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BUFFALO. a Capt. Sam Gould is now located here as shipping master for the Lake Carriers’ Association. ' Mr. J. C. Gilchrist, of Cleveland, Buffalo Ship Chandlery Co., Main street. manager. Howard H. Baker and Co., ship chandlery, have just added a fifty horse power gas engine to their plant and report enjoying a favorable share of marine patronage. The surveys necessary for the estimates and specifica- tions in connection with the plan for the straightening of Buffalo river have been completed by the Bureau of En- gineering. A. B. MacKay, William McGee and W. G. Walton, of Hamilton, Ont., have returned from Europe, where they ordered several cargo boats for the Ontario Steamship Co. The steamers will run between Montreal and Ft. William. “he United States marshals are after the tugs here in great shape for steaming at too high a rate of speed in the harbor. Capt. Murray Mainer, of the tug Miles, and Capt. Samuel Gowan, of the tug George E. Latimer, were the latest arrests for a’ violation ofthe harbor rules and reg- ulations. : Charges have been filed in the custom house against the tug Acme, of the Great Lakes Towing Co., for car- rying passengers without a_ license. The charges were filed by Captain Charles Smith and others. It is claimed that the Acme took on board fourteen persons from the steamer Lackawanna and carried them a mile. The law makes the boat liable to a fine of $500 with $10 extra for each passenger carried. Customs Collector Henry W. Brendel believes the violation to be merely of a technical nature. oe “George R: Tripp, master of the Great Lakes tug Alpha, against whom charges were filed because he carried passen- gers on his boat in violation of the boat’s license, was ~ found guilty, and his license was suspended for thirty days. Capt. Murray Maines, of the independent tug Paddy Miles, charged with steaming at too high a rate of speed in Buffalo harbor, and violating a city ordinance, was held by United States Commissioner, Jewett, to the federal grand jury. He was released on $250 bail, and this will likely be the last of it, as the federal grand jury can have but little to say re- garding a minor infraction of a city ordinance. ‘The steamer Eastern States, which was laid up for three weeks because of an accident to her high pressure cylinder, arrived here on Wednesday morning on schedule time. The vessel. brought down a large number of Detroiters. .The trip was uneventful, the high pressure cylinder working as if it never had been injured. _ The work of building up the broken part without making a new cylinder, it is said, was ~ one of the smoothest jobs ever done at the Detroit ship- building works. The part chipped off by the breaking of a follower bolt was welded on so cleverly that it can scarcely be noticed. A daily service between Buffalo and Detroit will now be in effect. “What with the small receipts of grain, no coal shipping and a figet of idle tugs the river is very quiet compared to this time last year. Should the hard coal miners resume work. at once, after the three months’ strike, it would take a couple of weeks or better before any coal for lake shipment would be loaded. The eastern trade would first be supplied all rail and then would come the general stocking up of the local trade before shipping to the west atid northwest would be considered. As there is no indi- cation of the ‘strike being settled at an early date, the slackness on the river seems likely to remain until the grain movement is again brisk. We had a visit here last week of the little old Chicago schooner Winnie Wing, built 35 years ago, she: carried about 20,000 ‘bushels of corn. This week three more schooners’ arrived from Chicago corn laden, after being fiftéen days’ on the trip’ down. ' Mitchell, Bertha Barnes and Minnie Slawson. It is said is now owner. of the Wm. Smith that it’ was the intention ‘of “the shippers not to have the , cargoes’ reach Buffalo until’ Aligust' 1. |The schooners are chartered by the day, and thé ‘captains look upon the opefations of the gtain market’ ‘manipifators as a ‘re- genuine holiday. The Slawson was towed to her ‘eleva- tor by'a‘Great Lakes tug. On reaching the dock it. is said. that ‘her crew notified the captain that he must not again take"a syndicate line. Failing to observe the warning he would find himself ‘minus a'crew to get his schooner out of the port again. They were the Oliver . markably ‘good thing for them, giving them as it does a THE MARINE RECORD. CHICAGO. A spurt of wheat shipments to Georgian. Bay gave four cargoes to waiting boats at Chicago. The rate was 1% cents. ue The ‘line boats gathered business was done in the grain trade. nally unchanged at 1 cent’to Buffalo. The old steamer Edward Pease seems to be getting into a good deal of trouble recently. — 4 demolish about 100 feet of the city wharf.at Manistee and damage