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LETT TOTES ss é ’ i DETROIT. ‘Special to the Marine Record. ~ _ March 9.—Strange as it may appear very little has been accomplished thus far in this immediate locality in making arrangements ‘forthe various steamboat lines beyond what you have already been informed, while the appointments are far frem being completed. The contention between the shipbuilders and ship carpenters has become monotonuus, aand beyond a few incidents is hardly worth ‘enlarging upon, yet it is as apparent as ever that this state of things is working great harm to both parties. A rather importan’ ‘feature of the whole affair is the charge that has been made against John Craig, the Trenton shipbuilder, and which is now be- ing investigated, that he has been instru- mental in importing foreign labor, by in- ducing a gang of ship carpenters from Lower Canada to come on here and fill the places of the strikers. The statute not long since enacted, bearing upon the question, is ‘very stringent and attached to which there is a severe penalty. Mr. Oraig, as scores of others might do, plead ignorance as to the existence of such a law, and was ready to make to any amends which might rea- sonably be required, even to going to the expense of sending back the foreign supply ‘whence they came. The dismantled steamer Northwest, on Saturday last, was towed from the Detroit -drydock by the tug J. L. Miner to Jenkins’ shipyard, on the opposite side of the river, as was stated at the time, for the completion of her repairs. But later on the statement has been emphatically contradicted by Cap- tain James Millen, manager of the Star line, to whom she belongs, and that she .was taken there without his knowledge or con- ‘sent and that he was not aware of sucha proceeding until the following day. The cause of the removal of the Northwest by the Detroit Company was to make room for the railway steamer Transit to enter the dock for repairs to her machinery, hence the development of a molehill into a mountain. Captain Millen has determined that no fur- ther work shall be done to the Northwest until all disputes are definitely settled be- tween the Drydock Company and thestrikers and to the entire satisfaction of each. So far as outsiders are concerned this ends the chapter regarding the troubles at this point, Captains Eber Ward and James Millen have gone to attend as delegates at Buffalo the Lake Carriers’ Association which takes place the present week, when matters of more than usual interest in navigation will be introduced. Parties were here a few days since in- viting bids for the construction of a double ender steamer for service at the crossing in Mackinac Straits, but owing to the confused condition of affairs here no proposals could be entertained and it is said they proceeded on to Buffalo, via. Cleveland, at ene of which ports the contract will be carried out. The new steamer City of Cleveland, it is stated, will have her walking beam placed in position the present week. J. C. Goss, the well known sail maker here, has a large force of men actively em- ployed in his sail loft and will soon if re- quired have extra men added to the present force. The contracts at present on hand are complete suits of suils for two four masted barges now in process of construction at Bay City, and also the required outfit for Captain Eber Ward’s new steamer, building at the same place, and which includes the wire rigging for all the contracts he has on band. He has also the furnishing of the requisite sails and outfit for Captain Prin- gle’s three-masted barge now building at Craig’s yard in Trenton. He is also prepar- ing the outfit for the new steamer City of Cleveland and the United States govern- ment steamers laid up at this port. T. W. Noble is making a foresail for the barge W. Vamatta and some head sails for the schooner Atmosphere, During the week three sales of vessel property have taken place in thiscity. The schooners E. A. Nicholson and Michigan were sold by 8. Pridgeon & Son to J. Emory Owen, of this city, the price stated to be $50,000. The former was built at Port Huron in 1872 and is 721 tons burden. The Michigan was built at Detroit in 1874 by the Detroit Drydock Company and is the best sail vessel ever launched at this port or perhaps elsewhere. She registers 1030 tons. The other sale above referred to was the} stean. barge Ira Chaffee to John Sullivan, of this city, the price stated to be $6,000. She was built at Allegan, Michigan, in 1867, and is 369 tons. The movements in court circles are some- what slow and uncertain, more especially as regards