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ia FONE Ra Be LER EOS Se ee he Blea! Baan Sern a ees MECN eae SSH Pome ha Pd 2 {Around the Lakes Continued from 1st Page.} soa fected ed riko EC Si _ DETROIT. Special to the Marine Record. Detroit, Feb. 2.—The week just closed has in many respects been a somewhat eventful one, with slight indications of ac- tivity among shipowners, shipyards, and shipbrokers, the most notable of which is « contract the Detroit Dry Dock Company has just entered into with Eddy Bros., of Bay City, for the construction of a wooden steamship of mammoth proportions, which in size will be larger than the one the com- pany have now under way, and seven feet longer. The dimensions of this new vessel are given as follows: Length overall, 270 feet; beam, 37 feer 6 inches, with 23 feet depth of hold. Her machinery will consist of a tore and aft compound engine, 27 and 44x40, with two boilers of 5¢ steel. 9 feet 6 inches shell, and 14 feet long, with a pres- sure of 108 pounds to the square inch, It is estimated that this huge eraft will carry 2,000 tens of cargo drawing not more than 15 feet 6 inches, and her cost will be in the neighborhood of. $190,000. It is contem- plated she will be ready for service about the middle of July next. She will have in her get up all the latest modern improve ment and of superior strength in build, and ‘in this respect will have steel stringers un- der her beams, connected with a steel band 18 inches in width, to which the diagonal strapping will be riveted,the latter tobe 4¢ xSinches. The work of building this levi- athan will be commenced withont delay, and will requirean extra force of men. An admiralty decision of unusual long standing has just been rendered in the United States District Court, this city, the details of which are about as follows: On the night of September 28, 1883, the tug J. P. Clark, owned and commanded by Cap- tain Daniel G. Meisel, of this city, was bound down from Bay City, having in tow the ‘barges William Treat and Seminole, and while on Lake Huron a heavy storm arose. When off Sand Beach the tow line parted, and owing to the severity of the storm the tug was obliged to seek refuge in that har- or. In the meantime the William Treat Jost her rudder and drifted over to the Can- ada shore, where she became a total. wreck at or near Port Albert, and her cargo of lumber beoame a total loss. The day fol- lowing the tug started out to find her tow, and succeeded 1n getting the Seminole, and towed her into the St. Clair River, but saw nothing of the Treat after diligent search. ‘Captain Meisel was informed by a reporter at Port Huron that the Treat had passed down in tow of the steambarge George King, with her deckload gone. Being thus informed he proceeded on his voyage with the Seminole. The owner of the Treat li- belled the tug for the loss of his vessel in the sum of $4,500, and value of the cargo, $6,200. Judge Brown decided that the tug was not in fault. On the contrary she had used due diligence towaré her rescue, and in this de- cision he was assisted by Captains James Miller and Joseph Nicholson, who occupied seats on either side of him, The Treat was owned by William McKay, of Bay Clty. An order has been given by the United States District Court in this city for the sale of Murphy’s tugs, to take place on Febru ary 17 and 18, The fleet and their liabilities are as follows: The tug Kate Williams has pending over her 29 libels, aggregating $5,535.87; tug Gladiator, 31 libels, amount- ing to $7,412 30; tug William A. Moere, 8 libels,:$3, 783.29; tug Andrew J, Smith, 6 libels, $2,090.48; schooner Gerritt Smith, 11 libels, $1,313.79; and schooner Harvey Bis- sell, 8 libels, $3,012.66, making a sum total ef $23,147.89. The Kate Williams 1s 128 tons burden, and has been 24 years in ser- vice; the Gladiater, 220 tons and 15 years; the William A. Moore, 212 tons and 21 vears; A. J. Smith, 226 tons and 10 years; Gerritt Smith, 254 tons and 31 years; Har- vey Bissell, 496 tons and 20 years. The steamer Milton D. Ward, late of the - Star Line, was sold the other day by the sheriff in this city, and brought $6,060, sub- ject to other elaims, amounting to about $3,500. The sale was under a mortyage, and John Bell, of this city, the purchaser. The steambarge Thomas Christie was sold a day or two eince to Wallace & Cunning- ham, of Detroit, for $40,000. The same parties have also purchased