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THE MARINE RECORD. OCTOBER 17, 1901. ' CLEVELAND. ee aaa saat KaKaKaKKK DETROIT. Special Correspondence to the Marine Record. “The wrecker Saginaw is at work on the barge Athens, grounded at the Limekiln Crossing, It is now said that the name of the White Star line steam- er which is being built for the run between Toledo and De- troit. will be the New Greyhound. John Thompson, hailing from Chicago, a deckhand on the steamer Sarah E. Sheldon, had his foot badly crushed and was ‘brought ashore here on Tuesday and sent to the marine ‘hospital for treatment. ‘Capt. Jatnes R. Raymond, manager of the Standard Auto- matic Releasing Hook Co., visited here a few days ago and fitted the davit tackle falls of the U.S. steamer Marigold with his equipment. The workings of the hooks were after- wards tested and found to work admirably. The following meterological observations are furnished by the office of the U. S. Weather Bureau, Detroit, for the week ending October 15: Prevailing wind directions for the week S. W.; highest velocity 56 miles south, October 12; mean temperature for the week 56°; highest temperature 75° on 11th; lowest 38° on 14th. The old schooner Mont Blanc, coal laden, sprung a leak on Lake Erie last ‘Saturday night and foundered about two miles from Bar Point. The water is not deep where she sank, and the crew saved themselves by climbing the rig- ging andjwere able to keep out of the water until rescued by the tug Sheboygan on Sunday morning. “The new steamer Buckman, which is on the ways at the Craig Ship Building Co.’s yard, will be launched Saturday or Monday. The vess-1 was built to the order of F. W, Wheeler, and is chartered to the Boston Fruit Co. for five years. She will engage in the fruit trade between Boston and Porto Rico and will carry passengers as well as cargo. It is expected that the sister ship to the Buckman will be ready to launch by the last of next week Ssoretary-Treasurer Heary C, Barter, ofjthe International Longshoremen’ s Association, has announced that he will not resign his present position until after the next conven- tion of the association. From nearly all the various locals and from the executive council requests haye come to Barter ask- ing him to remain and reconsider, his intention to resign in order. to devote his time to the American Workingmen’s Protective Association, of which he has been chosen vice- president. Inspectors at Detroit, with the exception of C. H. Westcot, the supervising inspector of the eighth district, have had nothing to say regarding the inspection of sailing vessels of which so much has been heard lately. The Detroit ship- builder, who said that boats are being overlooked, finds many men in the government service who think as he does, but*vésselmen generally say that only a few, if any, steamers are overlooked. “Some of the recent disasters, it is said were due to overloading. Thspector-N. B. Conger, of the Weather Bureau, sent out on Saturduy 825 circular letters to people receiving the local forecast cards, stating that he was revising the lists, and asking if ‘they ‘wished’ the service continued. Within 24 hours the ‘had ‘recéived’ 606’ answers all wanting the cards. There were 68 more answers next day. The flood of letters plainly showing how much the people appreciate the ser- vice,’ The. Weather Bureau reports are becoming of more value, carry greater weight and are more generally relied upoti than ever before in the history of the service. AS a result of the Fulton’s collision with the gates at the Poelock at'the ‘Soo,’ the’ following regulations have been putinto effect to guard against more serious damage in the future? ‘**All'steamers must stop their engines when the bow reaches gates on entering lock, and start them thereaft r only tipon orders from the canal officials, and never above slow speed.”’ It is possible that the next step will be for the revenue cutter patrol boat to supervise the passage of all craft or the canal authorities might place a policeman on eve f coe bet that the age st yee elas were not in_ fringed: * ss cael ha _as possible. and will have to be replaced. As many men ascan be Considerable delay has been experienced here this week by low water at the Limekiln Crossing A change of wind now. shows a fluctuation of seyeral inches more than for- merly, and if the Canadians can, only, open another outlet like the Chicago drainage canal is, lock, gates, will be found necessary at the mouth of the river, this, after Congress has been asked permission for the,right to appropriate, the, people’s money to pay for the canals, dams and, construction as well as up-keeo of, the suggested improvement. (?)