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Ka akKKkK* DETROIT. Special Correspondence to the Marine Record. John C. Shaw, Esq., admiralty attorney, said Tuesday that the Sevona-Ishpeming collision case -had been settled out of court. The Ishpeming, it will be remembered, was run down and sunk by the steel steamer Sevona, near the head of Belle Isle, Detroit river, last spring and was raised, brought to Detroit and repaired. He was not at liberty, he said, to give out the terms of settlement. Changes will be made in the steamers State of Ohio and State of New York during the winter, which will increase their speed so that they can be scheduled to make sixteen miles an hour and next year they will take care of the Cleveland, Toledo and Put-in-Bay business. Although the Cleveland & Buffalo Transit Co. owns half of the steamer City of the Straits, she will be chartered for the next season to run between Cleveland and Buffalo. In five working days from now the wreckers expect to have the Fontana entirely removed from the channel. The work is progressing in good shape, and the southerly winds and warm weather have beena great help. The passing boats continue to hammer away at the lightship over the sunken schooner John Martin. It was torn away Monday and again on Tuesday evening at Io o’clock. This has be- come an everyday occurence, and necessitates large repairs to the scow, cable and anchor. Judge Swan, inthe United States Court, on Wednesday, handed down a decision in the Lansdowne-W. B. Morley collision case, in which he holds the Lansdowne solely to blame for the collision because of the improper arrangement of lights on that steamer. The Lansdowne is a ferry used by the Grand Trunk Railway in transporting its trains across the river at Detroit.. The collision occurred early on the ‘morning of August 6, 1899. The Morley was up-bound, with a cargo of coal, and the Lansdowne had just left her slip at Detroit. ‘The Morely sank immediately after the crash, and the ferry went to the bottom while on the way to the ship- yard. The case has been bitterly contested by the railroad people, and they caused a counter suit to be filed against the Morley. Inthe case just decided the owners of the Morley asked for damages amounting to $45,556, and the expense will be equally divided between the Wabash and the Grand Trunk railways, owners of the Lansdowne. Oe oOo rv CLEVELAND. Special Correspondence to The Marine Record. The steamer Tampico willleave Huron today for the coast. Mr. Arthur Hawgood who will manage the steamers Eureka and Tampicoand who will be located at New York will make the trip with her and attend to her business during the win- ter months. Capt. W. A. Collier, general manager of the Great Lakes Towing Co., sent the tug Harvey D. Goulder to the steamer Pawnee and barge Young, which are stranded on Gull Island reef, The steamer will have to lighter most of her cargo before she is released. The season ore shipments now appear to total only about Ig,000,000 tons. A number of vessels will lay up November I and some of the iron ore mines are already getting ready to close. down owing to a slump in the demand. The majority of charters expire in a week from now and as the cost of insurance increases lots of floating property will be tied up. af The Browning Engineering Co., of this city, devotes its Bulletin No. 500 to the merits of its new steam dock cap- stans. This capstan has a new form of casing, and the steam cylinders, pipe connections, exhaust pipes and drip cocks are entirely ontside the casing, thus securing greater protection to the mechanism, and economizing space. Electric power may be used in place of steam if required. - Brokers are unable to find cargoes for more thana third of the vessels that are offered for coal and some contract boats are not getting full loads. A few ore cargoes are to be had at the head of Lake Superior, but 60 cents is the best figure offered and vesselmen say that they cannot carry ore and break even at that figure. Very little more chartering in ore will be done, as most of the shippers will do well to take care of their own and chartered tonnage. _ The Brown Hoisting & Conveying Machine Co. has just shipped to Egypt, via Liverpool, the first consignment of a plant which has been ordered from them by the Egyptian State Railways. The machinery is intended for the con- struction of a coaling station which is to be made at: Alex- andria by the Egyptian State Railways. A cargo of mach- inery of the same character is being shipped to India, where it will form the nucleus of an extensive coaling station at the Kidderpore docks, Calcutta. THE MARINE RECORD. ' OCTOBER 25, 1 A Cleveland steamer, the Colonial, foundered on Tuesday morning during a heavy fog in St. Mary’s river, near Little Rapids. The Colonial was owned by Hawgood & Moore of this city, who value her at $60,000. She carried a cargo of ore and was bound down. ———— ee DULUTH—SUPERIOR. Special Correspondence to The Marine Record. The