decisions, several of which are at present held in abeyance A decision was rendered the other day by Judge Brown, important in its bearings, which arose as ona aa Ihe Marine Recond. follows: On November 10, 1883, the pro- peller St. Paul took fire during the voyage from Buftalo to Duluth and was scuttled at er near Detour to extinguish the flames. She was raised and brought to Detroit at heavy cost and soon atter arriving here the fire broke out and again the steamer was scuttled. She was insured in several com- panies, nine of which paid their proportion ; of the fire loss, but declined paying the marine risks, averring that they were not liable for the expense of raising the boat after she had been seuttled at Detroit. Suits were accordingly entered for this claim. Judge Brown, the other day, ordered a ver- dict for defendants. The verdict for the plaintiffs on a former trial was set aside by Justice Matthews, and Judge Brown did not find any new testimony in the present suits to warrant a verdict against defendants. The Detroit river is again unincumbered by ice, and the ferries are plying without unnecessary delays. ‘he ice has disappeared beyond Sandwich Point. Parties were here the other day negotia- ting for the purchase of the schooner J.C. King, 512 tons burden, owned in this city, but as no figures could be agreed upon, the purchase was not made. Captain George Wilson, who commanded the propeller E. K. Roberts last season, will sail, this year, the steambarge A. A. Turner, which he formerly owned and sailed. The steamship Chauncy Hurlbut retains the same officers as last season, Captain P. C. Baaset,tEngineer Charles Marjough; steamer Mineral Rock,same appointments; schooner Senator, Captain Anderson; barge Bolton, Captain Lemayn; steamship S. J. Macey, of P. J. Rulp & Co.’s line, Captain M. W: Gotham, her consorts not fully decided on; schooner Swallow, Captain H. B. Hawkins; A. Boody, Captain G. Kumm. These ves- sels belong to Captain Grummond. Schooner Smith & Post, Captain J. Henderson; Gre- ton, Captain C. Henderson, There are not a few skippers over whom dark clouds seem to be resting and just where they ultimately expect to fetch up is what they don’t know. The recent sales of various craft have left several out in the cold. River pirates have commenced making their rounds, visiting various craft, caring little and paying little respect as to what | they ean lay their hands on, Hatt. WYANDOTTE. Special to the Marine Record. At the iron shipbuilding department of the Detroit Drydock Company at Wyan- dotte, there is being built a composite barge 240 feet over all, 36 feet 6 inches beam, 21 feet moulded depth. Her frames witl be of 3x46 angle iron, reverse frames 3x8. She will have five continuous keelsons running her full length, constructed of heavy iron angles and plates. Her topsides above the load line will be iron plating and she will have diagonal plates from the bilge to the sheer strake. Her lower deck beams will be of iron and her upper deck of wood. She will have seven massive webb frames, molded 20 inches, iren water tight bulk- heads. Her planking, from the lead line down, will be of 6 inch oak. She will have two center board boxes, one forward, the other aft, placed in those positions, as she w ill probably be converted into a steamship at some future time. She will also havea stern pipe placed in her. She is being built for E. M. Peck, of Detroit, from plans fur- nished by F. E. Kirby, under the supervi-_ sion of F, A. Kirby. Her frames are all up and she will be completed about May Ist, WILLIAMS. MT, CLEMENS, Special to the Marine Record, Wm. E. Hall, shipbuilder, is converting his barge Nellie into a passenger steamer by adding cabins, etc., to her. She is 115 feet over all, 254g feet beam, 81¢ feet depth of hold. Will have asteeple compound engine 14x20 and 24x20,a boiler of steel 6 feet 3 inches by 14 feet and a 6 feet 3 inch wheel. She will run between Mt. Clemens and De- troit, and make excursions on the Detroit and St. Clair rivers. The steambarge J. 8. Ruby, Captain J. 5S. Ruby, is receiving some general repairs and ealking and a fresh coat of paint. | Thesteambarge being built here by Archie Stewart for the Tonawanda Barge Line | Company, under the superintendence of | Captain Wm. Dulac, who will be part owner | 33 feet 6 inches beam, 12 feet depth of hold. She will be avery strong and handsome boat with extra strong keelsons and in addi- tion to being edge bolted Captain Dulac has devised a plan to increase her strength by |driving iren wedges 3 inches wide by 34 linch thick through the ceiling at the seams, about three