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THE MARINE RECORD. OCTOBER 3, I9ot. Kaa kk DULUTH-SUPERIOR. Special Correspondence to the Marine Record. Theiron ore shipped from this district is ahead of last year by nearly half a million tons. The total to October shows 8,192,552 tons. For Minnesota alone the season shipments will doubtless aggregate 10,880,000 tons. Vesselmen object to the exhibition of red lights on Minne- sota Point unless shaded over the approach to the piers, sone action will probably be taken looking to an abate- meut of the nuisance. These private lights are not in- frequently. mistaken for regular bea‘on lights. Messrs. York and Gooding, steamboat inspectors at Mir- quette, Mich., have reported that they have suspended the license of Capt. J. P. Foley, master of the Bon Voyage, until May 11th, 1902. The Bon Voyage was destroyed by fire in Lake Superior, and four passengers were lost. The decision of the inspectors implies that on the Bon Voyage the regu- lations relative to station drill and fire drill were not com- plied with. John Stewart, second engineer of the Oaoko, was taken to St. Luke’s Hospital, Duluth, on Sunday night suoff-ring from injuries received at the hands of sume thieving tramps while on his way to his ship late in the eveninz. Masters and officers, spending the evening on shore, would do well to carry firearms for their protection in the lonelier parts of the docks, at this as well as other ports, as police officers can not be expected to patrol long stretches of dark silent dock property. No doubt now remains regarding the loss of all hands through the foundering of the Hudson. The bodies of four of the crew who perished in the wreck haveso far been recoy- ered. The first one to be fouad was that of Sherman Brooks,the wheelman, which was picked up near Copper Harbor, two more, those of Donald Glass, one of the oilers, and Peter L-duce, the steward, found at Little Traverse Bay, and the last one found by the steamer Thomas Friant five miles north of Portage Entry on the east shore of Keweenaw Buy, that of George V gt, the second engineer, who had sailed out of Buffalo for about forty years, and who was one of the oldest licensed men in active lake service. Captain Joseph Kidd, when he returned from Buiyfield, where he went to survey the wreck of the steamer Fedora for the insurance companies, reported that she was practical- ly a total loss. The wreck lies about 250 feet from the shore, one-third of a mile from Red Cliff and above Chicago Creek, Thereis nothing of tne burned boat above water except a little of the stern and a part of the boiler and engine. It is possible that there may bea little salvage on the boiler and engine. The former had dropped down into the hull and the latter was only partly visible above water, hence it was impossible to tell the exact condition of the machinery. The engine, so faras it could be.seen, however, seemed to be in fair condition. The report required by law was filed at the Marquette customs office this week in the case ofthe steamer Hudson, which foundered with all hands two miles off Eagle Harbor light on the forenoon of Monday the 16th. The vessel carried a crew of twenty-four and had no passengers. No assistance was rendered the disabled craft, the report says, and the cause of the disaster is stated as unknown. The Hudson carried a cargo of wheat and flax weighing 2,714 tons and valued at $85,000. There was no deek load and the steamer was not overladen. The cargo was fully in- insured, and on the vessel, whose value is given as $185,000, insurance aggregating $150,coo was carried. The report was made ont by General Manager Dong leas; of the Western Transit Line, owner of the boat. ——___ a <r ACCORDING to the following from a Conneaut paper very fast work is done unloading ore in that port: ‘‘Work was commenced on the Harvard at 7 o’clock this morning by the _clamshells. By noon the fast plant had her finished and at 3:3» she had cleared. This is a record in fast unloading that no other port on the lakes can equal, ‘The Harvard carries close to 7,0co tons,”’ DETROIT. Special Correspondence to the Marine Record. The official number of the steel steamer Yosemite built by the Detroit Ship Building Co. is 27,682; tonnage 3,879 gross and 3,044 net. Mrs. W. D. Ragan, Port Huron, wife of the lost owner of the barge Jupiter, has offered a reward of $100 for the recov- ery of her husband’s body. The Lumber Carriers’ Association does not seem to be’ very effective and their action or inaction regarding freight rates are hardly worthy of notice. - Capt. James H. Rogers, of the revenue cutter service and later in the life-saving service, died on Wednesday at the age of sixty years. He had been in failing health for several years. Frank EK. Kirby, who designed the steamer Hudson, does not believe the machinery of the boat gave out, but his opinion is that an extra strong sea swept over the bow and crushed in her pilot house, tearing away the steering gear, throwing the boat into the trough of the sea. Frank D. Jenks, of Port Huron, says that work will begin at once on the erection of a steel elevator for the Grand Trunk Railway Company at Point Edward. The brick and stone for the foundation are already on the grounds. The work will be rushed on account of the burning of the wooden elevator last week. The last raft of logs to be imported entered Saginaw Bay a few weeks since, and hereafter all will be cut on the Cana- dian side. Among the Michigan firms operating mills on the Georgian Biy, Holland & Graves Lumber Co. of Byng Inlet will stock about 40,000,000 feet of logs this winter; McArthur & Co., Little Current, 30,000,000; Eddy Bros., Blind River, 25,000,000; Moulthrop Lumber Co., John Island, about the same, and the Spanish River Lumber Co. of Span- ish Mills about 20,000,000. The Penberthy Injector Co. report an unusually heavy season’s business: They have been compelled to put in con- siderable additional machinery, and are at present arrang- ing to put in ten new lathes to meet the increasing demand for their goods. They now have on their market in addi- tion to their well known and deservedly popular injectors a complete line of oil and grease cups, water gauges, etc., and are just entering upon the manufacture of a low water pine and a force feed lubricator. A formal investigation of the charges against Capt. Haney of the steamer Buell by the survivors of the lost barge Jupiter has been asked by