the schooner H. A. Kent trom William Jones, of Black River, for $22,500. Thelatter will be towed by the Christie. The Christie came out new last season. The Kent is 771 tons burden, and was built at Detroit by Captain J. M. Jones in 1873. The tug Champion, of Capt.Grummond’s fleet,is having her boiler raised and moved further forward, and will have a new bot- tom. Her upper works will also be recon- structed and improved upon. The steamer Atlantic, owned by the same house, is hav- ing new cylinder and new bed timbers, with other necessary improvements. The engine and boiler formerly in the steamer Island Bell, which was burned last season, willbe placed in the new barge Nel- lie. She will be ready for service about May 1, and will ply as a freight and passenger boat bet ween Detroit and Mount Clemens, The light ship J. W. Dunscombe, which for some time past has been stationed by the Canadian Government some distance below Malden, has been ordered sold, as she is no longer required, the United States Govern- ment having erected a lighthouse at Bar Point. The decision in the recent Lansdowne and Clarion case has heen appealed from the United States District Court to the United States Circuit in this city. The Detroit River is lower this winter than has been known for the past ten years and four feet lower than last fall. Captain Alex. Ruelle’s harbor tugs have been in constant readiness for all calls the entire winter, Yesterday the tug J. 8. Miner, of that line, was snorting along the river on some important mission. The schooner Ferrett, Captain Mapes, has changed her winter quarters to further down the river, to make room for some dock im- provements. Mr. Richardson, of H. J. Webb & Co., shipowners and shipbrokers, of Cleveland, was in this city on Saturday. Captain James Draper, a veteran lake mariner, retired at Toledo, was also a caller here on Saturday. He has attained theage of 63, and looks good for half as many more years without going into dock for recon struction, Captain Alex. McDougall, shipbroker in far off Duluth, was quite a recent visitor, Captain J. Pringle, of Marine City, hove too here fora few hours on Saturday, and bore away for Cleveland. - Thomas Walsh, of Adams & Walsh, was here tor a few hours on Menday.. Captain Green, of Chicago, has just left here homeward bound with the wind elose haul. woe Captain H. Humphrey, who recently purchased the schooner Seaman was given the wrong initials tohis name, which should be righted. It is here, M. W. instead of G. Ws J. P. Donaldson, Esq., of the well known ship chandler firm in this city, has been ab- sent in Central California since lust Novem- ber, and does not expect to return until warm weather. He has been in delicate health for some time past. Mrs. Cunningham, wife of Captain Ed ward Cunningham, who has been in deli- cate health for some time past, made a dee- perate effort to destroy herself on Saturday evening, and in the attempt a revolver was resorted to, firing two shots, neither ot which had the desired result. The captain, who was near at hand, put herin her bed- room, where she partook of some poisonous drug, from which she narrowly escaped death, but the immediate attendance of a physician, who pumped her out, saved her. Captain James Van Cleve, 2 veteran re- tired steamboat master, whose residence the past few years has been at Saadwich, oppo- site Detroit, met with a sad bereavement on Wednesday morning by the death of his wife, after a long illness, at the age of 64 years. She was the daugter of Major Barton Lewiston, New York. Mrs. Van Cleve was a lady of rare excellence and foremost in all good works, besides being held in the high- est regard by all her acquaintances. There are many who deeply sympathize with the captain in his irreparable loss. HAL. ASHTABULA HARBOR. Special to the Marine Record. A. Laird, shipbuilder, is building a steam yacht for himself and W. S. McKinnon as a pleasure yacht, to run between Ashtabula Harbor and Woodland Beach. ‘The Park wil] be much improved this summer. It is reported that Captain George Fields will have a new tug this season, to be built in Buffalo. The ore has about disappeared from the decks, as it has been going at the rate of 150 cars per day. There is none at all on the Lake Shore side. J.P. Devney, shipbuilder, is gathering in a good supply of ship timber. MeKinnon Brothers have turned out an engine for Fargo Brothers. Soundings