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OCTOBER 3, IgoI. THE MARINE RECORD. Sooo BUFFALO. Special Correspondence to The Marine Record. Coal shipments were brisk last week at the old rates. Chicago, Duluth-Superior and Milwaukee took 40,009, 30,000 and 20,000 tons respectively, in the order named. A master remains to be selected for the new Western line steamer Chicago, The late Capt. Angus M:Donald of the lost steamer Hudson had been chosen to take charge of her. About twenty vessels have been withdrawn this month from the Inland Lloyd’s Vessel Register. The list includes two steamers, six schooners and several barges, or old wooden schooners, One of the largest grain cargoes coming to the port of Buffalo this season was brought in by the new freighter George W. Peavey. It consisted of 250,000 bushels. of wheat, the net weight being 7,500 tons. The latest body to be washed ashore from the Hudson wreck is described in a telegram to the Buffalo headquarters of the Western Transit Co. as follows: Body has auburn hair, no hair on face; 5 feet 8 inches high; 150 pounds; no marks or papers; nothing in pockets but razor. Body has been buried. It is understood that the new tug line has promises for plenty of work along the Great Lakes, and especially in this port. Considerable interest is evinced in shipping circles as to what boats will bestow their patronage upon the inde- pendent line in the fact of the trust’s magnitude and import- ance. Interest also centers in the way the trust will receive its opponent, and in the measures it will probably take in a competitive way. The steamer Nicol, which was in the same storm on Lake Superior in which the Hudson foundered, was dry docked this week for repairs. The Nicol passed the Hudson so that her crew could see the crew of the Hudson clinging to the sides of the boat. That the storm was severe is proven by the condition of this steamer which succeeded in weathering the gale. Her arches were strained, and in fact the hull showed such distress that it will be necessary to make ex- tensive repairs on her, besides recalking. The steamer City of Genoa, Duluth to Buffalo with grain, took fire when about 30 miles off this port. After several hours of hard work the crew got the fire under, but not until the hull had been damaged to the extent of about $10,000. It is also expected that’ her cargo is badly dam- aged. This casualty will probably cause the loss of the balance of the season to the City of Genoa. She is a wooden boat, built at W. Bay City in 1892, owned by Gilchrist & Co. and rated A1* with an insurance valuation of $82,000. The new lake survey charts of Buffalo harbor and Niagara river harbors of Erie, Cleveland, Toledo, Duluth and Detroit river, together with the latest additions of all other lake survey charts, are on sale at the office of Maj. T. W. Symons, United States engineer, room 540, new Federal building, Buffalo, The new chart of Detroit river is especially valu- able to mariners, it having the difficult portion of the river by Bois Blanc Island, the Lime Kiln Crossing, etc., shown on a large scale, in addition to the general map of the river. on or oor CHICAGO. Special Corresponaence to The Marine Record. Officials of the Barry Bros.’ line have recently been in con- ference with leading business men of Two Rivers, Wis., with a view to establishing business with that port next season. It is understood that the company contemplates making Two Rivers one of the regular stopping places onits extended line. The following meterological observations are furnished by the office of the U. S. Weather Bureau, for the week ending Oct. 2. Prevailing wind directions during the week S; highest velocity 40, S. W. Oct. 1st. Mean temperature for the week, 68; highest temperature 85 on Oct. 1; lowest 49 on Oct. 2. The name of Harry Pederson, master of the steamer North- town, appears on the records of Judge Grosscup’s court at this portin an unusual manner. Pederson turned over to the Federal Court $5.25, wages due Fred Tscherny, porter, who deserted the vessel at Hamburg. The money goes into the marine hospital fund. The F. B. Wells, last of the four Peavey steamers to be built this season, will be launched Saturday afternoon at South Chicago. The Wells is 450 feet long, 50 feet beam and 28% feet depth ofhold, The F, T. Heffelfinger, launched