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i 4 t et | Special te the Marine Record. - have had the most changeable March weather cs withal the most encouraging for an early en das far as Bar Point is entirely free , se eat ibe ee havurien was aiid be- | Parties in that berg and will ply as an oppo- ik , will extend her trips to Leamington as soon oe, NERY OF S8.S, ETRURIA. at eae the ma-| Winslow. The incidents thereto were Cunard royal mail steam- | >riefly alluded to in a former letter. The iameter of propeller, 24 feet | Plaintiffs, with others, were employed in Pp h, 3 feet; expanded area, 228 releasing the schooner Wyandotte, stranded we ight of propeller complete, 57 | 8t or near Oscoda, Lake Huron, The haw- al length ot shafting,160 feet; diam. | 8€T parted and struck McCarthy and Delaney ork shafts, 25 inches; diameter of and keriously injured them. They brought ine 24 inches; diameter of propeller, 27 suit for $10,000 damages. J Pac ane eS; ‘total weight of shafting, 170 tons; missed the case, oak am ‘ i — ess- cylinder 1-71 by 2-105; stroke, 6 feet; | 2€S8S was on the part of the plaintiffs. : guides, 36 inches; dias of piston Captain James Reed, of St. Ignace, was in 4 p 934, bottom, 113,; erank shafts built | this city on Friday and returned home on weight of each, 27 tons; total, 81 | Saturday. As he traveled by rail, wind and Canny of boilers, 6, double ended;: tae were no detriment to the voyage Ge ae ng cin tht . | either way. Reco) ‘pestle che vot te George L. Colwell, veesel Owner, was snt kinds on board; ‘carries 110 lbs. of drifting toand fro in the city on Monday. to square inch; burns 290 tons of coal His winter moorings are at Harrisville, daily ; employs 110 firemen and coal passers; | Which borders on voy aM Bay. eed of ship, 19 knote. Captain Grummond’s office is being very wee we. of the above ponderous ma tastefully refitted and furnished and will be Delaney and Wm. McCarthy against Cap- - ghinery is run under the careful superin- | #d0rned with new surroundings. ~ tendence of Chief Engineer John Vass, of A suit has just been entered at the Sand- Booth Liverpool, ‘who is a man of great ex- wich court, opposite this city, against the Aa (towed) ? ie ei a aici propeller St. Magnus, and is now on trial a for sinking the tug Bob Hackett at or near [Around the Lakes Continued from Ist Page.] | Malden last fall. ee | tte SoMetimes, essential to look‘abroad for local news, which, as frequently is the case, borders on the ridiculous, as set forth in a Sarnia, Ontario, newspaper by an indi- | vidual who assumes no initials, and dis- patches marine hash from this city. He makes the announcement that the steam ferry boat Fortune has been purchased by DETROIT. March 16.—So far the present month we on record fer the past thirty years, but opening of navigation. The river to Lake Pace Ve Nake é sition boat between that placeand Pert Hu- tween Detroit and Malden by the arrival, on if : yesterday morning,of the steamer Riverside, Paes a ae Rae a SA as ‘Captain John Edwards, from the latter port. | 2° *8/¢ indser Merry pany, The steamer City of Dresden bas also been | Whe informed’ yesterday they were as- plying between Windsor and Malden, and tounded by so nouns a statement. It has somewhere been stated that Cap- asice permits. Last year boats commenced | tain Eber Ward will have no steamers ply- running on the same, route April 6. ing this season on the Buffalo & Green Bay The vexed difficulty between the ship | route. It would be w Il enough to go slow carpenters and shipbuilders at this point on such assertions, at the present, as the has finally been amicably adjusted. On | ¢aPtain said yesterday that no final conelu- Saturday it was given out that the men | sions had yet been arrived at. would all return to work on Monday morn- Navigation has been resumed on the St. ing, but on a visit to the Detroit drydock Clair river between Port Huron and Marine yesterday, the same silence prevailed as | City, the vege Mary taking the route during the whole interval. On inquiry, | *©™ewhat earlier than last year. however, it was explained that a temporary A suit has for years been in litiga- hitch had intervened but that this had been | tion in the superior court this city, arising overcome and work was resumed Tuesday | from a collision between the steam yacht morning. Without going into a lengthy | Mamie and the ferry steamer Garland, on detail the compromise has been effected, as| the Detroit river, by which several lives follows: The whole difficulty, it would ap- | were lost, and the issue at present is a gar- pear, had arisen through mistaken ideas of | nishee to recover damages awarded some the subject, but when observed in their true | time ago. The contention on either hand light, there was no trouble in arriving at a| has been fought desperately, and the out- solution. Mr. McVittie, of the Detroit Dry- | come looked forward to with much interest. dock Company, made the following proposi-| The prospect cf an early navigation in tions: The men of late employed were) the upper lake region is ,considered very offered twenty-five cents per hour and eight | favorable. The ice in the Straits is said to hours to constitute a day’s work, and ir re- quired to