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THE MARINE RECORD oe CLEVELAND. Special Correspondence to The Marine Record. Loading 5,000 tons of coalin ro hours is the Lorain record to date. . The G. A. R. encampment week means much extra busi- ness for the regular passenger lines and bookings are already being made ahead. The steel steamer Lakeside, built by the Craig Ship Build- ing Co., Toledo, and hailing from that port is 450 gross and 306 net tons. Official number, 141,738. The Oscar T. Flint has been damaged about half a dozen times while lying at the Haskell dock in Ashtabula. She is hoodooed after entering the iron ore receiving port. Mr. Paul H. Cheney, of the firm of P. H. Cheney & Sons, Ashtabula, died last week aged 65 years. Denman, Thomas and Robert Cheney are sons of the late R. H. Cheney. The steel cargo steamer George W. Peavey, 4,997 gross and 3,861 net tons, built at and hailing from Cleveland, O., has been granted an official number by the Bureau of Naviga- tion, Treasury Department. Canada takes 10,000 tons of steel rails this week for the Canadian Pacific and the Algoma Central and Hudson Bay Ry. Co. These shipments are being made from Conneaut in Canadian owned bottoms. Capt. W. W. Brown and Mr. H. S. Wilkinson, of Syracuse, of the Globe Navigation Co, owners of the steamers Tampico, Eureka and Meteor, left for San Francisco last week to look after the boats on their arrival. It is a pleasure to see Mr. Fitch, formerly secretary and treasurer of the Cleveland Ship Building Co., around again. Mr. Fitch has been almost incapacitated from duty for the past year or two owing to getting jammed between street cars. The new steamer, George W. Peavey, built at the Lorain yards of the American Ship Building Co., for the Peavey syn- dicate, is now on her maiden trip to Lake Superior. She is in command of Capt. J. W. Norcross, formerly of the ocean- going steamer Paraguay. The promoters of the new dredging trust on the lakes have secured an option on 170 shares of the Lorain Dredg- ing Co,’s property which are the holdings of the Stang es- tate. It is said this will give the new company control of all but eighty shares of the stock. Cleveland has received her first cargo of Michipicoten ore and paid the 4o cents per ton duty onit. W. A. Hanna & Co. are the agents. The ore is a brown hematite of the Bessemer quality and large receipts are looked for when the Canadian mines are developed. Mr. Robert Wallace, than whom no one is better ac- quainted with the lake trade, admits that it is now beyond the power of prophecy to limit the development of lake commerce even to within the immediate future. The pres- ent volume he hails as being miraculous. There is a great advantage in owners bringing up their own masters. Capt. A. C. Stewart has served in the employ of Mitchell & Co. since he was a boy and he has now been promoted from mate of the Walter Scranton to master of the steamer Robert L. Fryer. Capt. Stewart is an energetic, skillful and level headed young man, aged 24 years. The British built steamer, Donnacona, sister ship to the Strathcona, loaded coal here for Fort William; her previous cargo was iron ore from Cuba to Newport News, Va. With the arrival'of the Midland Queen, this week, she makes the second foreign built steamer to cross the Atlantic and enter the Canadian lake trade. This is an indication of what the improved system of St. Lawrence canals may do in the near future. | The new steamer Lakeside, built at the yards of the Craig Ship Building Co., Toledo, forthe Sandusky & Peninsula Steamboat Co., will be delivered to her owners next week. . She will immediately go upon the Sandusky, Marblehead, Lakeside and Catawba Island route, taking the place of the American Eagle. The Eagle, which will be turned over to the Craigs in part payment for the new boat, is a good little ‘week ending August 20: ice crusher and for years has been on the winter route be- tween Sandusky and Put-in-Bay. The following meterological observations are furnished by the office of the U. S. Weather Bureau, for the week ending August 21st: Prevailing wiud directions during the week, south-east; highest velocity 27 miles, on the 19th. Mean temperature for the week, 74; highest temperature 85, on August 21; lowest 67, on August 16th; sunrise and sunset data