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.. THE MARINE RECORD. Aucust I, Igot. $k DETROIT. Special Correspondence to the Marine Record. Word has been sent out by the Longshoremen’s Union to boycott the Anchor Line in every way possible and at all the ports at which the vessels of the line may touch. A report is current that millionaire Lyman C. Smith of Smith premier typewriter fame will.close contracts for a fleet of steel transportation steamers for lake service. George Y. Wisner, Esq., ex-United States deep water commissioner, has just been appointed a member of a com- mission for investigating the water supply of the city of Louis, Mo. The steamer Cartagena passed up Monday night with the two steamers Badger State and Empire State in tow, for Bay City. The old boats were recently purchased in Cleve- land by Barry Bros., Chicago. The car ferry steamer Sainte Marie went aground on Graham shoals on Monday ina dense fog. She was going at a good speed and ran out four feet on the rocks. The car ferry St. Ignace was sent at once to her assistance. If any damage is found, she will be sent here for repairs. Neither Colonel Lydecker nor Major Fish, Corps of Engi- neers, U. S. A., is to be disturbed asa result of the assign- ment of Capt. Lansing H. Beach to duty near Detroit. Major Thomas H. Handbury, present engineer in charge of the eleventh light-house district, with headquarters at De- troit, will probably be transferred to New York. It is now on the cards that the new Detroit & Buffalo line, the Detroit & Cleveland line, and the White Star line will build an immense pavilion extending from Wayne to Gris- wold streets, with accessory freight sheds and storage houses. If this project is carried out it will give the lines the finest and most complete passenger and freight terminal facilities on the Great Lakes. The new steel passenger steamer Iroquois’ built by the Craig Ship Building Co. forthe Arnold Line was at the docks of S. F. Hodge & Co. this week for repairs to her cylinder head. She will be placed onthe route between Cheboygan and Sault Ste. Marie with her sister ship the Chippewa. The latter vessel has been sent to Toledo ‘to receive a new rudder, a log or other floating object, having broken her former one. The screw steel steamer Huronic, to run from Windsor or Sarnia to Duluth, via Port Arthur and Fort William, will be launched about August 20 from the yards of her builders, the Collingwood Ship Building Co. The Huronic will be one of the largest vessels ever built in Canada. She is built of open hearth steel throughout, is 325 feet over all, 308 feet between perpendiculars, 43 feet beam and 27 feet molded depth. Itis expected that she will be able to steam 1534 miles an hour loaded and 17% miles light. Whether it is late in the day or otherwise, measures are now being taken to ascertain how much water flows through Detroit river. It has evidently been brought to the atten- tion of some one that there is a leak in the supply, with a probability of several others eventuating within the next few years, and to such an extent as to affect the level of the lakes, Anyway, guages are now being placed for the pur- pose of measuring the discharge, fluctuation in same, etc. It looks like a curse on the lake marine that all this has not been thoroughly done years ago. Marine reporter Joe. McLaughlin, Port Huron, has to his credit the rescue of seventeen lives, and it is pertinently said that ifever a man on St. Clair river, or anywhere else, was en- titled to recognition by the United States government, in the award of medals, that man is Joe McLaughlin. He never speaks of what he has done, though heis always ready to make a plunge and rescue a fellow-being summer or winter. His many acts of bravery will be called to the attention of Senator McMillan and Congressman Weeks, so that, in the course of time, he may be rewarded with a medal. Some of the marine engineers are not very much elated at the prospect of casting in their lot with the Longshore- men’s Union and being made amenable to their by-laws and rulings, asit is thought that disputes in one branch or . another may become too frequent for comfort, and it is said that the entire matter will have to be acted upon at the next annual meeting of the Marine Engineers’ Beneficial. Associ- ation next winter. In the event of the majority of lodges joining the International Longshoremen’s organization, it will sever the lake engineers from the ocean, coast and river » branches, and, even so, some engineers are of the opinion that this would be the proper step to take. Whether the masters and pilots affiliate or not, the whole situation can be controlled’ by the engineers. The Licensed Tugmen’s Association of the Great Lakes, with headquarters at Milwaukee, has decided that the act of the crew of the tug Columbia in rescuing the only two survivors of the Baltimore on Lake Huron, May 24, was an act worthy of emulation, and asa slight token of their ap- proval of the heroic act they have prepared medals for the four men of the crew who assisted in the rescue. These medals were sent this week from Milwaukee to M. A. Pal- mer of Detroit, secretary of the local branch of the association, for presentation, and will be given to the men as soon as they come into port. With each medal is a letter, one of which is sent to Herbert Hickmott of Detroit. The letter says: ‘This is the first time this or any other order of the Great Lakes has ever presented medals for deeds of distin- guished valor, but the exception is merited by the circumstances.” oO or DULUTH-SUPERIOR. Special Correspondence to the Marine Record. John Hitchcock, second mate of the steamer Rappahan- nock, owned by the Davidson Steamship Co., was accident- ally killed at Duluth this week while on board his vessel. Hitchcock was a married man and had a family living at Port Huron, The steamer Fanchon, owned by Capt. LaFrambois and Dion, which was recently fined $500 by the collector of cus- toms for going outside the limit specified in her certificate of inspection, has succeeded in having the fine reduced to $10. The boat came from the Port Huron district. It is considered here that Capt. George MacDougall, of the Canadian owned steamer Athabasca, exhibited great skill and humane propensities in rescuing the crew of the waterlogged steamer Preston, abandoned on Lake Superior. The rescue was effected after ten hours work, and eleven men out of the crew of twelve were picked up, the other being the vessels coming together. Advices from Eau Claire are to the effect