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oD ETROIT. .. The steamer, Thomas Adams will be launched at the yard of the Craig Ship Building Co., at Toledo this week. Set ‘is estimated: that the loss to marine interests on account .of the “Soo” blockade will amount to from $80,000 to $100,000. The title to the wrecking tug Wales was transferred from the Westcott Wrecking Co. to the Great Lakes Tow- ing Co. ‘at Ottawa Saturday. . Alterations on the Algoma Central Steamship Co.'s salt water side-wheel passenger steamer King Edward, have been completed and she has. now been placed in ser- ACEH 3150 5t nike nits : +. Capt. Phil Young, who, last. season sailed the steamer J.. Emory Owen, is laid up with Bright's disease at his hemehere., His many friends and old shipmates will bé pleased ‘to learn that he is improving. The old steamer Pastime, of Toledo, has been purchased by George E. Currie. to. be used in. connection with the eld Greyhound for hauling dirt to fill in the river front near the water works, owned by Joseph Berry. The Pastime was built in Toledo in 1889, on very much the same lines as. the Ohio river excursion steamers. : The. international: officers of the “Longshoremen’s As- sociation, with headquarters in Detroit, are emphatic in their denial of the story from Chicago that they are ‘in- terested in the movement to affiliate and bring under one head all the marine labor interests on the Great Lakes by .organizing councils at all ports’ outside of their ds- PeOCAHOR | eee - George Hoerst, of Grand Rapids, who secured the con- tract to build the new life saving station at the Portage Take canal, is to receive $9,900 for the work. There were several bids filed with the department, but this bid was by several hundred dollars the lowest. The materials for the station will be deliveted at the site this week and the’ work started in a few days. Capt. Thos. Meiklehan is master of the new White Star ‘passenger steamer! Greyhound, Winfield Dubois, chief engineer, James Kennedy,. second engineer, B. -Dagen, mate,’ Thomas Whalen, purser»and Charles Camp- ness, steward) General Manager Parker and Traffic Man- ager Beilman, are much pleased with the construction, equipment and performance of the handsome new baat. » ~The wreck cf the ‘Canadian schooner. Gleniffer, sunk hy the steamer Admiral, Capt. John Ivors, ten days ago, with loss of life, is still in the middle of the channel abreast the Star Island house. The two spars and the boom. are above water. The burned -hull of the steamer Kittie M. Forbes is in the mud just above the Star Island house, on Canadian side, and but very. little of her shows above water. She is so far out of the way and so far out of the.channel that the charred remains are not lighted. “he announcement is made by the Detroit & Cleveland ne that beginning June 20 the regular full summer ser- vice will be installed on Friday. The schedule this year includes the City of Alpena, leaving Detroit . Mondays and Fridays, and the City of Mackinac, leaving Detroit ‘on’ Wednesdays and Saturdays. With the exception of ‘the double daily service between Detroit and Cleveland he full service of the D. & C. Line will have been in- alled with this change. fais tae MS ERA Rabe: teri Fara i aah se SN In Jast. week’s ‘colliston case in. the river here it ap- that the Frank E. Kirby, ‘Capt. A. J. Fox, blew thistle when the Wiley M. Egan, Capt. Fred Howe, vell up the:river and was. answered by two and the ignal. The -Kirhy replied with two whistles re- everal times, but the Egan came straight for th boats were backing when they struck. This collision. looks like a case’ of too much whistling © little attention to the right of way. s Hebard, lumberman, died last’ week at Phila- 1 years. Mr. Hebard was one of the lumber manufacturers in the United’ States mps at Peéquaming, Mich., and elsewhere. to Philadelphia from Michigan in 1880, t of the board of regents of the Michi- y. Mr. Hebard was’ Ets ‘interested in rk and at the time of his death was a trus- Fe Medical College. Mr. Hebard was and was a direct descendant of THE MARINE RECORD. BUFFALO. ‘he steamer Pennsylvania, of the Erie & Buffalo Line made ‘her first excursion trip from Dunkirk to Buffalo on Tuesday... The boat will now run, every ‘Tuesday, Thursday and soabuLrday, xj) pe Miers Coryell, a well known consulting: marine engineer died last week, aged 65 years. Mr,,Coryell was for many years the representative of; the Bellville boiler in this country. ‘The last active position he held was that of superintend- ing ‘engineer of the Cromwell Line, New York. , Argument was.heard in Admiralty court here on Tues- day by-‘which the Gilchrist ‘Transportation Co. seeks to recover $7,5co from the steamer City of Genca. Several years ago the Gilchrist steamer Mecosta extinguished a fire on the Genoa and saved a cargo of grain, hence the claim for salvage. The following meteorological observations are fur- nished by the office of the U. S. Weather Bureau, Buffalo, for the week ending June 18. Prevailing wind direction for the week S.W.; highest velocity. 