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MAY 30, Igor. On the side of the Detroit steamer Tashmoo, that is to race with the Cleveland steamer City of Etie, next Tuesday a $750 is waiting to be covered by Cleveland money. An official of the company owning the Tashmoo, who went to Cleveland to find the $50,000, said to be waitin g in the Per- ry-Payne building for bets on the City of Erie, says the $50,000 isa myth. He claims the Cleveland people are do- ing a lot of talking, but do not put up their money. The Tashmoo went down the river for a trial on Tuesday morn- ing. It is just as well to remember that the Tashmoo is a 24 mile an hour boat and is built to sail around just such a craft as the City of Erie, she has finer lines, more power and in a different class to the lake. This is some of the talk I hear but it is not fair to prejudge the result. Two large pieces of wreckage, supposed to be from the Baltimore, drifted ashore at Wenona beach on Monday. On one was lashed the body of a sailor. He was a man about 36 years old and measured 5 feet 8 inches in height. No papers were found on him by which he could be identified. He wore a gold hunting-case watch, and locket attached, in which were pictures of himself anda woman. On the right forearm was tattooed a picture of a girl leaning against a stile. The only member of the Baltimore’s crew with this initial was Michael Bretheror, the mate, who lived in Cleveland. The wreck of the steamer Baltimore lays near Fish Point. The engine cylinders show three feet above water, but the boiler has been rolled off the wreck. All the upper works have been washed away and the wreck is an obstruction to navigation, laying as it does in 18 to 20 feet of water, in the course of steamers and about two miles off the beach. eS OO Se DULUTH-SUPERIOR. Special Correspondence to the Marine Record. Captain Alex. McDougall, of the Minnesota state com mission on pan-American exposition, has returned home af- ter an absence of about 10 days, during which time he has visited New York, Buffalo and Collingwood. The sinking of the Baltimore on Lake Huron on Saturday last with the loss of 13 livesis greatly regretted here. Capt. Place, as also his wife, who sailed with him, were both known and respected at this end of the route. June 18 is Minnesota day and two special trains will leave the Twin Cities for Buffalo to arrive there for that occasion. The governor and his staff, the state editorial association, a battalion of militia and others will go down to Buffalo on the specials to be there Minnesota day. We are now about three-quarters of a million tons behind in 'the ore shipments of last season and some brisk ship- ments will be necessary if the eleven million tons, to be sent forward from here, is carried away before the ore begins to freeze again. It is, of course, early enough to talk this way, as the ore is no more than running good after last winter’s freeze, but it’s the cold temperature that stops ore shipments just the same. The first cargo of lumber direct for England to go from Ashland was shipped Saturday in the Canadian steamer Orion, which cleared for Montreal, with 500,000 feet of Nor- way deals. At Montreal the lumber will be transferred di- rectly to another vessel for Liverpool, making but one trans- fer between the ports of Ashland and Liverpool. It is 1,322 miles from Ashland to Montreal and the Orion will make this distance in about two weeks allowing for all ordinary chances of detention. As I have before stated in this column the present season will see great improvements in the handling and storing of coal at the head of the lakes. The Northwestern Fuel Co., the Great Northern Railway Co., as well as the Philadel- phia & Reading Co. are now in shape for making most ex- tensive docks, and, while the Northwestern Fuel Co. will have a 2,000,000 ton capacity on the front of Superior Bay the outlook is, that the Great Northern will have even larger and greater facilities for handling and storage. The crew of the steamer John M. Nichol were called upon to fight fire on their boat on the trip up Lake Superior last Sunday. Shortly before reaching Houghton fire broke out in the oil room. It was blazing fiercely among the oils and was fanned by the strong wind, but the crew, by great effort put out the blaze. There was a heavy sea running which made the work of fighting fire extra hazardous. Carpenters were engaged to repair the damage to wood work. This is the usual oil room blaze so common on the lakes, and yet, with thescores of casualties on record the oil rooms are not protected as they should be. A small detail like this, in- volving, as it