capt. Mart Swain with the wrecking tug Favorite and is not greatly injured. She proceeded to Manitowoc under her own steam, General commendation is heard for the work which Capt. Swain did in releasing the Davidson. By his own statement, the vessel, when he commenced to work, was 4% feet out forward and 2% feet out aft. Hydraulic _ jacks were placed under the hull. Several unsuccessful at- tempts were made before the vessel was finally floated off. Capt. Swain telegraphed Parker & Millen that the job was _ the most difficult he had ever undertaken. The Davidson carried no insurance, and the underwriters, consequently, had no hand in the wrecking. The responsibility of the job was undertaken entirely by the vessel’s Milwaukee owners, subject to their belief in Capt. Mart Swain and the powerful _ wrecking outfit of Messrs. Parker & Millen. \ Ol OD In the United States District Court at Boston, Mass., _ Judge Lowell, the unique case of W. H. Lowell and others, ‘of Gloucester, owners, master and crew of the schooner W. H. Cross, vs. 99 gold coins and other valuables, derelict on the high seas, was decided, the property being divided among the libellants. The valuables were picked up by the _ master and crew of the schooner some distance from the scene of the Burgoyne disaster. hey were attached to the body of a man and were estimated to be worth $1,050. The _ body could not be identified and had to be buried at sea. _ No one appeared to claim the property, and the court was asked to award the amount to the salvors. The court _ divides the property in half, holding one-half as salvage, of which one-third is to go to the vessel’s owners, one-third to the master, and one-third to the crew. The other half will be held by the government. ‘ ; - trade on hand, besides a large amount of rebuilding and re-- THE MARINE RECORD. | BUFFALO. Special Correspondence to The Marine Record. The Fairbanks will in future be known as the Eliza H. Strong, when the Mill’s dry dock have got through with her. She was formerly owned in Cleveland, burned and made a constructive total loss, since which she has been rebuilt. Work at the Union Dry Dock Co., on the new Western Line steamer is about suspended on account of a lack of material, and it can not be stated when the vessel will be launched unless steel is delivered at the yard more punctual than it has been in the past. A dispatch from Ottawa says that information was re- ceived there on Monday that the promoters of the Ottawa and Georgian Bay ship canal have deposited $200,000 in the Canadian Bank of Commerce at Ottawa, in accordance with the provisions of the statute incorporating the company, Parliament requiring such a deposit to be made before the company can organize. Mr. McLeod Stewart, with one of the members of the provisional board of Directors, is ex- pected in the city from England on Saturday. There can be no doubt but that there ought to be a good and adequate fog signal on Peninsular Point, at the entrance to Erie harbor. Capt. Duddleson, of the L. C. Waldo, was off that port in a heavy snowstorm, in company with a lot of other steamers last fall, but they could not hear the little bell, which is all the warning vessels have at that place. The Waldo was consigned to Erie and was also chartered to load there, but she eventually proceeded after finding it im- possible to safely enter Erie harbor and she discharged her cargo here. Fire in the hold of the steamer Cuba on Wednesday night, caused a loss estimated at about $35,000. A bracket sup- porting a lamp became detached in some way, precipitating the lamp into the hold. The fire department flooded the steamer and she is now sunk in the river. The damage was mainly to the cargo. The steamer is not much burned. The Cuba was loading at the Lackawanna docks when the acci- dent occurred. One third of the cargo was on board. She is owned by Donaldson and others, and was in charge of Capt. Robert Young. Mr. Ogilvie shipped some of the first wheat from Duluth in the early 70’s bought at Red Wing, Winona and La Crosse. This grain was shipped up the river to Stillwater, and from there to Duluth by rail over what is now the St. Paul & Du- luth. The freight by rail was 5c per bushel, The grain was then shipped east to the mill over the Beatty line that had been subsidized then by the Canadian government. Pre- vious to that arrangement for getting Minnesota wheat Mr. Ogilvie had bought wheat and shipped through Milwaukee. Mr. Ogilvie stated that he had paid as high as 30c a bushel to get wheat to Montreal. Last season the average to him for transporting wheat from Duluth to Montreal was 5ca bushel. It is announced that the new steamer Pennsylvania will begin running between this city and Erie on May 28. This is the steel boat which was built at Detroit for the Buffalo & Erie Transportation Co., and is one of the finest onthe lakes. The vessel. will have accommodations for 1,800 passengers and a large freight capacity. The boat has shown her ability to make 20 miles an hour continuously on normal draft and coal consumption. The Pennsylvania so her owners have planned, will leave Erie at 7:30 o’clock every morning, arriving here at noon. She will take ex- cursion parties to various lake resorts in the afternoon and will return in time to depart for Erie at 7 o’clock in the evening. The steamer will use the dock at the foot of Com- mercial street. : ee It is now a necessity for mates to know how to read and write. This is an unjust law. Weknow of a number of mates who are first class men on the forecastle of a steamer, but are debarred from earning a livelihood because they cannot read and write. There are now two Nashville mates yoing to school to receive the first rudiments of an educa- tion. When they have learned their A B C’s from some gentle schoolmistress who is gifted in teaching ‘‘the youn idea how to shoot,’’ and have mastered the first rules of politeness, they will be well on their way to comply with the requirements of the law framed by Supervising Inspec- tor General Dumont, and when they have learned to read and write and “‘school is out,’’ they will be found undergo- ing an examination before the proper authorities to obtain their mates’ licenses. They will probably not be any more proficient in their profession than they were before they went to school, and it is not likely they will have unlearned any of the soft and soothing terms they were wont to apply to the negro roustabouts when giving their orders. On the contrary we may expect to hear the same old outbursts of profanity that go through the air like streaks of forked lightning.