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THE MARINE RECORD. Avcust 15, 190! = KK aK KK ES BUFFALO. Special Correspondence to The Marine Record. Capt. Hollenberg is now master of the steamer Boston, vice F. J. Johnson transferred to the Syracuse. ‘On Monday 161,000 bushels of grain were shipped via the Erie canal, 101,000 bushels being wheat and the balance corn and barley. Capt. W. W. Wilkins is now master of the steamer Uganda, vice Capt. George W. Starkey. Theschooner R. Bottsford is in charge of Capt. Peter Johnson, vice Capt. Alex. Sharrow. , Capt. John Fisher, of the steamer Syracuse, was compelled to lay off for a trip on account of sickness. His friends and shipmates will be pleased to learn that he has about recov- ered and will be all right again in a few days. The Bertranr Engine Works, Toronto, have under con- tract two large steel steamers, one for the Richelieu & On- tario Navigation Co.’s Montreal-Quebec passenger service, -and acargo boat fora Canadian syndicate of capitalists, both for delivery next spring. “The Standard Oil Co, tanker No. 52, Capt. Hansen took 5,000 barrels of naphtha from the pipe line docks, above the Export elevator, this week, consigned to Superior. She was built two years ago for the Imperial Oil Co., Montreal, but has been brought back to the lakes and will transport bulk oil in her tanks to Lake Superior. “It is understood that the Union Transit Co., owners of the steamer Avon, have turned her over to the underwriters. Two experts, one from New York and one from Londou have passed judgment on the burned vessel, and she is déclared a total loss. The Avon will not be rebuilt. She will likely be purchased from the underwriters and converted into a tow barge. ‘The Northeastern reached here from her trip across the Atlantic on Wednesday. After discharging some tea and sugar, she will proceed on to Chicago and enter the lake trade for about a month, and then get down the St. Law- rence before insurance expires, say November 15, for a win- ter’s knocking about on the coast. It was a nice thing for the boat to bring us some more tea and sugar. _ The exhibit of the U.S. Fish Commission at the Pan- American is displayed in the south pavilion of the Govern- ment building. It occupies about 10,000 square feet of space and is primarily intended to show the functions of the U.S. Fish Commission as provided for by law. An effort has been made to illustrate the methods employed in the various fisheries and to show the products of the same. The exhibits are arranged under three general headings: Scientific Inquiry, Fish Culture, and Methods and Statistics. It is said that one of the five boats contracted for this week by the American Ship Building Co. will come to this port. The steamers will range in size from 4,800 to 6,200 tons. The smaller boats will be sister ships to the steamer Mars, and the larger ones of the steamers ordered by the Hawgoods last week. They will have triple expansion en- gines, Scotch boilers, and will be fitted with Howden hot draft. The boats are to be completed April 15, 1902, and will cost about $1,500,000. Capt. Brown, Cleveland, will be secretary and manager of the company, which is to be capi- talized at $2,500,000. Capt. Brown first figured on building ten. steamers, and Charles Counselman, the Chicago grain _ shipper, and W. H. Prime, the underwriter, were going into the company. They decided to drop out of the project and Capt. Brown immediately cut the order in half. This order will make a total of twenty-five ships now under contract by the American Ship Building Co. Three of the boats will be built at Chicago, one at Detroit and one here. This order of building is uuderstood to be subject to revision at the builders’ option. THE new exclusively anthracite coal dock of the C. Reiss company at Sheboygan was operated for the first time on Saturday and discharged cargo of the steamer Ira H. Owen. Its size is 350x400 feet, and outside of the steam hoists the plant is operated by electricity. CLEVELAND. Special Correspondence to The Marine Record. Transfers of masters took place this week. Capt. Hiram Cooms now takes the Tasmania and Capt. EK. Biddlecombe the Gebhardt. The steel steamer Saturn of the Gilchrist fleet will be dry- docked this week for survey and bottom’ repairs after grounding at the mouth of Detroit