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KINGSTON, ONT. Special Correspondence to The Marine Record. The Belmont gold mine, near Marmora, has almost en- tirely closed down, and little or no work will be done there during the next two or three weeks. The Cataraqui Mining and Developing Co. has been incor- porated, witha share capital of $400,000, and Hon. Peter Maclarin, Hon. Donald McMillan and others as directors. They will start building here this fall. Mr. Laidlaw, manager of the Rapid Transit Co.,.desires to thank the people of Kingston for their patronage of the steamer Unique during the past season. He claims that notwithstanding low rates, the season has been a profitable one. The Government boat is busy with her survey at the foot of Wolfe Island. The Minister of Public Works has prom- ised that a dredge will be sent to deepen the channel at the foot of the island, also to complete the work on Kingston harbor. ; Professor Miller is doing geological work in connection with the Sudbury nickel mines. Recently Dr. Maund, a celebrated German chemist, purchased a property at Sud- bury, known as the Stobie and Tough properties. The Hamilton Refining Co. also lately purchased properties in the same district. The metal sheet workers, No. 117, met on Saturday even- ing for the election of officers, with this result: Pres., W. Patterson; vice-pres. W. Bryson; sec. W. Hamilton; rec. sec. C. Harris; treas., W. Cannon; sergt.-at-arms, E. J. Ada. W. Patterson, Peter Moncrief, and J. Elmer were elected to represent the union on the Trades and Labor Council. The officers were installed by R. Mooney, president of the Trades and Labor Council. Thursday morning, about seven o’clock, a small, two- masted schooner, the Robert McDonald, which was anchored below the M. T. Co’s elevator, dragged her anchor during the gale and began to drift toward the Pittsburg shore. About 8:30 the wind changed from southwest to northwest- erly, and it was not long after that time before the vessel grounded near the cottages below the Royal Military Col- lege. The vessel rests on a good level bottom in about 2% feet of water. She is light, having come from Charlotte about midnight last evening to load cedar posts for Charlotte at the spile dock. The schooner Robert McDonald is owned by Messrs. A. Matthews and Robert McDonald, Charlotte, and is sailed by Capt. Frank Matthews, Lake Port, near Col- borne. She has not been damaged by her mishap. Capt. - Thomas Donnelly went over to the vessel this morning to look at her. He decided that she was all right where she was, and as soon as the wind went down he would send the steamer Donnelly to release her. Capt. Dix, of the schooner S. H. Dunn, was in the big blow Wednesday morning, and tells of having had a very exciting experience. He left Kingston Monday afternoon at three o’clock, and lay all Tuesday in a calm—the calm that precedes a storm. At five o’clock a breeze sprung up and his stout vessel was headed for Port Dalhousie. The wind increased in velocity and the sea “‘rolled mountains high,” At times the waves towered twenty feet above the craft, but she kept dry. The velocity of the gale carried away the vessel’s two jibs, her jibboom and mainsail, Being light she tossed about at a lively rate, but kept her head well up. Capt. Dix succeeded in getting within six miles of Port Dal- housie; in fact he was able to see the tug lights. Then he was forced to turn about and head down the lake, arriving here last night. Hecame down the lake under bare poles having made a mainsail out of two spare jibs. The Dunn carries a crew of seven, and that they did not go to Davy Jones’ locker is because of the fact that their skipper is an experienced mariner. OO OSS It is probable that the Light-Housé Board will ask lake shipbuilders for proposals to build the Sumac, the light- house tender designed for service in the ninth light-house district, which includes the whole of Lake Michigan. When bids were solicited for this vessel some time ago none were received. The cost of material had so advanced that bidders did not think it worth while. The original appropriation for this vessel was $85,000, which was later increased to $100,000. One-half of the $100,000 was made, immediately available in the sundry civil bill. The Sumacis to be a twin screw steamer of the following dimensions: Length over all, 170 feet; length between perpendiculars, 160 feet; depth of hold, 14 feet; displacement, 700 tons; maximum speed, 15 miles, She is to be equipped with jet condensing engines of 750 indicated horse hower, with cylinders of 18 and 34 in. diameter and 28in. stroke. Steam tobe supplied by two Scotch type boilers. ‘end of the Canada Atlantic. THE MARINE RECORD. CHICAGO. Special Correspondence to The Marine Record. Grain freights are in easy shape with a fair amount of business at two cents on wheat to Lake Erie. Milwaukee to Baffalo barley, 134c. Toledo, coal—Emerald, Midland, 5o0c; Port Huron, 30c; Sandusky to Marine City, 3oc. A rumor from Oconto