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OCTOBER I0, Igor. Eight in all of the unfortunate members of the Hudson’s crew have now been recovered. The Western Transit Co. has spared no expense or effort to secure and identify the bodies of the ‘drowned men, and so far as possible return them to their homes. The Western Transit Co. is entitled ‘to the thanks ‘and best wishes of the entire marine’ fraternity for the noble manner in which they have looked after those who lost the number of their mess. in the Hudson, and may we hope that other owners will go and do likewise. ' The Canadian Niagara Power Co., which will build a large electric power plant on the’Canadian side at Niagara Falls, has awarded the contract for the tunnel and portal. The price is over half a million, and the work is to be completed by January 1, 1903. The tunnel will be 2,200 feet in length and 19x21 feet in diameter. It will be bricked throughout the same as the tunnel on the American side. The shaft has been sunk the required depth, and the contractor will im- mediately commence the work of excavating the tunnel. Edward Gaskin is still at work on a project to build a dry- dock. It is said he will not try to do much at it-this year, but expects to get a start next’season. posed to be backed by New York capital, which has been convinced that opposition to the American Ship Building Co. in this line of work would be popular with the vessel owners of the lakes. Regarding the project to build a plant at St. Joseph, it is said that such a movement would be for a dry-dotk only. This would be to accommodate such sized boats as trade to that port, sal venerauenely would be but a small affair. ‘The Ogdensburg Journal says: Capt. D. A. Kiah, for many years master of the Rutland line, has retired from the’ command of the steamer F. H. Prince. His successor: is William Spence of Watertown, formerly first mate of the Governor Smith, with Capt. Shay. The retirement of Capt. Kiah and the promotion of mate Spence necessitated other changes in the fleet officers. .Spence’s successor on the _ Smith is Patrick Berry, of Prescott, and James Burns, also of Prescott, goes in the Prince as first mate. The Prince carried away some gates in the Welland canal, causing about $2,500 damages, and this may have had some bearing on the retirement of Capt. Kiah. —————— OOO DO CHICAGO. . Special Corresponaence to The Marine Record. Corn at 1% cents and wheat % cent better is all that is offered here this week with very light chartering. Shipments of grain from Chicago and South Chicago list week were 3,045,000 bushels, of which 2,185,000 bushels” were corn. Capt. George Pardee has retired front: the:command of the Graham & Morton liner Soo City. He is succeeded by Capt. Russell of the sidewheel steamer City of Chicago. The steamer F. T. Heffelfinger built at: the Sonth Chicago ‘yards of the American Ship Building Co., is 4,899 tons gross and 3,630 tons net. She hails from Duluth, Minn. Itis announced that the Williams line contract for their new passenger steamer will be placed within the next ten days. Itis understood that the work will be done by the American Ship Pens. Co:; either. at. ee es or. Cleveland. The Goodrich Ascapporuaica Co. announces a Feddetion - of 66% percent. in its passenger rates between Muskegon, Grand Haven and Chicago. - The rate has always been $3 one way and $5 round trip, although: the Barry line has asked only $2 one way and $3.50 round trip. The Goodrich line announces it will sell tickets one way for $1 and round trip for $1.50. Negotiations are reported to be under way for the build- “ing of an extensive shipyard at St. Joseph, Mich., and it is ' proposed to organize a company with ‘a: capital stock of $75,000. The work of dredging the Morris channel and building docks willsoon be started. Promoter Allmendinger says that in two years the largest boat that frequents Lake ' Michigan can be drydocked at St. Joe but others seem to think that it is somewhat of a pipe’story. The steel dredge built by Johnston Bros, for the . Buffalo Dredging Co. will be launched on Wednesday at Ferrysburg. The dredge is 116 feet long, 40 feet wide and 13 feet deep and is the largest and strongest structure of the kind in the country. It is designed for deep water work and will be taken to Buffalo at once to receive machinery.’ Two of the largest fir timbers ever shipped from the Washington forests are used as spuds or anchor posts on the dredge. : News from the stranded whaleback steamer Thomas Wil- son at Bailey’s Harbor was not as favorable as earlier reports. Mr. Gaskin is sup- . THE MARINE RECORD, Capt. Swain of the Favorite reported that the. Wilson lies on the- old lighthouse shoal about three-quarters of a mile from shore. The forward end of the steamer, is free. The engine room is full of water showing the ship’s bottom aft to be badly cut up. The Wilson has a bad list to starboard, which may prevent use of hydraulic jacks in lifting her fromm the rocks, The water remains favorable for wreck ing operations. The launch of the Fred B. Wells, the fourth steamer of the Peavey fleet, marked the building of the fiftieth boat by the Chicago Ship Building Co. in twelve years. A large crowd witnessed the launch, including many prominent business men of Chicago. The Wells will be ready for sea by the middle of November. The F. T. Heffelfinger launched several weeks ago, will make her maiden trip in about a week. All of the fifty ships built at South Chieago are still in service and include many of the most successful cargo carriers on the lakes. Capt. John McSweeney, Milwaukee, of the tug W. H. Meyer, is in receipt of a letter from Capt. John Tower, of the Counselman steamer Northwestern, dated Antwerp, September 25, in which he states that after having been in the coastwise trade on the North Sea he had returned from Hamburg a few days previous to take on a full cargo for Montreal, Milwaukee and Chicago. The start on the return trip across the ocean would be about Wednesday of the present week, which would make the Northwestern due at Montreal between the 15th and 20th of October. Emma.E. Thompson was struck by the Clark street bridge in passing through the draw on Tuesday and had nearly all of the after cabins carried away. The bridge tender opened’ the bridge and the steamer entered the draw. The bridge tender apparently lost control of his machinery, for the bridge did not stop when it was wide open, but continued turning and the end of the structure swung into the steam- er’s cabins. James Petersonjof Racine, was the only one in the cabin. He suffered abad injury to his arm and was compelled to leave the boat for treatment. the steamer will cost about $700, The September report of traffic through the Soo canals is a surprise to the marine interests, inasmuch as it is a record maker for the mouth of September in any year. The total freight passing through, as shown by the report, was 4,135,- 237 tons, as against 3,411, 453 tons for the corresponding month of last year, an increase‘of 721,603 tons, Theaggregate tonnage for the year up to Oct. 1 is 20,369,065 tons. This shows that the traffic has not only recovered the losses sus tained during the first part of the season, but is now ahead of last year’s traffic nearly 500,000 tons, the exact figures being 467,592 tons excess, the total up to Oct. 1, 1900 being reported at 19,901,473 tons. The total traffic for tgoo was 25,643,073 tons. Taking September asa basis for further increase during the season, the record of last year should be increased by nearly 1,000,000 tons, ror ior or ; DETROIT. Special Correspondence to the Marine Record. The two steamers building at Craig’s Toledo yard for the West India fruit trade will be named Watson and Buckman, - though, I suppose the RECORD has been duly informed of this before now. In less than thirty days the new steel steamer Hugoma will leave Detroit on her way to the ocean and in all proba- bility will never return to fresh water. Special tonnage is now in demand for special trades and the Hugoma is built to suit her present owners. The Watson, built by the Craig Ship Building Co., Toledo, is 1,821 tons gross, and 1,237 tons not, according to custom house measurements. Her signal letters are K. R. G. F, and official number 81,788.. The Buckman, also built by the same firm, is 1,820 tons gross and 1,237 tons net. The following meteorological observations are furnished by the office of the U. S. Weather Bureau, Detroit, for the week ending Oct. 8th, 1901. Prevailing wind directions for the week N. W.; highest velocity 24 miles N. W. on the 2nd. Mean temperature for the week 50°; highest temperature 72° on 8th; lowest 32° on 4th. An examination has been made of the Poe lock to ascer- tain the damage done by the steamer Robert Fulton, a few days ago. It was found that several plates in a leaf of the gate were badly cracked, and the gate is badly warped out of alignment.. Repairs will not be made until the close of navi- _ tion andthe intermediate gates will be used. S. A. Whipple, the well known marine artist of this‘city, died of paralysis on Tuesday morning at his home here, The pate. to! His devotion to business was intense. Mr. Whipple was at one time a captain on the lakes but retired some years ago to en gagein painting marine views. One of his best pic sis: t 2 M-fated