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SEPTEMBER 12, 190%: moisture. cargo wisi8;348: © ‘THe Cleveland Cliffs Iron Go: hds‘issued ehie: following in- &tructions:: “To masters and chief engineers: thaehnagterd ad‘clfief engimers Bf ‘steamers shall” "Hot be away fron their /reapective boats’ inéti &the same time for any length of time when i in port. To illustrate: It is expect: ed that bot shall’ n6t' Ba: away from’ the boat ‘ah entire day, Here or over night, at thé ‘samé’ tinte! ‘Hither’ ‘desiting’ tb'be ab- Serpe SS > gent frotitie*bdat to-go'to another port, while the boat is “hes CLEVE LAND: loadifig ‘or dischargifig, ‘will advise thi’ office before doittg sol) “Tt 4s Mesitable that’ this office” should: at all times be Special Corresp ondence to TD he Me arine Record. _. within easy access of either officer.” Capt. Graham, has taken. ‘charge of the ae akan tow Marine columns ought to be handled a little more care- barge Roebling, vice Capt. Ingraham, resigned. fully by those who make a pretense of knowing what they THE, steamer building here for William H. Mack and write about: Picking up an exchange I have now before and others, is rapidly, nearing completion.and will be ready me,‘a statement’ that the Midland Queen, hence from Chi- to Jaunch on. Wednesday next, Sept. 18,,at Lorain.. cago to Montreal, via Midland, loaded her first cargo at -Dhe record of ore receiying at Lake. Erie ports for, the Birmingham for Chicago. In the next column I learn that ‘month of August was 334. million tons; last year there was the’steamer Hartford, formerly owned by the American gov- about 14 million.tons less, Ore is being: mined afid.sent ernment, now plies between New York and Chicago with forward.as rapidly as possible. Baris, es), freight and passengers. Birmingham is an inland town Qa, her last trip here the boilers of the. twin: screw ‘SnEbene and the Hartford is a naval reserve training ship stationed Steamer North West, were reported as,.working, better: at Detroit. The Terry, which is the vessel meant, is bound than for, several trips. She.is about a; day behindaher’ to Chicago from ew York and is to be used ining for schedule time but picked up.a few,hours in the later-rung<':o lake service. The United States Navy recruiting office. has been gpenedi © Hetoic conduct on part of the crew of the tug Sprankle in. the Post Office building, in charge of Lieut:.D.W,i ;Blan-» which picked up eighteen drowning men at the waterworks ner, U.S, N., who is, assisted by Chief Boatswain, JohuJ. crib’ at’the recent fire disaster, was handsomely rewarded Kellin, . Frederich Ruth, Warrant, machinist,,and Ry.Per¢y last week by the city council. In public recognition of Crandall, surgeon. ...The. office will be open. untilSeptem; their brave and timely rescue of the eighteen men, the city’s ber, 14. Lee \ legislative body adopted a resolution to pay them $300. Of Capt. “Geo. Mallory and Chief Engineer ‘Alonzo Arnold, this amount $150-goes to‘Cap*. Henry Thorn, $60 to engineer are. waltzing; | the steamer Victory along this season. :Pilotage;:' William Kennelly, $45 to fireman John McCaffery, and $45 experience..and, mechanical skill are .pleasently united, iny to Edward Doyle, fireman. Councilman Sulzman said that the, above-named. ‘combination of. talent... The. Victory: is; $300 was a very small sum for such heroic services, and he 317.74, tons and owned, by the Inter hehe Tsemeparis ep Co.s; refused to vote for the resolution. » It might well have been Messrs. Pickands,, Mather & Co.) oa...) 2 cio be>o made a neat $1,000 though the recognition granted was The U. S. S. Cleveland will be launched at noon: Satur. mych better than ignorantly ignoring the service altogether " day,,.Sept,, 28, .. Mayor Jc ghnson,has receiyed a.notice..from ag has been done in the past. the. builders. to that effect, together with an. invitation; for:- . A dinner was given by the officers of the Second Battalion himself, and. other official representatives. of the. city. to, be. of Naval Reserves, O. N. G, on Monday night at the Cen- present, . President, Ashman will name:the | committee to.’ tury Club, to all of the officers of the Great Lakes squadron. attend the launching next week. ca iipcse . The ships represented are the United States Steamer. Michi- -Repairs..on the passenger, steamer City, rts Buffalo, which | . gan, revenue cutter Fessenden, Naval Reserve ship Yantic, broke. the, crosshead of .her high pressure. cylinder/Tuesday,'- of Michigan, and the Naval Reserve ship Hawk, of. Ohio. _ haye been, completed, and. she