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CHIGAGO. Special Correspondence to The Marine Record. Four large steamers grounded on Washington street tunnel, and stopping navigation for about a week is the ‘record for the south branch, and the season barely opened yet. It is recommended that vessels load no deeper than 16% feet. ; “he steamer Parnell, which has: been on Washington ‘ street tunnel four days, will probably have to wait there tintil the settlement of the strike, if it takes all summer, as she cannot be released without the assistance ‘of tugs. "Hereafter no vessel entering the Chicago’ river drawing - The following meteorological observations are. fur- nished by the office of the U. S Weather Bureau, Chicago, for the week ending: April 23. Prevailing wind ; direction for the week §.W.; highest velocity 66 miles. from: the S.W. on. the 22d. Mean temperature for the week 54. highest temperature 83, on the 2tst; lowest 36 on the 2oth. . The wind guage at the Weather Bureau office registered 60 miles an hour in the squalls on Tuesday. The water was low in the river and the C. S. Parnell was still hung ri on the crown of the Washington street tunnel, stopping traffic in the south branch, when the gale veers from 8.W. to N.W., as it. should do according to the law of storms, etc, it is expected that she will float. The steamer Gordon Campbell has been sold by John Barry to Capt. Patrick Bowe, of Chicago. She will pro- bably be run in the salt’ trade between Manistee and Chi- cago. The consideration is ‘said to be $15,000.. The Campbell is 2 wooden steamer of 1,101 gross tons, built in first letter rating, A2, and valued for insurance purposes at "The steamer Joseph L. Hurd will be attached for breach of contract when she arrives in port either here or down in Lake Erie. Marine Attorney W. E. Wolseley, who is acting for S. R. Chamberlain & Co., of this city, has pre- -pared to levy on her at either port. The Hurd was under charter to the foregoing company during the season, and it is charged that her owners lived up, to their contract in very few instances. She will be attached for $5,000: ~The lake-built. steamers Northman and ‘Northwestern have been: chartered for five years for the ‘Texas oil trade, at the rate of forty-five cents per barrel. Both steamers are at the Morse Iron Works and Dry Dock Co.’s yards, where they are being fitted with tanks, and other- wise prepared for the trade which they will be engaged in. It will be remembered that these steamers were built at the Chicago yards of the American Ship Building Co., for trans-Atlantic service. more than 16% feet of water will be allowed to pass the Lake street bridge without special permission of the harbormaster.. The same rule, applies to vessels loading ae the river with regard to the Madison street bridge. “hese orders, issued by Harbormaster John McCarthy, are designed to prevent the grounding of the boats on the crown of the Washington street tunnel. Wednesday was another day of blockade on the south branch, for the big coal laden steamer Parnell still sticks on the top of the troublesome tunnel. : _ The City of Venice was eventually floated off the crown of the Washington street tunnel after being there two days and plugged at by seven tugs. A long wooden steamer hanging on the crown of.a tunnel and all the steam power possible pulling on her can do the structure no good, but apart from this, she held up several loaded vessels, in fact all commerce on the south branch. The loaded wooden steamer Wallula grounded directly after the release of the Venice, and she was followed” by another wooden steamer, the Charles S. Parnell, and with a southerly wind she neaped one-half a foot. No attempt was made to float the Parnell on Monday, but it was simply a case of waiting until the wind went around to the northward. In the meantime navigation up the south branch remained blocked. _ See ey pete _-The department. has approved of the removal of the wreck of the Swain, which was burned to the water’s edge and sunk near Rains’, dock, “Soo” river, below the dike, on December 16, 1898. Since then it has been a menace to navigation... .Divers. will be employed and the wreck will probably be blown up by dynamite and then removed. . By the burning of the tug Swain, Fireman John Sylvester was burned to death, and several of the crew had narrow escapes, the engineer having his hands severely burned. Detroit in 1871, and re-built in 1888, she is still on her. THE MARINE RECORD. DETROIT. Special Correspondence to The Marine Record. A revision, in’colors, of chart No. 3, Saint Mary’s river, has just-been issued,and is now on sale at the US. Lake Survey Office,’ °33 Campau : building, 15 cents per copy. The dismantled hull of the old sidewheel steamer Grey- hound, was sold this week by the White Star line to Joseph. H. Berry, for $3,000, to be used as a scow in filling the marsh. just west of the waterworks. The freight tonnage through the Sault Ste. Marie canal. for this month gives every promise of breaking