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APRII, 25, Igor. DETROIT... e Special Correspondence to The Marine Record. The wrecking tugs Favorite and ‘Saginaw will likely be enrolled.in the fleet of the Great Lakes Towing Co., as nego- tiations looking to that end have been entered into if not already completed. The Szidler-Miner Electric Co , general lest rica contrac- tors, Jefferson avenue, have just issued a handsomely illus- trated marine catalogue showing every thing required in the electrical line for ship’s use. Postmaster F. B. Dickerson has renewed the contract with Messrs. Ashley & Dustin to carry the U. S. mails be- tween Detroit and Put-in-Bay. The service opens June 15 and ends October 15 under the contract. It is not generally known that Mr. A. A. Schantz, of the D. & C, Line, is chairman of the Great Lakes and St. Law- rence River Rate Committee. On the other hand, it is well known that he is an Ar general passenger agent. A. Jacobsen, of Hoboken, N. J., a well known marine artist on the coast, has just completed a handsome painting of the new Detroit and Buffalo boats as a sketch from which he is to complete a seven-foot painting of the same steamers for exhibition at the Pan-American Exposition. Two steel steamers now building at the Bay City yards of the American Ship Building Co., will be launched before being, fitted with boilers and engines. They will be towed to this port for their machinery. One will be ready for launching in about two weeks, and the other in about four. Mr. Joseph. Hayes, superintendent engineer for the fleet of the ‘‘grande syndicate,” was here on Sunday, trying to ship some engineers, but. he met with no better success in his efforts to get men to go to work than the Cleveland man- ager, Mr. Edwins Mills did. It is said that Mr. Mills offered all sorts of inducements weeks ago, but the Detroit engineers were firm enough to resist his overtures to the end. James Davidson confirms the report that he is going to build a steel shipyard at Erie, Pa. He says the people there have offered him a free site, a liberal cash bonus and low taxes. for ten. years, The plant. will include a drydock, foundry aad machine and’ boiler shops, and will have room for building four or five of the largest boats at once. Capt. Davidson’s yard and'.drydock at West Bay City will be con- tinued for repiir work to wooden vessels. « Capt. John Robertson, one of the oldest lake captains in service, died here on Wednesday from, heart trouble, aged 7% years. He,was born in Marine City and began sailing when fourteen years of age. He has been in command of the old steamers Pacifie, Cleveland, Forester, Clifton, Forest Queen, Alpena, Milton D,, Ward, Marine City, Riverside, Eber Ward. He also sailed the passenger steamers Darius Cole and Arundel and was part owner of the Unique. The steel steamer Uranus was successfully launched from the Wyandotte yards of the Detroit Ship Building Co. on Saturday, but unfortunately in towing up to the Detroit yardsifor her machinery she was blown ashore through her tow line parting. Tugs were at once sent to float her and it isnot thought that any damage will have been done to her hull as she fetched up in a mud bank, th ugh she will be carefully surveyed in dry dock. And. now I learn from Toledo that a local harbor tug owner was last week fined $500 for. carrying a man nota member of the crew.. The customs officials say that an owner can obtain a permit of the government to carry extra men by addressing, the supervising inspector of steamboats for the district. A special inspector is stationed on the docks at.Toledo. .whose business it is to watch the tugs and other vessels and report any violation of the rule regarding sartying people other than the crew. 'Dhé race between the side-wheelers City of Erie, of the Gleveland & Buffalo line, and the Tashmoo, of the White Star line, will take place on June 3, the course being from a stake) boat off Cleveland toa stake boat off Buffalo, the boats to keep a 4 mile apart during the race. The owners of each-boat have put up $i,o00, the stakes to go toa local charity of the port belonging to the winner. In case of un- favorable, weather, the race will be postponed. The winner will be challenged by the Frank E. Kirby: The: Sarnia Bay',Towing & Salvage Co. is; the corporate name» ofa company which will seek for a-charter enabling them to maintain a freight and passenger steamship service between Canadian and= United States ports on the inland waters ard carry on a towing and. wrecking business. The applicants are Edmund