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Se CLEVELAND. cial Correspondence to The Marine Record. _ The six steamers of the Lake Superior Iron Co. will here- after be managed by Edwin Mills of the Carnegie Steel Co. Capt. John Wysoon is now in command of the Bradley teamer Pasadena. He took the Alva around a couple of trips. - last, and every facility with attention and courteous treat- ment will be shown to the traveling public. ~ ~ Senator M. A. Hanna, also Mr. Samuel Mather, of Messrs. _ Pickands, Mather & Co. will be out of the city for some time. Mr. Mather left for Europe this week and the Senator _ sails on the 14th inst. _ The Queen City is undergoing extensive damage repairs at the yards of her builders in Lorain. It is estimated that e repair bill, new work and some changes will call for an outlay of about $8,000. It will take another week to complete repairs on the steamer Alva, which was placed in the Cleveland dry dock Monday. Forty-nine plates will have to come off, and she has a large number of damaged frames. She struck at De- troit. The steamer William Chisholm will hereafter be managed by Capt. William Gerlach, of the Minch and Nicholas Transit Co. W. C. Richardson will have charge of the steamer J. H. Devereux. Stockholders in the two steamers have exchanged their interests. _ A survey was held this week on the steel steamer Griffin, after her collision with the Wawatam at Point Iroquois and temporary repairs at the ‘‘Soo.’? Mr. Robert Logan and Mr. Watterson were the surveyors. The vessel will be dry- docked at Lorain for final repairs. --Mr. L.. lL. Malm, the Arcade, is consul at this port for Norway and Sweden. Mr. Secher, Case building, represents Denmark as consul. As a majority of the sailors on the lakes are Scandinavians, they would do well to make a note of their national representatives at this port and their respective addresses. Nothing further has been done, nor is any information obtainable here about the masters and mates of 700-ton vessels being licensed. A local journal seemed to know all about this feature a little while ago and was somewhat im- perative regarding its knowledge on the subject. Perhaps it knows a little less about it now? _ The Chase Machine Co. are making a specialty of moor- ing winches. These small machines are in use when moor- ing with flexible steel wire ropes. Twenty-eight of them have already been placed on the largest class of tonnage and orders are still booked ahead. The shops have also been kept busy on new and marine repair work. _ The barge Troy, which broke away from her towing steamer, the Harvey Kendall, on Lake Michigan, Sunday night, has been heard from. Her captain, J. C. Nelson, re- orted to Mr. John F. Wedow, the owner, from Milwaukee, _ saying that the barge had reached that port. Mr. Wedow "was quite anxious about the float, from the fact that his son is mate on board. ; * With an advance of $5 per ton on structural iron, ‘also of all forms, it is easy to see why the several contracts for new tonnage ready to be placed are not given to the ship- builders; however, each yard has enough work in hand to __ keep its force well employed for some time yet. As regards - the prices on iron material, $20 per ton is mentioned as the present figures, although since 1892 $17 has been the ruling _ rate. “Many of the oldest experienced vessel masters will be pleased to learn of the appointment of Capt. Orville Green to the steamer Iroquois, vice Capt. Thomas Jones, who has resigned to accept a position ashore in the employ of Mr. M A. Bradley. Capt. Green superintended the construction and sailed the steel steamer Griffin for several years. The Griffin was so carefully handled and well kept up that she looked like a brand new boat each succeeding year and she is only now undergoing her first heavy damage repairs. There have been more accidents this season through men alling in the holds of vessels than ever before and it looks as if there was considerable carelessness somewhere. On Monday there were two of such cases, one of which is likely rove fatal. The larger vessel owners can, and do, insure ainst any claims arising from such accidents. Those who not insured should see that all the usual precautions are 2n when the hatchways are open and unprotected, ally should this feature be attended to by the people do, or intend doing the falling. tug Sweepstakes, of the Boutelle Towing Co., left ort on Sunday night for the Atlantic coast, where she do towing ona larger scale than she has been accus- med to on the lakes. While she may have larger boats ) handle, she will not have as much business to care for at coast ports as she has had here onthe lakes. When the spstakes left the harbor she was given a farewell salute veral whistles by the other tugs lined up along the As a matter of fact, and record, they seemed to keep din for about half an hour, apparently on the prin- at a steamboatman likes to hear his own whistle and that, some other fellow’s. However, she was given 90d send-off, whatever her future on the coast may be. thing is certain, and that is she will have heavier © contend with than she has had on the lakes. - The C. & B, line will run excursions this year the same as THE MARINE RECORD. The many friends