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THE MARINE. RECORD. DECEMBER 6, 1900, kKaekkkk > 7, + 3 r 7 ees wi = se 44 ad wiistd O20 oe Cot ehuod to 000 BEER Ades Special Correspondence to: the: Marine Record. There will be no more regular freight rates. Some coal will go-yet'to Lake Michigan, and there was a charter made on Tuesday , for Marquette, to be loaded at the Ohio rate, which was’ stipulated not to be less than $1.00. Lake Superior business from the lower lakes is supposed to be at an end iow. The cargoesfor Toledo are having hard time. The schooher Maumee Valley, with, Lackawanna coal for Toledo, went down off Point Pelee and drowned her entire crew, and the Reuben Doud, with a’ similar cargo, is ashore inthe same vicinity. The barge Board of Trade with a Toledo cargo, is also lost... panos ote Michael.Mulligan, a lake steward in the employ of the Ogdensburg Transit Co., dropped dead in a down town store Monday night of heart disease. Mulligan was sixty years old and was one of the oldest men in point of active contin- uous setvice on the lakes. He made his first trip when he was fourteen years old. That was forty-six yearsago, and he never, missed a. season thereafter, He sdiled on every kind of lake craft and his friends say that no ship that left a port with Mulligan aboard ever-was wrecked or suffered any tnisfortune. He has been asteward for thirty years. Of course Mulligan had nothing to do with. piloting but the = D ft iit tC 4 pr coincidence is worthy .of remark.. , The new fire boat brought up from the coast and named the W. S. Grattan, isprobably the most modern and best equipped, fire boat ever built.’ She is 118 feet long, 23 feet beam and.has,a draft of 11 feet: Her pumping engines, con- sisting of three double ones, were made by the’ American Fire Engine Co., of Seneca Falls, N. Y.; and gave the boat a guaranteed capacity of 9,000 gallons per minute. Under increased .pressure it is claimed that 11,500 gallons per min- ute can be pumped. The Grattan has three stand pipes, two in the bow and one aft. They are adjustable and can be fit- ted with_nozzles ranging from three to five inches in diam- ter. In.addition to this there are attachments for eighteen lines of hose. e a3 ey The tridl of the libel case growing out of the collision of the Siemens,. North Star and Holly, in St. Mary’s'river, No- vember 28, 1899, has -been'set by Judge Hazel for trial in Buffalo, December 11.°-The‘case is especially interesting, involving, as it does, certain rights of navigators in the mat- ter of observation of river rules, both those fixed by law and those of récognized practice. The Northern Steamship Co., owners! ofthe North Star, will be represented by John C. Shaw, of Detroit; Harvey D.'Goulder, of Cleveland, and George Clinton, of Buffalo, will represent the Siemens, The collision resulted in the blocking of the ‘‘Soo”’ river from 6:30 a.m. November 28; to 5 p.m. December 1, and 167 vessels were held upi~ Ret), eae Navigation closed on Tuesday at Montreal with the de parture of the steamship: Paliki for Avonmouth, England with a cargo’of steel. Only twice before in the history of the port has an oceari vessel sailed in December from Mon- treal. In 1861 the last departtire for sea was on Dec. 4, and The Paliki was the last of four ee oP aa and ae Sa will be blockaded ‘with ice before Sareea 9 35) supplies of coal are completed, which. will necessitate,jal has and is quite brisk, and shipments by rail have been so well maintained that stocks on dock are very much broken. This will account for the complaint from the ‘Twin Cities ‘of “coal coming forward slowly.”..« 0s ss08 0 eae -and a half cents a ton for loading by hand.’ ‘shall be granted in both of these scales. affect all. of the longshoremen along ‘the entire south shore $2,500. Beto} al ar? te ‘evailed, the demand for coal of all kinds bas,been, by’the ‘American ‘Car sas American Co. DETROIT. ., _ Special Correspondence to the Marine Record. The steamer Cumberland is disabled and the tug Lutz went to Bar Point early on Wednesday morning, to tow her to.this port. : The wooden steamer Tacoma, of the Gilchrist line will tie up for the winter at the yards of the Detroit Ship Building. Co., and receive new compound engines and general repairs before going out in the spring. mie eee The schooner Dunford, belonging:.to John Stevenson of this city was sold on Wednesday to the. Pittsburg Coal Co.,” of Cleveland for $4,000. The Dunford will be stripped of her spars and used asa lighter for the coal company at Lorain. During the month of November the marine post office handled 29,785 pieces of mail, of which 23,310 were delivered to boats. The passages reported for the month were 2,013. There were 37 money. orders issued to boats, aggregating $652.55. The master of the steamer Boston reports that on Nov. Ig, while bound down the St.'Clair river, his vessel struck on the north end of ‘the shoal, south of the Middle Ground, opposite St. Clair; Michigan, from