steamer Hud- son. He also ri Pe ” of the ne &C. dine fleet. He ne Bh five: spt of age, |The. mew doe aad warehouses of | Whe Anchor, line will be in’ readiness. for businesg:by the opening of navigation next seasori, ° “The rebuilding of the old Beecher dock by the An- chor line.and the improvement of the old Anchor line dock by the Detroit and Buffalo line. will give this city nearly half a mile of as fine dock property, devoted to passenger busi- ness, as can be found anywhere on the whole chain of lakes, Owners are still hammering away at the shippers for a rate of $3 on lumber out of Duluth, with proportionate rate from way ports. The lumber there is to be moved, and the boats are receving good dispatch.. Duluth, however, is short of the number of boats demanded,: because some of the owners are sending their tonnage for short haul rather than send them to Duluth for less than $3. By this means the owners’ hope to persuade the shippers to pay:the advance... The a rate now is $2.75 from the head of the lakes: | Secretary-treasurer Henry C.: Barter, of the Iiteenational Longshoremen’s Association, left for New York; on Wednes- day, to meet the executive council of the Longshoremen’s Association of Greater New York and endeavor to bring them into the international association. For the past two years negotiations in this direction have been pending and Barter is confident that he will succeed in’ closing’ up the business before he returns. There are eighteen: local branches in New York, representing the dock workers of New York, Brooklyn, Hoboken and Jersey City. Each local sends a delegate to the executive council and itis this coun- cil as well as various locals which Barter will address. ‘On the trip he is accompanied by fourth vice-president J. J.. Joyce, president of the Grain Scoopers’ Union of Buffalo. The War Department has‘just issued a bulletin, giving supplemental information to the Government charts recently issued. The bulletin touches very largely upon the new work which has been done on Lake. Erie during the summer, both in the way of surveys for new found obstructions and in the way of placing new harbor protections at the various ports. The new breakwater at Conneaut is. chronicled, the lights displayed there being designated. The repair work is also shown at Ashtabula and Fairport. The bulletin mentions the work at Lorain, where the old pieristo be replaced with a new one giving a wider entrance to the harbor. Toledo’s long channel through Maumee Bay isalso mentioned, show- ing the improvements which have been made. The bulle- tin may be had by the masters at the various engineers’ offices over the chain of lakes. While the Limekilns Crossing has vinta og the larger por- tion of the expensive groundings this summer, marine and insurance men declare that the: north end of Harsen’s Island in St. Clair river has had fully its share of strandings. Since the opening of navigation seven vessels: have landed on the Long shoals pit which runs out from the upper end of the island. The steamer George W. Roby, opened the ball May Io, the Thomas Davidson followed July 16, the Boston, Aug. 3, and the S. S. Curry, Aug. 27. The Yale went on Sept. 30, and the wrecking bill which resulted was $6,000. The last boats to find this place were the Iron:Age and Ash- land, Oct. 4. In former seasons, a light has been kepton the outer end of the spit and accidents' were few. Last win- ter the ice carried away the light and vesselinen are now thinking about circulating a petition to have it restored, -_ DOO Ol OS HENRY W. Cramp, the eldest son of the famous ship- builder, Charles H. Cramp, and the. vice president and treasurer of the Cramp Ship and Engine Building Co., died at Devon Inn., Philadelphia, Oct. 3. Acute pneumonia, fol- lowing a general breakdown due to hard work, was the im- mediate cause of death:. Mr. Cramp was bora in Philadel- phia, in 1851, and after completing his education entered the machine shops of the I. *P. Morris Co.'to learn..the practical side of the shipbuilding trade’s most important branch. Ill- health interrupted his plans for learning a mechanical trade, and he went to'sea for two years in service of the Clyde line. Later he was in charge of the New’ York office of the com- pany when it operated the Erie basin dry dock. In 1886 he succeeded his uncle as secretary of the shipbuilding concern and on May 12, 1891, he became a director. He was elected vice-president and treasurer on June 6, 1895. ' Essentially a business man, few:equaled him in quickness of perception as to the merits of .any enterprise brought to his notice. Except on the com- mand of physicians he had never taken a vacation. —