all pre- vious records—in fact there is no doubt of it. Last sea- son there were about 2,500 tons passed through the canal in April, this month the freight” tonnage is expected to exceed 2,000,0ce tons. The following nished by the office of the L for the week ending Tuesday, April 22. Prevailing wind directions for the week, S.W.; highest velocity, 45 miles, from the S.W. onthe 22d; mean temperature for the week, 54; highest temperature, 81 on the 22d; lowest, 38 on the 16th. Senater. McMillan has re-introduced in the: Senate the bill introduced in the last Congress for a three-span rail- road bridge across the Detroit river at Detroit, to be built by an independent company, and to be used by all railroads. The senator says his purpose in re-introducing it is to keep the project alive, and the bill will not again be heard of this session. The package freight handlers employed at: the sheds of tne Port Huron & Duluth line of steamers went,on a strike on Tuesday, on.account of an alleged refusal of the com- pany to recognize the union in its dealings with its em- ployees. The company is paying the union scale,, which is 5 cents more per hour than paid last season, but asserts its rights to hire the. best men it can get rather than confine itself to the men furnished by the union. Upon the union men quitting work the company began hiring new hands, — meteorological’ observations are fur- Vesselmen at a’ meeting in Cleveland last week, dis- cussed the proposed new ship canal at the St. Clair flats, for the construction of which the pending rivers and har- bors bill contains an item of $330,000. Capt. McQueen, of Detroit, representing the interests of Don M. Dickin- son, suggested the improvement of the middle channel by dredging from the lower end to the deeper water. A compromise suggestion agreed upon contemplates the par- alleling of the present ship canal with a deep channel lead- ing off across Buscamoot hay to the middle chatinel, and continuing up it to the north channel, thus providing a double pathway and obviating the necessity of up and downbound boats passing each other in the south channel between the head of the present channel -and the island, where a number of vessels have come to disaster. The United States steamer Hancock, attached to the United States Engineer’s Department, will start to work this week, and her first object. will. be to investigate the wreck of the schooner Winslow, sunk near White Shoals, an important point, and if possible blow it up and move the debris. While not directly in the channel the, wreck is nevertheless considered a menace to navigation. After this she will be engaged in sweeping the 20-foot channel, which is now in charge of the local office, this operation which was formerly done by the cumbersome process of lashing several scows abreast, dragging railroad iron and pushing the whole outfit with a tug, is now done more expedi- tiously by the Hancock, which carries. beneath her a 40- foot steel bar at the required depth, so arranged that the extent and depth of any obstruction may be readily ascer- tained. With this rig she is able to proceed at the rate of four or five miles. an hour. It appears that the Great Lakes Towing Co. is not en- joying an exact monopoly of the towing business. A ves- selman figuring up here the other day found that consider- able towing has been done up to date without any of the syndicate boats working at all on account of the strike ; he also finds that the outside wrecking companies are the’ MecMorran Wrecking Co., Port ,Huron, Mich.; James Reid Wrecking Co., Port Huron, Mich.; F. W. Gilchrist Wrecking Co., Alpena, Mich.; Sweeney Line, Cleveland; John Quinn Wrecking Co., Detroit, Mich.; H. W. Baker Wrecking Co., Detroit, Mich.; R. F. Thompson Wrecking Co., Sault Ste. Marie, Mich.; Milwaukee Tug Boat Line, Milwaukee, Wis.; ‘Toledo Harbor Tug Line, oledo, Ohio; Independent Tug Co., Buffalo, N. Y.; F. B. Hackett, Am- herstburg, Ont. It is to be hoped that before this reaches your readers the syndicate strike among the firemen will be over and all interests again working together for the advancement of lake commerce. Hugh G. Winter, of No. 206%. Jefferson. avenue, De- troit, is seeking information as to the death or wherea- bouts of his father, John G. Winter, an old marine engi- neer. Mr. Winter has received word to the effect that his father was washed overboard from some steamer while near Cleveland late last fall, but has not been able to confirm the story, although nothing has been heard from the missing man; and the latest information concerning him was that he shipped out of Cleveland and was washed overboard. John Winter was known in Detroit, about fifteen years ago, he having been in the employ of Detroit, Mich., at U.S. Weather Bureau, Detroit, - APRIL, 24, 1902. the D.,'B. I. & W. Ferry Co., later sailing as second engineer aboard the Northern Star. He was in her when the Northern Star collided and sank the Sheldon in Lake Superior, While his family has not heard from him for