—Waterways Journal, St. Louis, Mo. TT SS OOS OS We are pleased to note a growing desire on the part of foreign courts of justice to deal with maritime cases on a broad international basis, and to allow decisions of English judges to form precedents for their own findings. The re- marks of an American judge, in the recent Irrawaddy case are very pertinent to this idea. He said that as the interests of shipowners, merchants, and underwriters are inter- national in their character, the same construction should be placed as far as possible by all maritime courts on maritime cases.—Syren and Shipping, London, CHICAGO. 5 Special Correspondence to The Marine Record. J. J. Rardon & Co. chartered the steamer Gladstone for oats to Buffalo at 1% cents. : Between May ist and 23d only 28 vessels arrived at this port from Buffalo, outside of the regular line boats. John M. Allmendinger, of Benton Harbor, has been awarded the contract for rebuilding 800 feet of the south pier at St. Joseph. On Tuesday there was a good demand for grain carrying vessels to load for Buffalo at 2 cents, in fact more cargoes than vessels were obtainable. At Barry’s Independent tug line floating dry-dock the tug E. E. Rice was on for bottom calking, the tug Rosaline is on for repairs and calking. At Miller Bros.’ shipyard the steamer Francis Hinton was in dock for repairs to stern bearing; the fire tug Geyser is in receiving a general overhauling. x News of the settlement of the strike at Buffalo received here on Tuesday was hailed with much satisfaction b marine men and those interested in marine affairs. The steamer Thomas Davidson which was released from Cana Island last Saturday arrived at Manitowoc, Sunday and was placed in Burger & Burger’s dry dock Monday. Capt. John Prindiville chartered the steamer Norwalk | corn to Port Huron at 15¢ cents, the schooner W. A. Good man from South Chicago to Kingston for corn at 3% cent: Capt. Orville Green arrived here a few days ago from Portland, Oregon, where he spent a very pleasant witte The climate out there seems to agree with him, as he lo hale and hearty and younger than when he went away. ~ After the completion of the canal which the RECOR always designated as an open sewer, it will first be nece sary for the governor of the state to appoint a commiissio of three to inspect the channel and see that it is constructed in accordance with law, before the water can be turned in. The Lehigh Valley Co. have given a contract to Haus & Lutz to widen their slip 12 feet and build 2,400 feet of new dock at South Chicago. The Illinois Steel Co. have also given a contract to Hausler & Lutz to build a $150,000 dock. The dock will be of concrete, 1,100 feet long, feet wide and a dredged depth of 21 feet. At the yards of the Chicago Ship Building Co., the sid wheel steamer, City of Chicago, is in dock for bottom sera ing and painting, the steamer F. Schlessinger was in for re- pairs to bottom and calking. Work on the Northern Mich igan Co.’s new steel steamer Illinois is being 1apidly fo: warded. She will be completed by the middle of next niohth. DanC. Deegan, the well known vessel supply man, is conveying vessel supplies to his many customers on vessel in the river and harbor by means of a steamer which he recently had built by Tom Bagley, the boat builder. dimensions are 30 feet over all, 8 feet beam, 3 feet mold depth. She is of very handsome model and has a Wootter’s gasoline engine, built at Cleveland, which gives her a gait. of 10 miles per hour. - Information has been received from Mr. W. I. Babcock manager of the Chicago Ship Building Co., that their dr dock is being lengthened, and when completed the dimen sions will be as follows: Length over all, 530 feet; lengt on blocks, 510 feet; width at top, 100 feet; width at bottom 80 feet; width at gate, 70 feet; depth over sill, 16 feet. Th depth of 18 feet over the sill is never attained except times of extremely high water, : The Spring Lake Ice Co., of which Capt. Miles Barry president, is erecting machinery near Chicago avenue an Harrison -street bridges for unloading ice from thei schooners A. Bronson, Kate Lyons, H. C. Winslow, Mar Collins and Four Brothers on their arrivals from Spri Lake, Mich., where the company have 100,000 tons of ic stored in a building 600 feet long, 200 feet wide and 50 fi in height. They are also purchasing ice wagons and wil retail their ice in this city. es The Prairie is the name of a yacht being built for th Herrick-Thorne-Morgan syndicate, of Chicago, as a com- petitor in the trial races to select a challenger for th Canada cup. She was designed by W. P. Stephens, Forest and Stream, and is expected to be in Chicago by Ist of June. The yacht is 45 feet over all, 28 feet at the water-line and 9 feet beam. The shape below the water. is.a secret, though Mr. Thorne says the boat’s lines” resemble those of the new cup defender Columbia. She i 7 feet draught, and will carry approximately 1,500 sq feet of canvas. The mainsail will have a 35-foot boom, foot gaff and 22-foot hoist. ‘The mast is 45 feet high, Some marine men think the tug trust will be a. thing, as it will centralize the offices at each port, and d business through one headquarters, expenses will be duced and collection of tow formidable competitor at Chicago, and that the fleet of t company may head an opposition to go into other peo after business if the trust attempts to exterminate t Captain Miles Barry says he will not discuss the subjec pending the settlement of negotiations now in progres