feetapart. ‘This is a new theory in ship building, and will take the place of iron strapping or treensiling. She will and commander of her, is 200 feet over all, have a high pressure engine 28x36 anda boiler of 34 inch steel 10x16 and a 914 feet Trout wheel, and the American Ship Wind- lass Company will supply her with one of their Jatest improved steam windlasses WILLIAMS. PORT HURON. Special to the Marine Record. H. N. Jex, will go to Garden River as soon as the weather permits and get the iron ore ovt of the barge George D. Russell, about 1200 tons, and raise the barge. He purchased her last fall from Smith & Davis, insurance agents, Buftalo, David Robeson, ship chandler and sail maker, is very busy making new Suils for a number of vessels. The Wolverine Drydock Company, are giving the barge Dunford, new topsides, bowsprit and jibboom. ‘he tug Merrick will go into dock for new garboards and re- calking. The steambarge Fred McBrien was in dock and received new steel arches and a thorough overhauling and the steam- barge Concord for a rebuild. At Dunford & Alversons, shipbuildere, the steambarge Yosemite is in drydock where she has received new cants, ceiling and bilge keelson forward, new mai:. rider keelson and sister keelson her whole length; two new keelsons running one on each side of her boiler to her faintail, set of steel arches 16 inches wide 5 inches. on her ceiling from rail down to keelson, 4 inch plank arch through her center her whole length on the stanchions, 4inch plank on each side of the stanchions, 3 strakes on each side, an iron arch 16x34, two strakes one on each side, new hatch combings timbered up solid to the rail, some new rail and outside plank, all new bulwarks and a general overhauling and recalking. Captain W. D. Neal who commands her is overlooking the work. The steambarge Oscoda got new deck and part new deck frames, new hatches and hatch combings, set of steel arches on sides 16x5g and one in the center, 2 strakes 6x34 some new rail and builwarks, new cabins on main deck forward and a general overhaul- ing ‘The barge Louie Neil will receive new keelsons, new floor frames and two 18 inch steel arches on ceiling; the barge Roberts some rail and stanchions and some plank outside; barge City of the Straits some gen- eral repairs; barge Sonora, Captain Jus, Van Slyke, will receive new set of cants aft, ceiling and planking on the stem, new set of keelsons, a plank arch on stanchions 12x34 on each side, a general overhauling and new wire rigging. The schooner Alverson is here with nearly 50,000 bushels of grain ready for the open- ing of navigation. She is a splendid vessel and a very large carrier. Del Alverson of the firm of Dunford & Alverson, was made more than usually happy, by the arrival at Port Huron of a son weighing 9 pounds and upwards. The board whose duty it was to name an inspector of hnlls for Huron district, in place of Cap‘ain Leighton, resigned, is com- posed of United States Judge H. B. Brown, Collector Bancroft, and Supervising In- spector W. M. Daly. The board met in Detroit on Wednesday, and designated Cap- tain E. Fitzgerald, of this city, for the posi- tion. The appointment was kindly received in the city and generally approved by our citizens. There seems to be a general of opinion that the captain, from his eminent qualifications to discharge the duties of the office satisfactorily, and his unswerving de- votion to the Democratic cause, was fairly and fully entitled to the recegnition thus given him. Captain Fitzgerald, the successful candidate for hull inspector of Huron dis- trict, is the proprietor of Fitzgerald ship- yard, in this city. He was born in 1818 and came to this country in 1834 and to Port Hu- ron two years later, At first he engaged in lumbering and helped to build the first saw | mill at Fort Gratiot. Afterwards he went on the lakes and engaged in sailing until 1866, when he established the shipyard and engaged in ship building. He was one of the earliest settlers and has held many im- | portant civic positions. He has been mayor, supervisor, alderman and coutroller, and always discharged every duty zealously and faithfully. Here’s to his success, and may he live long and prosper. WILLIAMs. ESCANABA, The lighthouse on Sand Point, Escanaba, was destroyed by fire Friday morning. When the fire was discOvered, about 1 o’clock, |} nothing could be done to save the building or contents, as the flames were bursting | from the roof, windows, and doors. Mrs. Mary G. Terry, the light keeper, perished in the house. The fire is supposed to have caught from the furnace, as it was in bad order. Others advance