of Mr. Wm. M. Fitch, secretary of the Cleveland Ship Building Co., will be pleased to learn that he has almost recovered from the injuries inflicted through his recent accident or collision with the street cars. Mr. Fitch has not taken up his regular office work as yet, but he is on deck regularly and every one admits that he has stood a very serious siege in a wonderful manner. A splen- did constitution, physical fitness and a determination to keep to windward has pulled Mr. Fitch through all right, ae these attributes any other man wonld have gone under. Coal shippers are rather pleased than otherwise to learn that iron ore shipments to June Ist were ahead of last year and they argue that as soon as there is enough ore ahead any old rate that they like to offer will be taken on coal charters. Of course vessels want to be well ballasted towards the fall, and even the large iron and steel craft want more than water ballast; but coal shippers are away off if they calculate on doing a season’s shipments in the fall months. The opinion is quite prevalent that 50 cents to Lake Michigan and 4o cents to Lake Superior ought to be the present figures from Ohio ports. At the naval shipping office in the Federal building, forty- three men had been enrolled from Friday last up to Wednesday noon, when the office closed for a half holiday. The instructions are that as high as sixty men may be shipped at Cleveland. The men are to be sent to San Fran- cisco, where they will go aboard the training or drill ship Hartford for a cruise around the world, lasting about a year and a half. The majority of the forty-three men who have signed the articles of war are from Cleveland and average from eighteen to twenty-three years of age, the majority having German names. IJjeut. Hines, the shipping officer, expects to leave for St. Louis on Saturday. . The freight handlers at the docks of the D. & C. Nav. Co. considered that $2.00 per day was about what their labor was worth instead of $1.50 and on Monday morning quit work, Mr. D. C. McIntyre, G. F. & P. A. got the men together, talked the difference over and compromised by mutual agreement at $1.75 per day. Unless the limit is be- ing paid, or a firm is unalterably opposed to any increase, the tactics pursued by Mr. McIntyre may generally be con- sidered as the best all round. In this case work only ceased for a couple of hours and both sides: were amenable to reason, also good, sound horse sense. There is a twang of the Scotch about the D. & C. Line in more ways than one, but Mr. McIntyre indulged in no ‘‘Scotch navigation’’ in resuming work on the dock. If a vessel becomes detained at a loading or discharging port over and above the ordinary lay days, she is usually entitled to collect demurrage for the detention. Detained and detention seems to imply being held back or down, moored, as it were. The Iron Trade Review gets at it in this way: ‘‘Vessels are getting better dispatch at Lake Erie ports than was the case a year ago. More ore is going direct and the ore that goes on dock is being promptly handled, so that there is comparatively little holding up of vessels.”? There are various ways of holding up and the phrase itself smacks a little of the ordinary, also the par- lance indulged in by the supposedly wild and woolly west, as for instance, ‘‘hands up,’’ well! all I have to say is, the Lord pity the hands that are asked to hold up the iron ore drogers‘on the lakes. By the way, the Western Reserve, or let’s say Northern Ohio, is quite within the Eastern limits of the Western Hemisphere, therefore, eligible to use the Boston elegancies of diction rather than intrench upon the vocabulary of the’ Westerners’ pure dialect. OO 2 er BRITISH MERCHANT CRUISER SUBSIDIES. The following are the British-reserve merchant cruisers and the subsidies they receive from the British government :. COMPANY AND VESSEL. Amount. Cunard Line : ; Gampaniavns sims cc costae ous es 47,500 | $36,498.75 VAteania rca Men eicet ey es 7,500 36,498.75 Peninsular and Oriental Co.: MINA AVA Gisele ers sons aus 3,375 16,424.44 ANS aliions. sass cro cesses wtieione 6-4 3,375 16,424.44 WiGtonlarse Same site cae eater mee 2,438 11,864.52 ANTeadiats sec Sie aoe ie ce Fas 2,438 11,864.52 White Star Line: PeutOni Gs xini os ches toe ea het 7,265 35,355-13 IMajeSHCE 2 8 hee iy estate oie aie 7,396 35,992.63 Canadian Pacific Co.: Empress of India... ..0.....5..2%5 Hmpress.of China... .6....-2...-- 7,313 35,598.72 Biipress of Japa seed: 6... ns sa Total . SERS ee ae ee £48,600} $236,511.90 — Oe Capt. George A. Gaylord has tendered his resignation as keeper of the Long Tail Point lighthouse in Green Bay after nineteen years of continuous and efficient service. Capt. Gaylord’s resignation was forced by a fatal malady in the form of a cancerous growth on the lower part of his face. His demise is elose at hand, and he fully realizes the fact. Capt. Gaylord was for many years master of steamers plying between Green Bay and Buffalo. -has been bought by A. B. Miner and is to be reopened and FLOTSAM, JETSAM AND LAGAN. The hull of the burned steamer Dove was destroyed by the use of dynamite, this week, at Toledo. Capt. B. F. Cameron, of the Kenosha life saving station, Thursday received a silver medal from