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THE MARINE RECORD. APRIL, 25, I901. nn kKankkke ‘BUFFALO. Special Correspondence to the Marine Record. The Welland canal is now open for traffic. The Elfin Mere from Toledo was the first arrival here this season. Charters are fairly liberal at 40 cents on coal to leading ports on Lakes Superior and Michigan. “The American Ship Windlass Co., Providence, R. I., has just ‘shipped in a fine exhibit for the Exposition. Capt. W. R. Taylor, a veteran mariner and a resident of Kingston for 70 years, died on Sunday, aged gr. It is said that lake engineers are not qualified to sail on salt water boats without being A1-examined for a license. * The officials of the Lehigh Valley and Erie lines announce that arrangenients had been made to man their lake fleets and that full crews were now on their way to Buffalo for that purpose. “Mr. W. J. Conners admits his inability to carry out the project of constructing grain elevators at Montreal and stands ready to transfer his concessions to: Capt. A. B. Wolvin of Duluth. ~ ‘The offices and consultation room of the marine hospital service have been removed from the old post-office building to commodious rooms 'on the third floor of the Coal and Iron Exchange. Dr. Eugene Wasdin and his assistant, Dr. W. D. “Wetmore, are'in charge. “Two engineers attached to two ‘prominent lines, members of the Lake Carriers’ Association, reported for work on Monday | morning. Engineers of the harbor tugs have declared the strike off. They also withilrew from the Marine Engineers’ Beneficial Association. B. W. Folger, Jr., who has been a otinted general super- intendent of the ‘Brooklyn Rap d Transit Co., is about 30 years of age. For several years past he bes been traffic manager of the Thousand Islands & St. Lawrence Steam- boat Co., with headquarters at Kingston, Ont. - The éénsolidaion of the Lehigh Valley and the Union Steamboat Line brings together fourteen high classed gen- eral cargo steamers, aggregating a gross tonnage of 43,000, of which eight belonged to the Union Co., and six to the Thigh Valley, averaging a mean of over 3,000 tons each. The grain handling arrangements are all settled for the season and boats are waited for. Credit is given the com- mittee of the Lake Carriers’ Association, Capt. Edward Stith, Mr. W. C. Farrington, Capt. M. M. Drake and Mr. C. A. Brunn, for the businesslike and a settlement so promptly brought about. Supt. Edwin E. Chapman, of the Life Saving Service, oth District, announces’ that the new life saving station in Buffalo harbor will possibly be finished during the coming season. Information from Washington is to the effect that the foundation will’be commenced thisspring. All the life- saving crews within this district i reported for duty and the stations are opened. ‘The American Shipbuilder, New Vork, says that John L,. Crosthwaite has had the plans prepared for another steel ocean ‘steamet for the Atlantic Steamship Co., of which he is president. The contract will probably be wade with the Craig Shipbuilding Co., of Toledo.” The steamer will be larger than either of the others that were built on the lakes _for the company and taken to the coast last fall. She will enter the coast lumber trade. with them from Georgetown, S.C., to northern ports. = The steel steamer Mauch-Chunk, built by the American Ship Building Co. to the order of the Lehigh Valley Trans- portation Co., was’ successfully launched on Wednesday afternoon in the presence of fully 10;0co people. The new steamer is 404 feet‘long, 50 feet béattiand 30 feet depth of hold; She has quadruple expansion’ engires and ‘three boilers tested for 210! pounds of steam...’ She will carry 6,000 tons of freight. The» keel was laid late in December and the new boat‘will be ready for business about June zr. The keel for a general cargo boat for the Western Transit sie will be laid in a few days: " . Four men belonging to the Rockefeller fleet, laid up in Erie, went ashore in a yaw! boat on Sunday afternoon. They were drowned on their return, the first. knowledge of the accident being the finding of the boat capsized. There was a fog on the bay and the sea was high. Those lost were Perey B. Durand, of Florence, O.,,17 years old, son of G. L. -Durand:« of the steamers George Corliss;Thomias Greer, Miles Carmer, of Buffalo, and ec ey is eine O., the last three“engineers, 101! 