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THE MARINE RECORD. May 16, 1901. KaKamKkKEK CLEVELAND. Special Correspondence to The Marine Record. Capt. A. W. Shepard is in charge of the steamer Olympia. The Frontenac arrived from Escanaba on Wednesday with the first. ore cargo of the season. Capt. Wolvin, Duluth, J. W. Westcott, Detroit, and Capt. Maytham, Buffalo, visited here this week. Bids for the U. S. Marine hospital'supplies for the year are asked to be sent in up to May,23rd. Dr. W. J. Pettus is in charge of this station. The Craig Ship Building Co., Toledo, will launch, within a few days, the steamer Lakeside, built to the order of the Sandusky and Island Steamboat Co. Capt. Holmes did not appear when the case was recently called in the United States court on the charge of loss of life through the foundering of the sail yacht Idler, on Lake Erie. The Standard Contracting Co. has purchased the tug El- mer of Alonzo J. Fox, of Manistique, and the tug was brought to this port Tuesday by Captain Edward Lynn, of Chicago. Capt. Samuel Mitchell, of Negaunee, Mich., visited here with his family this week. The steel steamer Samuel Mitchell was named in honor of Capt. Mitchell, who isa _well known iron ore mining capitalist of northern Michigan. __ Instead of anything lower than the 4o cent rate on coal, a number of owners state that they will now hold their ton- nage for 45 cents. The day is past when the down bound freight alone has to stand all expenses, and Milwaukee is asked 50 cents. President Wolvin, of the Lake Carriers’ Association, ap- pointed H. Coulby, Capt. W. C. Richardson and Capt. Geo. P. McKay a committee to take up the question of opening a channel in the west draw of the Superior street viaduct with the Director of Public Works. The engineers have opened negotiations with some of the vessel firms. What will be done is not yet known, but they have offered Capt. John Mitchell virtually the same terms as those upon which the Pittsburg Steamship Co. settled. This matter is still under consideration. Nothing has been done about the Bradley fleet. The car ferry steamer Shenango should have cleared from Conneaut early on Wednesday. At noon four firemen asked . for an increase in pay from $30 to $45 a month. Capt. R. R. McLeod conferred with the men, but reached no egree- . ment. The Shenango has a cargo of 200 tons of steel rails for the Grand Trunk railway and 400 tons of coal. __, About twenty-five freight handlers, employed by the De- troit & Cleveland Navigation Co., struck on Wednesday for an increase in wages. The men were paid at the rate of $1.60 a day, and 25 cents an hour for overtime. They did not make any specific demand, and new men were hired in their .places. The steamer City of Cleveland was loaded and left on time. A meeting of the executive committee of the Great Lakes . Towing Co. was held here on Wednesday afternoon, but only _ routine business was transacted. Capt. Ed Smith, of Buffalo, Mr. W. E. Fitzgerald, of Milwaukee, and Mr. lL. M. Bowers, swho represented the Rockefeller interests, attended the meeting. Ata meeting in February the dividend on the preferred stock was suspended, but no action was taken in the matter at yesterday’s meeting. The Steel Trust made the season rate at 80 cents from the head of the lakes and had options on considerable tonnage to run on to the end of November at that figure, now they chop an even 10 cents off and quote the rates at 70, 60 and 50 cents from Duluth, Marquette and Escanaba, chartering ahead to the middle of October, The former rates are held for very firmly. Some tonnage was placed at 35 cents on coal to the head of the lakes but 4o cents is quoted as the going rate. Capt. J. E. Rogers, of Detroit, inspector of the life-saving service, and Supt. KE. HE. Chapman, of Buffalo, inspected the local station on Wednesday. The members of the crew were put through the drill and the officials were well pleased with Capt. Motley’s men. Capt. Rogers and Supt. Chapman left for Fairport. D, K:. Mulcahy was selected as a member of the Pan-American crew. He will return here at the close of the exposition. Capt. Motley will appoint a man to. fill his place in a few days, ' If the Standard Contracting Co., are as dilatory in carrying out their’contract to dig the canal‘at Port Huron, as they are in dredging the river here it will take another decade to com- plete the flushing sewer in the Michigan town. The Direc- tor of