left.for Buffalo. this morning; }* Lieutenant ‘Commander W. E. Wirt, of the Hawk, pre- Great; anxiety was felt, regarding. the steamer,.as it,.was re-1 sided,and there were seated at the table Captain’ W. Win- ported, that ‘she .was’on fire off, Willoughby: with 1,200 pas-'* ders, ‘Tienteniant Casey Morgan, Dr. W. B. Grove, Ensign sengers on board Tuesday morning. She was towed back.to,' TH, Lariner, Paymaster F. O’Leary, Cadet T. Pratt Mainx, this, port and all passengers, were safely. transferred, « of the Michigan; Capt. J. B. Moore, Assistant Engineer S. Dredging . companies are, making a,good, sized kick-on.' M. Rock, of the Fessenden; Captain S. Hendrie, Lieutenant the work. at Lorain., . Bids -were; offered, and: .closed: for Commander F, D. Standish, Lieutenant’D.-B. Duffield, En- dredging. a._soft, bottom and.,hard; clay,has;been struck sign W., B. Stratton, of the Yantic; and Lieutenant: Arthur expecting. to. find, shale,on inshore, part of the. ‘contract; as -Doyale, Lieutenant Frank Semon, Tfeuten ae M.:G. Vilas; the... difference in dredging means several, cents.a yard the pr. G. F. Glass, of the Hawk. The guests of honor were contract, will require some sort of revising: _ James Pryor f,eutenant Commander George:R. Clark, U. S.N., of the has.a, sub-contract, from, Gaynor Bros, on the job, and it is. hydrographic office, and Commodore George Gana somewhat of. an extensive one; too... ; Speeches were made by Captain Winders, Captain Hendrie, There. is a. growing. feeling: even, among the, ‘most exper- Captain Moore, Lieutenant Commander Standish, Lieuten- ienced and conservative shipmasters that their services are ant Dovale and Lieutenant Commander Wirt. The table being made. light of. _ by, owners, , Managing owners, chief was prettily decorated. A feature of. the -feast was the clerks and shore engineers..,.They’re finding that they are qouble-terreted men-of-war made of ice cream. masters of, nothing, and, they, are being made use-of. like At pre emcees ii SSIS ee Ae puppets,.with a. String, tied, to. them, :his isthe yiewthat .....°., BET Gh 5 I have: had, presented to.me this week.and:was assured that ‘ BUFFALO. thg feeling. Was, quite general, among.the masters, . n20, Special Correspondence to The Marine Record. _ Dhe following, meteorological observations are:firnished’ ‘The attack on the life of the President here last week is __ byithe office: ofthe Utited States ‘Weather Buream; forthe deplored: by all of us and the general opinion seems to be _ weekiending September rt: : Prevailing «wind direttion‘dur- that a special law should be enacted to deport all anarchists _ ingcthe,qeek, 8}; highest velocity, 36 miles’‘S.. W.:or the’ who ee vousider that they can abuse our form of Govern: Aoth/:-Mean temperature forthe week,\67; highest: témpera- ' ment.o217* cad 80-on September 7;loweaty.55.00 ° Qo Sak Tf ther orden permitted the Welland canal route te:be - rise-and:eanset data»comptited forlocal time: at Cleveland: developed: by Americansit would perhaps affect the future of _ September 13, sun rises 5:37; sets 6:13;«September 16; sun’ Georgian “Bay routes, consequently they have declined” -to e: “ses 5:40; sets 6:08; September 49, sun rises, 5,43; sets 6:02. entertain the Wolvin syidicate proposels. ” This: is ‘algo. a ‘The isteamer. William: Edehborn, owned sby the Pittsburg throw; down for W. J. Connors. _ Steamship, Cars (United: StatesnSteel/Corpotation)); s Ay: -By ui Our coal shipments by lake last week amounted to 80,000 Wolvin;, ‘Duluth, managet, ‘and: which is one!.of: four’ vessels: stone! Chicago} Milwaukee and the head of thé lakes, taking that are the largest’ on’ the Great \Lakes,. has ‘delivered ati» the midst/atid in the order named. The season ‘still shows Conneaut from. Lake Superior the largest: cargoevetmovedss less bycabout: 260,000 tons than last year.’"The rates are 50 on: the lakes.» oy The -ship: was credited:with) carrying 7,380: ‘cents 40: ‘Lake Michigan and 35 cents to Lake Stiperior, - gross tons/of iron: -oré, but the actual; weight was' 7,454 gross » ‘Toledo and*Soo”’,’ 4o ents, ~ Chicago has received 400,000 tons, as all’ vessels in’ the ore trade carry 1 per cent. ode Fe tons thie a ie oU! He 3 sbi hia *‘The number of net tons (2,0 006 36 ‘pounds ) in the Kae akknk xk KKK | d ope BS o% 3} Wa SHE wI Hess ~ RE SRO MER TSS than they are paid for-—an allowance made on account of It is desired : ‘CHICAGO... aks iy <3 me f vere Special Copmeshonaente to The Marine; Reaeds. cesgaa Bes The,, schooner Sea. Gem, Capt. ‘Hanshaw * bank: from Charlevoix’ to Milwaukee was lost. at. ‘Manitowoc this week: , Announcement is made that the Northern Steamship Co.'s Duluth: service has been discontinued. for the season, -Thé steamships. North West and North- Land, showever, will con- tinue, to i) to Chicago and, intermediate. points | Ap to Oct. Tpugisais Bes HGF Capt: Riley Phillips, “aged “herediabg Hied: at inaton Harbor last Thursday. He had sailed for many years inthe Graham & Morton and Goodrich lines, and many years ago sailed the steamer Jay- Gould in the grain trade between Chicago and Buffalo, J. B. Merrill, of Milwaukee, formerly a partner of R. P. Fitzgerald, and an old-time vessel owner, died at. his home on Monday. He was seventy-six years old. ‘Mr. Merrill had not been connected with vessel matters for the past five years; at the same time he was very generally known at all lake ports. There is a shortage in the amount of coal pas ge lake at Chicago and South Chicago up to September 1 compared with the corresponding date last- year. This shortage amounts to 214,427 tons, or.a falling off of about 30 per, cent, from last year. The figures are: Coal received to Septem- ber 1, 1900, 666,260 tons; received up.to September 1 this year, 451,833 tons. us Judging from a report gent’ out from here last week aban- donment of a vessel séémed necessary before salvage. ser-. vices would be in full effect. While there is no ‘question regarding recompense for bringing a derelict into’ ‘port, salvage services are of as tnuch force’ when the abandonment is‘not ‘total. There is a difference Maen between ordinary | and extraordifiary towing. The steel steamer Spokane, of the Wilson ' Transit line, operied’ the route between Chicago and the new harbor of Meaford, on Georgian Bay, last week.. ‘The harbor is de-. scribed by ‘Capt. Williams as being located at the mouth of | the Big Head'river, and with an easy approach to within ay half-mile of the harbor. The channel is dredged from there up to the elevator to a depth of 22 feet, and is 150 feet wide. It is proposed to extend the approach by widening the chan- nel and by putting in more breakwaters. The lake excursion season closed this. week Ae the whale- back steamer Christopher Columbus. The Columbus opened the season on June 27th and since that date lost but one day, in which repairs were made to her propeller. During the period: of seventy days her largest number of passengers | was 3,900 and the average 2,000. When she .closed the season she had carried about 150,000 persons, a much larger business than: she has ‘heretofore done. “Capt. Robert Smith’ was again in ‘command of the craft, and he will. spend the winter at Duluth.” : x . On behalf’ of the steamer S. ‘M. Stephenson, “Charles BE. . Kremer, “Esq:, is about-to sue the city for damages sustained by the steamer when she went aground in south branch at Ashland avenue. ‘It is claimed that dredges working on sanitary district work piled the mud taken from one draw of the Ashland avenue bridge into the other draw of the bridge and vessels were not given due notice of the shoal so formed. Mr. Kremer is our best admiralty lawyer and desires that ‘all marine ‘intérests should be duly conserved, and itis hoped that he will: be eminently successful in- his plea ‘of this suit. The acting ‘Secretary of the Treasury ‘at Washington has sent a letter‘to Wm. Penn Nixon, collector of customs, 2 authorizing ‘that official to turn fick: to the Northwestern Steamship Co, the’sum‘of $191.65, which is in his hands, the. company to return it‘to four employes, who were technical made deserters’ by. ‘the action of the deputy United States consul at: Liverpool. ~ The parties charged | with desertion fully proved that" ‘they ‘were not deserters and satisfied the Treasury Departriient ; consequently the collector of customs ay was ordered ‘to repay “the: motiey. to the Northwestern Steam- = ship'-Co., expecting of course: that it would be-at once paid over to the ‘people’ who were charged’ as deserters, The Commissioner of ‘Navigation ought to “he heard in ‘this. ‘matter, as it is possible that he is making a precedent which will-redound to confusion in the future. | Capt. Miles: Barry’s action in running ‘away from Port, Col. * bore with the Hartford on Wednesday night caused a good deal’ of comment in marine Circles here, Marine’ men said that’ the bills for repairs in the Welland canal. were always "excessive, but this is the first time an American vessel owner has succeeded in getting away from them. Ships are generally tied © up in the canal itself where they cannot get