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SEPTEMBER 26, Igor. THE MARINE RECORD. the north pier. In appears that in dark, thick weather the lights are sometimes mistaken for harbor stake lights. ,A local regulation could be made to shade the lights from lakewards if the complaint is found serious enough to war-. rant any action being taken by the municipal officers. G. A.'Tomlinson, of Duluth, has awarded a contract to the American Ship Building Co. for. the construction of a mod- , ern steel cargo steamer. It is stipulated by Mr. Tomlinson that it will be built at the Superior yard and the cost will be about $220,000,, This makes two boats that Mr. Tomlinson has placed contracts for this season and they will be sister vessels, The one that was awarded this week is to be ready to goin service June 1 next. The dimensions of the boat are as follows: Length, 346 feet; beam, 48 feet; depth, 28 feet. The big sisi: W. IL. Brown, of the Canada-Atlantic Transit Co,, took out 240,000 bushels of wheat ‘for Depot Harbor on her last trip. The cargo was loaded from the Great Northern elevators A and F at West Superior, in the remarkably short time of 614 hours. Work started at 8 a. m.and ended at 3:30p.m. The dinner hour was counted out in the foregoing record, but it is a very remarkable one when itis considered that the grain was taken from two houses, Capt. J. T. Rose, local representative of the Can- ada-Atlantic Transit Co., expresses. the highest satisfaction with the dispatch given the W. L,. Brown in loading, Lumber manufacturers express themselves as well satis- fied with the present conditions and the season’s business to date. Lumiber is still moving down the lakes as fast as boats are supplied. The rate to Lake Erie is still $2.50 in spite of the report from eastern sources that on Sept. 15 the Lumber Carriers’ Association would advance the rate to $3. The Lake Superior lumber shipments for the season up to Sept. Laggregated 606,304,000 feet. These shipments are for four months, beginning about a month later this year thanin 1900. Upto Sept.1,. 1900, the total lumber ship-,’ ments from Lake Superior were 488,133,000 feet, about 100,- 090,000 feet less than for the preceding year to the same date. A part of the crew. of the Samuel F. B. Morse quit work at Ashland on Monday and asked for their wages, the captain refused to pay them. United States court com- missioner cited the captain to appear before him, and if he still refuses to pay up the commissioner will refer the matter to the federal judgeat Madison, Wis., who will take evidence from both sides and decide the controvesy. Some of the seamen who left the Morse say they boarded the boat at the Soo intending to quit at Ashland togo tothe woods. This practice is getting so common that captains are getting tired of it and refuse to pay the men, if they can get ont of doing so, If round trip articlesare signed. by seamen and they desert before the trip is over, they are liable to punishment aud cannot collect their wages; if shipped for the passage tony have a right to walk ashore. | iO eS CLEVELAND. Special. Correspondence to The Marine Record. ‘Capt. Henry Morey has taken charge of the schooner Marion W. Page vice Capt. Albert Moore. Capt. Cyrus H. Sinclair, general. manager of the Great Lakes Towing Co., has reached here from Chicago and taken charge of his work. Capt. Sinclair, is well known and highly thought of at the principal lake ports. ’ There is not the best dispatch that could be wished for at ‘this port just at present as the docks are well lined up with vessels. Vessels arriving for the next week or so will be detained a couple of tin before a start is made at discharg- ing them. ‘Capt. Joseph Lampoh has resigned the éoinindnd of the steamer Onoko and will sail the steamer building for the Minch estate by the Jenks Ship Building Co., at Port Huron. Capt. W: H. Johnson of the steamer Philip Minch has been appointed master of the Onoko. Capt. Fick, late master of the burned steamer Fedora, has. “the distinction of having taken the first load of ore out of “Ashland, Wis. Capt. Fick was then master of the Cumber- ‘land and took the initial cargo from the Northwestern ore dock No. 1, 17 years ago the 13th of last July. The Floating Bethel, Chaplain J. D. Jones, is one of the best charitable and religous institutions in the city, a help- ing hand is always extended to those in distress and its city mission work ranks if possible above that of any other, though, p’raps not so wide, on account of limited funds, Application has been made in the common pleas court for the dissolution of the Mutual Transportation Co. and the Menominee Transit Co, The, vessel property owned by each was managed