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Aucust 8, IgoI. Japs attempted to stop this proceeding, but when the steam whistle on the Mississippi was blown, the like of which they had never before heard, they paddled for shore, and there- after remained at a respectful distance. Mr. Robie says he had the honor of taking the first daguerreotype ever made in Japan, there being no photographs at that time. It was a picture of Commodore Perry, in full uniform, standing in in a Buddhist temple, and when he saw it the commodore remarked: ‘‘I believe you engineers can do anything.” Mr. Robie has been spending some time with his son, H. A. Robie and family at 854 Cass avenue. EO CLEVELAND. Special Correspondence to The Marine Record. Ashtabula had 29 ore cargoes in port on Monday last; this meant about 100,000 tons. Mr. J. H. Wedow, of the firm of Mitchell & Co., is again at his desk after enjoying a lake cruise for several days with his family. Capt. J. A. Moore has been appointed master of the schooner Verona of the Gilchrist fleet. The Verona recently returned from the coast. There was some demur this week at taking 4o cents on coal to Lake Michigan, but enough tonnage was placed to hold the rate. A 5-cent advance is looked for. The cruising yacht Maryette, built for the Jate Capt. Jno. W, Moore and Judge Liberty H. Ware, is now for sale. Besides being fitted with canvas, she has a gasoline engine and very complete equipment, The executor of the estate will consider any fair offer. Hon. T. E. Burton, Chairman of the River and Harbor Committee, has returned home after making a 14,000-mile tour inspecting rivers and harbors on the Atlantic and Pa- cific coasts. Itis safe tosay that Mr. Burton has nowa wider individual knowledge of rivers and harbors than any other person in the country. July ore receipts at Lake Erie ports show more than half a million tons over that of last year. The total decrease up to August I is 793,000 tons, last season’s record showing 9,- 454,400 tons. With the same brisk shipments during August, last year’s figures will have been duplicated, and this, too, in the face of a late opening, through ice, strikes, etc. These are the days when the local inspectors of steam- boats stationed at this port get work thrown at them in solid chunks. There are times when inspections are too frequent for the staff employed and it would be only right if a tempo- rary transfer system could be arranged so that crowded dis- tricts could have immediate assistance during the rush of work, I. moted one of the inspectors looking quite worn out this week, but his work continues. Nearly «tjooo,oco. tons of ore and coal were handled at Ashtabula: during July, eclipsing all monthly records since Ashtabula becamea port. The ore receipts were 701,119 tons, 18,900 tons of which was shipped from the Lake Su- perior port, Michipicoten. This is 66,241 tons more than received in July last year, and exceeding the June receipts by 44,684 tons. Coal shipments were 234,813 tons, There were 267 arrivals and 276 clearances in July. Conneaut gets to the front witha July record of 613,170 tons of ore, or nearly double the quantity received in July last year. - My correspondence in the issue of July 25 contained the following paragraph: ‘‘It is now up to the Solicitor-Gen- eral of Ohio to refuse accepting any taxes from the fisher- men since he can offer or provide no protection to the in- dustry. ‘ The fishermen say it is just as criminal to steal gas out of the mains as it is to take fish out of their nets. An Ohio J. P. says not.’’ This wasin connection with the de- cision recently rendered at Painesville, wherein the Justiec held that anyone was at liberty to take fish out of nets. A protest was moved against such a ruling by the fishermen and it. was suggested that they pay no taxes for license to fish until they had some sort of protection for their industry, etc. The above item being brought to the attention of J. M. Sheets, Esq., Attorney-General, Columbus, he replied: ‘‘In the first place there is no such officer in the State of Ohioas Solicitor-General, and if you meant that paragraph for the Attorney-General I wish to inform you that the Attorney- General has nothing more to do with the collection of taxes from fishermen than he has with managing the falls of Niagara. I have no doubt you wlll do me the justice to correct the error.’