often does, the safety of ship and cargo should THE MARINE RECORD. be looked after more closely, if only by the underwriters in- spectors or surveyors. Word comes from Ashland that C. Culligan, the Alpena, Mich., lumberman, has sold. to the Weyerhauser interests 330,000,000 feet of pine in Lake county. This timber is lo- cated in the midst of some owned by other head of.the lake owners, including the Nester estate and the Split Rock Lumber Co, The price is said to be $4 a thousand. It is not known what disposition the Weyerhausers will make of the new purchase. There is no railroad into the timber of this section, except that of the Split Rock Lumber Co, which operates to the lake shore, and it is possible that the timber will be held until a road is built into the district in the in- terest of the other large timber owners before it is sent to mill, If itis cut now it will be towed to Duluth, and then loaded on to cars, unless the logs should be cut on con- tract at the Ashland mills. A few years ago the same timber would only have brought about $1.50 a thousand. qr ooo BUFFALO. Special Correspondence to The Marine Record. Traffic on the Erie canal is quite brisk, both ways. The Empire State, which was beached near Brockville in a sinking condition has reached Kingston under her own steam. The steamer Ossian Bedell, built for and named in honor of that Grand Island resident, has been placed in service. The boat was built by the Buffalo Drydock Co., and made a good showing on her initial trips. The steamer Northeastern will be placed in dry dock here for bottom repairs after fetching up on Ballard’s Reef. This little craft is supposed to leave London on the 29th May, . according to the advertised list of sailings, but she won’t. In the Tashmoo-City of Erie race over a 95%4 mile course, it ought to take the Tashmoo something less than 4 hours i she is the 24-mile boat that it is claimed she is, accordingly, leaving Cleveland at 9:30 a. m. she should have the stake boat abeam at 1:30 p. m., Tuesday, June 4. There is considerable interest manifested here in connec- tion with the City of Erie-Tashmoo race to take place on Tuesday next and a large crowd of people will be on hand to witness the wind-up. H.S. Fisher, local manager of the Cleveland & Buffalo lransit Co., wired a Detroit man on Tuesday that he was ready to place from $500 to $1,000 on the steamer City of Erie. While coal shipments are light and 40 cents is the quoted rate to Lakes Michigan or Superior, there is no doubt but that some 30 cent coal has been placed to Duluth, though vessels have changed ports rather than accept anything less than 4o cents, Gladstone and Toledo 30 cents. Such ports as Racine and Sheboygan no longer want to pay the 10 cents extra, as they say the depth of water and discharging facili- ties are now as good there as elsewhere. While grain cargoes are being handled here in the most expeditious manner possible there is the same old complaint of shoal water and to the extent that large vessels will soon begin to give the port a bad name. Ever since the ground- ing of the Wilkesbarre on her maiden trip at the opening of navigation we have had a sign stuck up labeling this an unsafe port, at least that is really what a vessel laying aground and unable to reach her elevator means. The Marine Engineers’ Association is now after the Rut. land Line boats, and Mr. William Wise, shore engineer of the fleet, had to bring the Langdon here to load a general cargo for Chicago. As the boats get down to Ogdensburg the former engineers are persuaded to quit until the Associ- ations’ demands are complied with. There are some good, loyal old engineers in the line, who will hate to get at log- gerheads with the owners, but they have no choice left. Owing to the prevalence of smallpox along the lakes and the possibility of its spread through the shipping, it has been deemed expedient by the Marine Hospital Service Bureau at Washington to vaccinate seamen on all vessels sailing from this port. The same will be made compulsory at all other ports. The management of all passenger-carry- ing steamers are especially requested to arrange for the in- spection and vaccination of their crews, by calling at the local Marine Hospital office in thé Coal & Iron Exchange Building, where Dr. Eugene Wasdin will make suitable ap- pointments to inspect, and, if found necessary, to vaccinate the men. Dr. Wasdin declares that in this I/xposition year, when great crowds of people will be flocking to Buffalo, the greatest precaution should be taken to guard against conta- gious diseases, and he desires to emphasize the suggestions made above. ’ : : FLOTSAM, JETSAM AND LAGAN. She: ‘‘How do you know that is a bargain-counter bathing suit she is wearing?” He: ‘‘By the way it is cut down.’’