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THE MARINE RECORD. FEBRUARY I, 1900 PORT HURON. Special Correspondence to the Marine Record. Dunford & Alverson have commenced suit against Thomas . Fish for $3,000, for repairs made to some of his boats. 7 ie Capt. R. Schaddeles, of Grand Rapids, an old lake cap- tain, is dead. He sailed out of Holland for many years. A large number of applicants for engineers’ licenses are regularly undergoing examination at the office of the United States local inspectors ofjsteamboats in the custom house. The steamboat Conger made her first trip on the river route between Port Huron and St. Clair, on Monday. The boat will continue her trips untilinterfered with by the ice. ~ Capt. Harry Warwick, who represents Howard H. Baker ‘ & Co., ship chandlers, of Buffalo, has spent the week with i the sailors in this city. Capt. Warwick has many friends Hie with the sailors in this ‘‘neck 0’ the woods.”’ J. R. McCollom, of Welland, is at the Harrington. Mr. ae McCollom is one of the gentlemen who had the contract for Got dredging at the foot of Lake Huron two years ago. Itis said he cleaned up a snug fortune on the job. There arrived Jan. 15, at Alderman Ed J. Kendall’s a young marine repagter, who has already laid claim to a job in the small boat on the river, so boys look outfor a new man in the small boat on your first trip passing here. Ronald Christner, one of Kendall’s marine reporters, walked away from Harry Swain, an expert roller skater, in a race at the Auditorium on Wednesday. Ronald can get alongside the fastest steamer passing this port and it was not to be expected that he was going to take back-water from a roller skater. The schooner Penokee, which was taken to the Atlantic coast in 1898 and ran on Romer Shoal, New York Bay, has been released, and is now lying at Stapleton, Staten Island. Her captain, William Summerville, has returned from a trip East, and says she isin the best of condition, and is good for another brush with the elements at almost any time. A telegram was received here announcing the death of Alexander Stewart, at Sandusky, O. Mr. Stewart was for- merly a well-known ship carpenter of Port Huron, but took up his residence in Sankusky about ten years ago. His son James and daughter May did not know of their father’s ill- _ ness until word of his death was received. He was 62 years of age. The remains were brought to this city. U. S. Local Inspector of Hulls W. W. Stewart, remarking about masters long in service, said: ‘‘Capt. Henry Fish, of St. Clair, has sailed the lakes and rivers as captain of a steamboat for 47 consecutive years and only recently retired. His 44th renewal of his license is still in force. It is my opinion that no other man on the lakes can show as long a service as master of a steamboat as can Capt. Fish.’’ The Welland canal-sized steamer building here to the order -of the Wilson Transit Co., Cleveland, will be christened -. Ravenscraig, after an old castle on the Frith of Forth, Scot- land. She will be launched about the rst of April and will be ready for business soon after she goes into the water, as “her boilers and machinery will be in position when she is. -. Jaunched. The larger steamer building for Capt. Wilson will not come out until late in the season, according to the present outlook and calculation. The engine of the steamer Harlem, which has been under- going repairs at the Dry Dock Iron Works, will be shipped to the Craig Ship Building Co. at Toledo, on Friday, where _ it will be placed in the boat. The bottom of the Harlem is - nearly completed and she will be ready for navigation by March, according to contract. A number of men from this city are working on the boat. The Fitzgerald Bros., who are the proprietors of the Dry Dock Iron Works, say that the Harlem’s engine is as good as new. hee 0. ee ST. CLAIR. Special Correspondent to the Marine Reeord. © \ The new steamer on the stocks of Simon Langell’s yard is being pushed toward completion rapidly. Her keel was laid in the winter of 1897, but owing to the dullness in lake com- merce the following season work was discontinued. Captain Lowes, who is part owner of the steamer Temp- est No. 2, will sail her again the coming season. Capt. A. P. Gallino, who last season commanded the stea- mer W. R. Stafford, owned by the Hope Transportation company, has been appointed master of the steamer John C. ‘Pringle, of the Otego Transportation company, with an advance in salary of $500, Captain Gallino is an experienced and skillful navigator, and has doubtless attracted the at- tention of the management of the company whose employ he enters in the spring by the uniform success which has always attended him in the management of his steamers and _ consorts heretofore. It goes without saying that he merits _hisadvancement. — ; eee re DULUTH-—SUPERIOR. Special Correspondence to The Marine Record. Mr. Alex R. Sinclair, vessel and insurance agent, Duluth, has returned home after an eastern trip. He visited all of the prominent lake ports, and is of the opinion that next season will be a lively