river. Capt. C. C. Balfour has taken charge of the steel steamer Venus, vice Capt. W. C. Butts resigned. The steamer was ashore near Presque Isle on her last trip. The committee on aids to navigation of the Lake Carriers Association are empowered to purchase an old schooner and fit her out as a light ship for Pelee Passage. Capt. A. B. Wolvin, Duluth, Minn., president of the Lake Carriers’ Association and general manager of the Pittsburg Steamship Co. (United States Steel Corporation), visited this port on Tuesday. Lorain is in the swim as a safe port for large ore cargoes. The Smeaton was taken care of this week with 7,265 net tons on a draft of less than 18 feet. The Manila has the credit of the next largest cargo. The Lake Shore Railroad Co. had dredges to work fora week at Ashtabula, and there is now a clear 20 feet depth at the drawbridze, so that it is thought vessels will no longer be detained by grounding at this point. The Chicago and Northwestern Railroad Co., are building a breakwater at Sheboygan, Wis., to protect their shore line of rails. such expense being shouldered on to the Federal Govern- ment. The committee on aids to navigation of the Lake Carriers’ Association are considering the purchase of another craft to take the place of the burned schooner Smith & Post,recently acting as a light-ship on Southeast shoal, Pelee Passage, Lake Erie. Mr. J. A. Cleveland, a gentleman well known in local business circles, now represents the American Manufacturing Co., Wall Street, New York, manufacturers and wholesale dealers in cordage. Mr. Cleveland’s office is on the 3rd floor Western Reserve Building, Ashtabula has been jammed with vessels this week. Wednesday there were twenty-eight ore laden vessels and nine vessels loading coal at the docks. Sixty thousand tons of ore was afloat at the Lake Shore docks, every ton to go into cars for immediate shipment. Owing to the successful workings and prosperous outlook of the American Ship Building Co., it is now on the tapis to devote a large amount of the accumulated earnings to paying a dividend on the common stock. This will be a very stratifying feature to the ordinary investor and stockholder. There is an enormous risk taken in building tunnels out to cribs half way across the lake to secure water for the city. The Cleveland tunnel has called for about 50 lives and it is not yet finished as there is 2,600 feet to be completed. At least nine men lost their lives this week through the crib catching fire. Word has been received that the lake built steamer Tam- pico, from Norfolk, Va., to San Francisco with coal has arrived all well. The Eureka and Meteor also built at the yards of the Craig Ship Building Co., Toledo, to the order of Messrs. Hawgood & Co., and afterwards sold to the Globe Navigation Co., are due to arrivein Frisco within afew days Capt: Thos. Macoubrey, master of thesmall English steamer Paliki, can’t quite understand why firemen should be paid at the rate of $45 per month. If, on the other side of the pond, he could load his craft down with engineers and mates, full of talent, vigor and skill at this entrancing per—yet, the Northwestern Steamship Co. were willing on their igno- rance to buck against a score of little features like this, in- cluding insurance on extra hazardous risks. Well! they learned a lesson. The following meterological observations are furnished by the office of the U. S. Weather Bureau for the week ending August 14th; Prevailing wind directions during the week, north-west; highest velocity, 30 mi, from south, on the rgth. Mean temperature for the week, 72; highest temperature, 92 on August 9th; lowest, 57 on August 13th; sunrise and sun- set data, computed for local time at Cleveland, August 15th, sun rises 5:07; sets, 7:01; August 18th, sun rises, 5:10; sets, 6:56; August 21st, sun rises, 5:13; sets, 6:52. The schooner Thomas P. Sheldon, built in Saginaw, in 1871 and-recently returned from the coast, foundered with her cargo of iron oreon Lake Huron, hercrew escaped. The craft was 699 tons gross, owned by J. C. Gilchrist and rated The Lake Shore Railroad Co. at this port, prefers’ this month A 234, with a valulation for insurance purposes of $8,000. She was furnished with steam pumps in addition to the hand pumps. Though the hull is sunk in about 4 fathoms it is not thought that any attempt will be made to float her