—Ex. Charles Buckel, San Francisco, has patented a life-saving boat, and Donald M. Hastings, of the same port, an anchor. The steamer Northwestern, bound from Chicago to Liver- pool, is still further delayed at Montreal, where she is having a new plate put on. The plate was dented as the result of her grounding in the St. Lawrence river. The side-wheel steamer Pearl, of the Crystal Beach line, which has been in the Buffalo drydock for extensive over- hauling and repairs, is now in proper shape to enter upon her season’s work, she was built at Detroit in 1875 and has a gross tonnage of 551. Evidently the shores of Lake Superior are averse to being frequented by the Frenchified-named little passenger steam- ers Bon Voyage and Bon Ami sailing out of Duluth. The Bon Voyage piled herself up a burning wreck on the south shore, and the Bon Ami has been making a quarrying ma- chine of herself on the rocks of the north shore near Duluth, and both casualties inside of a couple of weeks. The names of those lost by the wreck of the Baltimore on Lake Huron are: Capt. H. M. Place, master; Mrs. H. M. Place, stewardess; Michael Breathen, first mate; John Dol- ders, second steward; Edward Owen, wheelman; C. W.. Sears, wheelman; George W. Scott, watchman; P, Marcoux, chief engineer; William Barket, fireman; P, Kruger, fireman; August Anderson, deck hand. The second engineer and a deck hand were picked up. Apropos of the degree marking on the proposed new com- pass card. The story is loaded on to an Irishman who, when he wanted to ship was asked if he could steer a good trick at the wheel. ‘‘Yis,’’ replied Mike, ‘‘Shure I could shteer trew de eye of a muskeeter,” shortly after leaving port it came Mike’s turn to relieve the wheel, when the officer of the watch soon noticed that her wake was forming all sorts of geometrical figures, turning to Mike he gruffly ordered him to keep her straight, ‘‘shtrate it is yer honner,”’ said Mike. Finding no improvement, the mate says, ‘by the way, you’re the man that said he could steer through the eye of a mos- quito, aint you?” ‘‘Yis,” says Mike, I am,’’ as he hove, pulled and struggled at the wheel, ‘‘but whisht awhile will ye, shure I’m just afther hunting for the muskeeter,’’ An- other hand was called to relieve the wheel, and who should it be, no less than Mike’s chum, he was given the course, the ship steadied, and he was told to keep her there, but with even more labor expended, there was no betterment in the steering, and he was asked plainly if he could steer, ‘Deed an it’s me that can,’’ he replied, ‘‘divil the man aboard can shteer fashter than meself, but she kapes dodging and dodg- ing pasht the little black marks all the time, and me afther her as shmart as I ean, so I be.”’ es or oO COST OF A NEW YORK STATE SHIP CANAL. _ The way the Journal would take the largest lake steamers to the ocean is by means ofa ship canal by way of Lake Ontario and the Mohawk Valley at a cost of $200,000,000. The Journal is modest in its figures. It has been shown al- ready that a 14-foot canal, for barges, would cost close to $100,000,000, The Journal can hardly expect that depth to be doubled for another hundred millions. ‘Estimated to cost $200,000,000”’ is about as reliable as the Canadian ex- pectations so rudely shattered by the grounding of the Northwestern in the St. Lawrence. Something more than the iridescent dream of the pyrotechnic Ingalls is this of a ship canal to take the largest lake vessels across New York state. It is an opalescent dream, as pretty asa plaster and paint palace at a show, and as unsubstantial.—Buffalo News. It is not a question of what the Journal can expect. The Journal does not profess to be an engineering expert. It merely accepts the statement of the government commission which has reported that a twenty-foot ship canal across the State of New York by the Ontario and Mohawk route can be built for about $200,000, 009, and a thirty-foot one for a little less than $300,000,000.—New York Journal. THE attention of our readers, among the practical sailing community, is called to the change of fog signals at Detour as printed in another column of this issue. The working of this innovation will be watched with more or less interest as it is certainly forcing the action of those in charge of vessels and may at times influence them against their own judg- ment. This piloting in fog by the aid of sound alone is not as good in practice as it isin print, or theory. Of course it is optional whether a pilot will accept the risk or not.