., _ Illinois was permitted to wrong the commerce of the North- west and the wrong will now never be righted. The Donnelly Contracting Co., in charge of building the government breakwater works at Ashtabula, are carrying the stone blasted from the Canadian bottom abreast of Am- herstburg, Ontario, to cover their contract at Ashtabula, It is all right, I suppose, for the United States government to work on Canadian ground and use the territory disintegrated for the building of a marine fence off Ashtabula, and, it looks as if the contractors on both contracts slipped in easily on the different jobs combined, however this may be, the Donnelly people lost a steel scow loaded with this rock on Tuesday, and, while they may find the scow, the stone is removed from Canada. —_—$—$—$—$— $e ar BUFFALO. Special Correspondence to The Marine Record. Last week 110,000 tons of coal was shipped out of this port and nearly the same amount the week before. A low stage of water has been experienced here during the past few days and when vessels ground they simply wait fora change of wind with a raise of water enough to float them. Captains of vessels coming into Buffalo should take more care at the entrance of the harbor and hug the south break- water closer to avoid the shoal at the entrance of Niagara river. A survey held on the steamer Boston on account of her Lake St. Clair collision shows that only the upper works are damaged and after temporary repairs are made she will be ready for service and will resume her trips next week. The steamer Avon, declared a total loss by fire, and dis- posed of by her last owners, the Union Transit Co., was given temporary repairs and left here on Wednesday for Ogdens- burg, N. Y , under her own steam. The Hanan Transporta- tion Co. are her new owners. The ferry steamerSuperior finished her season on the Crys- tal Beach ‘route and left here to winter at an upper lake port, word has been received that after putting into Lorain for repairs to machinery she will now have to be dry-docked at Port Huron for calking, etc. Repairs to the City of Genoa are being made as rapidly The upper works are burned nearly through worked to advantage are employed on her and it is likely that she will be able to make a couple more ele before the close of the season. The steel steamer which the Craig’ stip Building Co. of Toledo closed a contract for last week, will be managed by Capt. Charles. Beatty of this port. The new boat will be adapted for the lumber trade. She will be’204 feet keel, 4o feet beam and 16 feet deep. She will have triple expansion engines and two Scotch type boilers, Freight rates on coal rule at 60 cents, Lake Michigan, in- cluding Escanaba, Waukegan, Manitowoc, etc. To Duluth 35 cents is paid. Chicago took 52,000 tons last week and about the same amount was divided between Milwaukee and Duluth-Superior. Chicago must receive a large supply by lake as the railroad cars are tied up, hence, the brisk ship- ments. The local inspectors of steamboats have no'authority over schooners and barges. Their jurisdiction extends only to steamboats, and it makes no difference what the condition of the sailing vessels may be, they have no power to interfere with them. For at least ten years Congress has been asked ° to pass a law bringing this class of boats under the steam- boat inspection rules, but as yet nothing’ has been accom- plished. Of course tow barges are not steamers any more than the inspectors are sailors but still some sort of a bluff might be made to say equipment inspection if nothing else and inspectors could visit each boat and study to learn whether she was overloaded or not, according to the ripe- ness of her hull, etc. The Riter-Conley Mfg. Co., of Pittsburg, Pa., will erect a steel barge plant at Hayavitie Station on the’ Ohio river, below Pittsburg. Plans are being prepared. Special Correspondence to The Marine Record. : Bids are being received for the engines and ‘boilers of the, burned steamer Fedora as they how lie in the burned huil of the craft ashore near Duluth. Mr. Edwin S. Mills, manager of the Pittsburg Steamship Co. is still confined to his home though gradually. recover. ing from the effects of an operation performed