5 The Niagara Navigation: Co. ‘has jushede a peetty bingi which is: néw:adorning the walls’and widows: of many offices atid business houses. A» picture of the Chippewa éceupies the center of the: hanger,-aboye which are seated two young ladies, one in summer attire and therother in a bathing costume. In the distance Toronto is pointed out, and a line indicates the route to Buffalo, showing a minia- ture picture of the Pan-American Exposition. The entire picture is neatly executed and is admired by all who see it. OO OO OS DULUTH-—SUPERIOR. Special Correspondence to the Marine Record. The small steamer Mabel Bradshaw, from Duluth, opened navigation on Portage Lake on Tuesday afternoon. Navigation is wide open here now, and no ice to hurt any- thing is on Lake Superior. The Minnie M. has been down to Michipicoten harbor and back. The Ralph Gray Lumber Co., Cleveland, also closed a deal for 12,000,000 feet of Norway pine to be shipped from Washburn at the early opening of navigation. Now that Wisconsin has just as favorable vessel taxation laws as Minnesota, it is possible that Superior may become the port of hail of a share of the tonnage in the future just as Milwaukee certainly, will. . The report of the Duluth customs office for the quarter ending March 31, shows a total of 305 vessels enrolled with a gross tonnage aggregating 349,434 tons. In addition, two iron steamers are enrolled that sail on the Atlantic. Port Arthur, Ont., is to have another million-bushel eleva- tor at once, according toa statement credited to Mr. Wm. Mackenzie. It will be erected on the water front, west of Dock No. 5, and will be of the same character as the three elevators at Fort William. All of the saw mills at work with plenty of logs and brisk shipments from the full and free opening of navigation, is what is expected from the head of the lakes this season. The freight rate seems steady at $2.50 to Ohic ports though vessels would like to see it 25 cents better, and shippers just that much to 50 cents less. , Captain Singer, general manager of the White Line Trans- portation Company, has issued a folder descriptive of the advantages and pleasure of the triangular lake trip afforded by his line, the terminal points of which aré Duluth, Hough- ton and Port Arthur, with stops’at all’ the intermediate points on both the north and south ae for sia and passengers.: At the head of Lake Superior last year, vessels loaded ore on April 26, From present indications there will be no ore shipped this month, and some of the big ore carriers will not be ready for business before May Io, even if, the engin- eers’ strike is settled in a few days, and it is almost certain that the movement of ore in May will not be as heavy as it was a year ago. ea The Northwestern Fuel Co.’s new coal dock, at Duluth, will be a solid filled structure, surrounded by cribbed walls of timber, making it'enormously strong. Much of the dredging for the dock was done last year. The company will continue to operate its No. 1 dock in Superior after the completion of the new one; and indefinitely thereafter. It needs docks on both sides of the bay. No single firm has entered into such extensive timber and lumber contracts this season as the Edward Hines Lumber Co., of Chicago. Very large purchases have also been made at Ludington, including the Stephenson mill, which has sawed for them for several years. Mr. Hines has been anx- ious to get his fleet of boats in service at as early a date as possible so as to handle the immense transactions entered into throughout the winter and this spring. i Oo eo A TACOMA special says: A contract was closed by J. A. Sloan, of Cleveland, on Saturday last for a tract of land with a frontage of goo feet on Puyallup river in front of Tacoma for the plat of the Tacoma Ship Building Co. Title to prop- érty to be conditioned on the investment of $309,000 in plant and material or the expenditure of $250,000 in wages in five years, « who are cooks. CHICAGO. Special Correspondence to The Marine Record. Mr. J. H. Gibbs, late engineer of the Hesper, died in the hospital at Maniitowo¢ from pneumonia, on Tuesday. The steamer Neff, of the Milwaukee-Michigan