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THE MARINE RECORD. Avcts*t 8, 1gof. Kak k Kk DULUTH-SUPERIOR. Special Correspondence to the Marine Record. The two Scotch type boilers have been recovered from the wreck of the Henry Chisholm. Work enough is already assured to make a brisk winter at the West Superior yards of the American Ship Building Co. The new steamer building at Superior for Milwaukee owners will be ready for launching in about six weeks. No material is yet being received at the yards for the new con- tracts for two boats for next season’s delivery. Benjamin Altman, whose wife, mother-in-law, and two daughters were drowned through the burning of the steamer Bon Voyage, has retained council and will file a declaration _ against the White Star Co., owners of the steamer, for damages. The steamer Stimson and barge Bissell have been fed $1,- ooo each for going to Port Arthur and failing to report their arrival within twenty-four hours after returning as prescrib- ed by the government regulations when vessels arrive froma Canadian port. _ Shipments of lumber last month from Duluth, Superior and. Two Harbors reached the immense total of 70,000,000 feet the largest month’s lumber businessin the history of the trade. The total is nearly as large as two ordinary month’s business. Several sales of lumber each of five million feet and up- wards have been made within the past few days. Timber lands, owned by the Cook & Turrish interests also changed hands for very large amounts, The property is in St. Louis and Lake counties. ; The Evening Telegram, Superior, reports the stranding of the Western Liner, Boston, at the head of Harsen’s Island, Detroit river, under the caption ‘‘Boston Strikes Earth.”’ This charming way of putting it leaves the reader to surmise that it might have been vice versa. ~ Steamboat Island, one of the Apostle group, off Chequam- egon Bay, Lake Superior, has disappeared. Before the last storm and from time immemorial it was a small island of sand and rock overgrown with trees. Now it has gone anda rocky reef several feet under water marks its place. Capt. John V. Tuttle, of Cleveland, and Joseph Kidd, of Duluth, have made a survey of the steamer Preston and the vessel has been taken out. of dry dock at Superior to await the decision of the insurance companies and the owners, re- garding repairs. surance. The steamer Geo. Burnham, Capt. Schwerman, arrived here with a cargo of maple for the Northwestern Fuel Co.’s new dock at Superior. It was thought strange to see a lum- ber cargo headed for Duluth and Schwerman was asked on the way up if he wasn’t steering by a Chinese compass, with reversed points. . Two well-known lumber brokers at Duluth, Davis & Com- stock, have incorporated the Valley Coal Co., at Valley, Wash,, to develop the seven-foot vein of coal discovered there, The company is organized with J. W. Comstock, Duluth, Minn., president, and W. G. Davis, treasurer and general manager. The lumber sales at Ashland last week ran up to 17,000,- ooo feet. Cleveland parties took about 2,000,000 feet and a few days earlier the Nicola Bros. Lumber Co., Cleveland, purchased 3,000,000 feet of Norway and white pine. Buyers from Chicago and lower lake points are found daily at points along the head of the lakes. Superior has kept. up her lumber shipments by forwarding upwards of 13,000,000 again in July and increased receipts of bituminous coal from 140,000 in June to 223,000 tons for July, anthracite 30,000 tons. June ore shipments amounted to 230,000, July 320,385. Imports and exports 872,197 nearly equally divided. The receipt of 12% million feet of logs is noteworthy for the. month. ‘The Duluth Steamship Co. of which G. A. Tomlinson is the head, was incorporated at St. Paul with a capital of It is said that the boat carried $20,000 in. $120,000. The incorporators are G. A, Tomlinson, Laura D. Tomlinson and H. R. Spencer of Duluth. The company is organized to contract for the construction of a 5,000-ton steamer by the American Ship Building Co. and which will likely be built at the branch yards in Superior, Wis. The total shipment of iron ore from the head of the lakes, Duluth, Two Harbors and Superior, for the present season to August 1, was 4,687,118 tons, as compared with about 4,856,666 gross. tons for the same period in 1900, indicating a shortage to date of almost 170,000 tons, The docks are rapidly making up the big shortage that faced them at the end of the, first and second months, and it will probably be wiped out by September 1. The C. Reiss Coal Co., Ashland, will very soon have its dock there completed. The electric light plant has been installed and the new hoisting machinery is being put in position. With the new appliances no men will be used in the hold of a boat to shovel coal until the buckets have got ‘‘skin’? when shovelers will be utilized to clean up what remains, The buckets will be clam shells and will work automatically, loading and discharging coal without any assistance save that which is effected by the use of machinery in the derrick house above. The first time in the history of iron ore handling a single dock system has touched the 1,000,000 gross ton mark in the amount of ore forwarded in a month. During the month of July, the Duluth & Iron Range docks, at Two Harbors for- warded 1,005,614 tons. This has never been equalled in the history of ore shipping anywhere in the world, although the shipping season for various causes was about one month late. Two Harbors’ docks have forwarded to August a total of 2,- 205,847 gross tons, as compared with 1,997,489 gross tons to the same date last season, showing an increase of 208,359 tons: —<—<—<——$— i ee BUFFALO. Special Correspondence to The Marine Record. The 50 cent Lake Michigan freight rate on coal is now the going figure. Some of the line boats had only 1% cents on corn this week from Chicago. Wheat % cent better. Commander Andrew Dunlap, U.S.N., light house inspector for this district, has returned to Buffalo, having completed an inspection of the light houses on Lake Erie and the Detroit River. His next tour will be to Lake Ontario. The gates of the Cornwall canal, St. Lawrence system, were carried away last week while a loaded steamer was locking through. Traffic was suspended until early this week when repairs were completed. While the labor