some time ago atthesame yard, will be ready for service be- fore the sister ship slides down the ways. Capt. John Fisher, of the steamer Syracuse, of the West- ern Transit Line, was taken seriously ill on Lake Michigan on the steamer’s last trip, and was removed to the Marine Hospital here. Wednesday last he was taken to Buffalo by rail and is now confined to his home. During the illness of Capt. Fisher, first mate Henry Holmberg is sailing the Syracuse. Capt. Michael Fitzgerald, after a service of 60 years as a lake navigator, has resigned the command of the steamer George G. Hadley, and will retire to live on land the rest of his days. He will be succeeded in the Hadley by Capt. Fred Hart, of Detroit. Capt. Fitzgerald began service on the lakes in 1841, sailing on a small schooner carrying wood to Mackinac Island. Capt. James A. Calbick has been elected president and George I. McCurdy secretary and treasurer, of the Great Lakes Sailor’s Snug Harbor, which has established head- quarters at Chicago. They will care for any subscriptions that may be made towards the founding and maintenance of a home for sailors of the Great Lakes, a matter that was dis- cussed at the last annual meeting of the Lake Carriers’ As- sociation and heartily endorsed by the Shipmasters’ Associa- tion. Major J. G. Warren, United States Engineer, in charge of harbor improvements on the west shore of Lake Michigan and in Green Bay, asks masters of steamers to slow down in running between the two revetments at Grassy Island, Green Bay, until the work onthe east one is completed. Major Warren says men working there on the rafts are greatly inconvenienced and placed in danger of losing their lives by the waves caused by steamers running Wa a the revetments at ordinary speed. Capt. John F. Councer, one of the pioneers among ‘the lake captains, died at his home, Indiana street, on Tuesday. ' Captain Councer was seventy-six years old but had not sailed vessels for the past twelve years. He marched in the Chicago parade the day President McKinley was buried and caughtacold. This, added to the effect of a fall which he had sustained several days before, proved too much for his strength and he grew worse until he passed away. He leavesa widow and two children. Captain Councer began sailing when a boy. Coming to the lakes when the schooner fleet was doing the carrying business, he had charge of some of the best vessels, among them being the Orkney Lass, Margaret ‘Drayton, Gertrude, Sunrise, and Skylark, the latter being his last command. SS BDO Se FLOTSAM. JETSAM AND LAGAN. The constant procession of ‘“‘big fellows’’ through Portage Lake these days is the strongest possible endorsement of the wisdom shown by the government in its improvement of the waterway across Keweenaw Point. The Daily Mining Ga- zette, Houghton, Mich., says: ‘‘More carriers of the largest lake type have passed through Portage Lake in the past two weeks than ever before in a similar length of time.”’ A curious coincidence brought to mind by the launch of the new Western liner Chicago is that the steamer Idaho, which foundered a few years ago, was the thirteenth boat of the line; the steamer Albany, which foundered the following year, was the thirteenth boat and the steamer Hudson, which foundered last week, was the thirteenth boat, -and now it is stated that the new steamer will be the thirteenth boat also. Fines of $200 each have been imposed upon the steamers Parks Foster and Ira H. Owens, by Collector of Customs C. B. Roberts for violation of the customs regulations. The Foster cleared from Sheboygan to Buffalo taking out papers for 103,000 bushels of corn and loaded her cargo at Milwau- kee for Buffalo. The Owen took out a clearence at Manito- woc, specifying a cargo of 105,000 bushels of corn for Buffalo and also loaded at Milwaukee. A million dollar shipbuilding plant which will be owned jointly by the Trigg Co., of Richmond, a big shipbuilding firm of Philadelphia, and another plant of Bath, Me., which constructs sailing vessels, is about to be established at Nor- folk, Va. The Trigg Co. will not move its entire plant to Norfolk on account of financial arrangements in Richmond. It will, however, give the Norfolk plant all of its docking work. It is reported that the company of Philadelphia inter- ested is none other than the Cramps and the Sewalls are