Public Works has notified the contracting company, that unless they shape as if intending to do something he will place dredging apparatus on the river himself, too many complaints are being received relative to the shoal condition of the part of the river for which this firm took the contract to dredge. The strike of the marine engineers on the steamers of the Steel Trust, which threatened to settle down into a long fight, was settled on Monday. On the nine steamers of the fleet which have water tube boilers, comprising nearly all of the boats of the American Steel and Wire fleet, an additional engineer is to be hired. On all other steamers with four boilers, a handy man will be engaged in the engine room with wages of $50 per month, The union at first demanded the extra engineer on all of the four-boiler steamers. The non-union men who were hired during the strike will be kept in their positions if they prove capable. The union men at first insisted that all non-union men be discharged. Major Dan C. Kingman, Corps of Engineers, U. S. A, now in charge of the conservancy and improvement of rivers and harbors within this district, vice Col. Mansfield, is quoted in a recent interview anent the Erie canal as saying: “A barge cenal, if it is truly such, means that special boats must be. built for it. These boats do not have to be built like ships, because they are not used as ships are. Give them plenty of beam anda moderate draft of water, and they are all right. The only thing that ought to be done to the present canal to permit them to carry all the grain the shippers could desire to move would be an enlargement of the locks. Idon’t see the necessity of having that barge canal constructed to suit small lake boats, because it would be too expensive. If- we want to accommodate lake boats, the thing to dois to build such a waterway as would allow the lake shipbuilders to build tonnage that can go out on the ocean and compete with the products of the Clyde. If the United States wants to build such a ‘canal, it ought to use the Oswego river from Lake Ontario, rather than the Erie canal, for there the route would be shorter, and the end ac- complished’sooner than through the present canal.’’ Other prominent men state that the bottoms best suited for lake, canal and Atlantic work, are, and will always be of a differ- ent type. ‘It is altogether another question with such a canal as' the Suez, where there are no locks, or even the level stretch of the: Manchester ship canal, but from th Lakes to the Hudson other conditions are found. ’ ———— DETROIT. Special Correspondence to The Marine Record. The wrecker Saginaw was ordered to Bar Point on Monday to release the Anchor Liner Conestoga aground there bound down. . The small steamer City of Marquette, is for sale here at an upset price of $25,000. She is owned by John M. Longyear, Marquette. ‘ a The launching of the Gilchrist will complete the work of the West Bay City shipyard for the season and will take place on Wednesday. Manager Wallace will return to Cleveland as soon as the work iscompleted. ; The steamer North Star is in dry dock with nine plates broken as a result of the boat scraping a boulder off Col- chester last week in the fog. The bottom plates are broken a distance of about eighty feet. Repairs will take a'few days ‘longer and cost about $5,000. The Thompson Steamboat Line will probably run the steamer City of Holland between Detroit and Buffalo during July and August for the benefit of Pan-American visitors. The Holland will make weekly excursions, remaining at Buffalo five days. She is the boat recently purchased from the Holland & Chicago Line. . The Holland has forty-two staterooms. ; $< qo ae - Shipping—Contract for Cargo Space—Connecting Lines,— An engagement of cargo space from a steamship line fora shipment of cotton at an agreed rate of freight, made by a company operating a connecting line, constitutes a contract, which binds the latter to furnish the cargo or respond in damages, although it was in fact madein behalf of a third party intending to make a through shipment over both lines, where such fact was not disclosed. Baltimore Steam-Packet Co. vs. Patterson et al., 106 Fed. Rep. (U. S.) 736. DULUTH—SUPERIOR. Special Correspondence to the Marine Record. Rates rule this week at 24% cents on wheat and 2 cents on corn., Lumber rates seem steady at $2.25 although vessels want another 25 cents. ite The old dry dock of the