President McKinley. The steamer Arthur Orr, wrecked near Baptism river, Lake Superior, last November, and lengthened and repaired at Superior, is about ready for busines. Capt. J. V. Tuttle says she is better than when new, as she has been generally strengthened. $ The largest load of ore yet cleared from ‘wo Harbors was that of the Bessemer tow barge, John Fritz, last week—6,800 gross or 7,617 net tons on a draft of 17 feet 2 inches forward, and 17 feet 3 inches aft. The S. F. B. Morse, which towed the Fritz, carried over 6,000 tons. The Goodrich iron mine, four miles south of Ishpeming, worked extensively. The mine has been idle seventeen years. The demand for iron ore is greater than the supply, and scores of old mines idle for ten or twenty-five years are - being reopened or looked over carefully with a view to speedy resumption of mining. The steamer Sarah E. Shelden of the Br dley fleet reached Duluth Saturday with her smokestack down. ‘The funnel shrouds that held the stack in place were carried away as a result of the pitching and rolling of the steamer in a blow on Lake Superior. There is a patent spring for steamers’ smokestack guys, and they have been found of great use where a vessel works much, as also in heavy weather. Here’s the way the revenue stamp strikes a Kansas editor: “T’ve liked a dozen stamps today for telegrams I’ve sent, I licked and stuck one on a bill with which I paid my rent; I licked a stamp to paste on a note which I renewed, and then I licked another one to make the mortgage good. I’ve licked these stamps to show that I respect my country’s will, and now I’d like to lick the man that introduced the bill.— Houston Herald. : The tugmen on strike at Duluth are keeping the harbor clear and handling all vessels that come along almost as well asever. Singer and Inman their former bosses and mana- gers of the two fleets are simply ignored until they make up their minds to treat their men better than they haye been doing. If Capt. James Davidson, or Ben Boutelle would only charter a few tugs to the tugmen for the season, vessels would be given better service and probably at lower rates than they have been paying heretofore. ‘There is no reason for two men to be pulling out thousands of dollars on the earnings of a few tugboat crews. The sensation of an earthquake at sea is startling. The ship is shocked from stem to stern, and the first impression is that she has struck a rock. Ona railway train in motion the sensation is that the wheels have run over a fair-sized stone, for it is a severe jolt. In the lofty modern office building the affrighted tenant fancies the edifice is swaying back to and fro over the periphery of about half a block, when in reality the oscillation is confined to a few inches, except in severe cases. The effect produced on the human system is never twice the same. The man who smiles at the shock today becomes terrified on some other occasion. The famous Atlantic steamer Alaska has been sold for a couparatively small sum for breaking up purposes. Only eighteen years ago this vessel was launched, and early in the following year she became prominent by gaining the record and making the fastest passage. She earned for herself the title of the ‘‘Atlantic Greyhound,”’ and was the first vessel to reduce the passage across the Atlantic to under seven days. Since that time she has performed good service, and was for many years a favorite with Atlantic passengers. For some considerable time, however, she has been lying idle in the Clyde, and now she has passed into the hands of the breakers-up. As yet there has never been a metal vessel built for lake service that has been relegated to the ‘‘bone- yard,’’ or sold for breaking-up purposes. We will, no doubt, have to come to it later though, notwithstanding that fresh water is much easier on metal hulls than is salt water. ——$ ar BRITISH SHIP BUILDING. The total mercantile-marine shipbuilding output of 1898 for the whole world is estimated at 1,893,000 tons, and Lloyd’s returns show that of this total output, 1,367,570 tons gross were launched in the United Kingdom, the number of vessels being 761, of which only 17 were sailing vessels. In addition, last year, there were 41 warships launched in the United Kingdom, of 191,555 tons displacement. The total output of the United Kingdom for 1898 was, therefore, 802 vessels, of 1,559,125 tons. Not counting warships, there were at the close of the year 584 vessels, of 1,401,087 tons gross under construction, in the United Kingdom. The corresponding figures at the close of 1897 were 505 vessels of 1,013,319 tons. Lloyd’s returns give the addition of steam tonnage to British registry during 1898 as 1,111,768 tons gross; and of sailing tonnage, 29,053 tons; total, 1,140,821 tons. Large as was last year’s business in shipbuilding in Brit- ish yards, this year’s is expected to be larger. Of the launchings last year, I,131,000 tons were under Lloyd’s sur- vey; while early in January this year, there were 1,186,000 tons of vessels being constructed under Lloyd’s survey. Of the new orders, a number of the largest ships will be for the trans-Atlantic trade, with Liverpool as the British port. ‘There are also a number of ambitious projects for the British-Canadian trade.