which the red buoy: on the south end of the Middle Ground bears N. 45° W. true (N. W. mag.), distant 250 yards. He found but fourteen feet six inches at this point. The officers of the International Longshoremen’s Union, D. J. Keefe, president, of Chicago, and H. C. Barter, secre- tary of Detroit, were in conference this'week with the man- agers of South shore docks along Lake Erie relative to the win- ter shedule for loading ore into cars for shipment to the fur- naces. It.is expected that with a short conference on Thurs- day morning the session will close, and: then Messrs. Keefe and Barter will proceed to Louisville, Ky., where they ‘will attend a meeting, bed! While the details of an agreement have not been given out it is generally understood that the dock managers have con- sented to an advance in wages over last’ year. The scale in vogue last winter provides for seven cents a ton for loading ore into cars from the stock piles with machinery, and eight The wages for day laborers were $2 to $2.10 per day for hoisters, and $2.25 to $2.35 for engineers., It has. been agreed that an advance The new scale will: of the. lake who winter. The wrecked schooner J: S. Richards has been taken to Oades’ shipyard and:workmen are now engaged in sawing off the battered bow of the boat in order to give room for.a will be employed in this trade ‘during-the ‘bulkhead. Baker has been threé weeks in raising the dere- .. lict from the American channel and’ the’ job has cost him It was done to avoid prosecution by the United’ States authorities on the charge of blocking the channel by towing the wreck from the Canadian channel where it sank after the collision with the steamer Moore. The former job cost. Baker $3,800 and Pickands, Mather & Co.’and ‘the underwriters, who got $14;000 in: pig iron from the’ wreck, © haye not paid Baker for its removal from Canadian waters. He lost, therefore, $6,300. To make matters worse he was indicted by the United States grand jury on the charge of ’ blocking the channel,.and has.that case to defend: ' He will now have to rent a place to store the old hulk as soon as it © comes out of dry-dock. ' * Bt > . Professor Willis Moore, chief of the Weather Bureau, has been conducting experiments in wireless telegraphy, with the assistance of three electrical experts, upon a secluded island within a day’s journey of Washington, .says a Wash- ington dispateh tothe Chicago Record. The work has been conducted secretly, and will not ‘be disclosed to the public ©. for several months. Professor Moore says, that gratifying success has marked the experiments; and he feels warranted -in predicting that in the near futute the commerce upon the - lakes and the vessels engaged in coastwise trade will be con- stantly in touch with the shore to report accidents 'to ma- : chinery or summon succor in case of fire, as well as to receive ‘warnings from the Weather Bureau of approaching storius, ‘(We are not saying much about the experiments at, this time,’’.said Professor Moore, ‘‘because we have determined ~ to remain silent as long as there is any doubt whatever of the success of our system. I can say, however, that we, haye new apparatus, ‘all our ‘own ‘invention. We are branching . out on new lines, and the results so far accomplished have - been gratifying in the extreme.” We hope to complete the experiments during the ‘hext two or three months, and be- lieve we will revolutionize shipping upon our lakes and along our coasts, by making it possible for the-masters to , maintain communication with the'shore by our wireless sys- tem of telegraphy,”’ , Bry Arras WBA worm Ok - Chicago is. threatened: with a ‘coal famine, The shortage ‘of cars,and the near closing! of Jake traffic has left the docks f. several of the Jeadingy coal vcompanies’ quite empty. "A ' urther, advance im prices to the consinnéts'is imminent. ~” a. + emer at Frat? bed 4 BTO uaa i gy att \ raea (8 823 3 rail shipments. Upin the Northwest, where cold weather > eth erketivit ofa Hinde 32D car plant at Detroit, Mich., mérican and Foundry Co. is pretty. clearly in- dicated ‘by, recent developments. Engineers are. now .said to be preparing plane and perfecting arrangements for the ‘building of ‘the shops, close by the peninsular works of the incorporators are: J. : CLEVELAND. Special Correspondence to The Marine Record. The steamer O. M. Poe went to Lorain this week, to go. into winter quarters. A large number of big carriers will be laid up at that port, vir ot? Yo vont sos ezotos Yost The Detroit & Cleveland. Steam Navigation Co. is plamnir to run its boats another week, if ‘the:-present wéather keepy! up. It,was the original intention to placexthem! © — ve quarters on Saturday evening. B sd oF E at 4 , fa) BTS A large number of boats ‘have gone itttoWwit but there isa great deal of tonnage still © TG Se transportation service meets all requirente lly Po Pat the low rates of freight now, being offered. »: 103 as si’ ‘There is yet at least ten: \daysiof opei navigatioal hs tau! weather is keeping considerably mild at this end of the lakes!