C. T. Westcott, supervising inspector of steamboats. The charges were made by Capt. Hansen, of the Jupiter in a letter to the supervising inspector, in which Hansen reiterates the charges that the Buell abandoned the Jupiter, instead of rescuing the crew, who were in the most serious danger. The charges have been sent to the steam- boat inspectors at Port Huron, with instructions to make an investigation if they deem one advisable. As the new steamer Steinbrenner, launched at the yards of the Jenks Ship Building Co., Port Huron, on Saturday, is about 50-foot beam, it will be necessary to again remove a portion of Military street bridge to allow the boat to pass through the draw. The effect will be to weaken the struc- ture. For a time the Rapid Railway cars would not run over the bridge until it had been strengthed. Another proposi- tion must also be faced by the Port Huron council. In case the Jenks people should receive contract to construct a car- ferry boat, which has been talked, it would be necessary to remove several of the bridges to allow the passage of such a boat. Supervising Inspector of Steamboats Westcott has re- ceived a report from the local inspector at Marquette saying that they have suspended the license of Capt. J. R. Foley, late master of the steamer Bon Voyage, which was destroyed by fire near Portage Lake ship canal, May 1oth. In the burning of the Bon Voyage four members of the Altman family were drowned in seeking safety from the flames, The inspectors based their ruling on the section of the steamboat laws which makes it necessary for captains to have station bills for life-boats and fire drills posted in their boats and to exercise the crew at least once a week in fire and life-boat drill. The recent detention of a large fleet at the mouth of the Detroit river on account of low water on the Lime Kiln Crossings has again revived the talk of devising some plan whereby this delay and the attendant loss and annoyance to vessel owners may be avoided and an unfailing depth of water maintained. In this connection F. A. Kirby, formerly superintendent of the Wyandotte shipyards and brother of designer Frank E. Kirby, of the Detroit Ship Building Company, reiterates his project of building a movable dam or dyke across the river at a point running from Bois Blanc to'‘Sugar Island and Gross Isle, and from the west side of Gross Isle to the American shore, just below Slocum’s Island. By means of this plan Mr. Kirby says that a uni- form depth of twenty or even twenty-two feet may be main- tained, and that there need be no further doubt as to the water level over this most dangerous point on the lakes, should this plan be approved by the next Congress and an appropriation made sufficiently large to carry it through to” completion. The Donnelly Contracting Co. proposes to test Deputy Collector Smith’s ruling, that limestone from the Limekiln Crossing for use in the American breakwaters is dutiable. The raft-towing tug Mocking Bird, belonging to Capt. James Davidson, and manned by Capt. Riley Burington, passed / down under contract with the-Donnelly company to tow scows of Limekiln rock from the channel to Ashtabula to be used in the breakwater there. Itis probable that when the rock reaches Ashtabula the custom authorities will attempt to collect duty. Supt. Wilson Skinner, of the company, doesn’t believe duty can be collected. He claimed that no duty was charged on Canadian Stone used in the Buffalo breakwater. He contends that the stone to be taken for Ashtabula is really from an American channel, as the Amer- ican government has practically control of the Limekiln Crossing, and, that furthermore, the stone is not to be brought ashore, but left out in the lake. On the other hand, Deputy Collector Smith is positive that the stone is dutiable, just as long as it is to be used for any American work. If the decision go: s against the company it would not pay them to haul the stone at all. NN CLEVELAND. Special Correspondence to The Marine Record. The steamer M. M. Drake and consort Michigan from Duluth to Lake Erie with ore foundered on Lake Superior on Wednesday, no lives lost. Mr. John A. Donaldson, who resigned his position as general dock manager for the Pittsburgh Coal Co., will re- main with the trust until Nov. 1. At a meeting of the directors of the American Ship Build- ing Company held here yesterday, a quarterly dividend of 134 per cent. payable Oct. 15, was declared on the preferred stock. Mr, W. lL. Brown of Chicago, president of the com- pany. and Mr. A. B. Wolvin of Duluth, attended the meet- ing. During the time of the waterworks crib disaster in Cleve- land harbor, Manager Brogan, of the Great Lakes Towing Co., allowed the tug William Maytham, which has no license to carry passengers, to take newspaper men and rescuers to the scene and was fined $500 by the Treasury Department. An appeal was taken and the department remitted the full amount of the penalty. Capt. John Haney denies the story of Capt. Hansen that his boat, the F. R. Buell, deserted the lost steamer Jupiter’s crew after they had asked for assistance. Capt. Haney says he went out of his way to render the crew any aid they might need. ‘‘I argued with them about taking them off,” he said, ‘‘but they would not agree to that. They wanted me to tow them to Sand Beach, which I could not do, as my own boat was in bad shape.”’ The following meterological observations are furnished by the office of the U. S. Weather Bureau, for the week ending October 2nd: Prevailing wind directions during the week, south-east; highest velocity, 34 miles from north-west on October 2nd; mean temperature for the week, 63; highest temperature, 78 on September 26th; lowest, 50 on October 5th; sunrise and sunset data computed for local time at Cleveland, October 4th: sun rises, 6:01; sets, 5 337; October 7th sun rises, 6:04; sets, 5:32; October ah sun rises, 6 ae sets, 5:28. The main bridge of the Big Four Railroad over the river sagged on Monday, and the two ends resting heavily on the abutments mide it impossible to swing the draw. The river was blocked for several hours, when temporary repairs were made and the draw was opened. After that there came arush of boats both ways. This is the bridge which next week is to be replaced by the opening of the Scherzer roller lift bridge. The old bridge has been settling gradually for several months. This being noticed brought about the de- termination of the Big Four Railroad to replace it with a modern structure.