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THE MARINE RECORD. OCTOBER 4, I Keaeknne BUFFALO. Special Correspondence to the Marine Record. Owing to the strike of the coal miners shipping of hard coal by lake from Buffalo has about stopped. Buffalo has beerrreceiving about 1,000,000 bushels of grain a day, and considerably more than the average amount of flour by lake. Iron ore is coming in to the amount of about 10,000 tons a day, which is much more than the average of former seasons. It is stated that W.J. Conners has begun the work of building the elevators in Montreal which will turn some of the grain trade of the lakes to the St. Lawrence route. The building operations will continue through the winter, and in all $4,000,000 will be spent. Coal freights are at 30 cents Lakes: Michigan or Superior. There is little or no chartering, however, this week, on ac- count of the miners’ strike, and asingle cargo a day has been about the average. There is a brisk trade being done in soft coal, with a greatly increased output from the mines. Three members of the crew of the steamer North West were arrested here on the charge of being implicated in the robberies which took place on the North Land when she came down on her last trip and also of having been concerned in stealings on board of the North West. Their alleged in- tention was to ship the goods to Cleveland, where they in- tended to open a restaurant. _ “No one seems to care what becomes of the lake sailors,” said a lake captain recently. allowed torun with the staunchest, without regard to what cargo or depth. Asa result the old-timers are brought out loaded deep, and run up and down until a gust of wind strikes them and sends them to the bottom. The past sea- son was free from gales, so the loss of life was small, but the present summer has been one of uncertain winds and the fall promises to be stormy. The United States branch hydrographic office in this city is now under the charge of Lieutenant-Commander J. H. Bull, United States Navy. Commander Bull entered the service in 1866, being appointed from Pennsylvania, During the Spanish-American war he was attached tothe U.S 5S. Newport, and served on the blockade of the coast of Cuba. He has just returned from the Asiatic station where he had varied service during the Philippine insurrection, having gone to Manila immediately after the blockade of Havana. Capt. George McLeod of Buffalo has inspected the wreck of.the schooner Sage which was sunk in collision with the steamer Chicago on Monday night at Harsen’s Island and reports her a probable total loss. The Sage was owned jointly by John Kelderhouse, the Maytham estate, and her master Captain John Laughlin, and was valued at $15,000. Capt. Laughlin’s interest was insured for $3,600 with Smith, Davis & Co. Kelderhouse and the Maythams had no in- eee The Sage’s cargo consisted of 1,500 tons of soft coal. _ When the Sturges elevator at Buffalo was burned in 1896 it was not rebuilt and the high price of steel has prevented onerations until now. The 800,000-bushel addition to the steel electric elevator will be finished soon. This week the _reconstruction of the burned Eastern, a 2,500,000-bushel steel tank structure, was begun, and it is also announced that the owners of the burned Dakota will rebuild with steel at once, the capacity to be the same as the Eastern. The two will stand back just above-the foot of Main street, on the island between the Blackwell canal and Buffalo creek. When they are finished-the loss by the summer’s fires will ‘be made up. This will give the harbor a capacity of 24,495,000 bushels, of which 9,300,000 bushels, or consider- able more than a third, will be of steel. —— i ae oe COLLINGWOOD, ONT. ‘Special Correspondence to The Marine Record. _ The Algoma Central Steamship Line’s §. S. Paliki, was on the dry dock for a new wheel, this week. This is one of the fleet which the Clergue Co. brought from England. _. The Canadian barge St. Andrew, owned and operated by ‘Mr. Jas. Playfair, of Midland, and Capt.-Featherstonehaugh, -of Penetang, who commanded her, was lost near Jack Fish _ Bay, on Lake Superior, on Tuesday of last week. The steamer was light, bound for Port Arthur for a cargo of _ grain. She was beached and slipped off into the water. The crew lost everything, barely escaping with their lives. The St. Andrew was formerly the steam barge W. B. Hall, _ and since being rebuilt has been in the grain trade between Port Arthur and lower lake ports. She was valued at $50,- ooo, and insured for $18,000. “The rottenest vessels are | DETROIT. Special Correspondence to the Marine Record. The cargo of pig iron taken from the wrecked schooner Richards has been released by the Canadian government and shipped to Buffalo in the schooner Monguagon, The life-saving station at Grand Marais, Mich., was manned on the 15th inst. with Capt. Benjamin Truedell as keeper. J. G. Kiah, Esq., is superintendent of the district. The Detroit Ship Building Co. has re-elected the follow- ing officers for the ensuing year: Alexander