work ten hours to receive the ex-| while around the Beavers it has broken tra twenty-five cents per hour, and for over | up and at Prentiss Bay it has entirely dis- that time fifty cents per hour. If the eight | appeared. hours a day is established by shipyards at} As regards charters beyond what has al- Cleveland, Buffalo and other principal yards | ready been given, nothing appears to be around the lakes, the Detroit Drydeck Com- | doing at present. Generally speaking all pany will also adopt it. The men will re-| seem encouraged with present prospects. ceive their pay weekly, and the old system HAL. of holding back a week’s pay has been done TOLEDO. away with. These arrangements are to con- | Special to the Marine Record. tinue in force until January 1,1887. The| Captain George Sheldon has gone to Ma- hitch which took place yesterday was in re- | Tine City to get in order Russell’s dredges, gard to the taking of small contracts by. out- | Which he has bought an interest in. side jobbers below drydock - rates, but this| Captain D.L. Boyce, of the schooner ee was easily arranged to the satisfaction of all siete arrived from Henderson, N. Y,, a ast Week. aga that the Trenten ship car-| Captain James Shelden will command the penters struck yesterday for the same rates tug Wells, of Marine City this Season. given by the shipyards at Detroit. 1 he ice in the Maumee river is very rotten One of the Jarge railway steamers wag | ®2d in a great many places clear water is taken into the Detroit drydock on Saturday | 8©¢D, 80 if we can get a few days of warm and with the assistance of the crew who | Weather the ice will vanish and the river are nearly all mechanics, and under the | will be clear again. ; ; guidance of the foreman of the yard, the| =. Doville, of Cleveland, and Ward Cook, work was carried on without outside help | f Sodus, were in the city last week look- and the steamer released the day following. | '"g after the sand interest and the steam- The steambarge Ogemaw was taken into | barge Commerce. J. the Detroit drydock yesterday for general ERIE, overhauling. The following is a list of the Anchor line Captain H. G. Blanchard’s fleet is laid up | captains, which, it is stated, have been ap- at Trenton and is in good shape for busi-| pointed to run the boats of the company ness, needing no repairs beyond what is ‘during the coming season: Schuylkill, usually required. Captain Blair; Gordon Campbell, Captain Captain M, W. Humphrey has sold his | Sisson; China, Captain Neyland; Alaska, steambarge, George A. Marsh to Escanaba | Captain Wilson; Delaware, Captain Christy ; parties, the price paid said to be $4,000. she tug Erie, Captain E. Thompson: Juniata, is 95 tons burden, and was builtatSandusky | Captain Walsh; India, Captain Mooney; by Monk in 1879. Arizona, Captain Dunn; Allegheny, Captain The steambarge Coral was purchased at | Plumb; Sherwood, Captain McCarty ; Japan Windsor by Captain Titus on Friday for | Captain Robert Smith; Winslow, Captain $2,000. She has been twenty-six years in | William Smith ; Wissahickon, Captain Todd; service aud is 52 tons burden. Lycoming, Captain Joseph Corcoran ; Phila- The decision which for some time past }delphia, Captain Riley; Conestoga, Captain has been anxiously looked fer, was rendered | Fred Riley; Lehigh, Captain George Hogg; yesterday by Judge Brown in the United | Clarion, Captain Gardner; Anna Young, States district court, and was between John | Captain O’ Neill; Conemaugh, Captain Rider. be only sixteen inches and is weakening,.- } | nite Marine Record. MARINE CITY. tain S. B. Grummond, owner of the tug] Special to the Marine Record. The barge C. Spademan, Captain M. P. Scott, has received new bulwarks, stringers under the rail, a number of new stanchions and.a new main mast. George Koenig, slipbuilder, has put forty feet of new rail, and bulwarks and stringers on the port side amidships, and some spring beams in the hold of the barge St. Clair. | He has done considerable repairs on the Tonawanda Transportation Company’s fleet. He is rebuilding a steam dredge for Hubbel & Company, Saginaw, co" prising new sides and deck and a general overhauling. The schooner Louie O’Neil, owned by Robert Holland, will reccive all new floor, six tiers of new keelsons, and iron arches on her sides to her rail 18 inches wide by 34 inche thick; the schooner Wm. Brake re- calking and a general overhauling; the steambarge John W. Westcott some calking. The new steamship, to be built here by Captain Wm, B. Morely, will be 268 feet over all, 30 feet 8 inches beam, 22 feet 6 inches moulded depth. At David Le-ter’s shipyard the T, & S. T. Company’s barge Dayton is receiving new frames, outside planking, deck frames and deck, and a general overhauling, The T. & S.. Company’s steambarge Tempest has had her engine compounded by Hodge & Company, Detroit. : The steamer City of New Baltimore, Cap tain J. B. Lozen, has received a thorough overhauling, comprising new run all around, new plank sheer on promenade deck, new engine room, her boiler deck lowered four- teen inches to receive new boiler, and re- painted inside and out. She left Marine City for Port Huron last Saturday to-have her new boiler placed on board by Love & Schofield, Pioneer Boiler