? My verbal protestor of a couple of weeks ago will thus far see how the matter stands. THE MARINE RECORD, CHICAGO. Special Correspondence to The Marine Record. The steamer Northwestern, the first of the new line to cross the Atlantic, cleared on her second trip last Thursday. The steamer Manitou, may go on the Chicago-Buffalo run for several trips, after her regular season is ended. The Northern Line has had such an excellent patronage all sum-' mer that there is probably room for one more on the Buffalo route. The Chicago Transportation Co., with $2,250,000 capital has been organized here to build and operate ten steel steamers for the lake grain trade. Charlés Counselman, of this city, and E.S. Wilkinson, of Syracuse, N. Y., are the organizers of the company. The Petoskey and Frank Woods were cael trying to get in the creek first on Monday and now Capt. J. M. Mitchell makes complaint against the Woods for colliding with his craft. The local inspectors are asked to cast oil on the wat- ers of discord between the masters and pilots. It is said here that if the Buffalo grain shovelers are de- termined to make trouble on a slight pretext, it can’t be known any too soon. So far as Chicago is concerned not a bushel need be sent forward ex lake and there is practically nothing from Duluth. The Georgian Bay outlet is all teats is wanted. All the dry lumber has been shipped from Marinette, Wis. Large shipments have been made to Buffalo, 10,000,000 feet of hemlock was shipped from Cedar River last week. There is still some hardwood for sale, but no pine except culls and scoots. Buffalo, Pittsburg and Milwaukee buyers visited Marinette during the last few days. Shipments of corn out of Chicago by lake in July of this year aggregated 2,554,000 bushels, as compared with ship- ments of 13,521,000 bushels in July of last year. Many of the boats that have been grain traders from this port in other years have been carrying ore to Lake Erie ports since navigation opened. Wheat to Georgian Bay is placed at 134 cent, equal to the offer for Buffalo. The passenger steamer Northwest arrived here twelve hours late and reported trouble with her boilets whereby two men were injured. An explosion took place after leav- ing Detroit, caused by the blowing out of one of the tubes in a Belleville water tube boiler." The engine room was filled with escaping steam. All but two, however, of the crew succeeded in getting out of the way without injury. Anew catalogue of corrugated furnace boilers with the Morison suspension furnace for marine and stationary use has just been issued by Joseph T. Ryerson & Son, Chicago, This corrugated furnace boiler has a very wide field of use- fulness, as is shown by the catalogue, which gives in addi- tion to the brief description of the principal features of these boilers some extensive lists of places where they are in use, and what people think of them. The wages of the four deserters from the Northwestern at Liverpool amounted in round figures to $200. This sum was paid over to the Collector of Customis to be covered into the Marine Hospital fund as usual. Capt. Atkinson can be held in the sum of the value of the effects of the deserters if it is proved that he was privy to their removal, as deserters forfeit wages and effects, and such must be duly accounted for by sworn statement, etc., but thena Custom House oath don’t amount to anything anyway. Options on all dredging properties on the lakes have been renewed to January 1, for the purpose of combining them in the proposed $10,000,000 trust. Previous options expired August 1, and there was said to have been some question of the deal being consummated. James A. Smith, of the firm L,.P. & J. A. Smith, Cleveland, is the representative of those who are promoting the combine, and it is said that he is getting affairs in shape to bring all the principal firms under one head before the close of the year. _ The government transport Terry has been purchased by Capt Miles E. Barry at New York and will leave that port for Chicago, Aug. 15. The Terry was built in 1892 at Phila- delphia. Sheis 220 feet long by 4o feet beam and 13 feet depth of hold. Her tonnage is 1,338. The Terry was form- erly known as the Hartford and ran in a line on the At- lantic coast until she was purchased by the government for an army transport. The price paid by the government was $170,000. The Hartford will be placed on the route between Chicago and Muskegon, taking the place of the State of Michigan. Barry paid less than $20,000 for her and will change her name. The steamer Northwesterp, all ready for the trip across the