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THE MARINE RECORD. JUNE 6, Igor. enn, ————————— Ka akkKk Ke Ps CHICAGO. Special Correspondence to The Marine Record. About 100,000 feet of pine timber has been picked out of the Jake near Grand Haven. : Freights dropped to 1 cents on corn, Wednesday, with light chartering and no demand for tonnage. The Graham and Morton Line has chartered the steamers McVea and Saugatuck and will use them in the Holland- Chicago run, The large steel steamer Mary C. Elphicke will be launched from the South Chicago yards of the Chicago Ship Building Co, on Thursday. The survey on the steamer Alva, at Duluth showed that he will require 30 new plates and 16 feet of stem replaced. In addition there is a large amount of inside work to be done for the bow was badly smashed and the frames were bent in every shape. The bill will probably reach $25,000 to repair ‘damage through stranding on the rock near Copper Harbor. The Benton Harbor Naval Militia have fitted out the schooner Waleska fora practice ship, and in tow of a har- bor tug they have had a cruise on the lake. The summer cruise will be made to Bnffalo to visit the exposition. The question is, whether this corps should not have been ordered to Detroit for drill instead of being left to scull on their own. particular curve in a dugout with neither aim or object so far as naval reserves are concerned. Charles Jefferson, of Manistee, son of Capt. Ralph Jeffer- son, lost on the schooner Rand, gives it as his opinion that the schooner had been in collision. He says: ‘‘After a thorough investigation of the Rand wreck, and judging from a sailor’s standpoint, I can unhesitatingly state that the Rand was in collision with either a steamer or sail ves- sel, and that she was struck near the stern, part of the hull and small boat being carried away. I believe that the crew were in the stern at.the ttme, that they rushed forward to get out of the way and perished. The wreckage bears the appearance of having been crushed by a blow.” The Licensed Tugmen’s Protective Association has come off victorious in its strike against the floating property of Louis Sands, lumberman, vessel and tug owner, of Manistee. For a couple of weeks the schooners Isabella Sands and A. W. Luckey have been tied up in the south branch of Chicago river and the Arundal in Milwaukee harbor, because the tugmen refused to tow them out, owing to the fact that Mr. Sands would not employ union men on his Manistee tugs. Mr. Sands has now settled matters, although it was at one time thought that he would sell his boats rather than suffer the dictation of those not in his employ. “The Northwestern Steamship Co.’s steamer Northtown, ‘Captain Pederson, left this city for Europe on Friday last. The vessel carries a part cargo of agricultural machinery and provisions for Hamburg and oil-cake for Antwerp. It isto be hoped that she will skin through the lakes, the Welland and St. Lawrence canals with better luck than her sister ship preceding her. General Manager W.S. Purdy is known on the articles assupercargo at $40 per month, and quite enough for him, too, as he forced the captain to leave on Friday night by insisting that the superstition of Friday sailing was all bosh and that there was no such a word as “hold on’’ even for an hour or two. The passenger steainer Darius Cole will lie at the dock at South Haven all summer, notwithstanding there is going to be the biggest business ever done on the lakes with calls for every boat fitted for carrying passengers. There is no way of clearing the boat until the Michigan supreme court de- cides who are really the owners. ‘‘The Williams Transpor- tation Co.,” said Charles E. Kremer, Esq., their attorney, “takes the ground that it does not own the Cole and has nothing to do with the boat. The company cannot very well do anything after taking that position. On the other hand the Star-Cole line, of Detroit, makes the plea that it sold the Cole to the Williams line, and it has nothing more to do with the boat. The Cole is, therefore, without owners and there is no possible way of arranging matters so that she can be placed in service,’’ _ ooo barrels, the first cargo of the season. DULUTH-SUPERIOR. Special Correspondence to the Marine Record. The steel steamer Alva, Capt. Mulholland, stranded about five miles east of Copper Harbor on Sunday. There is a foul rocky bottom where she fetched up, and. considerable