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THE MARINE RECORD. MARCH 8, I900. Kk kk KK ! CHICAGO. Special Correspondence to The Marine Record. _ Grain freights are nominal at 23 cents on corn to Buffalo, ‘but no charters have been made recently. Capt. J. S. Dunham has sold the schooner City of Sheboy- gan to Capts. Oleson and Tolliffson and Win Schlossen, of Milwaukee. Mr. Joseph Berolzheim has been appointed general pas- senger agent of the Manitou Steamship Co., with offices at ’ Rush and North Water Streets. Charles Maytham, of the Maytham Tug line, of Buffalo, and the Barry Bros., of Chicago, are figuring on starting a tug line here. The Barry’s have two tugs and are looking _for more. On the 9th inst. the city council of Chicago passed an ordinance authorizing the controller to issue bonds to the extent of $2,500,000 to develop water power on the Chicago drainage canal. The scheme for the water power plant in contemplation and for the transmission of energy therefrom is to serve for lighting and pumping purposes at Chicago. Capt. David Curran, recently of the steamer Louis Pahlow has purchased an interest in the steamer Colin Campbell, from Martin & Silliman, of Cheboygan, Mich., Martin & Sillimap and Capt. David Curran have purchased the barge -C G. King from the Hines Lumber Co., as a consort for the Campbell, Capt. Curran will be master of the Campbell and - manager of the fleet. The Supreme Court of Illinois has decided that the Sani- tary District of Chicago has no right to destroy the dams in _ the Illinois river at Henry and Copperas creek. The court states that these dams were built at considerable cost, for the _ purposes of slack- water navigation, and that their removal - is not necessary for any purpose of the sanitary district. _ This decision is in reversal of a recent decision of the court of Fulton county. _ The Manitou Steamship Co., having by purchase acquired _ the ownership of the steamship Manitou, including its docks and good-will of the business, will continue to operate the - same in the exclusive passenger traffic between Chicago and _ Mackinac Island and intermediate points. Ata meeting of its Board of Directors the following officers were elected. _N. F. Leopold, president, W. I. Babcock, vice president, H. W. Thorp, secretary and treasurer, Executive Board N. F. - Leopold, A. W. Goodrich, W. L. Brown. . Mr. Geo. L.. McCurdy, one of the recent inspectors of the Chicago drainage canal, in the interests of insurance men and. underwriters, says: ‘‘Something radical must be done at once if Chicago’s water commerce is to be preserved, With a current I do not see how traffic of big boats can be carried on at all. The boats will be driven away from Chi- cago. Itis not a discrimination against marine men, for _ they have plenty to do elsewhere, but it will injure shipping interests. ‘It is not possible for an insurance company to _ discriminate against a port, but the vessel owners themselves will solve the difficulty by keeping their boats away.” . . The steamer Armenia loaded with grain to a draft of 16 ft. Io inches, being towed down Chicago river Saturday morn- ing at 10 o’clock, stranded on the Washington street tunnel and remained on until Sunday morning at 7:30 o’clock, when she floated off with the current. Two tugs were sent - to her at 8:30 and tried to drag her over the tunnel but with- out success, another attempt was made by 4 tugs Monday morning, with no better result, and the steamer was towed back to between Madison and Washington street bridges. ’ It is claimed that the water was 5 inches above data, which is 17 feet on the tunnel, Sunday morning, when the steamer floated off it. : . The Manitou Steamship Co. have appointed the following _ Officers to the steamship Manitou. Capt. Allan McIntyre master, J. G. Parsons Ist officer, R. L. Peck chief engineer, _ Frank J. Carlin purser, Jas. A; Shaw chief steward. The _ Manitou will start on her first trip June 21st, and her last _ trip September 14th, from the same dock as formerly, north of Rush Street bridge. The company are making consider- able alterations and improvements on the Manitou, putting in about 25 additional state rooms and parlors, some of which will be fitted with private bath-rooms, givirg accom- modation to about 75 more passengers, in so doing they abolish the freight business entirely, and she will be fitted - out as complete as any first-class hotel. he Barry Bros. Trans. Co.’s steamer F. and P. M. No. 1 collided with the Goodrich Trans. Co.’s steamer Indiana, last Thursday morning about two miles north-east of the two-mile water works crib. At the time of the accident the Indiana was stuck fast in the ice and the F. and P. M. was following in her wake. Capt. Pitman, of the F. and P. M. _ No I, in trying to cut through the ice to the westward of the _ Indiana, struck some very heavy ice, causing the steamer to sheer back into the channel behind the Indiana, and before she could be stopped she ran into the stern of the Indiana and : rashed in her fantail, stringer and bulwarks, doing con- siderable damage. The steamers assisted each other in breaking up the ice until they arrived at Milwaukee in the afternoon. The H. W. Williams Transportation Co., of South Haven, was reorganized this spring as follows: H. W. Williams, president; J. G. Wiley, superintendent; C. W. Williams, secretary and treasurer; W. K. Greenbaum, general passen- ger and freight agent, with offices in Chicago, The com- pany will commence tri-weekly sailings from Chicago to South Haven, on April 2d, and will inaugurate tri-daily sail- ings during the summer season. The company’s steamers will have the freight houses now used by the L. M. & L. S. Transportation Co., and their steamers will use the dock northeast of Rush street bridge. The Williams line started about 12 years ago with one steamer catering for the pas- senger trade. They are now operating four passenger steamers—the H. W. Williams, City of Kalamazoo, Glen and the fine side-wheel steamer Darius Cole, which they purchased last fall at Detroit and brought to South Haven. Capt. John Stewart, of the Graham & Morton Trans. Co.’s steamer City of Milwaukee, arrived here from Oakland, Cal., last Thursday, and went to Benton Harbor on Friday. He will bring the company’s steamer City of Louisville to Chi- cago to commence her season’s work as soon as the ice, which at present’ is very heavy, gets away from here. She was scheduled to arrive here on Tuesday, March 6th. The company intends to put three boats on the east shore route the coming season, the new service to leave Chicago for Grand Haven every, morning and come direct back every night, thereby enabling the boat leaving here at night to return from Muskegon direct without touching at Grand Haven as formerly, which will be of considerable benefit to the shippers by getting their green stuff and fruit on the market herein the morning. This business is increasing rapidly and has become a very important factor. The steamer City of Racine is in dock at Milwaukee with a bro- ken shoe and wheel caused by the heavy ice. The suit of Eng.Joshua Ritchie, of Port Washington, against -F. A. Dennett, of Sheboygan, which has been brought in admiralty for $601.92 claimed tobe due for wages under a broken contract, was tried before Judge Seaman, at Mil- waukee last week, and decision -was taken under advise- ment. The plaintiff alleges that he was engaged as.engineer of Mr. Dennett’s steambarge, R. A. Seymour, for the season of 1899 at $70 permonth. Theagreement, he claims, was made about March Ist, and when the navigation season was about to open he was notified that his services were not required. The answer is that no agreement was made with Mr. Rit- chie for 1899. Mr. Ritchie testified that he had been an engineer on the lakes for nineteen years and that his certifi- cate was for a 500-ton high-pressure. Hesaid he did not belong tothe Marine Engineer’s Association. Capt. Van Ellis, a tug captain of Port Washington, testified that Rit- chie worked for him as engineer on his tug during the sea- son of 1898-9. He testified that he overheard a conversation between the captain of the Seymour and Ritchie, and that he was informed by the former that Ritchie had been en- gaged as engineer on the Seymour for the coming season, and that he would have to get a new engineer for his tug, He testified that Ritchie always gave satisfaction as his en- gineer. rrr or or PORT HURON Special Correspondence to the Marine Record, On Monday Archie Wright sent a gang of men, to Toledo to work on the boilers of the steamer Harlem. Owing to the cold weather work on the steel boats at the yards of the Jenks Ship Building Co. has been suspended. The government has secured an option on the steamer C. W. Moore, of the Hart line. If purchased the boat will be used in the light-house supply service. Jobn L,. Martin, formerly a well known lake captain, died at Charlotte on Wednesday of this week. His remains were taken to Petrolia for burial. Mr. Martin was we)l known in Port Huron. Fred Whitney died this week after a long illness with typhoid tever. Fred has been clerk on the Star Line steamers for upwards of ten years and was remarkably well liked. He was 35 years old. The tug business gives promise of being very interesting in the vicinity of this port this season. While the tug trust controls most of the business, having the largest number of © tugs\in the port, there will be considerable competition as there are a number of tug owners who are on their own hook. The funeral of David Robeson, Jr., who was fatally burned: last week, was very largely attended. Deceased was well known, having been born and raised in this city. He was popular with everybody and led an industrious upright life. He was a splendid business man, and many friends mourn with the stricken family and relatives his untimely death. The Green Bay Vessel Co. will build a first-class tug, about the size of the George D. Nau. Plans have been pre- pared and work will be started as soon as the large steamer now being constructed in the north side yards is launched, which will be a matter of a few weeks. The proposed new tug will be for sale. The company has had several offers recently for its steamer Normandie. It is doubtful, however, if the negotiations will result in the sale of the boat. : CLEVELAND. Special Correspondence to the Marine Record. a The cold snap has delayed the sending forward of ore to the furnaces, besides, there is still complaint of a scarcity of © railroad cars. The steamers F. B. Case and J. W. Moore