Superior Ship Building Co. will be abandoned this summer, as it was seriously damaged dur- ing the winter. The new dock alone will be used. BS Messrs. Gooding and York, of Marquette, Mich., U. S. Local Inspectors of Steamboats, are holding an inquiry into the loss of life brought about through the burning of the passenger steamer Bon Voyage, owned by the White Line Trans. Co,, Capt. Singer, manager. ee Much regret is expressed here at the loss of the passen- ger steamer Bon Voyage and the lives that were lost through her taking fire. Three generations of the Altman family, grandmother, mother and daughters, were drowned in their efforts to reach shore after the steamer was beached. The steamer Charles R. Van Hise, which was built at the W. Superior ship yards last year, has been enrolled at the Duluth customs office, with-A.-B. Wolvin, as managing owner. ‘The boat belongs to the Pittsburg Steamship Co. She is 458 feet long, 50 in breadth and 25 in depth, witha gross tonnage of 5,117 and net 3,673. : A new company has been incorporated by Capt. C. S. Bar- ker, H. H. Grace andC., A. Pelletier. This company is to be known as the Superior Dredging Co. There is some talk about the formation of this company simply being a step toward the uniting with the other companies on the lakes in the dredging trust. However, this is denied by the incorpora- tors, and they affirm that the consolidation with the other companies is notintended. The dredge trust is being pro- moted by J. A. Smith, of Cleveland. Heis reported to have privately visted all the dredging concerns on the lakes, and is said to have succeeded so well that the trust has almost absolute control over the entire dredging interests in the field. Mie The head of the lakes can lay claim to holding as resi- dents some of the most talented men in marine affairs that there are on fresh water, as witness, Capt. A. B. Wolvin, manager of the 112 vessels in the fieet of the Pittsburg Steamship Co. also president of the Lake Carriers’ Associa- tion and with probably a dozen other honors to his credit. The shipyard and offices of the American Shipbuilding Co.. at West Superior shows some high classed talent and skill, and let it not be forgotten that we have still the redoubtable Capt. Alex. McDougall of ‘‘whaleback’’ fame in particular, still with us. In the line of scholarly, and practical as well as theoretical navigational qualities of a high order, we have Capt. Frank Henrich of the branch hydrographic office, Duluth, who is in possession of a dual experience of service both on fresh and salt water. Then as regards a consulting and practical shipbuilder and engineer but few hold the en- viable and markedly qualifying record credited to Capt. Joseph Kidd, of Duluth. Oh yes! the head of the lakes is pretty well heeled, thank you, nor need we send outside for experts of the highest skill and professional ability in mat- ters relating to affairs maritime, scientific, practical or com- mercial. When the engineers abandoned the machinery, after the burning steamer Bon Voyage had struck the beach, the en- gines were left working ahead at full speed. One of the Alt- man sisters, who was clinging to a board, was washed out into the lake by the current from the wheel and was drowned. The wreck of the steamer lies in shallow water less than half amile from the hull of the steamer B. W. Arnold which, was also beached in flames late in the fall of 1896. Had the tug Muriel not been lying at Houghton, the loss of life from : the Bon Voyage would have been much greater. The life- saving station is a quarter of a mile inland from the mouth of the canal, and the life-savers were first notified by whistles from the Muriel, which started for the burning boat at full speed, and her crew saved many persons from the water. The life-savers followed, later on the tugs Meldrum and Lee. The present site of the station is cut off from view of the lake by high hills. The Government condemned the land on the lake front several years ago asa site fora new station, and forcibly ejected the previous owner, a homesteader of the name Smith. The new station is yet to come. Thomas Appleton, was sent several weeks ago to superintend the construction of a new station, but he was transferred to New York last week and the life-saving station yet remains inland. _————————————— —— Why did the lobster get red? Because it saw the salad dressing !—Syren and Shipping. Then the catfish mewed.