last week at the Lakeside hospital. vw Capt. J. R. Raymond, of the Standard Automatic Releas-, ing Hook Co., New York, spent the early part of the week. at this port visiting vesselmen and others interested in his | special equipment. The automatic releasing property of. the hook is highly spoken of by those who have seen or use it. There is ample business for a few specially constructed _ lumber steamers and Mr. Beatty, of Buffalo, with some of his _ Cleveland friends, apparently--recognize the deficiency. The Craig Ship Building Co., Toledo, has been given an order this week for a craft of this sort. and it seems safe to- say that she will be a money earner for her future owners. “! It will be a pleasant note for the.local marine fraternity to, know that Mr. John N. Coffin chartered this week asa per: manent consort Miss Katherine Florence Little. I under-— stand that the papers were signed in Chicago, but they will | hail from Cleveland. It is not definitely stated, but itis quite probable that the fleet may be added to at a later date. The following meteorological observations are furnished by. the office of the U. S. Weather Bureau, for the week ending October 16: Prevailing wind directions during the week, | south; highest velocity, 43 miles from southeast on October | 13; mean temperature for the week, 56; highest temperature, 75, on the 11th; lowest, 40, on the 15 h; sunrise and sunset data computed for local time at Clean, October 18th, sun rises, 6:17; sets, 5:14; October 21st, sun rises, 6:21; sets, 5 :09;, October 24th, sun rises, 6:24; sets, 5:05. The new steel steamer W. S. Mack, named for one of the © best lake shipmasters that ever floated, is to take her maiden cargo this week, from Buffilo to Chicago. The Mack was built at the Lorain yards of the American Ship Building | Co. aa) and is one of the modern cargo carriers of the lakes, assured to clear good and proper earnings for her owners, like the man she is named after always did during his active career. : Capt. Mack was called hence Sept. 14th 1896, and his execu- tors built the new craft which will be managed by his only. son Mr. Will Mack. One of the most conservative vessel owners gives "me as ‘his’ opinion this week that the season can in no way be recorded” as a prosperous one for the men solely engaged i in the owning * and handling of vessel property. It is quite true, he said,” that we have been busy enough, but at the low rate ‘of fréights, with’ the daily expenses and a robbing system ‘Of detention , at loading and discharging ports, I can figure | that a couple of my boats have been turned over to the in-* surance companies so far as their earnings are concerned.” Unless freights brisk up from now to the close of navigation * owners of floating property need not expect a very salubrious ° Christmas in so far as dividends are concerned. There is still figuring being done on tonnage and a few * more ships may be ordered before the close of the season. The deal for a passenger steamer for Lake Michigan parties is still on. had been ordered. for which John Craig, of Toledo, closed a contract for here © last week. A. M. Carpenter, secretary and general manager" of the Jenks Ship Building Co., of Port Huron, was in Cleve- land a few days ago, and.iit is tharght that something would - be closed while he was here, but if so, the particulars’ Have not yet been given out. Mr. Carpenter has toom to put” down a good sized keel at the yards. 3 The annual meeting of the yacht racing union of the” Great Lakes was held at Cleveland Yacht Club house on Saturday last. the order to the construction committee to frame a new set of rules governing the classes of yachts, of the delegates that the yachts should have greater living'® space aboard, and not be mere racing machines, mittee will report at a special meeting to be held at Buffalc, probably next month. The Union also took up the cases of — Arthur Pettie and James Gore, Detroit yachtsmen, who were said to be professionals, sustaining the protests made against both, Pettie was one of the crew on the Cadillac in her taces against the Canada, An action was taken, however, whereby Pettie may be reinstated within a year. Officers : Nothing has been done about the Ann Arbor ” railroad car ferry steamer, which dispatches last week said ” Very little is learned about the steamer The most important business transacted was : It is the opinion” ‘Thé com- ? Ri NCS Matt gecle t | ochae, S e Be aa