48 miles, from the W: on the 13th; mean temperature for the week, 68°; highest. temperature 78° on the 14th, lowest 53°,on the t7th. A warm welcome was given to the new steamer West- ern States, of the Detroit & Buffalo Line, which arrived here on her first trip from Detroit on Monday. The new boat ‘is a: sister ship to the Eastern’ States, which is now in service and is one of the finest passenger steamers on the lakes. A’complimentary excursion and: inspection was given Buffalo people. ; Coal for local use is in fair supply, but there is nothing for shipment. ‘There has not been a cargo shipped so far this month and it now looks as if June shipments would be easily counted. The coal docks have not been in such disuse for a decade or two and there is no telling when they will get busy again as the miners’ strike seems no nearér a settlement now than it did a ‘month ago. Capt. Frank D. Welcome died at the Homeopathic hos- pital, where he had. been for four davs. for treatment for liver trouble. On Wednesday night last his body was taken to Port Huron, his former home, for burial. Capt. Welcome was well and favorably known among marine men, and few knew that he was ill. His widow is now at. another hospital seriously ill. Capt. Welcome has not been sailing this season, but was slated to take command of a new boat of the Carter fleet, now building. Last season he sailed the Tampa. : The contract for removing the bowlders from the Erie basin, which have been a serious menace to navigation for many years, has been let by the canal department, to Capt. M. M. Drake, representing the Lake Erie Dredging Co., successor to the defunct firm of Hingston & . Wocds. Thousands of dollars have been expended by the Western Transit Co. alone for damages to vessels on account of these bowlders, yet they have been allowed to remain in the channel until now. The work will be done under an appropriation by the state of New York. ~ Not in years has the business of the Erie canal been so good as for the few months of the present season, and ‘if lake conditions cf trade in grain’ and package freight were in normal condition, it is very evident the season’ of 1¢c2. would make a remarkable showing for the ‘state ditch. The canal opened:on April 24, and business since that time has been the best in three or: four: years. The canal men are getting good rates, in some instances nearly double those of recent years. ‘There seems to be all the business that the boats are able to handle. When the schooner Grampian. of the Davidson fleet, was towed to the ore docks by the Great Lakes tug Dan- forth, on Monday, the ore handlers made a protest and at first declared they would not unload her. The season agreement between the dock managers and the ore handlers signed last spring, however, contained a clause binding the latter not to engage in any sympathetic strike. After some argument the men consented to unload the Gram- pian’s cargo. The impression prevails here in a certain circle, that the backbone of the tugmen’s strike is broken and that the trust is gradually gaining ground. W. G. Houck, of the Buffalo Structural Steel Co., has left here for Europe on a hunt for structural steel. “I do not know where I shall find it,” said Mr. Houck, be- fore starting, “but the. American market is bare, and there is small prospect of ‘finding the material in time for the completion of important contracts which our house has on its books unless I am able to secure it from abroad. The market for steel in this country shows no signs of being supplied. The furnaces and foundries do not over- take the demand, as was expected would be the case some time ago, and the consequence is a higher range of prices than,is normal and a difficulty in finishing contracts on time, where steel is an important element in the work.” - An-Ogdensburg dispatch says: The swift current of the St: Lawrence river brought the steamer Minnewaska to grief, and the stern section of the big ship, constructed at Cleveland: for service on the Atlantic,, grounded on Toosaw Island on Monday, together with one of. the tugs which had it in tow. The two sections of the: Minne- waska entered the St. J,awrence river in tow of tugs which had brought them from Cleveland. For the, river -be-made at a cost of from $50,000 to $75,000. will limit the owners of the Hadley to the value of that praisers, Capt. Alexander JUNE 19, 190 eg {rip it was thought best to lash the sections together, but even this precaution. proved unavailing. When the tugs and their tow tried to make the turn at the island the sections were wrenched apart. The ‘stern section containing the ship’s valuable machinery,, 1s reported in bad_ shape. oe or or oe DULUTH-SUPERIOR. eas. Improvements