Hall, lumberman; Wm. Howard Strong, merchant; Edmund Hall Chaney, of Detroit; Horace Morey, sawmill manager; David Mackenzie, solicitor; Fred- THE MARINE RECORD. erick Forsythe Pardee, solicitor;.and David Milne, hard- ware merchant, of Sarnia. The intended amount of siesta stock is $15,000. There are a few people in the world who may not even have heard of East Tawas, Mich... .Just the same it is cutting its-own little: Swath ‘in theomarkets of:the world; asi for:iti- stance, The \Nationah., ‘Milling &, cHvaporating :Qo.,: East Tawas, has just received from AustinjnNicholse& -Co., of New York,-asecond:order for dessicatéd:vegetables, which will go> withthe Baldwin) north polar.expedition. This order, in maghitude,does not compare::with the orders which are sometimes received from the British government, which contracts in lots of 100,000 pounds or miores:butcthe fact that the product of the condensery makes:a start for the north pole is worthy of note. 4 Mr. Henry E. Barter, secretary-treasurer of International Longshoremen’s Association, affiliated with the American Federation of Labor, is sending out circular letters this week to all locals advising them of the tenth annual con- vention to be held in Toledo July roth. The association is at present officered as follows: Daniel J. Keefe, president, 411 Chamber of Commerce building, Chicago; M. W. Sulli- van, first vice-president, Box 191, Painesville, O.; T. Herley, second vice-president, 132 Jefferson street, Cleveland; J. F. Manning, third vice-president, Box 676, Washburn, Wis.; W. A. Lewis, fourth vice-president, Station A, Ashtabula, O.; G. Walker, fifth vice-president, Marinette, Wis.; H. F. Beach, sixth vice-president, Haynes street,, Port Huron, Mich.; Paul Schubert, seventh vice-president, 503 N. Pat- terson Park avenue, Baltimore, Md.; Henry C. Barter, sec- retary-treasurer, 24 St. Aubin avenue, Detroit, Mich. ee er ee CLEVELAND. Special Correspondence to The Marine Record. John Stone has qualified as master of the schooner A. A. Turner. It is understood that the railway companies will dredge away the bar formed at Ashtabula. Capt. Wm. P. Benham has cleared at the Custom House, as master of the steamer City of Glasgow. The Superior street viaduct is respousible for the loss of the steamer Desmond’s foremast this week. The photograph of Capt. Charles Gale, Sarnia, Ont., aged 85, years, is contained in the annual report of the Floating Bethel. According to present intentions the C. & B. Line steamer City of Erie will open the season next Monday. The freight service on this line will be given every facility for rapid handling. The action of the U. S. Steel Gotparation broke the back of the M. E. B. A. strike. Individual owners would just as lief have seen. the former conditions continued for another half month. Capt. George Mallory will take charge of the steamer Vic- tory; with Mr. Alonz> Arnold as chief engineer, both men are among the best employes in bis firm of Messrs. Pickands, Mather & Co. The engineers on the harbor tugs have gone back to work at last season’s rate of pay. An increase of $5 per month was asked, then lowered to $2.50 with a final acceptance of their former pay. A steam tonnage of 13,591 has been added to the Cleve- land list this week. The G. A. Flogg and Randolph S. War- ner, 4,062 tons, built at W. Superior, Mars, 3,748 tons, built at Wyandotte, and the Jupiter 3,719 tons, built at Lorain. Capt. W. W. Smith has been appointed ship’s-husband of the fleet owned by the United States Steel Corporation, Mr. Joseph F. Hayes, superintendent engineer; Francis B. Smith, assistant shore engineer, and Mr. C. G. Lampman shore steward. The Knights of Labor fueled and loaded the ‘‘Soo’’ line steamer Minneapolis. Word has been sent to Gladstone by the officials of the Longshoremen’s Union not to discharge her general cargo, pending further instructions, as there is a wage difference between the K. of L. scale and the I. L. A. General Manager A. A. Parker, of the White Star Line, which operates the steamer Tashmoo, was in the city Wed- nesday and talked about his boat and the prospective race for the steam speed championship of the lakes with the steamer City of Erie, of the Cleveland & Buffalo Transit Co, He says he has decided to come over here and beat the City of Erie as he has done every other boat that he has come in contact with. I know that the engineers’ lists of appointments have been published, but I can start around next week and cap- Zz size a good many of the previous reports. The RECORD didn’t find many Cleveland’ owners isshing their