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; AuGUST 29, IgoI. THE MARINE RECORD. 15 FLOTSAM, JETSAM AND LAGAN. Fred. Spencer, who has charge of the lights on the wreck of the Baltimore, reports that part of the deck and cabin of the wrecked sehooner Sheldon has washed ashore. Capt. Stephen A. Jackson, perhaps the best-known sur- vivor of the great race of early lake captains, died at Ke- nosha last Thursday. after;a long illness. He was, seventy- four years old. Twetity-eight new schooners have been added to the reg- ister at Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, this season, twenty-six of which were built at that port. Twelve more are under con- tract for launching this year. The contract fora steel steamer to replace the Druid in the Quebec service of the Department of Marine and Fish- eries, has been awarded to Fleming & Fraser, of Paisley, Scotland. The price is $110,960. The gasoline yacht Jennie Bell will go into the mail route from Washington Island to Hedge Hog Harbor, across Death’s Door, making daily trips. Thisis a decided im- provement in the postal facilities of Washington Island, for the gasoline yacht takes the place of a sailboat. The project for consolidating the passenger lines running on Lake Michigan has been again taken up by capitalists interested in the existing lines. A number have declared themselves in favor of the pian and it is expected that some decisive action: will be taken at the end of the excursion sea- son. John Craig, of the Craig Ship Building Co., Toledo, was in Chicago again Friday. He was as reticent as ever regard- ing the business nature of his frequent visits there and would not discuss the prospects of more new passenger boats for that port, the Williams line is about the only one that has come out with a statement that it will build a new boat this winter, and it is possible that it is this order Craig is after. The Harts, of Green Bay, bought the fire-damaged steamer City of Louisville last spring. The price paid for the craft was $11,000, and it cost about $8,coo to rebuild and re-fur- nish the cabin and make other repairs and changes. They have since been offered $57,000 for the steamer, or a clean advance of $37,000 on their deal. Dredge No. 3, belonging to Breymann Bros., the dredging contractors, which sunk some weeks ago near the mouth of the straight channel, Toledo, during a heavy squall, in which the tug Goldsmith, owned by the same firm, was also sunk, has been raised and brought into port by the tug Mar- inette and the wrecker Mary Groh. On September ist the steamer F, B. Spinner will make her first appearance in lake traffic since her collision with the steamer Coffinberry in the ‘‘Soo”’ river last October. The Spinner was sunk in the collision, and although raised shortly afterward and taken to the shipyards at Manitowoc, she lay idle ever since pending a settlement of the complica- tions arising out of the collision. Capt. James Davidson, of West Bay City, is quoted as say- ‘ing that the independent shipbuilding plant in opposition to the trust will surely be built. Capt. Davidson says he wants 25 acres of land, Erie or Buffalo locations preferred, on which he will build a plant with a capacity of 12 to 14 big ships each season. He says the plant will be put up irregard- less of cost; that everything will be of the best,'and that when completed the yards will be the largest and finest on the lakes. The captain says that.he is alone in the venture. The plans for a small revenue cutter for patroling St. Mary’s river are now ready and the department will soon ask bids for her construction. Congress provided an appro- priation of $75,000 for the construction of this vessel, and that amount will give an excellent boat. According to the plans, the steamer will be 110 feet long, 2014 feet beam and 12 feet deep, with a displacement of about 215 tons. She will be constructed of steel and have a steel deck house. Service— patrol boat for regulating the passage of vessels in the river, and watching that the ‘‘rules of the road’? are properly ob- ‘served at all times, etc. ; Capt. Gibson has informed the Hydrographic Office tha t the steamer Chili, while steaming through Rock Island pas- sage, Green Bay, drawing 18 feet 5 inches forward and 18 feet 9 inches aft, struck a rock four and a half miles east half north from Rock Island light-house, a point where the chart indicates from fifteen to seventeen fathoms of water. Judging from the injury to the steamer’s bottom the obstruction is smooth and from six to eight feet in diameter. It is rumored that the Ann Arbor road will soon award-a contract for another big car ferry. A new terminal is to be established at Manistique and Wells, and the need of more boats is felt. President W. R. Burt and General Manager Henry W. Ashley, of the Toledo and Ann Arbor Railway, were in Manistique a few days ago and arranged with the Chicago Lumber Co. for a terminal point for their car ferry line. The company has a warehouse there, built three years © ago. Work will be commenced at once on docks, and it is thought the ferries will ply between that port and Frank- fort before the end of the season. ; The schooner Crete of the Davidson line, which was aground at the Limekiln Crossing, was libeled on Saturday last on a claim of $3,500, the result of a suit for damages arising from a collision between the Crete and the Canadian steamer Carmona. The Crete was in tow of the steamer Shenandoah when the collision occurred near Sarnia in June, 1899. The papers were placed in the hands of Deputy Sheriff. Rumbull of Windsor, who went to Amherstburg to libel the Crete, while she was stranded in Canadian waters, her master went to Windsor and gave bond for the amount of damages claimed. 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TORONTO, MONTREAL AND QUEBEC.— Riche- lieu & Ontario Navigation Co., Montreal. Detroit, Mich., Government Proposals. JOHN DONNELLY, JR., Vice Pres. H. B. FOLGER, Treas. THOS. DONNELLY, Sro'y. THE DONNELLY SALVAGE AND WREGKING G0, Ltt, KINGSTON, ONT. EXPERIENCED DIVERS, TUGS, STEAI1 PUIIPS, ETC., SUPPLIED ON SHORTEST NOTICE. ie PROPOSED PATROL BOAT FOR USE OF OHIO FISH AND GAME COMMISSION IN WATERS OF LAKE ERIE, The Ohio Fish and Game Commission will | Sellers Restarting Injector |} U. S. ENGINEER OFFICE, Jones Building, August 8, r901. Sealed pro- posals for dredging under continuing con- tracts, for improving Hay Lake Channel, St. Mary’s River, Mich., will be received here until 12 noon (Standard time), August receive bids at Auditor of ‘State’s office, Columbus, Ohio, 2 p. m., Tuesday, Septem- ber 24th, for the construction of a patrol boat for use in the waters of Lake Erie. 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