that one.of the biggest timber deals that has been made in Northern Min- nesota in many years has just been consummated, whereby Cook & Turrish, of Duluth, and their associates, transfer to the Brooks Timber Co., 170,000 feet of pine in St. Louis and lake counties for a cosideration of $1,000,000 in round figures. The Brooks Timber Co, is the pine corporation of the Brooks-Scanlon Lumber Co., and the Scanlon-Gibson Tumber Co. William O’Brien is also interested. The International Steamship Co., of which Capt. A. B. Wolvin, is president, has received an offer to treat regarding the sale of the steamer Paraguay. Capt. Wolvin, when asked to confirm the report was very reticent, and said that he was not prepared to give out any information. It is learned, however, that the stockholders of the company have the matter under consideration. The small steamer Preston, abandoned waterlogged early this month on Lake Superior, will be repaired at the West Superior shipyard. The vessel would undoubtedly have been a total loss had it not been for her cargo of lumber, which kept her afloat until she was towed to Port Caldwell, Ont. Atthat port she was libeled for $15,000 by a fisherman for services with his fishing tug. Then followed the steamer Root incident, which was happily ended by the customs officer at Port Arthur remitting a heavy fine against the Duluth boat for going to the assistance of the Preston at Port Caldwell without first obtaining a permit from the Canadian authorities, The Athabasca rammed her bow during the time she was rescuing the crew. Rough, temporary repairs were made to the Preston at Port Arthur before the start was made for Duluth, and pumps were kept going dur- ing thetrip here. The master of the Athabasca might have known that a lumber laden hooker would’nt sink even if the crew did’nt. Of course his share of salvage would have not amounted to very much, but a good sized check might. have been placed to the credit of his wealthy owners, if he had shown savey enough to avail himself of the Saperaty to earn it for them. BUFFALO. Special Correspondence to The Marine Record. Capt. George W. Starkey has taken charge of the steamer Uganda, vice Capt. W. W. Wilkins, oe home to Erie to bury his late wife. .. The Union Steamboat Co.’s steamers Rochester and New York have been added to the Union Transit Line fleet, which trades exclusively between Buffalo and Lake Superior ports. The wooden steamer R. A. Packer;owned by John A. Con- nelly, and hailing from Chicago is in dry dock fora thorough overhauling and repairs... She is 921 tons gross, and was built at Bay City in 1881. The Cleveland-Euclid Beach ferryboat Superior has been chartered for the season by the Crystal Beach Co., and is already quite a favorite on the route. Her sister boat, the Duluth, is in the Green Bay service. sen The barge Delos De Wolf, in years gone by one of the smart lake schooners, is still found worthy of holding a class. The De Wolf was built in Oswego in 1856, her gross tonnage is 307, and she is now owned by Capt. J. J. Boland of this port. Lake survey charts, which formerly could only be pur- chased in Detroit, can now be secured in the United States Engineer’s office, on the fifth floor of the Postoffice building, This will be a great convenience to masters and others who have occasion to use charts. The Rutland Transit Line is involved in a‘ labor dispute with the longshoremen. Their request is for 35 cents an hour overtime. Thecompany hasasked for non-union men, and offered $1.50 a day, 25 cents an hour for ordinary over- time, and 50 cents an hour for Sunday work. The barge Myron Buttman, of Toledo, which has been in dry dock for temporary repairs has been taken to Tonawanda to discharge her lumber cargo. After this is done a survey of the damage sustained in her collision with the Harvard will be made and probably final repairs ordered made. Total shipments of coal for the month were 215,710 tons, as against 238,404 for July last year. Total shipments for the season to date are 736,822. Last year 969,805 tons had gone forward at this time. During July the receipts of grain amounted to 14,430,031 bushels and of flour 1,509,616 barrels. The greatest uneasiness is felt regarding the lack of anthra- cite coal in the west and a great rush must surely set in before the close of navigation to make up for the stagnation throughout the earlier part of the season. The Union Transit Co. will likely lose the services of the steamer Avon. She has been found to be so badly burned as to make a constructive total loss. For several days after arriving at Buffalo in tow of the Portage, she was ham- pered by the $25,000 salvage libel of the steamer Victory. On discharging the cargo it was found that not over 6,0co bushels of her 50,000 bushels of wheat was injured and the flour was in fair shape. She was built in 1877, at Buffalo, but has been so well taken care of that she is stillrated Azand given a valulation for insurance purposes of $28,000 which is an excellent showing for a 1,700 ton wooden vessel of ‘her age. The rush of lumber to the Tonawanda ports still continues and the record for the month of July will cértainly be the largest for any one month at the Tonawanda ports for several years. Between 6,000,000 and 7,000,000 feet of lumber has arrived in the two ports within the last twenty-four hours, bringing the present total up to nearly 84,000,000 for the month. These figures are simply stupendous and could scarcely be believed by those not conversant with the busi- ness carried on in the upper reach of Niagara river. Some pretty slick handling of lumber has been done in the past but the Tonawanda imports place all previous records in the shade, in so far as this ‘‘neck-o-the-woods”’ is concerned. Capt. James Davidson, of Bay City, was here this week, as he has been more or less, and always, during the season of navigation. He did not pre-empt a location for his new steel shipyard, engine shops and boiler works, nor was it at all certain that he would on his arriving at Erie, Pa., where he went from here. No doubt but that Capt. Davidson will establish a modern plant for his two capable sons to control in the near future, and it has been learned that he has all. particulars at hand for so doing, also the cash capital required; at the same time, no new steel ships will come from the Davidson yards in the near future, and the present out- bursts regarding same is the periodic talk which has been current at any time during the past few years. 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