Atlantic, was heldin port last week by the lack of engi- neers, The assistant engineers quit because they claimed the chief engineer was not a member of the lake engineers’ union, The objectionable man insisted that he belenged to the engineers’ union on the Atlantic, but this did not suit the lake men. Pickets. were stationed thickly around the Northwestern and then the chief engineer quit. General manager Purdy, appealed to the Government authorities to find if they could do anything to help him out. All the engineers shipped regularly for the trip to Europe. However, a new engine room staff was got together and the vessel sailed on Thursday. ; The excursion steamer Robert E. Burke, owned by Capt. Peter Barry, has been fined $500 by Collector of Customs Nixon fora violation of the statutes regarding steamboat inspection. The Burke was inspected by the local board of steamboat inspectors at, Milwaukee, together with the other steamers of the Barry fleet, and the license issued al- lowed her to’ navigate Lake Michigan for a distance of four miles north and south of Chicago and two miles in the lake, The steamer was sent to Waukegan from Chicago with an excursion without securing the necessary permission from the local inspectors, and the fine was the result. Capt. Bar- ry will probably appeal to the secretary of the apy, to have the fine remitted or at least reduced. On Saturday next, August Io, the first of the races for the Canada cup between the Detroit owned yacht Cadillac, the representative of the Chicago Yacht Club, as defender, and Invader, the representative of the Royal Canadian Yacht Club, of Toronto, as challenger, will begin over the course of the Chicago Yacht Club. Public attention has been more drawn to yachting by this series of contests than by any previous meetings of sailing craft on the lakes and it is’ generally believed that the two competitors are the’ best specimens of the boat builder’s art ever floated on Lake’ Michigan. Five races are to be sailed in all while there is much division of sentiment as to the probable outcome of the race. Local yachtsmen incline to look forward to a victory for Cadillac with some confidence, the Canadian visitors are also expectant, and there are not a few who look: favorably upon the chances of the challenger. : SO Ooo LETTERS AT DETROIT MARINE POST OFFICE. To get any of these letters, addressees or their authorized. agents will apply at the general delivery window or write to the postmaster at Detroit, calling for ‘‘advertised’’ matter, giving the date of this list and paying one cent. ~ Advertised matter is previously held one week vawaithon: delivery. It is held two weeks before it goes to the, Dead Letter Office at Washington, D. C. Allen, Geo. A. Kinyoun, Mrs, J. om Anderson, Oscar, Penobscot Lagault, Thos., Rugee Ashly, Charley Sy, E. Urban Ames, Cornelius B. -Mullett, Geo , Falcon’): Benson, W. C., Penobscot Malloy, Jno. ii stain Benard, Jno., Rugee Murray, Thomas, Denver Brown, Robt. Merumir, C. H. Bacon, John Maxwell, Geo. Bowen, Jno. E, Madigan, Harry r i Bowen, Frank McCauley, Mary. . veh Bs Bropmer, Wm. J., Lozen McBride, J. A. : Brown, Daniel D., Manola Mcintosh, Edgar, Shores Borge, Frank, Niko McCrae, R. Harry ead Bedford, Juno. Nicols, Lowell, Hanna fz) Beattie, Wm. Nerreter, Geo, ; Brown, C. A. Nowachi, Peter Chookey, Andrew, Iron Duke Norcross, Wm. Carroll, Maurice, Neosho Patten, Claude, Williams Cassin, Lawrence, Hennepin Pangburn, Orin, Jno. Owen: Cantwell, James T. Powers, Capt: W. Cottrell, Jewell Quigby, Thos. P. Campbell, Geo. Ross, Capt. Chas. Conners, James, Livingston Richardson, Jos., Kaliyuga Carpenter, Vern, Senator Raymond, Joe, 2 Davis, Thos. W., 2 Pathfinder Ryberg, Carl H., Caledonia. ; Dille, P., Jno, Owen Smith, Geo., Wilhelm Donley, Edw. W. Spragg, Jos. Dill, Chas., Glidden Surles, James Dillon, Roy ~ » Schultz, Wm. M., Flower Dawson, Omar, Tyson : Edwards. Perry H. Ellsworth, Geo. S. Gray, W. R., 2 Seattle Goff, Chas. H Thompson, Henry, Glidden Gagnier, Jos., 2 Sacramento Tenie, Fred., Kaliyuga. ‘ Gordon, Alex., Princeton Whorrey,Cap.Jno., Sacramen- Gatfield, Gillman, 2Schuck Webb, Mrs, J. E., 3 Vega [to Harmon, Ernest, Niko Worden, F. A., Penobscot ~~ Heaney, Capt. Jno. Watterman, Joe , Hope, J. H. ' Wise, G. Mi: ° Harrison, Woodie Wright, Thomas, Hanna Harland, Stanley Wells, John, Paraguay King, Graham N. Woodford, W.'H.. F. B. DICKERSON, Post Master. Stery, J. E., 3, 129 Schaller, Geo., 2 Caledonia Shaffer, F. P., Falcon Tournquist, Louis