and prosperous one from every stand- oint. " The head of the lakes flour mills produced 7,650 barrels of flour last week. Five hundred barrels were shipped for ex- port and 3,275 for domestic use, making the total shipments 3775 barrels for the week. The stocks amounted to 8,290 barrels on Saturday. Bids will be opened under the second advertisement of the work at the office of Major Sears, Corps of Engineers, U. S. A., Feb. 28, for the construction of 350 feet of break- water at Grand Marais, Minn. The bids under the first call were all above the appropriation for the work. There is a little less grain in store here than at this time last year, say about half a million bushels, and there is 8% million bushels in elevators now, receipts are still rather light, but country elevators will soon be shipping in enough to fill all elevators and then the chartering business will begin. The Northern Pacific road has taken a long time contract to haul iron ore from Ashland to West Duluth for the Du- luth Blast Furnace Company. The shipments will amount to about 125 tons a day and come from Iron Belt, Ashland and Colby mines situated at Ironwood. The Omaha road has been hauling Mesaba ore from Duluth to Ashland. The tug EF. P. Ferry, owned by King & Steele, contrac- tors, burned on Cunday night and became a total loss. She was brought here from Chicago about two years ago and was used for towing cribs, etc., around the harbor, doing the work of her owners, who are government contractors. The old tug was well known on Lake Michigan and was consid- ered quite a powerful tug in her best days. There were twenty-one docks for handling iron ore on Lake Superior and Lake Michigan ore-receiving ports in 1896, these having 4,438 ore pockets, with an aggregate ca- pacity of 617,250 tons. When navigation opens next spring there will be twenty-three docks, with a total of 5,061 pock- ets anda storage capacity of 834,082 tons. The net gain is 623 pockets and 215,832 tons storage capacity. Two of the docks that will provide this handsome increase are now under con- struction, the Eastern Minnesota dock on Allouez bay with 250 pockets and about 60,000 tons storage capacity, and the Duluth, Masabe & Northern dock No. 3 at Duluth, with 192 pockets and 38,400 tons storage capacity. The estimated cost of construction of ore docks is about $1,000 a pocket, but owing to an advance in the cost of materials the ore docks now under construction will cost about $1,500 a pocket. <i - SAGINAW, MICH. Special Correspondence to The Marine Record. ; Capt. Rayn Bell has sold or traded his barge Homer for a arm. The tug Andrew McLean is being rebuilt entirely and a new boiler put in by Wick’s Bros. Frank W. Wheeler has announced his residence for sale and is going to move his family to Detroit. The Gerry & Shannon fleet are all here and considerable work will be done before the opening of navigation. The old barges Amaranth and Ferguson are to be rebuilt and again put in commission at F. W. Wheeler’s boxes. The barge H. W. Hoag is receiving new deck frames, decks and covering board, and considerable other repairs. | Capt. Pat Ryan was in town Monday. He states that he is getting along nicely with repairs to str. Madden at Manistee. Capt. Louis Guard and son, also Capt. Clarence Miller, of Charlevoix, were in town Monday looking for boat machinery. Captain Haskins was in town the other day. He reports extensive repairs on his steambarge, C. H. Davis, at Lorain, Ohio. ; The Bonutelle fleet are all receiving necessary repairs, especially the tugs, one or two of which will be taken to the coast in the spring. Considerable trouble by caving in at Mr. Davidson’s new dry dock, will necessitate much pile driving. She is a whopper, just the same. Capt. Wm. Pierce’s str. Benton is receiving repairs at McLaughlin’s coal dock, Bay City. Capt. Henry Pierce will sail the Harvey Bissell the coming season, I haven’t noticed any boat sales here yet, but several par- ties have been here sizing the lumber fleet up. The owners all seem satisfied that there are still good times ahead. Some junk fiend recently cut up and sold a $1,200 clam shell dredge dipper for Carkin, Stickney & Cram. I have since learned a local junk dealer gave $8 for it. The dipper had been left here some years ago by the firm. A. C. McLean, the veteran vessel owner, is not idle this winter. Besides his aldermanic dnties and especially as one of the committee on municipal lighting, etc., his fleet is all being overhauled and put in shape for the spring business. Ex-U. S. Boiler Inspector Mike Mahar has bought out his brother John’s interest in the National Boiler Works, at Bay City, and is pounding rivets to beat the band. I thought so, at least, when I visited his shop, there was more noise than a Boer bombardment. CHICAGO. Special Correspondence to The Marine Record. a, There have not been any grain charters since last wee and very little enquiry. The schooner Cora A. is in drydock having her botto calked. ‘This is the schooner’s first drydocking since s was built in 1889. A sister ship to the steel tow barge