in the offices of M. A. Hanna & Co,, by Capt. Geo. P. McKay and was sold to the Pittsburg Steamship Co, Edwin S. Mills, assistant general manager of the Pittsburg Steamship Co. (United States Steel Corporation ) who has been, seriously ill in his apartments in. the Croxden, Pros- pect street, for, a. week, is out of danger. . For a time it was feared Mr. Mills would not live, but, Tuesday, the doctors reported that he was on the road to rapid recovery, There will be no change in the arrangements for the launch of the cruiser Cleveland at, Bath, Me. Miss Ruth Hanna will. christen the new vessel. Next Saturday is the day set for the event. Itis expected that Senator Hanna and members of his family wi!l leave on Thursday for Bath, Me., to witness the ceremonies attending the christening. Since the southeast shoal has been marked with an adequate lightship, it is expected that Capt. Geo. P, McKay, acting for the Lake Carriers’ Association, will at once visit the city officials and take up the matter of. proper lights and fog sig- nals on the tunnel cribs of Cleveland, as many of the vessel owners are certain that the cribs are dangerous to floating property in dark or thick weather. Col, Jared A. Smith, Corps of Engineers, U. S. A., formerly Government engineer at this point, is expected in the city on Friday en route to Philadelphia, where he will take charge of the Government work. Col. Smith was one of the most popular engineers who ever had charge of the work in Cleve- land, and his reception here will be hearty. His stay will be brief, however, owing to the necessity of assuming charge of the work at Philadelephia on October 1. The following meteorological observations are furnished by the office.of the U. S. Weather Bureau, for the week end- ing September 25th. Prevailing wind directions during the week, southeast, highest velocity, 26 miles, south, on the 23rd; mean temperature for the week, 59; highest tempera- ture 76 on September 23; lowest 49 on September 19th; sun- rise and sunset data computed for local time at Cleveland, September 27th sun rises, 5:53; sets, 5:49; September nar sun rises, 5:57 sets 5:44; Oct 3,sun rises, 6:co sets 5: 39. Mr, John A. Donaldson, who has had charge of all the docks operated by the Pittsburg Coal Co. , including the fuel docks in the Detroit and Soo rivers, has resigned and will not be with the trust after Oct. 1. Mr. Donaldson has been with the Pittsburg Coal Co., since it was organized, and has been one of the most Maccenet hl dock managers on the lakes. For a number of years previous to the organization of the trust he was with the Pittsburg & Chicago Gas Coal Co. He looked after the chartering of all the tonnage moved by that company, which was one of the largest shippers on the lakes. The day boats between Cleveland and Toledo have been discontinued this week. With the change of service the company proposes to run night’ boats on the route, Sunday included, until probably the first of December. The dura- tion of the service will depend upon weather conditions. Recently the boats on this route have been running straight through from Cleveland to Toledo during the day time. The former practice was to have a boat come into Cleveland from Toledo during the night and double back to Put-in-Bay during the day. Thesame would be done out of Toledo, causing, therefore, a change of boats at the Bay on through business. The light-ship Kewaunee, owned and equipped by the Lake Carriers’ Association, is now at the southeast shoal, Lake Erie. After the expenditure of $12,000 the Lake Car- riers have at last succeeded in getting a light on this danger- ous shoal, and there are a good many vessel captains that will be glad to know that the boat is there. The Kewaunee cost $10,000, and she has been fitted with a spar and fog signals, while her hull and upper works have been especially strengthened for heavy weather. Three-inch planks have been placed along her cabin to withstand the seas. The three lights were lent by the government after the deposit of a check for $480 by the Lake Carriers’ Association. ‘The strandings at the shoal have been many this year, and boats have constantly had to wait for daylight to attempt to get past the spot. The shoal is in Canadian waters, and noth- ing but a gas buoy has been there since the lighthouse burned. It is probable the American government will buy the ship if she proves a suitable craft. a et AN effort is being made to establish telephone communi- cation between the. Wisconsin peninsula and Washington, Plum and Pilot Islands by means of submarine cables, ‘The life-saving service has been interested in the matter, , CHICAGO. | Special Corresponaence to The Marine Record. The steamer