her own hull pretty badly. in some corn but no’ outside Rates are nomi- - ‘he steamer Fred Pabst, which sank the, steamer John-’- son last week by collision on Lake.Huron, has not a scratch to show as a result of the accident. Capt. Sulli- van declined to make any statement regarding the cause of the collision. The steel cargo steamer Panay, 3,811 tons gross and 2,778 tons net, built at the South Chicago yards of the Chi- cago Ship Building Co., and hailing from Cleveland has been granted official numbers this week by the Bureau of Navigation, Treasury Department, Washington, D. C. The old Bateman, McDougall & Palmer ship yard is now known as the plant of the Empire Ship Building Co. . The offices at Genesee and Rock streets are now occupied and the work of improvements at the yards is being car- ried steadily forward. Major J. G. Warren, Corps of Engineers, U. S. A., sub- mits the following estimates for the Milwaukee, Wis., district: Sturgeon Bay and Lake Michigan ship canal, Wisconsin, $178,000; Waukegan harbor, Illinois, $245,000; Fox river, Wis., $100,000. Capt. Davis Morris, one of the oldest and best known skippers on Lake Michigan, is dead at the age of 63 years, of Bright’s disease. He held papers as captain more than 30 years. He leaves a widow, a grown up son, and a daughter. For the last few years he had been captain of the steamer Kalamazoo, of the Dunkley-Williams Line, running to Chicago. Plans are being considered for a modern steel railroad car ferry with a capacity of twenty-eight or thirty cars to run between Milwaukee and Grand Haven. Capt. J. H. Crosby, of the Crosby Transportation Co., is interested in the line and stated that while the deal has not yet been closed plans might later be perfected which would insure the operation of the line next year. °' The last cargo of lumber was shipped on the schooner Jennie Weaver from the yard of the Kirby-Carpenter Lumber Co. which has been, doing business in Menominee for the last sixty years. It was 39,000 feet and was taken to Sheboygan. ‘There are. now only a few old planks of torn down tramways and roads remaining in the yard of this company, once the largest lumber concern in America. The steamer Puritan in coming across from Holland, on Wednesday, collided with an unknown schooner forty- five miles from Chicago. It was a glancing blow in which the schooner’s jibboom and her headgear was carried away. The Puritan stopped long enough to be told by the captain of the schooner that he was'in no danger of sinking. Capt. Boswell said that no lights were displayed on the schooner, hence the collision. — It is understood that Chicago parties who have pur- chased the shipyard of Burger & Burger at Manitowoc are in no way connected with the Shipowners’ Drydock Co., of Chicago, or any other shipbuilding organization already in operation. It, is said that they have abundance of capital and that they will fit the Manitowoc works for the building of steel vessels on a moderate scale. Names of officials of the new company are withheld for the pres- ent on account of their connection with other works. The steamer North Land, of the Northern Steamship Co., refused to take any’ chances on her ability to keep ahead of the steamer Virginia, on her last run down from Milwau- kee, and lay back at the latter port until 12 minutes after - the Virginia’s scheduled time of leaving. This difference was widened to forty minutes by the time the North Land reached the outer breakwater at this port. The company folders still bear’the inscription “Speed, twenty-two miles an hour.” The North Land is 386 feet long, with 44 feet beam, and the Virginia 269 feet long, with 38 feet beam. Coal dealers. in the west and southwest ‘are: beginning to get hungry for hard coal, and can’t understand that with 150,000 miners on strike in Pennsylvania, no coal is being mined and stocks are depleted, according to the statistics compiled in the office of the Black Diamond, there were no receipts of anthracite coal by lake at Chicago dur- ing the first ten days of July, and but 691 tons by rail. The falling off in the receipts so far this season, as compared with last year, are by lake over 113,000 tons and by rail about 294,000 tons. ‘The shipments of anthracite from Chi- cago were 450 tons only, as compared with 7,500 tons last season, and for the year there is a deficiency of Over 120,000 tons, owing to the existing strike. lt now. appears to be up to the drainage board to pro- vide the means of a greater depth of water over the Wash- ington street. tunnel, more commonly known among ma- rine men as “McCarthy’s Reef.” The city has been ready for some time to cut off the piling which, investigation has disclosed, projects over the surface of the tunnel’s top, Her latest action was to’ JULY 31, 1902 depriving the stream at that point of about two feet of its depth. City Diver Donovan has reported that the work of