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GHICAGO. Special Corresponaence to The Marine Record. During the season the steamer Manitou has made thirty- six round trips from Chicago to Mackinac and one to Buffalo covering in all 29,019 miles and carrying 18,000 people. Capt. J. C. Ricketson, Milwaukee, who was best known in vessel circles on the Great Lakes as manager, some time ago, of the Inter-Ocean Transportation Co.’s vessels, died at his home on Saturday last. He was seventy-one years old, “Reports, are being received regularly of small sail tonnage ‘being in trouble at various points on Lake Michigan. It is ‘no “good enumerating each case at the present, as some of them may not ‘be so serious as now looked for, while others may be more so. Permission has been granted the Barrys by the commis- sioner _of navigation to. change the name of the. steamer ‘Hartford, which was known as the Terry when purchased from the government by them, to Charles H. Hackley.. The hew name is in honor of the Muskegon millionare and phil- anthropist. ‘In compliance with the request of the committee having the memorial exercises in charge, all tugs and vessels on the: Chicago tiver will stop for five minutes on Thursday afternoon, wherever they may be. This order was given by the Great Lakes Towing Co., and all other vessel interests fellintoline. It will be the first time in. the history during the season, when there has been a cae cepaation of nayigation on the river: The wreck of the abandoned bidtiotter G. Hllen is still floating about in the lake and forms a dangerous derelict which passing ships are likely torun intoat night. . When last-seen the vessel was directly on the Grand Haven course from Milwaukee. First mate George’ Snider, of the Nyack, says there was no good reason for abandoning the vessel. Her deckload had been thrown overboard and in the light- ened trim ‘the vesselwas' out of sn ic so” that no seas came aboard. The Economist announces that the Pennsylvania sphere road Co. is preparing to build a big grain elevator at South Chicago on'the line of the Calumet Western Railroad, a new switching road that. has entered South Chicago and unites the P. F. W. & C. and Panhandle tracks. ‘An ordinance has been adopted vacating Muskegon avenue between One Hun- dred and Fourteenth and One Hundred and Fifteenth:sts., and the South Chicago’ City Railway Co. is expected to abandon the same avenue, on which it. now has a franchise. A slip will then be made to admit vessels of the largest size, at the head of which the elevator will be constructed. The largest grain elevator in the wotld—capacity 4,000,000 bushels—is to be built at Weehawken, N. J., by the Chicago firm of Geo. M. Moulton & Co., architects and engineers, for the New York Central & Hudson River Railroad on its West Shore line. I learn from the American Elevator and Grain Trade that the foundation of the new elevator is to be finished by the first of the coming year, and one-half of the elevator, with 2,000,000 bushels’ capacity, is to be completed by Oct. 1, 1902. The entire'cost of the elevator will be $1,- 800,000, and of freight sheds adjoining $200,000. In addi- tion, Moulton & Co, have the contract for remodeling a big élevator at Weehawken, N. J., at a cost of $250,009, so that vessels may be loaded from it. The elevator will be of fire- proof construction and cover an area of 35,750 square feet. The frame will be‘of steel and the walls of brick and hollow tile.. The bins will be of steel, 72 feet in depth, and instead of being cylindrical in shape will be square. The motive power for operating the machinery will be electricity fur- nished from a central station. The enterprise is‘one'that will mark a newera in the shipment of grain from the port of New York,- where the present plan ot fading pha from ‘ — is slow and expensive.’ ~ ‘ A ite keel: of whatiis believed to be the largest wooden schooner ever built is being laid in an East Boston shipyard. About 800 tons of timber will be put in the new paler She is owned by a Boston syndicate. « serious nature, affecting MacKenzie’s official conduct. THE MARINE RECORD. ‘DETROIT. Special Correspondence to the Marine Record. Steel is now arriving at Bay City for three steamers to be built at the plant of the American Ship Building Co. It is said that Capt. Washington Harrow, of Port Huron, will receive $900 for releasing the stranded whaleback 202 from the beach above Port Huron. The Canadian steamer Donnacona is in drydock | for the : repair of damage to her. bow and bottom, caused by: hitting. a lock in the Canadian Sault canal on her first trip down. A new chart, in colors,.of Detroit river, has just:been is*’ sued and is now on sale at the U. S. Lake Survey Office, 33 Campau Building, in charge of W. l. Fisk, Major, Corps of Engineers, U. S, Army. The Drydock Engine Works is building four new boilers for the Michigan Central car ferry Transport, They will be placed in the boat during the winter. The boilers now in the boat have been in service for twenty-two years. The engine and boiler of the wrecked steamer Baltimore have been purchased by the Barry Bros.,; of Chicago, and will be recovered as soon as possible. ‘The intention is to place it in the steamer Empire State, now at West Bay City for partial reconstruction. _A dispatch from Lewes, Del., announces that the steam yacht Rapidan, owned by R. H. McCormick, of Chicago, is a total wreck on the Delaware capes, a point north of the Mariners’ Graveyard. | The Rapidan was originally the Catherine C., having been built at Detroit for Michael Cud- ahy, of Chicago. The following meterological observations are furnished by the office of the U. S. Weather Bureau, Detroit, for the week ending Sept. 17: Prevailing wind direction for the week, S. W.; highest velocity, 38 miles S. W. on the 15th; mean fectperatase for the week 65; highest temperature 79 on 12th; lowest 58 on 16th. The fact that the sinking of one small vessel at the Lime- kiln Crossing, in Detroit river, can block navigation to and from the upper and lower lakes proves how necessary it is that the work of dredging now. being carried on at that point should be pushed until a wider and deeper channel has been provided. The Detroit and Cleveland Navigation Co. announces a change in the schedule of its up shore division. The City of Mackinac will make the last trip of the year on her present- schedule leaving Detroit on September 25. The City of Alpena will leave for the last trip of the year on September “97. When she returns to Detroit she will be laid up for the year. Thereafter the City of Mackinac. will take the scheduled time of the City of Alpena, and will continue upon it until the close of navigation, She will leave Detroit Mondays at 5 p. m. and-Fridays at 9:30 a. m. The Gilchrist steamer -Hiawatha was seized .at Ambherst- burg Friday morning by Deputy Sheriff Rumball, of Wind- sor, on a warrant issued by J. F. Hare, district deputy registrar of the exchequer court of Canada. Henry Weine- man, jr., of Detroit claims $2,500 damages as a result ofa collision between the Hiawatha and the schooner J. KF. Card on Lake Huron during a fog on May Io, 1900. The Card is now a wreck on the Canadian shore of Lake Huron, where she was blown by one of the fall storms last year. The owners of the Hiawatha gave bonds and she was released. A large fleet of down-bound boats has been delayed in the river here for the past three days because of low water at the Lime Kiln Crossing caused by the westerly gales. All along the river, just below Detroit, the big fellows have been lying at anchor in the stream waiting for the water to come up, and as many as forty boats have been here at one time. The signals at the coal dock of the Pittsburg.Coal Co., at Sand- ' wich, have shown a mean depth of only 17 feet at the cross- ing since Sunday, and none of the big fellows have ven- tured down since they saw that sign. On Wednesday morn. ing the signals showed 18 feet 6 inches and many of the ore and grain laden got under way, and by noon were in Lake Erie. United States Engineer Eben S. Wheeler, of Detroit, for- merly general superintendent of the St. Mary’s canal, is at the ‘‘Soo” investigating charges made by H. D. Bains against Supt. Donald M. MacKenzie. Bains was assistant superintendent and last fall was suspended by MacKenzie for alleged disobedience of ‘orders. He has remained -sus- ' pended ever since, although he asked for an investigation. Col: Lydecker, of Ds2troit, investigated the case. At the hearing, which Bains declared was one-sided, he countered on MicKenzie by preferring several charges of a more or less The ‘of War will be the’final arbiter. while he. was in charge of some public improvement, during his. service with the Corps of Engineers, U.S. As, then Col. ‘Ludlow, a