and surveys are being made for a new bridge, to be put acroas the river, from the Lake Side House to the flats. The cribwork put in last season, has been washed away on account of lack of funds to complete the work. J. P. Manning, superintendent on the Whe Marine Revond. Lake shore side, has gone on a visit to Ire- land. B. BAY CITY. Special to the Marine Record. have more orders ahead than they know | sideration $400. what to do with; so much so that an order: for a first class steambarge of about 270 foot keel, for the Eddy Brothers, of Bay City, Onekama, had to go a begging and was placed at De- troit with the Detroit Drydock Company. They are the same parties who built the large schooner barge John Shaw at Captain Manistee and intermediate ports. make one more trip and then go into ordi- A walk around the drydocks and ship- nary. yards of Bay City discloses the fact that there is one class of people in the Saginaw | jp Ludington harbor. Valley who are driven with their work; | the one-half interest to 1. W. Gaines, con- She will The steam ferry Sharley Butler is laid up Amos Shaw has sold She will be stationed at Ludington next season. The schooner Michicott is laid up at Portage lake, where her captain is buying up cargoes of wood and lumber to keep her running next season. The Frankfort life saving station, under course of construction and nearly com- James Davidson’s shipyard last +ummer | pleted, caught fire and was burned down on which was finished about the close of uavi- gation, but did not make a trip. Saturday evening, January 30. loss. It isa total No cause of how the fire started can Captain Riley Burlington and others have | pe ascertained, as no stoves were in the purchased the steambarge Burlington of | building. About $4,300 had been expended Port Huron parties for $9,000. She will go | on the structure, in the lumber trade under command of Cap- | work has been done on it. tain Riley Burlington. Captain Armstrong has sold an interest in | 1; was covered bya $2 his fire tugs James Hay, C. Lee, D. Sutton, and Handy Boy to Douglass Scott, of Capac. He keeps the tug Farrar. Captain Joseph Gordon has returned from Buffalo where he has been to look after the J. P. Donaldson and tow. He is putting steel arches, 20 inches wide and 5g inches but for over a month no J.C. McGowan, is the contractor. 2000 policy in the Michigan Fire and Marine and $1,400 in the Germania, ot New York. The building was to have been completed and turned over to the United States Government about the last of March, of Washington, D.C., BOURMEISTER. TOLEDO. thick, in the Donaldson, and other repairs | Specta? to the Marine Record. to the amount of about $2,000. E. J. Vance is getting a new beiler fer his steambarge Burton. The work is being done at the Variety Iron Works, Cleveland. At the Bay City shipyara the work on the steambarge Mills is nearing completion. The stancbions are all in, outside plank on part of plank sheer, etc., etc. They have not commenced work yet on the other barges. At Wheeler’s yard Hawgood & Avery’s barge hus the ceiling about one-half in, the fluor all in and ‘have started the outside planking. On the Ward’s line barge the keel is all out and most of the keel blocks in place. In the repair department work is progressing finely, Up at Captain James Dividson’s yard the tug is about completed, and the work on the log boat, noticed last week, is being pushed as rapidly as possible. Talking about log boats, thev have one about completed up at Alpena. She is built out of one of the condemned car ferrys of Detroit. They say she is about 300 feet long and 50 foot beam and will carry most of her cargo in the hold; will load with an endless chain, similar to those used in saw- mills. They won’t want any sailors ina year or two. They will have to have ma- chinists, and experts at that. With their patent steam windlasses, patent steam cap- stans, and steam gear to load with, the old fashioned sailor will be of no use but to spit on the stove and spin old fashioned yarns. Repairs on the steamers Arundel and Metropolis, of Captains Cole & Holt’s line, are about’ finished. Work will now be com- meneed on the steamer Dove. Following is a list of appointments for the coming season: Joseph Gordon’s fleet.—Steambarge Jas. P. Donaldson, Captain C. H. Marsden; tow barge Nellie Mason, Captain John Allen; towbarge Brightie, Captain Wallace Allen. Hollywood & Sharp fleet.