the Bath people in the deal. The site of the plant is within the city limits just adjoining old Fort Norfolk. Thirty acres have been purchased at a cost of $50,000 and options are held on 150 acres more. All the contracts for building the plant have been made and the contractors have let sub-contracts. A COLLISION CLAIM. The Huron Barge Co., of Cleveland, Onio, filed papers in a libel action in adintealty against the stedmer Northern Queen, of the Northern cee Co., in the United nists District Court. The sum of $126,500 is asked for the sinking of the Huron © Barge Co ’s whaleback barge Sagamore off Point Iroquois, at the lower end of Lake Superior, on July 29, 1901. The Sagamore was loaded with iron ore from Two Harbors, Minn., to a Lake Erie port, and during the night, on account of a dense fog prevailing, had anchored beside her tow, the Pathfinder, and was sounding her fog signal when the Northern Queen crashed into her proceeding at the rate of from ten to fourteen miles an hour. The Sagamore sank rapidly, bearing two of her crew to a watery grave, and the colliding vessel, it is alleged, passed on without offering assistance or inquiring name of the stricken vessel. The Huron Barge Co. wants $100,000 for the barge, $15,000 for the loss of its charter to carry iron ore throughout the season, $6,895.80 for a cargo of 3,851 tons of ore ; $3,064.80 for freight on same ; $600 for money spent in efforts to save the barge, and $500 for personal effects lost by the crew. No mention is made of damages for the lives of the drowned seamen. Messrs. Hoyt, Dustin & Kelly of Cleveland are proctors for the libellants. rr rr LETTERS AT DETROIT MARINE POST OFFICE OCTOBER 2, Igor. To get any of these letters, addressees or their authorized agents will apply at the general delivery window or write to the postmaster at Detroit, calling for ‘‘advertised’’ matter, giving the date of this list and paying one cent. Advertised matter is previously held one week awaiting delivery. It is held two weeks before it goes to the Dead Letter Office at Washington, D. C. Abilgand, Robt., Quayle Meyers, Jno. M. dls Li Ager, James R., Presque Isle McKenzie, Jno. A , Colgate Armstrong, Clarence, » McIntosh, S A. , Rome Lockwood McDonald, Dan’l, Sprague Ashton, Fred, Jupiter McNally, John, Desmond Bennett, B. J., Amazon McCaffrey, Michael, Balfour, Wn., Keneemaw Jno. ‘Owen Benning, Edwin, Pabst McCarty, Frank Bostwick, Murry, Ketchum McKenney, Gordon Becker, Simon, Vauraalte Nilsen, Kirst, Marengo Barney, Richard Niles, Geo, Buchanan, James Neal, Roll Brant, A., Elphicke Poole, Harry, Glosgan Bovaird, Chas. Pemberton, Wm.—2, Waldo Bandlow, Louis, Martin Pelham, Thos. W. , Niagara Buchanan, Wm. Phillips, Harry, Case Cockerill, Henry T. Padden, Elmer Cussen, P. J., Krupp Parker, Wm. Campbell, John Roberts, Harry P. Campbell, Duncan Robinson, M. J. Coffield, Peter, Samoa Raymon, Joseph Elser, W. G., Waldo Rose, Albert, Hiawatha Edson, Chas. Rowland, Wm. A., Colgate Efing, Barney Rushlow, Joseph, F. Brown, Fieming, Capt. J. J Shorran, Arthur, Boyce Fox, Thomas, Fred Glover Smith, Wm. Henning, Mrs. Fred, Bangor Stoddart, W., Tioga Hastings, J. B., Westford Sullivan, R. G. Helmer, Arthur, Boyce Hill, Arthur D. Sadler, John Schott, Max Hamilton,Geo W.,Gratwick Hemenger, F. R. Holcomb, Newell, Oliver Hindle, Jno. W., Glasgow Joyner, Frank, Iron Duke Kiddle, A. A.—2 Koch, Chas. R. Lynn, P. G., Abyssinia Loughway, Samuel LeRoy, Themas Lubansky, J. A. Leonard, Geo. A., Rust Mitchell, Sonnie, Pioneer Morrison, Geo. Marshall, Jos. Munson, C. L.—3, F. Brown Meyers, Hugh, City Marquette Scott, Ralph Stover, James Sanscrainte, L, P. Tobin, Thos., Yukon Wilson, James, Knapp Williams, Mrs. F. B. Wilson, Leonard Waring, Della, Monitor White, Wm. Wheatley, Alonzo, Havana Whitesman, Chas., Lock wood Watson, Harry,North Eastern Witherew, C. L., Flower Welch, E. A., North Town Ward, Thos. H F. B. DicKERSON, P. M. et THE Leyland Line has arranged with the Great Northern Railway Co. to keep its steamers running to Liverpool from Quebec until January, with the object that the lower St. Lawrence can be navigated six weeks longer than has been the practice, if not throughout the winter. There is said to be plenty of cargo to keep the vessels fully employed. But the question is up to the insurance companies, who usually close their policies November 15.