trouble regarding the Anchor Line boats seems to be settled, the Rutland Line is more mixed than ever. The effects of the strike is being keenly felt among the 800 longshoremen at Ogdensburg. Shoal water is giving the port a hard name again. The _~Grampian towed down the Blackwell drawing only 14 feet and dragging through the mud at that. The Nyanza after load- ing coal at the Lackawanna trestle found herself imbedded in a soft bottom and had to call.on tugs to float her and so the story goes with every likelihood of a continuation on account of the lack of dredging. ‘One reason for the lack of soft coal shipments is found in the rail rate. Ohio coal reaches the lake by rail for 73 cents, while Buffalo pays $1.00 from the nearest mine. The bulk of last weeks shipments 61,coo tons went to Duluth-Superior 27,000 tons,and Chicago-Milwaukee 1o,oco tons each, freight 35 cents to former and 40 to 50 cents to latter named ports. Racine paid 50 cents ona small cargo and that is now the going rateto Lake Michigan. There is much to be said in favor of Buffalo getting the new shipyard and drydock. Itis not always convenient to change ports for Grydocking and large repairs and these facilities are wanted where the vessels are, not miles away. Capt. Davidson leans rather to Ashtabula and likes to visit there. Conneaut and Fairport are becoming immense ore receiving points, Cleveland is also adjacent, but Buffalo is the spot direct. An action has been brought by Hyman Speyer to recover $3,000 damages, which he alleges he sustained on the Monteagle. Speyer was a deckhand on board the Monteagle. It was his first employment on board ship. He alleges that on the night of July 15 he fell down a hatchway and sus- tained an injury to his arm, which will cause it to be stiff for life; that it incapacitates him from any form of manual labor, and that the owner’s agents were negligent in not having either a lantern at the hatchway or a covering on it. DETROIT. Special Correspondence to the Marine Record. Water gauges showing depth at the Limekiln crossing are exhibited at the Pittsburg and Smith’s fueling docks. The railroad car-ferry Sault Ste. Marie stranded several days ago on Graham’s shoal, was floated by the wrecking tug Favorite. : The rooms formerly occupied by the Shipmasters’ Asso- ciation, Woodward avenue, are required by the officers of the United Railway Co., so that the Masters will have to look up other quarters. Shortly after leaving here on Tuesday, an explosion took place on board of the Northwest and two men were found seriously injured on account ofa tube hiowes out of the Belleville water tube boilers. More boat race talk is being indulged in by the White Star and Arnold line managers. A race between the Tashmoo and the Chippewa from Algonac to Port Huron may result.. T'ashmoo backers are plentiful. A file carelessly left in one of the new steamer Iroquois’ engine cylindcrs is what disabled her at the mouth of Detroit river last week. The file had damaged the lower part of the cylinder. Repairs were made at the works of S. F. Hodge & Co. The steel steamer Colonel has been assigned official num- bers this week by the Bureau of Navigation, Treasury De- partment. Her tonnage is 3,879 gross and 3,044 net. She ‘was built at the Wyandotte yards of the Detroit Ship Build- ing Co., and hails from Detroit. According to the annual report of the Detroit Custom House, thirty vessels of 44,484 gross tons, have changed from the district to other places of enrollment during the past year. This is largely accounted for by the sale of the Whitney fleet and several of the Parker vessels. The num- ber of vessels enrolled in the district at present is 250. Itis stated that the Northern Michigan Railroad Co. will commence building within the next four months a road from Sault Ste. Marie to the Straits, and that an order for an ice- crusher to run between Mackinaw and St. Ignace has been or shortly will be placed, which will connect with the Grand Rapids & Indiana at Mackinaw City, now under the control of the Pennsylvania Co. Chicago yachtsmen were simply compelled to wilt and admit that the Detroit yacht Cadillac was ‘‘it.’”’ The cham- pionship of the lakes, as also the possession of Canada’s cup will be contested for between the Cadillac and Invader, The best of good hopes goes with the Cadillac and ‘may she win, at the same time, the fairest kind of a fair show must be given our Canadian cousins and visitors. The life-saving crew at Harbor Beach on Friday ast picked up the body of a man off that port. The man was appar- ently about fifty-five or sixty years of age, five feet six inches in height and would weigh about 150 ponhds, He had a gray, stubby mustache and was bald. The body was clothed in dark overalls and vest, dark cotton shirt and white underwear, and had no shoes on. It was badly de- composed and had probably been in the water for some time. There were no papers by which it could be identified. Since the opening of navigation Saginaw has received nearly 35,000,000 feet of lumber, including 14,000,000 feet in July. Shipments were 3,500,c0o feet for the season not a foot of which was shipped ex lake, something which has not occurred for forty years before. Twenty years ago, or in 1882, the shipments from Saginaw up to August 1 amounted to 400,000,000 feet. The July receipts at Bay city aggregated 11,000,000 feet of lumber and 6,000,000 feet of sawn timber, also 10,000,000 railroad ties and cedar posts. The International Longshoremen’s Association has just had printed the proceedings of the tenth annual conven- tion, held in Toledo, July 8th to 13th, inclusive. The annual isin book form, 9 by 6 inches, and containing 166 pages. Forty thousand copies of the association’s constitution will be printed in English, 25,000 im German and Polish, 20,000 in Finnish, and 10,000 in Italian and Portuguese: These will be sent to ports in different parts of the world, so the freight handlers can learn the purposes, etc., of the longshoremen’s organization. In some interesting reminiscences of his visit to Japan with Commodore Perry’s famous expedition, chief engineer Edward D. Robie, U. S. N., now retired, tells in the Detroit ‘‘Rree Press’’ of the influence ofa steam whistle on the ignorant Japs. Having no chart of the, bay, Perry was obliged to send out small boats to make soundings. The