U. S. Survey boat Picket has returned from the « Apostle Islands with Assistant United States Engineer Darling, who has been charting some shoals in that vicinity. The wheat rate is dull at 14 cents and it cannot belearned that any business has been done at that. Barley has been taken at 1% cents; on the whole, the freight market is more than dull and there is no immediate change in sight. It is reported that negotiations are pending for the transfer of the Crystal Falls and Great Western mines, now owned by Corrigan, McKinney & Co., to the Oliver Iron Mining Co. Both are non-Bessemer mines. The Crystal Falls pro- duced 147,364 tons last year and the Great Western 43,316 tons. The finest steel craft ever built on the Canadian side of the lakes is to be constructed this winter at Collingwood for the Beatty line, to run from Sarnia to Duluth. The steamer will have a speed of more than sixteen miles, will have ac- commodations for 250 first-class passengers and 3,000 tons of package freight. She will cost $350,000, and will be 325 feet long. Capt. W. H. Singer has returned from Chicago, where he recently closed a deal for the freight and passenger steamer Mabel Bradshaw for the White Line Transportation Co., of which he is the general manager. He says that the report that he is going to put the Bradshaw on the run between Duluth and Ashland is a mistake. She will run on the south shore, however, between Duluth and copper country ports. The steamer will receive extensive improvements the coming winter. A Duluth owner of lake lumber tonnage says that shippers representing about 20,000,000 feet of boards at Duluth and Ashland, are in the market for boats at $2.50. The boards represent about 25 cargoes and the vesselman says the shippers are not readily getting tonnage, though he thinks they may be able to cover it at the rate. There is other lumber besides these particular blocks which will be in the market for boats and the vesselmen consider that the out- look for the balance of the season is favorable for advancing rates. The rail rate of rocents a hundred invites shippers of lumber to Chicago, however, when the rate goes above ~ $2.50. ; The Biwabik mine at Biwabik has closed for the season, with a record of shipments of 915,000 tons for the year, the greatest amount by several hundred thousand tons that it has ever shipped in a single season. It is possible that the mine may resume shipments next month, if any new sales are made, but all the ore allotted to it and sold early in the year has been shipped. Thereare still a large force of strip- pers at work in the mine for the Drake & Stratton Co., and these will be continued steadily until cold weather, for there are about 1,000,000 yards of dirt to be removed on present contracts. Three shovels have been employed in running all season, and in one month they turned out 205,000 tons, working day shift only. Iron Ore, of Ishpeming, Mich., has the following concern- ing the number of men employed in the mines of Marquette county at various times in the past ten years: ‘In 1891, Marquette county was working 8,000 men and 38 mines were in operation. That was about the high-water mark in this county. 19 properties were busy. Up to September, 1896, for the -year ending that time, we were working only 4,153 men.. For the year ending September, 1899, we were working 8,655 men. For the year ending September, 1900, we are working 6,627 men, and 31 mines and 6 explorations aré operating.” Atone time when the depression following 1893 was at its worst only 3,096 men had employment in ‘the’ mines of Marquette county. i The steamer Hiram R. Dixon will be replaced next spring: by a new boat, plans for which have been prepared by. Capt. Joseph Kidd, with instructions to submit plans and specifi- cations to the various shipyards for bids. The new vessel will be ready at the opening of navigation next spring. The new steamer will be the finest boat devoted exclusively to Lake Superior traffic. Capt. Kidd will supervise the con- struction of the new boat She is to be placed on the north shore route between Duluth and Isle Royale and Port Arthur. The company has not yet decided what will be done with the Dixon but she will either be sold or worked in connection with the business in some department of the Lake Superior trafic. No name has as yet been decided upon for the new boat. She will be 181 feet long, 29 feet beamn and 12 feet 6 inches molded depth. She will be fitted with triple expan- sion engines of the latest and most approved type, and Scotch boilers capable of carrying 175 pounds pressure. The size of the propeller will be 8 feet 6 inches and the speed of the engine will be 140 revolutions a minute. The boat is expected to make 16 miles an hour and will be constructed of steel from the keel to the main rail. Above this she will be of wood. oe or Tue Shipbuilding, Drydock & Wrecking Co., of Colling- wood, Ont., has changed its name to the Collingwood Ship Building Co. fi In 1895, 4,650 men