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THE MARINE RECORD. laa kkk i 2 DULUTH—SUPERIOR. Special Correspondence to The Marine Record. Capt. Fred. N. LaSalle, one of the best known vessel agents on the lakes, died on Friday at his home from Bright’s dis- ease, after an illness of one year. He leaves a widow, and two children by a former wife, Jessie and Frank, The re- mains were taken to Chicago. The month of June wasan unusually heavy onein ore shipments and those who have been predicting that the total output of the season would more nearly approximate - 16,000,000 tons than 20,000,000 are now forced to confess the probable inacuracy of their predictions. The shipments fromthe Duluth & Iron Range docks at Two Harbors for the month were 624,000 tons, as compared with 600,000 tons for the corresponding monthin 1899. The Duluth, Missabe & Northern shipped 709,073, while in June 1899, the total amounted to but 428,563, showing an increase of 280,510 tons. The Eastern Minnesota shipped 282,946, while during June, 1899, the amount was but 112,396. Considerable progress is being made at the Collingwood shipyards. This week the masons and bricklayers are at work on the boiler house, machine shop and engine room. The building which is of brick will be 50 x 55 feet one story high. There will be two boilers six feet in diameter and fourteen feet in length capable of supplying a pressure of 125 pounds of steam to a tandem compound Corliss engine of 175 horse-power besides a number of smaller engines used in driy- ing the immense rolls'in the main building, the steam ham- mers, shears, hoists, etc. Considerable more machinery which is being manufactured in Canada will be placed in the buildings immediately on its arrival which is expected will be in the course of a few weeks. The large and heavy machinery in the main building has been placed on the ce- ment beds prepared and the machinists are now busily en- gaged in placing the pulleys and shafts. The ninth annual convention of the International Long- shoremen’s association assembled at Duluth Tuesday for a four-days’ session. One of the chief objects to be accom- plished by it will be the settlement of the freight handlers’ troubles at Buffalo and Erie. Another will be the dispo- sition of the resignation of Secretary Barter, who will be asked to retain his place. No contest over the election of officials is anticipated. President Keefe will probably be re- elected. Secretary Barter reports that seventy new unions -had been organized since the last convention. Twenty new unions have been formed in Ohio alone, ten in Wisconsin, » nine in Michigan, eleven in New York, three in Pennsyl- cities. ~- piles. vania and three in Illinois, with the balance in Canadian The association includes in its membership all classes of longshoré workers, including lumber loaders and unloaders, coal trimmers and scoopers, hoisters and engi- neers, lake firemen, and, in fact, all dock workers in general on the Great Lakes, rivers and seacoasts in the United States and Canada. The Great Northern elevator now being constructed here -will be the largest elevator in the world. The foundation - for this mammoth structure is 128x370 feet in size, con- structed of Portland cement concrete ona foundation of The cost of the foundation alone was $85,000. When completed the elevator will tower 230 feet above the foun- - dation and will be one of the most imposing iron and steel ‘structures ever erected. The capacity of this elevator will . be 6,000,000 bushels and the interior will be arranged for the storagé of corn as wellas small grain. ‘The storage bins aA will be 1334 feet square. The square bins area new depart- ure in steel construction. Noone has dared to use them heretofore, former bins having always been round, and, of course, of less capacity. Tests have been made of grain __-pressure in these square bins at the University of Minnesota by a member of the Institute of Engineers of England, and by the engineering corps of the Great Northern Railway. There will be a basement floor and a main floor, where all cleaning machinery will be located, with a capacity of three million bushels. Above the main floor are the bins about too feet in depth. The cupalo above the bin has six stories. _ Thirty steel storage tanks will be erected surrounding the _ main elevator, which will be 50 feet in diameter and 65 feet _ high. The largest elevator now in existence has a capacity __ for only 4,000,000 bushels, so it will be seen that this struct- ure will be the greatest grain elevator inthe world. Twenty million pounds of steel will be used in the construction of the main building. Total cost of the building will be about _ $2,000,000, ~ ‘ oO Tuuerising and falling of the water in Lake Michigan which - was noticed last Saturday was repeated on Tuesday. The rise and fall extended over four feet from high to low water, left on the’ shore. ‘and at times the water went down so quick that fish were Harbormaster Kennedy, of Waukegan, thinks that the tide was caused by the wind squalls. BUFFALO. Special Correspondence to the Marine Record. The Richelieu & Ontario Navigation Co. has opened its 1900 season under excellent auspices and present prospects point to ene of the