again. The mate reached here on Tuesday and reported having quite a hard time in the old craft. A long pleasant day may be spent sailing between Cleve- land and Canada on the favorite steamer Urania. The officers of the boat are attentive to their duties and courteous to the passengers, excellent meals are served on board at very moderate prices and every convenience is offered picnic’ parties at Rondeau, that is, ivy covered arbors with chairs and tables, also hot and cold water, hotel, pavilions, yacht- ing, bathing, fishing, etc. At the present time anyone would say that Rondeau will become a favorite resort in a season or two and there is a desire evidenced to make it so The Ontario law is against Sunday sailing though, or rather, you can sail all you want, but musn’t land, so Cleveland people are barred out of a Sunday trip on the Urania. —_— i a ee DETROIT. Special Correspondence to the Marine Record. The schooner Thomas P. Sheldon is gone, and her tow- ing steamer, the Waverly had a close call. The latter craft rates A2. and has a $27,000 valuation for insurance pur- poses. The twin screw passenger steamers Northwest and North- land passed each other in the river on Monday for the first time since they have been on the Chicago- Buffalo route. No small amount of steam was used in the mutual salutations. The Homer Warren, nee Atlantic, is a propeller of 448 gross tons, built at Cleveland in 1862 and now owned by F. C. Andrews of this port. The old craft has been rebuilt and now figures on her first letter, rating A1%%. with a valua- tion of $35,000, rebuilding repairs, rejuvenates? The West Bay City shipyard, branch of the American Ship Building Co. is to resume work although it had been partially dismantled. Detroit is now certain of as much work as can be carried on. The shipyards, engine shops and boiler works will have all they can do throughout the coming winter. Capt. J. T. Hutton, formerly of the steamer A. A. Parker, will command the new steamer Yosemite. Capt. J. L. Mil- len, late of the steamer Grecian, will succeed Capt. Hutton in the Parker. Capt. C. C. Balfour, late of the steamer Chas. A. Eddy, has been given charge of the steamer Venus, one of the new Gilchrist freight steamers. The old wooden steamer Waverly, Capt. D. Kirby, en- gineer John. McGregor, led the schooner Thos. P. Sheldon ashore off Au Sable near the wreck of the Baltimore, while bound down last week with cargoes of iron ore from Escan aba, both vessels are now lying with their rails awash. The Waverly grounded heavily at False Presque Isle early in July while trying to release the steel steamer Venus. The Gilchrist fleet of wooden craft are playing in hard luck these times. The steamer Colonial, Capt. F. Chilson, nearly madea holein the water on Lake Huron, crossing Saginaw Bay with a cargo of iron ore, she was eventually got into Harbor Beach, where leaks were stopped and she came on passing here on Tuesday. This casualty knocks four of them out of time in the past few days, the Saturn, Colonial, Waverly and Sheldon. The wrecking steamer Favorite released the whaleback steamer Henry Cort from her stranded position on St. Hel. ena reef and sent her on her way rejoicing last Monday. The Favorite from her station inthe Straits of Mackinaw is one of the best aids to navigation and commerce on the chain of lakes, not that she gets too much to do, but she is always on hand when wanted, and besides, she invariably accomplishes whatever she undertakes, or is ordered to do. The several small tramp steamers flying the British flag are continually having trouble with their crews. The union wages for firemen is $45 per month, and the Britishers can’t understand ‘paying chief mate’s wages to an ordinary coal passer. The Paliki was held here fora day this week while the engineer was hunting up a couple of firemen. Th:2 vessels, like all others, should alter their rules according to the trade they are in;‘river, lake, coast and ocean sailing differs all ’round. The wreckers around Harbor Beach captured jettisoned lumber and when Mr. F. EK. Chamberlain sought to recover a portion of the 70,000 feet thrown overboard from his yes- sel, he was insulted and had to get out a writ of replevin to obtain his own property again. There perhaps was no rev- enue attached to it, but the revenue cutters and the man-of- # ST neg to nage ae