that the steamer J. EK. Rumbell had foundered near Long Tail Point, Green Bay, with all hands is without foundation. The Rumbell has been in Green Bay weatherbound, And that is all there to the story. The grain trade is running along evenly at 2c. for wheat, with a demand sufficient to take all the tonnage offered. Milwaukee is also taking some boats, and unless there is a decided change in general conditions, grain rates will con- tinue some time at their present figure. The steamer City of Chicago, of the Graham & Morton line, went into winter quarters on Wednesday. The num- ber of passengers carried by the line this season exceeds that of any previous year in the history of the company, and the volume of freight handled was also heavy. Grain cargo insurance rates were advanced on September I. The following table shows the old figures and also the new ones, which go into effect the first of the month. To Port Huron, from 25 to 35 cents; to Buffalo, 30 to 4o cents; to Kingston, 45 to 55 cents; to Montreal, 60 to 70 cents. As an outcome of a collision in the ice off Milwaukee last winter between the Indiana and the F. & P. M. No. t, the latter steamer has been libeled by the Goodrich line for $800. The steamer Charles McVea was libeled for a supply bill to Joy, Morton & Co. Both boats were at once bonded out. The Treasury Department statistics indicate that the lake commerce of 1900 will be the greatest on record, the total number of arrivals at the 37 principal ports on the lakes to August being for the season 15,941. Chicago led in the amount of shipping. During the season to August 1 the grain receipts at lake ports were 66,090,115 bushels. Capt. James Moore, of Chicago, who recently purchased the burned wreck of the steamer Otego at Green Bay, finds that he has a tough proposition on his hands. Two unsuccess- ful attempts at floating the wreck have thus far been made. In the second attempt three steam pumps were used, but only lowered the water afew inches, The hull appears to be fairly riddled with holes, which a diver is now engaged in patching. The new Quebec line of the Canada Atlantic road will be opened early next month with the shipment of 100,0co bushels of corn by Counselman & Co., from Chicago to Europe via Quebec. The grain will be loaded at South Chicago and trans-shipped at Depot Harbor, the lake Thence it will be taken by rail to Quebec, where it will gointo the ocean steamer. A big trade for the line is predicted for next season. The officials of the Chicago-Buffalo rail lines, after a meeting in New York, September 6, issued an “‘iron-bound instruction, effective immediately, to the representatives of these lines and their connections in Chicago, that they -must maintain freight rates or men would be found to take their places who would be able to doso.’’ The rates that led to this order had run down to the lowest ever quoted, equivalent to 5 cents net, Chicago to Philadelphia, or 8 cents with elevator charges included. The steamer S. S. Curry was pulled back from the draw of the Wisconsin Central railroad bridge early on Tuesday aud trains were able once more to enter the Grand Central passenger station. The steamer was then taken back to Sixteenth street in order to permit other vessels to pass while the draw at the railroad bridge is being fixed to per- mit the passage of the Curry. All navigation of the south branch has been blocked since the Curry became fast in the bridge, and the release has been a good thing for all interests. Timothy Sammons, superintendent of the Rock Island el evators, died at his home to-day of Bright’s disease, after an illness of six months. For thirty-one years he has been connected with the Rock Island elevators, and in his capac- ity as superintendent has made as wide a circle of acquaint- ances with vesselmen as any man on the river. He was re- garded as one of the most efficient elevator men in the coun- try, and vesselmen tell many tales of his efforts to do favors for them. Heis survived bya widow, three sons, and six daughters. Rear-Admiral Louis Kempff, U. S. N., who will be fifty- nine years old October 11, was appointed from Illinois to the Naval Academy in 1858, but in May of 1861 this class was ordered into active service on account of the require- ments of the war then just beginning, and in this way young Kempff saw no inconsiderable active service before achiev- ing his majority. He was number nine in a class of thirty- two, and the only members of the class remaining in the service are Rear-Admirals Sumner, Higginson and Day, the latter having retired at his own request last March, Ad- miral Kempff has one son who is also in the navy; Ensign Clarence S. Kempff, U. S. N., now on the Fish Commission steamer Albatross, and who entered the Naval Academy May 19, 1893. ere POSS THE black spar buoy marking the southwest point of t shoal ground that extends ears across Srureeon Bay ied the east shore, leaving a narrow channel between it and Hill’s point on the west shore, has gone