McVittie, president; W. C. McMillan, vice-president; M. E. Farr, secretary and treasurer. Two more bodies of victims of the schooner Martin dis- aster were recovered in the St. Clair river Sunday. One was that of Capt. Lawless, and the other is supposed to be that of mate Wm. Ross. The new steel steamer Capt. Thos. Wilson, Capt. Wood, left the yards of her builders, the Jenks Ship Building Co., Port Huron, on her maiden trip this week. She will load iron ore at Ashland for South Chicago. The body of John Kelly, one of the sailors who was drowned when the schooner J. S. Richards ‘was crushed by the steamer J. W. Moore several weeks ago, was found in the cabin of the vessel Monday by Capt. Baker. The body is at Detroit. The marine mail clerks at Detroit, during the month of September, received 12,565 pieces of mail from passing boats and delivered 34,960. The passages numbered 3,004. There were seventy-six money orders issued, their aggregate value being $1,741.61, and twenty letters were registered. The small Canadian steamer Dominion burned to the water’s edge on Tuesday night while lying at the Sulphur Springs canal below Sandwich. Capt. Ed. Horn says he was preparing the boat for winter quarters and does not know how the fire started. The insurance is very light. John S. Quinn, the well-known diver, has been awarded the contract by the government for removing the wreck of the old schooner Leader, just above the head of Belle Isle, and close to the navigable channel. Hewill take his hand- some swift yacht Reliable and a few sticks of dynamite and blow the hulk. i Capt. Andrew Hagany, president of the Toledo Branch of the International Lake Seamen’s Union, has paid $30 each to G. Peterson and V. J. Kyle, sailors who lost their baggage when the John Martin sank. When the Orinoco was dam- aged by fire recently four seamen lost their baggage, each of whom has been paid $30. The following report for the period from August 16 to September 15, 1900, inclusive, of vessels passing through Detroit river, was furnished by courtesy of Postmaster F. B. Dickerson, at Detroit, Mich.: Number of vessels passing through during the day, 1,791; during the night, 1,486; to- tal, 3,277; for the season, since April 26, 1900, 15,533. Boiler shop and shipbuilders’ tools, manufactured by Wickes Bros., Saginaw, Mich., and Pittsburg, are illustrated ina catalogue. Heavy duty rolls, light shipbuilders’ rolls; medium rolls, light duty rolls, vertical rolls, punch and shearing machines, flanging clamps, hydraulic flanging press and portable pneumitic riveters are described and re- produced from photographs. Announcement is made by the Lee Injector Manufactur- ing Co. that a diploma and silver. medal were awarded its ball valve antomatic injector at the Paris exposition. The injectors have been doing active duty on the battery of boil-' ers furnishing steam power for the American exhibitors, and the award is for merit as well as for simplicity of construc- tion and beauty of appearance. In removing the sunken schooner Fontana, at Port Huron, M. Sullivan, of this city, who has the contract, will use the dredge Gladiator, the tug Columbia and a steam derrick. The divers will be enabled to work within a cage constructed on and sliding with the big spud anchors of the dredge, which will prevent all danger of being washed away or get- ting the lines mixed in the swift current. An attempt will be made to pick up some of the iron ore which formed: the Fontana’s cargo. U.S. Local Steamboat Inspectors Galwey and Millen on Saturday completed their investigation as to the cause of the Moore-Richards collision, and to fix the blame, if any- one was to blame. Their report to Supervising Inspector Westcott is to the effect that the disaster was caused by the wheel chains of the steamer John. W. Moore fouling, caus-° ing her to suddenly sheer out of her course, and into the schooner John S. Richards. Thus, Capt. Richard Neville, of the Moore, and Capt. May, of the Richards, are cleared of any suspicion of blame that might have rested on either, This ends the matter in so far as the steamboat inspection service is concerned. Next Monday the Detroit & Cleveland line steamer City of Alpena will be laid up after what has perhaps been the most successful season of her career. Many thousands has she carried back and forth between Detroit, Toledo and the Straits in 1900, it being a common happening to see her main cabin strewn with cots, each supporting the reclining form of a tourist for whom there was no other berth, because of the enormous traffic. Her place the remainder of the season will be taken by the City of Mackinac, leaving De- troit Mondays at 5 p.m., and Fridays at 9:30 standard This is also the longest season, by twenty days, the Alpena ‘stage, but in.comparison with the so-called fog buoy, which has ever had, the excessive north-bound freight having b more than the Mackinac could handle alone. Commander Wilson, U. S. N., in charge of the eleventh light-house district, states that the experimental bell and gas buoy in Lake St. Clair was a success during the time it remained lighted previous to the injury it received from some passing tow a few days ago. “There are but two of these buoys in use,’’ said Mr. Wilson, ‘‘one here and one in the New York district. They are still in the experimental rings only when there is sea enough to give it motion, I think this automatic buoy is going to prove of infinitely more value on the lakes. Here. we have little sea when there isa heavy fog and the fog bell buoy is of compara- tively little use. With the new buoy the mechanism gives continual warning, no matter what the state of weather.’ ~ Senator McMillan’s steam yacht Idler is now the property of Orin G. Staples, the proprietor of the Riggs House and National House in Washington, D. C. The Idler cleared this week for Alexandria Bay, where Mr. Staples is also proprietor of the Thousand Island House. The yacht will’ become a part of the pleasure fleet in these waters. The Idler was built in 1886, by J. Lorrillard, at Green Point, N. Y., and cost a small fortune. She is schooner rigged and steams 16 miles per hour. She is 126 feet over all, 300 horse power, triple expansion engines, draft of 5 feet 7 inches and ~ is as complete as money can make her. The mahogany — deck house and cabin finish is well set off by the rich plush trappings, and for heavy weather she is snug as can be de- sired, being heated by steam and lighted and ventilated by — electricity. Capt. Visger, of the Thousand Islands, accom- panied the yacht to her new home, and Capt. James Skiffing- © ton, of Detroit, went in charge until she is delivered at the — islands and turned over to her new owner. i Col. Lydecker, United States Engineer, opened bids on Tuesday for the removal of the wrecked schooner Fontana. — The contract was awarded to M. Sullivan, of this city, whose bid of $7,000 was the lowest. Mr. Sullivan is the well © known contractor, formerly of the firm of Sullivan & Dun- bar. Mr. Sullivan expects to have the wreck fully removed inside of ten days. Safe navigation over the wreck of the schooner John Martin is now assured and Col. Lydecker authorized the removal of all mandatory regulations con- cerning the passage of boats by the wrecks. The patrol tugs have been removed from duty and vessels may pass as they did before the John Martin was sunk. In’ order that no further accidents may occur, masters are cautioned against meeting or passing other vessels in the immediate vicinity of the Fontana, and it is advised that steamers having more than one consort employ a tug to get through the passage. The three piles marking the safe limit of navigation on the Canadian side east of the Fontana will be painted red and lights displayed from them at night. Masters should have no trouble in making the upbound passage to the east, and if they will use this side, no further difficulty should be en- countered. oor io CLEVELAND. Special Correspondence to The Marine Record. The naval reseve practice vessel Hawk, reached here this week all well. _A charter was placed here on a small cargo of ore, Duluth to an Ohio port at 70 cents. Hon. Sumner I. Kimball, Superintendent-general U. S. Life Saving Service was in Cleveland on Thursday. _ An Escanaba charter was made’ this week at 65 cents for iron ore; coal is at 30 cents trom Ohio to Lakes Michigan and Superior large ports, to some minor ports double this. figure is being paid for a certain class of tonnage. The regular monthly meeting of the executive board of the American Ship Building Co. was held here on Wednes- day. A quarterly.dividend of 13 per cent. on the preferred stock payable on Oct. 15 was declared, but no other business ; of importance was transacted. The case of James Rodney, owner of the dredge Birckhead, against the schoonor Athens, was decided in his favor this Nike by Judge on 2 pecs in default for the plaintiff eing entered for $207.56. ‘The dredge was dat Athens in Detroit river in 1898. as a The Stang estate has sold the dredge Continental, the tu Selah Chamberlain, three mud scows and a fueling ScOW to the Standard Contracting Co., for a consideration of $16,- 600. The deal also includes the transfer of a five years’ dredging contract with the city of Cleveland. All the bodies from the ill-fated yacht Idler have now been found. The body of Miss Jane Corrigan was picked ' up on Friday last. The fisherman who found the body will be rewarded. It is estimated that Capt. Corrigan has spent a small fortune in his search for his loved ones. There has been considerable delay this week in movi coal to Lake Michigan, on account of the Erortice age, Owners of lumber carriers say they are certain of $2.25 from the head of Lake Superior, on account of the number of vessels that have laid up, and the approaching fall weather, : Coal cargoes are scarce and a few vessels that wer. market Wednesday could not be placed. The shore cars has put some shippers in ‘such shape that they have about all they can do to take care of their contract vessels. There is no change in the ore freight situation and the wild business from present indications will cut very little figure from now on to the close of navigation.