Transpor- tation Co., which is the new co-operative line to northern Michigan, started on her first trip Tuesday night with a full cargo. The Goodrich Transportation Co. has set the date for the first trip of the whaleback Christopher Columbus for June 27. The Columbus was thoroughly overhauled during the past few weeks at the company’s plant in Manitowoc. Crane Co., Chicago, manufacturers of valves, fittings, etc., has decided to erect this summer a modern fire-proof build- ing exclusively for offices. five stories and basement, and will be located in the vieinity of its large cast iron and malleable fitting oe bs aes works, at Canal and 12th streets. A joint circular by the Erie and Lehigh ie railroads announces the appointment of T. T. Morford as general manager of the Union Steamboat Co. & Lehigh Valley Transportation Co., with headquarters in Buffalo. Mr. Morford will take charge of his dual position immediately, removing his family to Buffalo. The West Division Steamship Co. has been incorporated at Milwaukee with a capital of $225,000 by the widow and daughters of W. H. Wolf. The company will be represented by David Vance & Co. The steamers Wolf and Pabst and the schooner Armenia, comprising the fleet, will have their registry changed from Chicago, to take advantage of lower taxes in Wisconsin. The fight is on with the members of the Seamen’s Union are told that they will not have the sympathy or support of the present union if they do. The American Federation will take the matter up and it is supposed that they will uphold the stand taken by the seamen. There is also a little feeling expressed about the difference in sailors’ wages, the Milwau- kee rate is $2 per day and the Chicago $1.75. Great inconvenience and serious losses are’ being placed on the grain trade by the tie-up of lake boats on accourit! of the embargo in St. Clair rivér and the marine engineers’ strike. Several hundred thousand bushels of wheat are ‘on the market, but no boats can‘be secured for it. Shippers were bidding 2c. and would have gone to 2%c. if the ad- vance would have secured the needed vessels. But neither the srrike nor the ice blockade give promise ofan Bee re- sumption of navigation. : President Graham, of the Graham & Morton line, an- nounces that all talk of the company purchasing the burned steamer City of Louisville from the insurance companies for $6,000, is untrue. He says that the companies still owe $15,000 of the insurance, and that the Graham and Morton Co. has been holding the boat. Mr. Graham is also author- ity for the statement. that the company has just ‘sold the hull. to’ H; W. Hart, of the Hart line, for $11; 325. to'be> ret built for that line at once. The Navy Department has'decided: to send the iene craft Dorothea to the lakes. Her first service will be to take'on board the Illinois naval militia for their practice cruise, The Dorothéa is now at the Philadelphia navy yard, where bat- teries will be removed prior to making the long trip. This removal of the batteries is regarded as essential in order to keep the vessel from being a warship within the meaning: of the treaty with Great Britain, under which neither nation is to maintain more than one armed vessel on the Great Lakes. ‘Thousands of people thronged the bridges and othér points of vantage along the river on Wednesday to see the steamer Northwestern start on her?first trip to Liverpool. ‘The Northman will conie here’ for her cargo Friday and will leave on Monday for Hamburg. « While several vessels*have come direct from Europe to’this' city, none have ever made a successful trip from this’port across the Atlantic.» At Buf- falo a large quantity of wheat’will be discharged, lightening fhe vessel to twelve feet to permit passage through the? Wel- land-canal and other canals and the shallows of the St. Law- rence river. At Montreal the Northwestern will load again with grain and proceed. The company owning ‘the North- western is composed of Chicago men andvcontemplate put- ting several other das eo in service bequces — me ial bs Pots z WEBSTER L. Manreny of Gladestone, Mich.; has dntbeied one half of his patent -on'an improved compass card desig to Frank A, Van iar of Escanaba, Mich. : It will be about 90 ft. x 100 ft., The latter wish toform their own union but ©