adrift, SEPTEMBER 20, ogy DETROIT. Special Correspondence to the Marine Record. Quick work was done by the Detroit Ship Building Co. 4 the broken ‘“‘jenny gear” of the Frank E. Kirby and Ma morning the steamer resumed her route. Saturday Sunday the City of the Straits took her place but the Sunday prevented her landing at Catawba Island. ee The Treasury Department has been unable to secure big for the construction of a lighthouse tender for the Greaj Lakes, within the limit of the appropriation of $85 coo secured by Senator McMillan last winter. Asa consequence Congress will be asked to increase the limit of the Cost t $125,000, and the present plans and specifications will } adhered to. at David Stockton, employed on the schooner Sage at Port) Huron, had a narrow escape from being crushed to death on} Monday. He was working in the hold of the vessel at the| hoisting of the coal, when the bucket witha full load y unexpectedly lowered back into the vessel and Stockton 1 inned underneath a ton anda half of coal. Fortunately hollow had been scooped out where the man fell and he caped with only a bad squeezing. ae Norman B. Conger, of Detroit, inspector and marine agent of the Weather Bureau, replying to a recent criticis of the service in relation to last Tuesday’s gale, saysit w, one of the most timely and accurate predictions he ever say that there was a discrepancy between the predictions and tl actuality as to the point where the storm center enter Lake Michigan, but not enough to affect results; that fu warning of the night gale on Lake Erie had been sent to a ports on that lake and elsewhere, and thata gale is n severest right in the storm center, but off to the sides‘of and over its route just after it has passed. The foundered schooner Fontana is now entirely unde water with nothing to show her location. Both masts have been carried away by the gale. She is now one of the most dangerous wrecks that could obstruct the entrance to the St. Clair river. A small vessel with a light will be anchored over the wreck. The Fontana has been sinking steadily | since she went down after her collision with the Santiago, and there is now full three feet of water over her cabii Every precaution is needed by vessels entering the river t prevent running on the wreck. Capt. George P. McKa chairman of the Lake Carriers’ committee on aids to naviga tion, received a dispatch from Capt. J. W. Westcott, of De troit, stating that he had arranged with Kendall, of Po Huron, to keep lights on the wreck the of Fontana. Manager Dustin of Ash- ley & Dustin, points with pride to the performance of the steamer Frank EK. Kirby, which battled with the terribl sea two hours while rescuing the crew ofthe schooner Mag- — net and came in but a few hours late. General Manager Car- ter of the D. & C. referred with a smile to the performance — of the City of Cleveland and City of Detroit, both of whic made a trip across Lake Erie in the great storm, arriving i port, the former twenty-five minutes late at Cleveland an the latter coming to Detroit one hour and three-quarter. late, after having taken the longest passage to escape a lit tle of the wind. ‘‘The storm proved the advantage of a side- wheeler over a propeller in shallow water and a bad sea,’ said an officer of the D. & C. this morning. ‘The mishai to the City of Erie was caused by the breaking of the stear. ing gear, which left the steamer entirely at the mercy o the sea and of course resulted in considerable damage and excitement among the passengers.”’ eo or BUFFALO. Special Correspondence to the Marine Record. : aes : The North Land, of the Northern Steamship line, ar- rived here on Wednesday, and will lay up for the winter. The tug Alpha of the Maytham fleet at Ashtabula which was libeled about a month ago, has been released by the United Stated marshal. It is understood that the bonds to the amount of $10,200 were furnished, which is twice the amount of libel. Itis said that the Maythams will likely begin a suit against the Great Lakes Towing Company for damages for the enforced idleness of the Alpha. many years. He leaves a wife, one daughter and one son, Thomas P, Kingsford, president of the National Starch Co. The members of the committee which is is arranging the details for the Merchants’ Exchange convention up the lakes on the North Land, on Sept. 18, meet for further con- sideration of the project. ‘The committee has been divided into sub-committees as follows: Music committee, Mathias Rohr and C. F. Heintz; special entertainment feature Harry J. Koch and Jesse C. Bowen. Secretary Curt M. Treat, of the Merchants’ Exchange convention and industry bureau, will look after the general entertainment of the ex- cursionists, He will engage some entertainer of nation: reputation to accompany the pleasure seekers. Mayor | Witt, of Binghamton, has written to Mr. Treat, announcing his intention of participating in the trip, and it is expected many from Syracuse, Rochester and elsewhere in Central and Western New York will follow suit.