City of Chicago has gone into winter quarters at St. Joseph. The McVea has also been laid up. The City of Milwaukee will make daily sk to eeu until the close of the season. }” . The following ristéowologigal observations are furnished by the office of the U. S. Weather Bureau, Chicago, for the week ending Sept. 25th: Prevailing wind directions during. the week, N. W. S. (equal); highest velocity, 47S. on 22d. Mean temperature for the week, 62; highest temperature 82, ' on'the 23d; lowest 44, on 21st. The small steamer City of Marquette, owned by the sete nominee & Manistee Transit Co., was bought this week by the “Hill steamboat line, of Fisk creek, for $21,000. The boat will take the place of the Cecelia Hill on the Menomi- nee, Sturgeon Bay and Washington Island — and the Hill will go into the fish trade. Capt. McCarthy’s appointment as harbor rditee in place of James Barry; deceased, gives satisfaction to local marine interests, and it will also be hailed with as much satisfaction by his friends throughout the chain of lakes.” Mr. McCarthy was first appointed harbor master in 1879 and he has served - either as harbor master or’as assistant’ under. every Demo- cratic city administration since his first appointment. - Capt. Levi Mann, the well-known navigator, who has sailed the Great Lakes for the last 53 years, died last Friday at St. Joseph, aged 65-years. Some: 30: yeats ago he was appointed superintendent of the life-saving stations of this” district, but, owing to ill-health, was compelled to resign. ' Having been a'victim of consumption the last few years, the: veteran sailor was comforted by attendants furnished by local Masons, of which order he was an honored member. P. H. Fleming, who has been in the vessel business from boyhood, died last Friday night at Denver, Col., of con- sumption, aged forty-four years. Mr. Fleming began active | business in partership with Capt. J. L. Beckwith, vessel: brokers under the firm name of Beckwith & Fleming. On" the establishment of the Lehigh Valley line in 1888, Mr. Fleming became its Western agent. As head of the firm of P. H. Fleming & Co., he has held a prominent position in the vessel business, although declining health has kept him away from his office much of the time for several years past. ' The loss of the Hudson was a body blow to the insurance companies having risks on ship, freight and cargo, and it is’ now figured that the season losses to date will aggregate in round numbers about $1,500,000, with the worst portion of the season yet to hear from. The Hudson loss’ will be ac- countable for nearly $250,000 and she is a total loss, as well as the Fedora. ‘Capt.jKidd, of Duluth, surveyed the burned” remains of the latter steamer and reports nothing to speak of recoverable. The loss of. the City of Cleveland was not. severe on the underwriters, as the bulk of the tisk was not covered by insurance. Capt. C. R. Sinclair, late wecalites master for the Sea and Lake Insurance Co., has been appointed general manager of the Great Lakes Towing Co., otherwise known as the tug trust. Capt. Sinclair was originally i in the tug business, and then for several.years was local inspector of hulls at Chicago, He left the service of the Government some four years ago to become. wrecking taster for the nnderwriters. It was generally thought that Capt. J. R. Sinclair, local manager for the tug trust in Chicago, was in line for the position of general manager, made vacant by the resignation of W. A. Collier, but this, it appears, was not what the directors in-. tended although Capt. J. R. would have filled the — just the same. The south fork of the south branch became \ very annovieg to marine men last week on account of the trouble steamers and tugs had in its narrow, shoal waters. The steamer City of Rome, loaded grain at the Wabash elevator Thursday and started down in tow of atug. Back of the Glue Works a shoal spot was struck and there the steamer remained until 7 o’clock next morning. She finally reached the lake just before noon. At Deering street bridge the tug Morford which had the. Rome in tow, got into trouble. The protection of the center pier of the bridge has allrotted away, and the steamer sagged against the bridge, closing it ahead of the tug, and the Mor- ford’s pilot house was wrecked. The Wallula went aground at Main street, where clay has been dumped in the river-to build a cofferdam for bridge work. . After she was released there, she also struck the Deering street bridge, and when it closed on\ the tug William Dickinson it took off the boat’s whistle and smoke stack. Water in the south branch was very low, and vesselmen are advised that the low stage of water which comes every fall has set in.