hull damage is to be looked for after the vessel dry docks. Oil barge 86 of the Standard Oil Co., arrived this week, at the West’ Superior tanks, with 650,000 gallons of oil, or .13,- The oil stocks were low and the new supply arrived very opportunely. The Duluth Log Salvage Co. has awarded a Contract to J. O. Smith for collecting the beached logs on the north and south shores of Lake Superior this season. He will use the tug Sarah Smith for the purpose. Peyton, Kimball & Bar- ber will saw the logs collected. Two Harbors will probably send forward about five mil- lion tons of ore this season, or nearly one million tons more than last year. ‘There is no port in the world that has ever shipped such an enormous quantity of iron ore. Escanaba ‘shipments used to be thought phenomenal, but it never toed the mark like Two Harbors. Duluth received an addition of nine large steel cargo steamers this week, being the former fleets of the Meno- minee Transit Co., and the Mutual Transportation Co., of Rockport, Ohio. They were formally transferred to the Pittsburg Steamship Co., the corporated name used by the United States Steel Corporation, to operate on the lakes. Bills of sale were filed and theJenrollment papers will follow shortly. This means an addition of 23,720 tons, making the enrolled tonnage at Duluth 372,774, and equaling Cleveland within the small margin of 12,000 tons. Both fleets are well known, and for several years have been managed in the of- fice of M. A. Hanna & Co., and hammered at it in the iron ore trade harder than any boats ever built on the lakes. The rate on lumber from Duluth to Chicago is $2.50, or 25 cents better than to Lake Erie. The additional 25 cents for boats going to Chicago is on account of the facc that boats cannot usually get return cargoes, tow bills are high and fuel also costs more on Lake Michigan than Lake Erie. Itis said that we are entering the dull season in lumber shipments, and that it is not good policy to hold out for the $2.50 rate to Lake Erie ports, but vessel owners know per- . fectly well that the lumber must be sent forward, that they can carry it and discount all rail rates for delivery, so that there is little advantage in waiting a couple of months be- fore making the attempt to procure fair living freight rates, nor is $2.50 a fraction more than the vessel is entitled to or for the lumber to pay for transportation. “T}lustrated Duluth,’’ is the title of a neatly printed brochure compiled by Thos E. Hill, and published by the Duluth Improvement Association. It contains much in- structive matter of a city which is the largest primary wheat marketin the world. Asthereis a large area of the best wheat land in the world tributary to Duluth, which is estimated as capable of producing 256,000,000 bushels of wheat annually, and as Duluth has nearly the largest registered tonnage ‘ of any port on the lakes, the city will continue in the lead as agrain port. With a deep waterway from the head of navi- gation on the Maumee river to the Ohio river, the products of Duluth and all the country fributary to the lakes could reach tidewater on the Gulf of Mexico and the Orient through.the Panama canal. When the great water power at Duluth is developed, a second Pittsburg may spring up. Evidently Capt. Singer will be muchly pestered with ac- tions of various sorts, owing to the peculiar manner in which his little steamer burned, with loss of life, etc. The first action commenced as the result of the Bon Voyage dis- aster has been filed in the municipal court by Allen and Burns, a local flour and feed firm, who sue the White Line Transportation Co., the owners of the ill-fated boat, for $63, the alleged value of 2,450 pounds of flour and 2,000 pounds of feed they had shipped on the Bon Voyage to Eagle Harbor, Mich., but which, of course, was lost en route, J. A. Hanks, Esq., is the attorney in the case. Not- withstanding these actions, it should be remembered that the owner’s liability only extends to the value of the vessel, and as the Bon Voyage is a total loss, the owner’s funds invested elsewhere can not be held, even if gross culpability result- ing in loss of life and property is proven. ——— Oe THosk who are interested to any extent in shipping, could find no better companion or information bureau than a copy of the MARINE RECORD, published at Cleveland, Ohio, each week.