were employed and only BUFFALO. Special Correspondence to the Marine Record. As soon as: the architect at Washington can prepare the new station. : i a erode The Lake Shore & Michigan Southern railway will build a’ steel elevator with.a capacity of 750,000 bushels to. cost, it is. said, $100,000, at Buffalo, N. Y. The contract for its érec- tion was awarded to the McDonald Engineering Co., of Chi- cago. The elevator will be situated near the Elk street crossing of the company’s tracks. Work will be begun at once, and it will be finished by March 1, 1901. Power from wits Niagara Falls will be used to run the machinery. The tug Comet, which was bought at Tonawanda and left for Depot Harbor Monday night, is sunk on Hoofer’s Reef, near Selkirk, Ont. The tug was in charge of Capt. Thomas Brennan. When the boat struck the reef the whistle was blown for assistance, and a man living on the beach rowed a mile anda halfina small boat and took the crew ashore, They were later brought back to Buffalo. The tug Dunbar left on Wednesday night for the scene of the accident and will pump the boat out and bring her back to this port. So does the Evening News speak of Mr. Mahany: “In his first term in Congress, he got $2,200,000 for the break- water, $1,200,000 for the postoffice. As a result of the break- water, the steel plaut was established here, meaning’ $30,. 000,000 in actual capital invested, not to speak of the hun- dred millions of dollars that will be invested in the docks along the water front protected by the breakwater. In minor matters he has served the city’s interests at every point. He has been an intelligent friend of the Lake Carriers’ As- sociation, and rendered them a signal service when he ob- tained the light-house on North Manitou Island. en CHICAGO. Special Correspondence to The Marine Record. Grain rates held steady on Wednesday to Buffalo at 14% cents, with no change insight. The demand for vessels was not fully supplied. 154 cents on wheat to Midland is the going rate. The converting and finishing departments of the Illinois Steel Co., at South Chicago were shut down last Saturday for two weeks’ duration, said to be caused by the necessity of repairs in the two departments. } A rumor is current in lake navigation circles that the Indiana, Illinois & Iowa railroad is to open a new steamship line between St. Joseph, Mich., and Milwaukee. ‘The steamship company concerned is the Lake Michigan & Lake Superior ‘Transportation Co. Rumor has it that the two boats of that company’s fleet, the City of Traverse and the Jay. Gould, will be used in the service. The Chicago Nautical School, conducted by G. W. J. Wil- son, late lieutenant U. S. N., principal, opens next Tuesday evening with a class of about 20 students, composed of yachtsmen and navalreserves. Theclass for captains and mates will not open until the close of navigation. Those. who desire to excell in their profession ought to take a course of learning with the lieutenant. The bill of complaint filed in the Van Buren Circuit Court by the Williams Transportation Co., of Chicago, in the suit to recover the money paid by it to the Cole estate for the steamer Darius Cole, sets up that the Cole was guaranteed to make fifteen miles per hour, but does not doso. The Williams line, therefore, asks for the return of $75,000 in cash and of $50,000 in notes, which they paid for the Cole. It also wants $25,000 for damages for loss of business and expenses incurred in the transaction. Sh At the plant of the Chicago Ship Building Co., in South Chicago, work is being rushed rapidly on the four lake and ocean steamers building for the Northern Transportation Co. The keels of all four have been laid. Two of the boats will be launched about Christmas, a third will follow the middle of January and the fourth a month later. The en- gines will be placed after the vessels are launched. Work began Tuesday on the frames of two of the boats. About four hnndred men are employed in the yards at present. This number will be increased to about eight hundred as the work advances. A booklet with this title, just published by the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Paitslary, saoaia not Baty be in the hands of every traveller, but should have a place on the desk of every banker, merchant, vessel man or other busi- ness man. The four Time Standards, which govern our en- tire time system, and which are more or less familiar to most of the travelling public, but by many others little under- stood, are so fully explained and illustrated by a series of | charts, diagrams and tables that anyone who chooses can become conversant with the the subject in question. There. are also some twenty-four tables by which almost at a glance, the time at any place being given, the hour and the day can be ascertained in all the principal cities of the | world. A copy of this pamphlet may be had on application | to Geo. H. Heafford, general passenger agent, Chicago, en- closing two-cent stamp to pay postage. a