over six thonths, they. still thought that he was alive: hearing only a week ago, last Saturday that he was drowned. A favor will be done his family should anybody knowing of Winter’s death communicate with his son, Hugh G. Winter, at the address given above. ae oO So DULUTH-SUPERIOR. Special Correshondence to The Marine Record. °: at Moving of vessels, lumber piling, and other dock work, was stispended here on Tuesday, on account of the heavy blow. Hugh Calderwood, manager of the Collingwood Ship Building Co., of Ontario, has accepted the same position with the Risden Iron Works, of San Francisco. ee The steamer Uganda, while making the turn at the “gate,” .was blown ashore, timning-imto the St. Paul & Western Coal Co.'s dock. As she had no tug she was compelled to lie there. The steamer Bunsen, while en route to the Missabe ore dock, was blown ashore and grounded off the Ohio coal dock, The hard gale from the northeast blowing Sver Lake Superior caused the collapse. of the new steel super- structure at the new Jones & Adams coal dock, at West Superior, on Tuesday. The Brown Hoist Co., of Cleve; land, are the contractors. Owing to the velocity of the wind it was impossible for the men to work, or there~ would have been loss of life when the iron work collapsed. Capt. O. C. Gaillard, Corps of Engineers, U. S. A. has issued. a circular containing the new rules and regulations for the towing of rafts in Duluth-Superior harbor, and the entrances thereto. The new regulations, officially en- dorsed by William Cary Sanger, Assistant Secretary of War, will go into effect May 1, 1902, and it would be’ well for all masters frequenting the head of the lakes to care- fully peruse the changed regulations. he American Steel Barge Works at West Superior. is a very busy place these times. No less than 42 boats, some of the largest type, wintered there, and now they are all at work. The new steamer Sultana, owned by ‘Tom- linson and others, will be ready for cargo: in a few days, so also will the J. G. Grammer, the second steamer built for the Seither Steamship Co. ‘The second Tomlinson boat to be named the Sonora, will be launched early next month and. the Hoyt, building to the order of Wolvin et al. about the middle of June. Where is general work and re- pairs being regularly carried on so that a large number of men are kept fully employed at these large yards. Mr. Joseph Hayes, chief engineer of the Pittsburg Steamship Co, who had charge of the wrecking of the steamer Crescent City and barge 130, when they were stranded on Lake Superior, said the work of getting the vessels afloat was difficult on account of the unfavorable weather. Capt: Benjamin Truedell, keeper of the Grand Marais. life-saving station, and his crew stood by the stranded vessels all throush the storm, said Mr. Hayes, and did everything in their power to assist us. With the waves sweeping over the vessels that were ashore they stcod by in their little boat ready to render assistance if anything happened the. ships. Mr. Hayes said that too much praise could not be given the brave life savers for their work. The tug masters and engineers are getting restless at their enforced idleness on account of the firemen’s strike for more pay, and the.season slipping into fine weather. The few independent tugs are giving fair satisfaction ex- cept for night service. ‘There are five tugs engaged in ves- sel towing in the Duluth-Superior harbor. They are the Annie: L. Smith, owned by Capt. Eli Jacques; the tugs Brower, Mystic and Karroll, owned by the Stevens Tow- ing Co.,.and the ‘‘empest, owned by Capt. W. S. Lloyd. They are all busy night and day, and are reaping a har- vest. The tugs are charging a moderate advance over card rates for their services. The firemen seem to be laying on their oars and letting the officers of the union do the worrying or the settling of their grievances. The Northwestern dock is the first one to be built on the Superior bay front since the old east end dock was con- structed years ago. It lies at the end of Winter street, between the two saw mills, the West Superior and the Schofield. ‘The nearest coal dock to it is the St. Paul & Western, which lies at the end of Connor’s Point. The new dock will be one of the very largest in the country, and will enjoy the distinction of being the largest dock at the head of the lakes. When it is completed it will be capable of storing 1,000,000 tons of coal This is providing for growth with a liberality. In the year 1900 the total amount of freight handled at Superior docks, east and west bound, amounted to 5,139,240 tons. It has increased largely since then, but it can be seen that this dock, when it covers its allotted 22 acres, will be able to handle a great share of the coal that comes to the head of the lakes. Miss Alice Lorraine, a well known soprano soloist, is bringing suit against the North German Lloyd Steamship company, because she was forced to give up her stateroom aboard the Kron Prinz Wilhelm to accommodate Prince Henry on his trip. ; est Cy