most prosperous years In the history of this well managed traffic business. Capt. Frank McCabe of the steamer Boston is at his home at this port, laid up with a severe attack of illness. Capt. Fisher of the Syracuse took out the Boston on her last trip. The Syracuse went to drydock for repairs. It is said that if the Calvin company succeeds in liberating the steamer Spartan from the rocks in the Lachine canal, where the water flows at thirty miles an hour, the feat will be the finest piece of wrecking skill ever performed in those waters. The steel steamer I. W. Nichols has been taken out of the ore trade and has been chartered for the balance of the sea- son by the Lehigh Valley company to carry package freight between Buffalo and Duluth. The charter price was not given out for publication. The Anchor Line has issued an ultimatum to its striking freight handlers at Erie, 600 of whom are idle. They say that when they return to work it will have to be at the Buf- falo scale of wages. All the Pennsylvania freight is being shipped to Buffalo and the package freight business there is at a standstill. The Great Lakes Towing Co,, was tied up for a short time on Wednesday. The company discharged one of its firemen and the men on the other boats went on strike. A committee of the Licensed Tugmen’s Protective Association waited oa Manager Lautenslager and a settlement was agreed upon. The men went back after being out about an hour. In a lively race after a tow between the tug Peerless, of the Maytham Towing & Wrecking Co., and the tug Cascade, of the Great Lakes Towing Co., the wheel of the Peerless struck the bow of the Cascade and knocked a hole in her. The Cascade was then beached at the life-saving station. She was afterwards raised and dry docked for repairs. Work on the main breakwater is progressing rapidly. The timber crib work is finished, comprising over a mile at the south end, including the breakwater, «xtending out from Stony Point. The stone breakwater will all be up to the water line and. about 3,000 feet of it completely finished by the end of this season and by the middle of next summer Buffalo’s new harbor, which will undoubtedly be the finest harbor in the world, will be finished. The following comparative statement of the tonnage of the canals from the opening of the same to June 1, I900, with the tonnage of the year 1899 for the same period, was given out by the superintendent of public works: April, one week, 1899, 65,113; 1900, 57,598. May, first week, 1899, 71- 236; 1900, 60,053. May, second week, 1899, 67,813; 1900, 96- 261. May, third week, 1899, 86,375; 1909, 95,502. May, fourth week, 1899, 175,904; I9cO, 171,769. Total to June 1, 1899, 466,441; 1900, 481,183. This shows a gain for this June of 14,742 tons. By next season it is thought a new steel steamer, complete in equipment and modern in all its appointments, will be. added to the fleet of the Crystal Beach Co. It is recognized by the company that the demands of the Pan-American year can be but partly met by the present’ fleet of boats, and if present plansdo not miscarry the projected craft will be ready for the opening of the excursion season next year. The new steamer will carry from 1,500 to 1,800 persons, and is designed to make the tripfrom Buffalo to Crystal Beach in thirty-five minutes. . As a general thing it may be said that the coal supply is livening up some. Following the Fourth of July the coal supply dwindled a little, not being-as brisk as it might be, but now it is getting back to normal again. The scarcity happened at a time when it was not very embarrassing, for the owners had most of their boats up at the upper lake ports at the time and were not crying for tonnage. The movement of ore is unchanged. The only difference seems to be in the willingness of the larger tonnage to engage in the ore trade, a few such boats being constantly placed with lower lake shippers. For the fiscal year ended June 30th the report of the cus- toms department at the port of Buffalo shows a satisfactory increase in business. Duties on imports amounted to $818,- 202.82, an advance of over $50,000 over the previous year. Receipts from all cources were $823.324.46, and to collect this amount cost 6% per cent., or $53,591.03. Vessels en- tered from foreign ports numbered 1,210,and 1,138 cleared for foreign ports. Vessels entered from domestic ports numbered 4,010, and 4,137 cleared for domestic ports. There were 136 certificates of enrollment granted, and 267 licenses for coasting trade granted. The value of exports was: Domestic, $14,271,527, foreign, $195,988. The port of Buffalo is now certainly safe for another year, at least, from any possible injury which might have been anticipated from the construction of the Conners elevators at Montreal. In the first place, the opening of the fourteen foot navigation of the St. Lawrence canals, promised so faith- fully by the Dominion government for the present season, is not yet in sight. In the second place there is not a move yetin thedirection of building the elevators which Mr. Conners promised would doso much for Montreal. There is also a feeling that Connors and his syndicate merely wanted to secure the option and would not build, in any case JULY 12, 1900, they