robbery and murdet as the cause, a6 Mrs. ‘Ver ry Was 4 woman of means and lived aleve. Only a small por- tion of the -kull and afew benes were re- 5 covered. The lighthouse was completed May 13, 1868, and Mis. Terry has had charge of the light since that time. Mrs, Terry was 69 years of age, : TRENTON, Special te the Marine Record. John Craig and Son, shipbuilders, are building a barge 225 feet over all, 3714 feet beam, 16 feet depth of hold, for David Whitney of Detroit. She will be consort to the steamship D.C, Whitney. Sheisina forward state, her ceiling and deck frames are in, and some of her outside planks are on. Captain R. Cuson is superintending her construction, The firm are also building a steamship 265 feet over all, 40 feet beam, 22 feet depth of hold, for Captain Barney Wild of Detroit. She is about one-halfin frame. She will have afore and aft compound engine 27 and 50x48, and a steel boiler 11 feet shell, 16 teet long, which will be built by the Detroit Drydock Company. The schooner John Jewett, owned by Captain Wm. G. Deeg and Henry Houghton of Detroit, has had a thorough rebuild at a cost of $2500. The tug Effie L. of Alpena has hada thorough rebuild, raised fifteen inches, and lengthened about four feet at the stern. She will receive a new cabia and new fitout and be made good as new. Her machinery is receiving a therough overhauling and re- pairing. ‘The rebuild, ete., will cost about $3 000. The yacht Sigma, owned by C. T. Reynolds, ‘Yoledo, is having her topsides calked. - : The Wabash line propellers are receiving general repairs. : Alger, Smith and Company’s steambarges Manistique and Schoolcratt and tug Torrent are receiving a general overhauling and calking. Mr. Merrick’s fleet, of Detroit, have re-— ceived a general overhauling and calking. The schooners India and Eureka of D. Whitney’s fleet are receiving new keelsons and new ceiling. Captain Henry Blanchard’s schooners Lilly May and Florence M. Dickinson have just gone off the dock after receiving re- pairs. WILLIAMS. TOLEDO. The meeting of the Inter-lake Yachting Association here Saturday resulting in form- ing an organization comprising all the clubs on Lukes Ontario, Erie, Huron, St, Clair, Su. perior, and Michigan and connecting rivers. Representatives were present from the Michigan, Cleveland, Put-in-Bay, Toledo and Ohio Yacht Clubs. Commodore Gardner, of Cleveland, presided, and ©. W. Kelly, of Cleveland, acted as. secretary. A grand annual meet of the squadron will be held at atime and place to be determined by the directors each year and will be the greatest meeting of fresh water yachts ever before called together. The first annual meet wil! be held in Detroit July 5 and 6, when the yachts will cruise down to Put-in-Bay the balance of the week. The following officer$ were elected: Commodore, G. W. Gardner, Cleveland, Vice Commodore, H. C. Hart, Detroit. Rear Commodore, A. W. Machen, Toledo Secretary and Treasurer, J. S. Williams, Cleveland. The visiting gentlemen were banqueted by the Toledo yacht club in a handsome manner, SARNIA, Special te the Marine Record. Parry & Dyble, ship builders, are giving the North Western Transportation Co.s steamship Ontario, Captain Zealand, new steel arches and hog posts and a general overhauling. Captain E. B. Anderson, of the steamship Alberta, has returned frow Scotland, where he has been visiting his friends; he had a very enjoyable trip. He will leave Sarnia for Owen Sound about the middle of March to fit out the Alberta. John Scagel & Sons, yacht and boat builders, are building a fishing tug tor their | own use, 43 feet over all, 83g feet beam, 4 feet depth of hold. She will have an engine 8x7 and boiler 42 inches diameter 6 feet long, built by Potson & Company, ‘Toronto, and a 38 inch Trout wheel. WILLIAME. HARBOR OF REFUGE, LAK« HURON. Peres LS FOR BUILDING ASTEAM LAUNCH - United States Engineer Office, 34 Congress street, west, Detroit, Michigan, March 1. 1886. Sealed pro- posals, in triplicate, will be received at this office until 2 o'clock p. m., on March 3!, 1886, at which time and place they wil) be opened in presence of bidders, for building one steam Jaunch. ‘The government re- serves the right to reject any or all proposals. Blank proposals and full information as tothe man- ner of bidding, conditions to be observed by bidders. and terms of contract and payment, will be furnished on application to this office, YU. M. POE, Lieut-Col, of Engineers. Bvt. Brig. Gen. U. B.A FOR SALE CHEAP. A marine boiler, 6 fee: 7 inches in diameter, 14 feet long. In good condition; allowed 95 lbs steam, Apply to H. N. JEX, Port Huron, Michigan, k