and additional. plant at-the yards of the Superior branch of the American Ship Building Co, will The steel cargo steamer Sonora,’ 3914 gross: ahd 2850 net tons, built at West Superior, and hailing’ from Du: luth, has been granted official numbers by the: ‘Treasury Department, Washington. os by Egy Manager Wolvin of the Pittsburg Steamship Co. quiets rumors to the effect that no efforts is to be made to recover bodies of the nine sailors who were lost from the ill fated steatner Thomas Wilson. Preparations to send divers down are being made, and the-seareh—will be as thorough as possible. eae ee gk It is now considered very probable that the ‘Pittsburg Steamship Co. will make no attempt to raise the whale- back steamer ‘homas Wilson, sunk by the steamer George G. Hadley, off Duluth hartbor...No insurance is carried on the whaleback fleet. The Pittsburg Steamship Co., ‘it appears, has only about a dozen vessels of its ‘immense fleet insured. F : ges It is reported that the new steamboat line between Du- luth and Quebec, which was put in operation this spring, will shortly give orders for the construction’ of ten new steel vessels of a size which willallow them to pass through the canals on the route. The report comes from ‘an’ ap- parently reliable source, but A: B. Wolvin, one of the principal owners of the line, could mot. be induced to dis- cuss the matter : ee Tees For the third time the wreckers on the, steamer Hadley were driven from their work on Tuesday through a strong northeaster. It is feared that thé wind will again destroy the cofferdam being built to allow removal of the water from the sunken ship. Alexander Gibbs and Chas. M. Davis, of Milwaukee, who, with R.R. Sinclair, will estimate the value of the boat in her préSent’ Condition ‘in view of the legal proceedings to come later, arrived heré but have not started on their duties. eee The new Jones & Adams coal dock will begin tore; ceive coal: the: first of next week, adding one more tg the list of Superior coal docks. The new dock willbe one of the best equipped at the head of-.the. lakes, and,an important addition to Superior’s coal trade. "The en- tire structure is complete. It is situated on St. Louis Bay outside the Philadelphia & Reading dock, making the fifth dock along that bay front. ‘The new dock is mod- erm in every part of its equipment. ‘The beats are un- loaded by three large Brown hoisting rigs, engine house, coal sheds. etc., have been built. : ; Corrigan, McKinney & Co., the largest independent pro- ducers of iron ore in the Lake Supericr district, have de- cided to close their local office and transfer all work done in Duluth. to Cleveland, where their main offices are located. A statément to this effect was made by Capt. George W. Wallace, former manager of the Corrigan, Mc- Kinney & Co. mines, who recently resigned. The step was decided, upon, for. the reason that the company thought the business transacted by the Duluth. office could, be handled just as well at: headquarters. ‘The purchasing for all the mines, which was formerly done here, will now. be done in Cleveland. An interesting point which will be raised;:according to K. C. Kremer, Esq.,° admiralty. lawyer ‘of: Chicago, is whether Lake Superior is a ‘portion of the “high seas” in the case of the Wilson-Hadley collision. If it is so held, under admiralty law, no action will lie for the death of the men drowned. Otherwise, their estates will have a right of action under the Minnesota law. ‘This point was raised by Mr. Kremer in the case of Nickerson vs. Bigelow, where the steamer Robert Holland ran down the schooner W. H. Aldrich, in Lake Michigan, and the court held against him because Lake Michigan. was wholly within the territory of the United States. Superior is an international. body of water, and marine men will watch the decision on this point, if it comes to a decision, with a great deal of interest. : C. E. Kremer, Esq., of Chicago, attorney for the own- ers of the Hadley has ‘filed a notice of “limited liability” in the United States District Court. ‘This is under. the act of March 26, 1851, under which the owner of a vessel inflicting damage is allowed to limit his liability to. the amount of the value of the boat after the accident., This boat as she now lies. This is done so that in case the Hadley is held responsible for the accident, the owners cannot be held for a sum exceeding, her present. value. The value of the, Wilson and. cargo and the damage which might be claimed for the lives of the drowned men, would make a very large sum. In filing the petition the owners of the Hadley specifically disclaim all responsibility for the accident.. Judge Lochren, of Duluth, appointed as ap- \ Sinclair, Albert, M. Gibbs and Charles M. Davis. The appraisers will inspect. not. only the hull, but the. engines, boilers, equipment and every part of the boat, including the cargo. ;