will be operated by Drake, Bartow & Co. this season. They will carry ore from the head of Lake Superior. : The many friends of Mr. Robert Logan, naval architect and consulting engineer, will be sorry to learn that he has ~ been laid up for the past few days with a severe c ld... It is” hoped that with good care and attention he will be at his office again toward the end of the week. ; 1 Capt. James Corrigan has purchased the engines that were removed from the burned hull of the steamer Aurora in the Detroit river some time ago, and also two boilers, which he will install in one of his steel barges. He will probably not be able to have the work done until next fall. \ Capt. Charles A. Richardson, U. $. local inspector of hulls, Chicago, spent Thursday in Cleveland, and renewed acquaintance with a number of his former associates and friends. ‘The captain left for Detroit in the evening and ex- pected to reach home so as to spend Sunday there. Capt. McNeff who is still keeping to windward, hale and hearty, is one of the old-time skippers, having followed the lakes from boyhood. He has sailed steamers managed in the office of Hutchinson & Co, for a number of years. For the past several seasons he has sailed the steamer City of Glasgow. The friends of Mr. W. B. Stockman, late forecast official of the Weather Bureau at this port, will be pleased to learn that he is convalescent and again at duty in Havana after an attack of yellow fever: It is expected that Mr. Stockman will be given a vacation in the near future and that he will then visit Cleveland. The announcement is made by the Detroit & Cleveland Steam Navigation Co., that, ice permitting, the first boat will corae down from Detroit March 20. A continuation of this cold snap might necessitate a change in the plans, but it ishardly believed that this weather will last a sufficient length of time to alter the plans. M. A. Hanna & Co., Cleveland, have added to their office room and re-arranged their quarters recently, now having the entire sixth floor of the Perry-Payne Building. The Carnegie Steel Co. and connected ore, vessel and dock inter- ests are extending their offices also, taking in most of the seventh floor of the same building. The Cleveland & Buffalo Transit Co. officials will make no definite statement of the time when they will open their © service fot the season. General Passenger Agent Herman says if the ice will permit they will be running by the first of April. He gives this assurance, however, that they will be running into Buffaloas soon as any ordinary boat can safely get through the ice. Commitees of the East End Improvement Association have lately interviewed Col. Jared A. Smithin furtherance of their plan to ask for an extension of the breakwater to Wilson ave- nue and erection of a dock for passenger vessels at that point. Various concerns doing business along the lake shore have extended their territory by filling in the land to considerable distances beyond the original shore line,and the break water, if extended would be turned sharply toward the north in order to provide harbor room at sufficient depth for large vessels. The undertaking involves agreat expense and the orignal plans of the improvement association may be modified to in- clude a dock and independent breakwater only. Two of the largest shafts ever manufactured are now be- ing manufactured by the Cleveland City »Forge & Iron Co., at their works at the foot of Case avenue. The shafts are for the Glasgow (Scotland) Street Railway Co. Some idea of . the immensity of the shafts can be ascertained from the fact that the great shaft that was in the Ferris Wheel at Chicago during the World’s Fair, was only a trifle larger than the shaftsnow being maufactured in Cleveland. The ingots from which each shaft is made weighed fully fifty tons. In a finished state one of the shafts will weigh about thirty- five tons. Each shaft is 25 feet long and from 26 to 37 in. in diameter. A four-inch bore is being drilled through this immense piece of steel. After the four-inch bore, a six, and eight and lastly a ten-inch drill willbe used. The officials for the Glasgow Railway Co., have placed the contracts in this country for the manufacture of all the machinery to be used in operating the road. A triantic sort of underground warfare has done a little belching lately. AJl hands around here knows that Capt. Sam Gould occupies his winter months in giving instruc- tions to those wishing to secure a license. He has done and is doing good faithful work and charges but a very moderate fee. Now comes sailing in the officers of the branch Hydrographic Office and by furnishing gratuitous information takes away Capt. Gould’s students, or at least lessens the number in his class; finally, the steamboat inspectors don’t want to bother too much with these book- learned candidates, nohow. Capt. Gould wrote the Hydro- graphic Office, Washington, asking a show for his white alley and requesting that the instructor at the branch office be called off. The branch office understands that it is ‘Strictly within its province to disseminate information, and it can’t be gainsaid but that the local inspectors of steam- boats want to find out how much dissemination has been done on candidates coming before them seeking for a