* Ore-is still being shipped... Coal is going forward and grain with a quantity of lumber is being transported eastward. | A meeting of the executive committee of the Lake Car- riers’ Association will bé held the latter part’ of this week. It is expected that they will map out the work to be pro- posed at the meeting of the Lake Carriers’ in Detroit in January. R. L. Ireland, vice president of the American Ship Build-— ing Co,, has gone South to spend a two months’ vacation, and incidently to get a well earned rest. In the last five months he has made a splendid record in making shipbuild- ing contracts. The old scow which sank in the river opposite the river custom house, has been raised and no longer obstructs navi- gation. The spiles have also been taken out so that the channel is once more'clear. It comes too late, however, to do much good this year. ' The representatives of the ore handlers at Lake Erie ports and the dock managers are in conference, although no set- tlement was reached on Wednesday, both sides are confident | that a schedule of wages will be agreed upon ina day or two. An effort'is being made to have a uniform rate of wages for . question will not take up much time. . - The announcement has been made by the Detroit & Cleve-* land Steam Navigation Co., that the last regular run. will be made out of this city for Detroit Saturday night. ever known. for the winter. but this has not been definitely decided. % ' The steamer City of Cleveland of the Bradley fleet was ‘placed on Monday for ore from Escanaba to Ohio ports at ‘$1 and that will probably be the last charter made this She will load early next week. Lake Michigan — ‘season. coal shippers are still figuring on taking tonnage and if the weather is favorable vessels that are now on the way down “will be chartered for another trip, which means that they — “will. not .be able to get. their cargoes until the end of the ~ week. Incorporation papers were issued by the Secretary of State at Columbus, this week, for the formation of a new steamship company on the lakes by the name of the Globe Steamship Co.; with. headquarters at Mentor. Of this the Osborne, Frank W. Hart, and F. R. Gilchrist. The capital- ization is $1,000,000, The statement was made by Capt. J. €. Gilchrist last evening that this is the organization formed ‘to manage the six new boats, which were recently ordered, and which will be built during the winter and launched next spring, EP Mt The Iron Trade Review says that after a week’s struggle against freezing ore and unusually thick ice in the harbors- - at the head of the lake, ore shippers have been getting their boats out for their final down trips in the past week. Apart from Lake Michigan cargoes, which will probably continue to come for a week or more into December, the close of the month will see the end of the season’s programme with most shippers. The recent delivery of a cargo of Michipicoten ore at Ashtabula, O., is noteworthy, and the expectation is that this ore will find a place in Central Western furnace *fnixtures in the coming year. In afew days Mr. Burton’s committee, which is now pre- paring the river and harbor bill, will take up the question of authorizing the appropriation which is desired to carry out the new breakwater project. Among other things, it was decided to incorporate sections relating to Fairport, Con- neaut, Sandusky, and Huron, and tentatively fix the amounts to be recommended for appropriation at approximately the sums. given in’ the foregoing estimates of Secretary Gage. ‘The committee expects to have its bill ready for introduc- tion next. Tuesday.or Wednesday if the House is: ready to _ take it up for. consideration then. ‘The work.on-the new breakwater at Fairport is about atan “ end for this season, and some good results have been attain- ed. The plan is to build two breakwaters, one to the west ’ of the mouth'of the river and the other on the eastern side both being’placed oblique tothe channel. Only one side, rchas been ‘worked on so far, the western half, and while this yg} is to be 2,000 feet in length, they have but 828 feet of it done. . The cribs..are down for:this much, and the superstructure has been raised: above them: « ‘Yet with this one half of the first side-of ithe harbor protection built, Col. Smith, Corps of Engineers, U.: S. A.,/says:that the results already achieved are very satisfactory. For instance, he ‘says this is the first Novemberin-the history of his service:on the lakes, cover- ing a-period.of nine years, in which’ they have not~ ‘done ‘all the ports, and- as‘soon asa plan is decided on, the rate . C. Gilchrist, A. J. Gilchrist, J. H. . es hat The seas. son has been one of the most profitable that the company has: «. The boats will be taken to Detroit and laid up © It may be possible that the City of Cleve- land will make an extra run out of. here on Monday night, -.