are credited with some interior views not yet patent to the general public. Lake shipments for the week from the Custom House reports are 65,185 tons, distributed as follows: Milwaukee, 24,600 tons; Chicago, 15,600 tons; Duluth-Superior, 6,920 tons; Lake Linden, 3,900 tons; Fort William, 2,600 tons; Racine, 2,500 tons; Manitowoc, 2,400 tons; Green Bay, 2,275 tons; Hancock, 1,2co tons; Waukegan, 1,000 tons; Toledo, 650 tons; Port Huron, 600 tons; Depere, 350 tons; Marine City, 350 tons. Freights ranged to: Milwaukee, 60 cents; Chicago, 65 cents; Duluth, 40 cents; Lake Linden, 50 cents; Fort William, 50 cents; Racine, 65 cents; Manitowoc, 60 cents; Green Bay, 60 cents; Hancock, 50 cents; Waukegan, 65 cents; Toledo, 40 cents; Port Huron, 40 cents; Depere, 60 cents; Marine City, 4o cents; Port Burwell, as agreed. Somebody made a slight blunder when it was published that the lake coal shipments were about 200,000 tons less to the end of June than they were atthe same date last season. ‘The fact is that the amount this season was 731,401 tons, and 676,933 tons last season, 519,136tons in 1898, 430,- 023 tons in 1897 and 644,283 tons in 1896. It isa faet that the shipments are now falling off and as it is given out that July is certain to be a light month in the business the total will probably fall short of last season by the opening of Au- gust. One of the big anthracite shipping companies, name not given, but supposed to be the Lackawanna, during June shipped 30,000 tons of anthracite from thc mines to Chicago direct, transferred the same amount from the Buffalo trestle to cars for the same point and shipped only 30,000 tons by lake to all points. i oO ee CHICAGO. - Special Correspondence to The Marine Record. Higgie & Chamberlain chartered the schooner Lotus for oats to Port Huron at 1% cents. Grain freights are active this week at 2 cents on corn to Lake Erie ports, and 14 cents to Port Huron. The steam yacht Maud S. isin the Great Lakes Towing Co.’s floating dry dock for a general overhauling. The steamer Cleveland, light; when coming down the river from Stetson’s slip Saturday evening, sprung a bad leak and was towed to Miller Brothers’ dry dock for repairs. -Extreme regret is felt here at the deplorable accident to the schooner yacht Idler on Saturday last, and the sad loss of life to the members of Captains James and John Corri- gan’s families. The Graham & Morton Transportation Co.’s steamer Mary was in Miller Brother’s dry dock and her fin keels taken off, as they were found to be a detriment to the speed of the steamer. The Mary is also to receive a new wheel with more lead. R. G. Peters of Manistee, owner of the steamer Charles Reitz and three consorts, claims $825 for detention of 5%4 days in receiving cargoes of ties for his fleet from the Evans- ville Grain Company. He has libeled the cargoes and com- menced sult to recover. The passenger steamer May Graham arrived here on Tues- day morning from St. Joseph, Mich. She has been placed in the excursion business and will run from Graham & Mor- ton’s dock, foot of Wabash avenue, to Lincoln park during the day, and take out moonlight excursions at night. Grain shipments from South Chicago about reached the high water mark on Wednesday, when 877,100 bushels, mostly corn, was loaded into vessels to be taken to lower lake ports. But seven boats were required to furnish this capacity, two of which, the Siemens and Fairbairn, took over 200,000 bushels apiece, while the little schooner A. S. Wood had room for but 22,000 bushels. The Rockefeller boats have become an important factor in the Chicago grain trade, taking 1,000,000 bushels away per week. This week the amount may run ahead of that figure. Their loads run from 200,0co to 210,000 bushels apiece. Were it not for the way the big ships are handled there would be a bad break in rates, but Rockefeller tactics are to name their price and wait until they get it. If it is not one day it may be the next, and it does not apparently matter much how long they wait, but the figure they must get. The remains of the late Captain Fred. N. LaSalle arrived here from Duluth over the Northwestern R. ‘R Sunday morning, and was met by a large delegation of marine men. The interment took place at Rosehill cemetery. The hon- orary pall-bearers were Geo. I. McCurdy, Chas. E. Peck, Wiley M. Egan, Edward Smith, John Mitchell, R. R. Rhodes, James Davidson, James W. Millen, A. B. Wolvin and Alexander McDougal. The active pall-bearers were Captains Jas. J. Rardon, Dennis Sullivan, Cyrus H. Sinclair, James R. Sinclair, Frank B. Higgie and James Channon. The demand for grain carriers is light and ore shippers from Lake Superior ports are getting all the tonnage they can take care of. Some vesselmen do not look for any im- provement in carrying charges during the summer months, as a block of ore to be moved from the head of the lakes to Ohio ports during the next sixty days was covered this week at $1, and there is more tonnage on the market for the sate time at that figure. Grain carriers continue in good demand, and there are not many vessels on the market for Escanaba cargoes. The movement of lumber is still light, and most of the lumber boats that are not under contract are carrying ore. # Pe, RE a ae