contractor who, wanted some favor quietly slipped a $1,000 note across the table to’ the general with whom he SEPTEMBER Ig, I9OI. matter rested until Bains, becoming tired of waiting, placed his charges on paper, and backed by affidavits, sent them to the Secretary. of War. Itis understood that several official heads are in. danger of decapitation, “although: the acinana, The late General William, Ludlow was, Enos in a the ‘aniuoy for his titter féarlessness . and integrity. Itis related that, was conversing. The general opened a drawer and took out a box of cigars,’ otie of which he offered to the contractor. The cigar was accepted, General Ludlow’s: action being taken as an indication that the bribe would be received in the proper spirit. The contractor’s surprise may, therefore, be imagined when he saw the general take the bill, calmly light it at the grate and after allowing it to burn almost to his fingers, extend it with the remark: ‘‘Havea light, sir. se The contractor dropped his Cigar and bolted from the office. He was paralyzed. He had:found an honest man where 28 hadn’t expected him tobe. « : sa cand BUFFALO. Special Correspondence to The Marine Record. Capt. Thos. Donnelly, of Kingston, has again been dis- tinguishing himself; this time he volunteered to take charge of a lifeboat and rescued several castaways in distress off Toronto, Lake Ontario. The steamer City of the Straits made the last trip of ‘the season to Buffalo this week. She left for Detroit via Cleve- land, where she will be placed in winter quarters after : a very busy and successful season. The passenger steamer Miami, which ran all summer. in the service of the Northern Steamship Co. from Mackinaw Island to Duluth, arrived here on Tuesday on her way, back to the coast, where she will join the Plant line to Florida, Tt has at last been realized that if anthracite is to be sent forward by lake, the sooner brisk shipping begins the better, and to this end chartering is more than lively. The rate remains fairly steady at 50 cents to Lake Michigan and 35 cents to Lake Superior, Toledo ae cents, and Port Colborne, 25 cents. The passenger steamer North West was ordered into winter quarters on arriving here on Sunday. During the winter her boilers are to be replaced with new ones, and for the reason that the present set of steam generators have given so much trouble the steamer is retired from service sometime earlier than was first planned. — The Buffalo Forge Co., of Buffalo, N. Y., has been i incor- porated with a capital es of $1,000,000, by W. F. Wendt, H. W. Wendt and Elizabeth Wendt, all of Buffalo, the incorporators. ‘The company has been doing business for many years and is well known asa large manufacturer of forges and heating and ventilating devices. The storm on the upper lakes which has prevailed all week has seriously checked’ the movement of coal. It is not be- lieved that the present shortage of available tonnage will re- sult in any advance in the rate as relief will come with the arrival of the down bound fleet. All the retail trestles and the majority of the elevators will suspend business Thursday. J. Alexander Lord, a clerk in the Bureau of ‘Statistics at Washington, was here recently looking over the method of handling freights. and the mode of securing records of amounts carried with a view of making recommendations for the improvement of the service. The present form of manifests has received some attention. Changes are likely to be made so as to ensure obtaining more reliable statistics on which to base commercial data. W. M. Lowrie, the general passenger agent of the Northern Steamship Co., has announced that the steamer North Land is now making her last trip for the season. She will arrive at Buffalo on September 24, and will immediately go into winter quarters. The season has been an extraordinary prosperous one, and the new route has proved satisfactory. It is too early yet to tell what effect this year’s business will have upon the adoption of a schedule for next season. a 1 HE Lake Torpedo Boat Co., incorporated under the laws of New Jersey, with a capital of $1,000,000,. will begin operations next month, in Bridgeport, in the construction of a new. torpedo boat, which, it is asserted, will, revolutionize modern sea warfare. The officers of the company are Simon Lake, president; Henry J. Miller, secretary, and L.,.B. Miller, treasurer.