Madeira, launched last” week from the yards of the Chicago Ship Building Company, ” is in course of construction for the same owners, the Min- nesota Steamship Co. (Pickands, Mather & Co.,) Cleveland. These vessels are 450 feet over all, 50 feet beam, 29 feet deep, and will carry 7,500 tons on a mean draft of 18 feet. The members of Chicago Branch, No. 3, of the Ship- masters’ Association; at their meeting last week, presented to past president Capt. George Tebo, a handsonie solid gold badge with a miniature regulation flag numbered 79 attached, as a token of their esteem and appreciation of his valuable © service to Branch No. 3 ever since it was established. os There will be quite a number of changes in the masters of © steamers this spring. Capt. James Letsk, of Milwaukee, ~ who is so well and favorably known, will let go his old com- mand, the Helena, after sculling her along for a dozen seasons, to take charge of one of the 500-foot steel steamers now building for the American Steamship Company, Duluth, (American Steel and Wire Co., Chicago.) A change of masters in the Neosho is also on the slate. Yaad Caprain A. W. Gillman, superintendent of the Goodrich © Transportation Co., and one of the most widely known men ~ on the lakes, died very suddenly of apoplexy on a Chicago & Northwestern train as it was approaching Manitowoc, on ~ Wednesday night, Captain Gillman had left Chicago in ap-- parently his usual good health. He had been with the Goodrich Company since 1865, and was their superintendent ~ since 1891. He was aged sixty-three years. The Canada-Atlantic line has now a fleet of five steamers, three of which are under season charters at enormous figures, paying about half the value of a, boat for a season’s work. The fleet, so far, are the Arthur Orr, George Orr, Kearsarge, W. H. Gratwick and another boat. ‘The present tonnage totals 21,000, whereas last season the line had only the five boats of the Menominee line under charter, carrying 17,000 tons. This means an increase, so far, of about 100,000 for | the season. . The Canada-Atlantic route is developing © rapidly. 4 The grain weighmaster for the Board of Trade, H. A. Foss, very pettinently states that shortages must occur at one of three places—point, of loading, during transportation, or — point of unloading. The average shortage on vessels loaded — at this port and unloaded at different lake ports east of © Chicago, is three-eighths of a bushel per 1,000. Mr. Foss: — recently visited the following ports to see how his weights — turned out during the season of navigation: Detroit, Cleve- ” land, Erie, Port Huron, Buffalo, Goderich, Kingston, Pres- — cott, Midland, Ogdensburg, Port Dalhousie and Port Col- — borne. : “Over on the cash side of the exchange the opinion is ~ prevailing that some shippers in the market have had for Be the last two or three days a reduced rail,rate to Baltimore © and Philadelphia, which is likely to be made public within’ a few days. Over a million bushels of corn has been worked © to the sea-board in the past two or three days, anda good _ many oats, and the people who have not been able to do the ~ business are claiming that the prices show the business has been done on a concession. It is expected that a new tariff will be out before long, but that some are working on it © already is beyond question.” The first official trip from Chicago to Lockport on the new _ drainage canal was made last Wednesday by the steamer Minnie B., Capt. Louis Hohmann, who had extended an invitation to 100 of his friends. The party left Chicago at 10:30 a. m. and arrived at the Bear Trap dam at Lockport at 3 p. m., where an enthusiastic crowd gave them a hearty greeting. After a short stay at Lockport, the party returned to Chicago, arriving atg p.m. The trip coyered a distance of about 68 miles and was much enjoyed, the weather being - splendid. Among those present were: Capts. Louis Hoh- — mann, Dennis McCarthy, John Roberts, harbor master; Chas: Darrow, ass’t harbor master; J. F. Hodell, R. Tyler, Louis Kiuhle, Wm. Robertson, Cleveland, M. McDonough, Cleveland, James Smith, Judge Thos. Bradwell, Paul Brown, ~ ass’t city engineer; J. M. Brown, M. J. Rouske, Danl. H. Robertson, Chas, Koenker, Thos. B. Banner, W. T. Lornley, Jas. T. Lonley. A. T.Linn, A. E. Letterman, Chas. Hinkle- man, F. H. Trotter, Louis Moss. : ro or oo MARINE CITY. Special Correspondence to The Marine Record. Capt. John Corrigan was in the city last week. The shipyard of Alex. Anderson, at Marine City, is per- haps the busiest wooden shipyard on thelakesatthistime. In _ addition to the rebuilding of the barge Aurora and extensive - repairs on the Sakie Shepard, Mr.Anderson hasanewsteamer under construction, which he is building to the order of Capt. John Corrigan, for the general cargo trade. Her dimensions are 160 feet over all, 150 feet keel, 35 feet beam and 12 feet depth of hold, and will be constructed to carry a large deck load. -Her machinery will be fore and aft com- pound, 12 x22, with 14-inch stroke, built by Whitman, of Buffalo. She will be launched about April ist. f