sawing off the piling cannot be done unless the cur- rent is shut off by the drainage authorities, The current passing through the Harrow channel of the bridge draw at Washington street is very swift, and ever the @xamiria- tion’ was made with some difficulty. Ou A steamer running through a river of ‘fire was the 'spec- tacle ‘witnessed ‘in the stock yards branch of the river on Saturday. [hé steamer ’[; W. Palmer owes’ her present safety to the fact that she is of composite construction, steel hull’and wooden upper works. Sparks fromthe tug ‘om Brown set the gas house refuse on fire near ‘the Armour & Co., glue works, and the flames spread over the entire surface of the river. Fortunately the captain of the Palmer saw the fire start and signaled for steam. Despite this quick action, the flames enveloped the steamer aft and drove the crew forward... The fire followed quickly and was not outrun by the steamer until the south branch was reached. Slight blazes on the wood work were speed- ily extinguished. i 2 oO O_ DETROIT. The passenger steamer Eastern States, of the Detroit & Buffalo Line, is again in service-after an idleness of three weeks caused by the breaking of her high pressure cyl- inder. The engine of the Kittie Forbes, which was burned at the Flats, is at the Great Lakes Engineering Works to be repaired. It is said that it will be put in a new boat to’ be built by the Davidson yard at Bay City. The Detroit & Cleveland Line’s management have been experimenting with wireless telegraphy for some time and will equip their vessels just as scon as they can be assured that the service would be practical. ane General Manager E. T. Evans, of the Anchor Line, visited Detroit last Friday to inspect the new steamers building at Wyandotte for that line. The passenger steamer will be named ‘Tionesta and the freighter Muncy. The steel steamer A. E. Stewart, built at the West Bay City yards of the American Ship Building Co., and engined and equipped here by the Detroit Ship Building Co. is now on her maiden trip to Lake Superior for a cargo of iron ore. It is alleged that all the dredging done in the vicinity of Cleveland is under the direction of a dredging pool. This state of affairs is said to be the reason of the United States Engineers’ efforts’to secure an appropriation for a government dredge. Major W. H. Bixby, Corps of Engineers, U. S. A., re- ports as follows upon the improvements connecting the Great Lakes: St. Mary’s river at the falls, Michigan $682,000; Hay Lake and Neebish Channels, St. Mary’s river, $1,000,000; to complete the project, $4,000,000; De- troit river, Michigan, $500,000; to complete the project, $1,250,000. A new chart in colors, of ‘Charlotte Harbor, New York, has just been issued and is now on sale at the U. S. Lake Survey Office, 33 Campau Building, at 15 cents per copy. © A revision in colors, of coast chart No. 1, Lake On- tario, has just been issued and’ is now on sale at the U. S. Lake Survey Office, 33 Campau Building, at 18 cents per copy. Capt. Mart Swain, for years master of the wrecker Favorite, one of the best known vesselmen on the lakes, and a wrecker of whom it is said he never gave up a job, is going to retire. He has made a competency in the wrecking business, and now on account of failing health will retire. It is said that Capt. Harrow, of Port Huron, will be his successor. ; Major W. H. Bixby, Corps of Engineers, U. S. A., re- ports to Washington as follows from Detroit, Mich., upon the improvements connecting the Great Lakes: St. Mary’s river at falls, Michigan, $682,000; Hay Lake and Neebish channels, St. Mary’s river, $1,000,000, to complete the pro- ject, $4,000,000; Detroit river, Michigan, $500,000; to com- plete the project, $1,250,000. The following meteorological observations are furnished by the office of the U. S. Weather Bureau, Detroit, Mich., for the week ending July ‘29th, 1902: Prevailing wind di- rections for the week, southwest; highest velocity, : 40 miles from the northwest on the 27th; mean temperature for the week, 73 degrees; highest temperature, 87 degrees on the 26th; lowest, 61 degrees on the 24th. e Judge Reaman, in the United States court, Milwaukee, held that a transportation company is liable for throwing overboard a cargo of lumber or cther material in a storm; even though it be to save the boat and the lives of the crew. The case in point was the suit of the South Arm Lumber Co. against the owners’ of the Wolverine, from which vessel a cargo of shingles was jettisoned. Negotiations are pending between F. H. Clergue, of Sault Ste. Marie, and the Detroit, Belle Isle and Windsor Ferry Co., for the purchase of one of its steamers to be put into the ferry service between the American and Canadian Saults. The boat under consideration has been able to plow through two feet of ice. ‘This feature is nec- essary in a steamer for use during the winter on the Sault river.