mandates in that direction, and to think that the président of the: ‘Lake Carriers’ Aanoclation, now the lake manager. of the. U.'S. Steel Corporation, was the first to head thelist in, telling who he was going to pay wages to, ‘but he ‘won’t in ‘every case. President Uhler. of the Marine. ‘Bagineers’ ‘Beneficial Association has left the lakes and gone to his home-in Philadelphia, and it is stated that he will not return. This puts an end to all further conferences, therefore, between the union in its entirety and the vessel owners, Overtures are being made all round for the men to get back to their old boats, but they first want to make a lot of conditions about recognizing the union and an increase of wages up to $150 per month in first-class boats, whereas they asked, for $140 a little while ago. _ _The Cleveland & Buffalo Transit Co, has issued its card announcing the opening of ‘the season of navigation, W. F. Herman, the -vell known passenger agent for this line, has sent out some clever conceits, but this one is con- sidered the best of them all. It represents a pretty girl stepping out of a traveling case. She is dressed i in a modest gown of gray, and holds one of the steamers in her hand. The color scheme is especially fetching, It can be said though that nearly all of, the” passenger ‘agents seem to train that way. They find no difficulty in trailing a train, whether it is a mechanical or material one, , 1s a virtuous failing they’ve got into. Another meeting of the independent vessel owners of the chain of lakes was held on Wednesday in the offices of Cap- tain James Corrigan. The plans for the season were talked over, and the committee, which. was to haye presented a complete plan for organization, asked for further time. The comunittee, also, which was to ascertain what rates might be made, made no definite report, The election. of officers was held over, and the meeting then adjourned for one week. It is just possible that the, organization + will not be completed this season, as it was. started too late to get all of the preliminary work done, however, a better, understanding has been arrived at than ever, before, and another season may see all arrangements completed. In season or out of season, the energetic and irrepressible chaplain of the Floating Bethel is around alleviating. The Floating Bethel, by the way, is now built of bricks and mor- tar, ‘‘swallowed the anchor,’’ as. it were, and located ashore. It is doing just as much good, though, and no worthy case, or worthy or not sometimes, is ever slighted. The chaplain, Rev. J. D. Jones, is a power in his local surround. ings, discreetly beneficent and with his one .arm ever held out for or with the wherewith. The list of subscribers to the Floating Bethel and City Mission can shake hands with themselves in the knowledge that their pennies reach a long, long way under the judicious direction of Chaplain Jones, and the guidance of the officers of one of the best institutions in this port, or any other. The ice jam is still firm in the St. Clair river and it is not likely that any volume of traffic will be recorded for April. Chartering has been done this week at 10 cents all round less than the combined vessel owners had placed their figures, or at 80, 70 and 60 cents respectively from Duluth, Mar- quette and Escanaba, while coal has been taken at 4o cents to Escanaba, Portage and the head of the lakes. The U.S. Steel Corporation forced the ore freight market. charter- ing for a large block outside of their own carrying capacity, thus acting in a manner as brokers, for the surplus, of say two million tons. There is no hurry for ore as there is plenty on the docks and not a brisk demand. Last season, about 300,000 tons had been brought down in April as against nothing this month, tam Richelieu & Ontario Navigation Co. have just issued a wall-card which is worthy of admiration, both for its color and workmanship. -It was designed by Mr.,H.. Foster Chaffee, Western Passenger Agent of the line. In the center are two lady tourists.on the deck of a steamer, one standing and the other playing a guitar. Above is a scene of the Thousand Islands, over which. flies the house flag of the R. & Q. Line, with a coat..of arms of Canada and the United States at either side. The bottom of the folder is: devoted to a large picture of the steamer Toronto, while in the left- hand corner is the scene of.one of the -company’s steamers. running the rapids. .The picture is finely lithographed by the Toronto Lithograping Company, and is worthy of the favorite Richelieu Line.