computed for local time at Cleveland, August 23, sun rises, 5:16; sets, 6:49; August 26th, sun rises 5;19; sets 6:44; August 29th, sun rises 5:22; sets, 6;40. Samuel H. Crowl, Esq., has been instrumental in incorpor- ating the Eureka Smoke Consuming Co. this week. The device claimed by the company will save fuel and prevent smoke, and can be put on any sized boiler. Henry C. Tal- bot is the inventor, and it is proposed by the company to place it on boats on the lakes and the coast. Capt. Geo. P. McKay, treasurer of the Lake Carriers’ Association, and Judge S, S. Ford are interested in the appliance, and claim that it will do all that is required of it. Major Dan C. Kingman, Corps of Engineers, U. S. A., would like to see the river kept in a better condition and. live water moving through it from time totime. When other matters now demanding his attention have been cared for sufficiently to permit of a study of the situation Major Kingman may make some recomendations regarding the old channel. It is of course known that this matter rests in the hands of the municipality, but the views of so experi- enced an engineer as Major'Kingman would be given the closest attention by the city. officers. ——$—— rr a aa ”:sS—~ DULUTH-SUPERIOR. Special Correspondence to the Marine Record, There has.been about 8,000,000 bushels of wheat chartered 60 days ahead to Buffalo. The freight varies from 3 cents to 3% cents. The crews of vessels arriving here say that the cold weather is already being felt on Lake Superior and that the nights are colder than usual at this time of the year. Extensive repairs have been made on the Northern Queen at West Superior on account of the collision in which she sunk the whaleback barge Sagamore. All of the bow plates of the Northern Queen were damaged. The tug Ida Barrett recently sunk at the dock in West Duluth of the Mitchell & McClure Lumber Co. and when raised it wasfound that the sinking resulted from mente to shut off the stopcock of the siphon. The following meteorological observations are farnisiea by the office of the U. S. Weather Bureau, Duluth, for the Prevailing wind directions during the week, N.E.; highest velocity 29 miles per hour from N. W. onthe 19th. Mean temperature for the week, 71°; high- est temperature, 87° on 16th; lowest, 60° on the 15th, Ashland, Washburn and Bayfield disposed of an easy 20,- 000,000 feet of lumber within the past few days, Tonawanda, Cleveland and, Chicago parties taking the bulk. The John O’Brien Lumber Co. and the Edward Hines Lumber Co. were large sellers at good prices. The indications are that lumber will be sent forward as briskly as the fleet can carry it St. Louis county, Minn., last year furnished more than one-third of the iron ore eens in the United States. Minnesota supplied more than one-third of the ore mined in the. twenty-two ore producing states and territories in the United States. The grand total for 1900, according to John Birkinbine, the celebrated iron ore statistician, was 27,553,- 161 gross tons. Of this amount Minnesota, or to be more definite, St. Louis county, Minn., produced 9,834,399 tons: Tumber is lumber these times; sometimes it is not $0 valuable. Prices remain very firm, with a tendency up" ward, especially in Norway. Some short lengths have sold at $11.00 for 2x4s and 2x8s, and $12.00 for to-inch stuff. Six-inch strips, common grade, are selling at. $15.50, and 4-inch of the same grades at $13.00 to $13.50, one small lot going at the latter figure, Buyers are continually looking for stock, and so few lots now to look at that there is little choice in the matter of selection. ‘The American Ship Building Co. is contemplating vast improvements in the plant at West Superior. It will spend in the neighborhood of $75,000 on repairs and new machin- ery. The machine shops will receive new machinery, and there will be a general lot of repair work all the way through the yards. The old drydock will receive extensive repairs, In addition to the Milwaukee steamer now on the stocks two others may be started soon. In fact every branch yard is now listed to its full capacity and the ways for 22 new ves- sels must be kept filled to complete present contracts. AUGUST 22, I90I DETROIT. Special Correspondence to the Marine Record. The new tug building here for _Timothy Hurley will be named