—The Mirror, Ogdensburg, N. Y. least, managing owners. CLEVELAND. Special Correspondence to The Marine Record. Capt, A. H. Reed has been appointed master of the steamer Harvard, vice Capt. Henry Peterson. The river could stand more dredging yet as the steamers J. C. Gilchrist and Tacoma lost a day through grounding near ‘Central Way bridge on ‘trying to reach the upper furnaces. The steamers Panther, Capt. J. H. Madden, and the J. T. Hutchinson, Capt. J. H. Smith, attempted to pass each other in the Bridge street draw at Ashtabula on Wednesday and were held there for some time. They were finally re- leased without damage. Mr. J. C. Gilchrist is still after tonnage; this week he corralled four of the Whitney fleet, the E. W. Oglebay, Merida, Mescota and the D. M. Whitney. It looks as if the bulk of tonnage was fast drifting into fewer hands, or, at The slump in the grain trade has forced more vessels on the market for ore, and while rates still hold at 80 cents from ports at the head of Lake Superior, 70 cents from Mar- quette and 60 cents from Escanaba, the feeling is not strong and in some cases it is hard work getting charters. The ore receiving docks at Lake Erie ports can only handle a certain amount of ore, and detention has already been experienced. This feature being kept in view should affect future chartering, and vessels that have not been placed ahead will no doubt get better than season rates in the near future if possible detention is figured in. The lumber rate is fairly established at $2.50 from the head of the lakes, as the demand for tonnage has been brisk. The movement of lumber is increasing, all of the boats now being in service and chartered well ahead in many instances. The docks here are doing all the discharging that they pos- sibly can and the lumber shovers have no idle time. Owing to tonnage bunching at Lake Erie ports the past week, coal freights weakened and dropped to 35 cents to the head of the lakes, though several large tows went up light rather than accept the reduction, and perhaps: some deten- tion at loading. It is expected that the rate will go back to 40 cents when the present tonnage gets more evenly divided at other ports. : The Northwestern Steamship Co., advertise to carry cargo direct to Lake Michigan from Hamburg June 6, London and Liverpool June 8, and the Northtown which only left Chicago early on Saturday morning last is booked for Hamburg: June 15. Thisis a revision of the sailing schedule as the first boat was booked at Liverpool for May 21 though she has not even reached there at this writing. Ashtabula, Conneaut and Fairport are making phenomenal efforts to take care of the iron ore cargoes consigned there, 54,000 tons entered at Conneaut in one day, and on Tuesday no less than 8 steamers sailed, after discharging large cargo. The largest cargo ever discharged at Conneaut was 7,300 tons, this season the Marsala has delivered 7,000 tons, On Monday 568 cars, aggregating 25,500 tons of ore was sent to the furnaces by rail. The stockholders of the Willoughby Dock Co., have organized at Youngstown by the election of the following directory: George Tod, E. L. Ford, John Stambaugh, J. G. Butler, Jr., H. H. Stambaugh, and C. D. Hine. The directors elected J. G. Butler, Jr., president; E. L. Ford, vice president; H. H. Stambaugh, secretary and treasurer. The company has secured a large tract of land at the month of the Chagrin river, where they will erect extensive ore docks. The following local meteorological observations are fur- nished by the office of the U. S. Weather Bureau for the week ending June 5: Prevailing wind direction during week S.; highest velocity 36, S. on 5th. Mean temperature for week 59; highest temperature 85, on 5th; lowest 44 on 3rd. Sunrise and sunset data, computed for local time at Cleve- land: June 7th, sun rises at 4:23, sets at 7:32; June 1oth sun rises at 4:23, sets at 7:34; June 13th sun. rises at 4:23, sets at 7:36. : The Tashmoo was blowing off all the way down the lake, during the race on Tuesday last, while the Erie always had ability to use more steam than she could make, the differ- ence being in the condensing powers of the two boats. Tak- ing it all around, it has never been known of two boats so evenly balanced, and it is suggested that if another race were held no one would wager a cent one way or the other. Some of the Detroiters have suggested another test of speed at some future time, on Lake Huron or Lake Superior. It is hardly possible that such a race will be held.