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THE MARINE RECORD. MAY 23, Igor. CHICAGO. Special Correspondence to The Marine Record. Capt. James Barry has been re-appointed harbormaster. One of the latest charters was closed at 134 cents on wheat to Midland. The Buffalo offer was down to 14 cents, and a number of vessels changed ports rather than accept th figure, although some charters have been made this week | 13% cents. It is expected that the three clam shell scoops which a installed on the dock of the E. L. Hedstrom Coal Co., | Second street and the Calumet River, will unload boats the rate of three tons a minute after they get into good wor: ing order. There is a prospect that the big whaleback steamer Chri topher Columbus of the Goodrich line will be chartered take a load of rich Chicagoans down to Lake Erie to see t] big race on June 5, between the steamers Tashmoo and tl City of Hrie. It is reported that a charge of criminal negligence will preferred against the officers and crew of the life-saving s! tion at Fifty-ninth street. The charge is backed by t Chicago Yacht Club in connection with the drowning a fi days ago of a member of the club. Joseph Brownell, for two seasons past first mate of t Canada-Atlantic liner Arthur Orr, has been appointed to { command of that steamer. Capt. Massey, who has cc manded the Orr for five seasons, has been transferred to large new steel steamer W. L. Brown, under charter to ° same line. The steamer Parks Foster, collided with the southe approach of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad bridge over | Calumet river on Sunday and knocked four large stones the piers. The steamer received a bad dent inher bow. 1 damage to the abutment prevented the bridge from being sh until temporary repairs had been made. The bridge was hel open over an hour by the accident. It is simply out of reason for the Treasury Department not to appcint a U.S. shipping commissioner at this, the second shipping port in the country. The collector of customs has enough to do already without attending to the special duties required in opening up shipping articles for foreign-going vessels. The crews must be signed on in due form at the port of clearance and there ought to be a ship- ping commissioner to do it. ae The steamer Merida, which ran into the center pier of Rush street bridge Tuesday morning, and did some damage, was libeled by the city authorities. Vesselmen say the city officials are returning to the methods which caused such de- lay along the river last summer, when several steamers were seized without warning when about to sail, and subjected to costly delay. The city hall people refused to accept the guarantee of the Chicago agents of the boat, and insisted on a formal bond. It is reported along the river that an action is soon to be started by Mr. Sands, the millionaire lumberman whose boats are boycotted by the Licensed Tugmen’s Protective Association, or rather by the engineers employed on the tugs of the Great Lakes Towing Co. It is difficult to see what grounds Mr. Sands has for a prosecution of the tugmen or the company that employs them. Usually, men can work or play, as they please, and under present conditions they are backed by their owners. _ The Licensed Tugmen’s Association has declared a boycott against Louis Sands, the Manistee lumber merchant. In consequence the schooner Isabella Sands which arrived at Chicago list Thursday with lumber, is still in port, because the crews of the Chicago river tugs have refused to tow her into the lake. There are three tug lines in Manistee—the Canfield, the Independent and the Sands line. The first two employ union men and through the boycott the tugmen hope to bring the Sands line to time. The Canadian steamer Seguin is libeled on a suit for the loss of some 70,000 feet of lumber last season. The Seguin was chartered to bring Canadian lumber to Chicago for the Hartwell Lumber Co., and during a voyage last June sprung a leak, and the lumber was jettisoned, the claim being made that its loss came under the head of general average. The Hartwell Lumber Co. and the A%tna Insurance Co., which had the risk on the cargo, set up the claim that the lumber was lost because the Seguin was either overloaded or else unseaworthy. General Manager Faithorn of the Wisconsin & Michigan railway announces that his company will build extensive ore docksjat Peshtigo and enter into the field for carrying iron ore from the mines to the lakes. From Peshtigo the ore will be loaded into the car _ ferry barges operated by the Lake Michigan Carferry Transporta- tion Co. These barges are of light draft and can load to good advantage to the furnaces in the Calumet river, where the limit of draft is about ten feet. The Wisconsin & Michi- t. W AEN ing t Lehigh several di of navigatic and expense quate dredging Capt. Albert G Friday last after a. was born in 1830 anc year. In youth he fo. the best known capt Among the many vesse. Comley and Russian. A. engaged in the ship brokera,, master at Oswego, his native p Col, Anderson, of the Marine itis imperative upon the United ¢ some remedial measures at an eat Erie levels, otherwise, he says, the lu offer a serious obstacle to navigatio harbors on the United States side of Lak difficult eventually for vessels of deep leave these harbors if the present state of a to continue. Col. Anderson inspected ‘the under way at Port Colborne for the purpose of . borage for shipping. Four steam drills and two \ in constant operation and the work is being push ously. The foundations of some of the transhipme. have been already laid. There seems to be a good « pay immediate attention to in what Colonel Anderson if only judging from the present state of the harber river here since the opening of navigation. DULUTH—SUPERIOR. Special Correspondence to the Marine Record. Capt. C. S. Barker died suddenly in his office on Tuesday. The Duluth grain market is worse than dull, and no out- side or single trip chartering is being done. | Lumber rates which had been holding at the unsatisfactory, figure of $2.25 per M feet has advanced 25 cents, chiefly on Buffalo-Tonawanda cargoes. Other Lake Erie ports are offering the lower rate but not securing tonnage. - The Menominee Bay Shore Lumber Co., of .Menominee, Mich., has sold to the Glenn Eddy Lumber Co., of Saginaw, Mich., 200,000,000 feet of pine, tributary to Ashland, Wis. The consideration at the present market price of lumber is about $2,000,000. The vessel-reporting station at Detour, conducted by the Lake Marine News Association, has been discontined. This dation of the fleets in the steel trust and the “avenue paid for these reports the Craig Ship = the plans ‘th her “ter