the Cadillac. The Cramp Steel Co., Ltd., are advertising for bids for the construction of a dock and its approaches at Collingwood. Fully a score of transfers of masters from one craft to an- other has been noted at the custom house within the past few weeks. : Be Whatever the outlook may bei in the big steel strike, the Michigan iron ore mines are working full forces wade ground and heavy shipments are being rushed forward. The second of the new submarine boats for the United’ States Navy was launched yesterday, at Elizabeth, N. J. The ptt is but . feet 4 inches long. Her name is the Moccasin. The Northern Mavignston Co. of Ontario, has declared a half yearly dividend of 5 pet.cent.,.payable from August.15_ at the office of the Secretary, Thomas Long, Bed. , Colling- wood, Ont. The steamyacht George Stauber was run down by the car- go steamer Alex. McDougall opposite Fort Gratiot on Wed- nesday, no lives were lost. The accident is thought to have been caused by a misunderstanding in the interchange of signals. ‘Dennis Bros., of Detroit, have commenced suit in the cir- cuit court at Port Huron’ te recover $10,600 from Slyfield Bros. Several insurance companies have been. garnisheed. The suit arose over the loss of the steamer White Star by fire last winter. The Detroit & Cleveland Navigation Co. has duneunged that its day boatiservice, which is usually suspended after. the 1st of September, will continue during the first half of September at least. This is done that the G. A. R. Clevel- and travel may receive proper attention. The schooner Crete, in tow of the steamer Venezuela, went hard aground on the east bank of the Limekiln Cross- ing on Tuesday night. Capt. James Davidson, her owner, has wired that he will personally superintend lightering operations and expects to float her by Thursday. Every possible effort is being made by the Lake Superior Power Co., Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., to complete the blast furnaces and steel making plant at that point. In the mean- time rails and other metal supplies necessary for carrying on the several Clergue enterprises are being shipped from Ohio ports. Capt.. Washburn heanene U. S. N., secretary of the Light-House Board, left here with Commander J. C. Wilson, U. S.-N., on the tender. Marigold for an inspection of the lighthouses and aids to navigation in the eleventh district. This will embrace a trip through Lake Huron and Lake Superior up as far as Duluth, and take about three weeks. The Marigold had 125 tons of hard coal aboard for the fog signal stations on the south shore of Lake Superior. Sailors here say that the crew of the Northwestern had every right to ask for their pay at Buffalo after making the Atlantic voyage, as they were not on lake articles and could not be held to work for salt water wages after the vessel had discharged cargo at a home port, be this as it may, the British steamers now trading for Canadian owners can’t hold their crews at ocean or coast wages, nor should the Chicago line try todo soin the future unless they want to get their boats tied up by the Federation of Labor. The Detroit divers at work recovering the pig iron cargo of the schooner William Hulme, sunk off Seul Choix Point, have had to be taken to Manistique for medical aid. The Hulme is sunk in 17 fathoms of water, and when working at that depth divers suffer from partial paralysis. Six hundred tons of the cargo have already been taken out of the schooner, and but little remains. The last hospital case is that of William Manning, and he is not expected to re- cover. His home is at this port and he has brothers living at Alpena. As the result of a judgment for $2,000, in a suit brought by Miss Christine McIntosh, of this city, against W. Ji: Brown, who, has been operating the steamer Pittsburg on the run between Detroit, Buffalo, Georgian Bay and Toledo, the latter has been compelled to file a petition in bankruptcy in in this city. Other debts were mentioned in the plea, but the principal one was the judgment, In the suit brought by Miss McIntosh against Brown for slander, she alleged that the latter made insulting remarks about her while she was a passenger on his boat last summer. 1 noticed in the list of letters advertised in the RECORD last week as being at the marine postoffice here, there was.