—Barge A. W. Wright, Captain Walter Hazen; barge Tuy- lor, Captain J. Heron; tug Chaney, Captain George King. McLean &. Bridge’s fleet.—Steambarge D. W. Powers, Captain D. Bowie, engineer, Ed Stone; barge McDougall, Captain Pat Bowen; barge B. B. Buckout, Captain Wm. Paterson; barge Sunshine, Captain Tom Jean, Dr. Parker’s fleet.—Steambarge D. F. Rose, Captain Cas Saph; barge Boscobel, Captain H. Sours; barge Marine City, Cap- tain Wm. Payne; barge Racine, Captain J. Powers. Barge Gebhart, Captain Sol Foster; barge C. H. Davis, Captain Haskins; barge Ante- lope, Captain J. McKay; barge F. G. Les- ter, Captain Lester. Steambarge Geo, King, Captain Shackett; barge C. L. Young, Cap- tain N, Blair. Captain H. Bennett will command the steambarge Benton. Steambarge Kitty Forbes, Captain D. Buie. She bas a season charter from Two Harbors. G. FRANKFORT, Special to the Marine Recora Tug D. P. Hall has been engaged in fish- | ing all winter, but owing to the drifting ice | and small eatch, discontinued and went into winter quarters on the 28th. Fields of drift ice have gathered on Lake | Michigan. They were first noticed Satnr- | day, January 23. The fishermen are filling their ice houses. | The ice crop is of poor quality, being mixed | with snow and slush of a feot in thickness. | The small propeller George D. Sanford is Captain D. B. Millen, of Detroit, and Cap- tain McDougall, of Buffalo, spent Saturday in Toledo. Tug J. H. Stevens still lies sunk in Fin- ley’s slip, where she went down ten days ago. Captain Durand is giving the schooner Anna P. Grover a thorough overhauling in Swan Creek; new rail, plank sheer, stanch- ious and part new decks. Captain George McLeod, of Buffalo, was — here last week inspecting vessels. Mrs. John Navaugh, wife of the late Cap- tain John Navaugh, a well known tug man- Captain ~ of this city, died Friday evening. Navaugh was buried two years ago. Captain G. W. Stoddard expects to leave this week fer Cleveland and Buffalo to get © additional stock to build his two new pass- enger steamers that are to ply between — Toledo and Buffalo. — yo A CORRESPONDENT, writing to the Port | Huron Commercial, says: “It seems there is some misunderstanding as to what oc- curred in Detroit in the matter of the peti- s tion of the Tawas & Toledo Transportation Company, for limitation of its liability to— the value of the tow barge H. F. Church. There was nothing decided at Detroit in that matter except that the Tawas & Toledo Transportation Company was entitled to that proceeding without any further hear- ing. ‘he liability of that company is not yet limited to the value of the H. F. Church, and will not be until after testimony is taken before Judge Harris and his report is submitted to Judge Brown, at the next session of his court here in the United States court room in the castom house. Judge Brown may then decide that the liability of that company shall not be limited to the Church. But whatever Judge Brown de- cides in the matter will not affect the claim | of the city against the Port Huron ‘Trans- portation Company, the owner of the Bur- lington, which was eqnally to blame for the injury to the bridge.”’ Nicholas Morgan, an old lake captain and resident of Chicago, died at his home last week. He had been sick for some time and on account of ill health was unable to ; Sail last season. He was at one time a cap- tain in the Ellsworth Zouaves. He was an old resident of Chicago, and was well known on the lakes, To PROVE that L. Katzenstein & Co.’s packing has a world wide reputation and is the best, we will say that they have an order to furnish metallic packing for the triple cempound, expanding engines, 8,000 horse power, of the three new ships building at Glasgow, Scotland, for the North German Lloyd Steamship Company. The Neafie & Levy Shipbuilding Company will to day lay the keel for an iron passenger steamer Lo run on the Hudson riyer. Nego- tiutions are pending with the same firm to build a powerful tug for service on Lake Champlain. —Ss ns J. D. Spreckes, the president of the Oceanic Steamship Company, left San Fran- cisco a few days since, for the east, to let a contract for a $600,000 steamship to be used on the mail line between that city and Aus- tralia. GHORGE B. HALLADAY. Attorney and Proctor in Admiralty. Marine Business Promptly Attended To, ORKICE 2) BUAL BLOCK, DETROLE, still running on the Lake Shore route to JAICHIGAN.