Works. Conrad C. Lenz, part owner of the steam- barge Oswegatchie and schooner G. S. Nor- ‘ris, George F. Flynn, who will be first mate on the steambarge, and (Captain P. G. Kaleth, who will command the schooner, all of Chicago, and Wm. E. Phillips, of Water- town, York state, who will be first engineer of the Oswegatchie, are here getting the steambarge and schooner ready for the coming season’s work. Captain Wm. F. Mitchell, last year uf the schooner City of Sheboygan, who will command the Oswe- gatchie, is expected from Chicago, this week. : : The steamer Mary made her first trid from Marine City to Port Huron and back on Saturday, the 13th. Captain S. H. Burn- ham is in command, George Merrill first engineer, S. E. Pearce clerk. She is now making daily trips. Frank Hart sold his one half interest in the barge Alice Richards to Captain John Jones for $3,500. Captain Jones will sail her. The steambarge Lowell, Captain Charles H. Westcott, is receiving extensive repairs to her boiler and is being fitted out and painted. Chris Peterson will command the T. T. Company’s barge Reindeer, Charles Love, formerly second engineer of the T, T, Company’s steambarge Edward Smith, will be first engineer on her this season, Engineer Wm. F, Sanborn having given up that position and become general ‘manager of the Marine City Salt & Brick Works. ‘There are no other changes in the officers of T. T. Company’s fleet. Captain Henry Donaldson, formerly first mate of the steambarge D. Leuty, will com- mand the tug Music. Captain John Atwell, formerly ‘mate of the steambarge Nahant, will go mate with him. WILLIAMS, ST. CLAIR, Special to the Marine Record. The steambarge Kalkaska, Captain H, Fish, is being fitted out ready for business, She will have the same officers as last sea- son, , The steamship Siberia, Captain W. W. Morse, had the ice cut out around her on Monday, 80 as to be ready for the Conger to tow her to Port Huron, where she will take on a load of wheat at McMorans elevator. She will be Officered as follows; Captain W. W. Morse, commander; Geo, M. Wise, first engineer; Wise (brother of the first) second engineer; L. Powell, formerly of the Sparta, first mate; O. A. Maxwell, second mate. The schooner N. P, Geodell, Captain T. Finny is receiving some new _ deck, | 8tanchions and rail forward, new knight heads and cat heads and some new deck, frames and stanchions afi. Capt. John Pringle’s new steambarge wily be named the Simon Langel, after her worthy builder, She isa splendid, strong built, handsome vessel, and as geod as any ever placed on the stocks around our lakes. The steambarge Rhoda Stewart has re- ceived a new stem and some new hatch com- bings. WILLIAMS, ALGONAC. Special to the Marine Recora @Uhe schooners Bloom and Plymouth will tow with the steamship Siberia the coming season. ‘hey are chartered to convey iron ore from Ashland to Chicago and Lake Brie ports at $1.20 per ton. CaptainsS, A. Lyons will command the Bloom, Captain Paul Revard the Plymouth, and Captain Harrew will be general manager of the tow. The schooners J. G. Masten and Bay City, and the tugs Spratt and Lark, are be- ing rebuilt. MW ILuiaMs. PORT HURON. Special to the Marine Record. Love & Schofield, boiler makers, have completed a marine boiler 6 feet 6 inches diameter, 11 long, of 7-16 steel, for the steamer City,of New Baltimore. J. E. & W. F. Botsford, owners of the propeller Roanoke, give the firm much _ praise fer the excellent boiler built by them for the Roanoke last season and say that she ran on a trip of 28 days duration on 159 tons of soft coal, about 514 tons per diem. The Phoenix Iron Works Company are re- building the engine and machinery for the steamer Nellie, of Mt. Clemens, and doing extensive repairs on the engine and ma- chinery of the steambarge Yosemite, at this port. There was a slight error in my Port Hu- ron news last week. It should have been that the schooner Alverson had nearly 55,- 000 bushels of grain on board instead of nearly 50,000. The steambarge Morley will undergo a general overhauling and repairing to class her for carrying iron ore, at Dunford & Alverson’s shipyard as soon as she can be got along from Detroit. The steambarge Bay City will also get a general. overhaul- ing and repairing by them on her arrival from Cleveland, where she is laid up. The boiler built by Love & Scofield was placed on board the steamer Qity of New Baltimore at Captain Fitzgerald’s derric ‘Tuesday afternoon. - Sues The Conger got on a new wheel in Du ford & Alverson’s dock, and left for Clair Tuesday afternoon to tow the steam- ship Siberia to this port. Wm. Le Blane, boat builder, is building four yawl boats for the Tonawanda Barge _ Line Company, two of them for the new _— steambarge building at Mt. Clemens andone each for the barges Fulton and Hivina. WILLIAMs, KINGSTON. : The Canadian engineers will ask the gov- ernment to allow vessels to pass through the Welland Canal until 6 o’clock Sunday morn- ings and after 6 Sunday evenings, The propeller Ovean has been purchased by Sylvester Neelon. She will be com- manded by Captain Towers and run in op- position to the Persia next season. Captain J. H. Scott left last Wednedays morning for St. Catharines, to fit out the steamer Persia. DULUTH. The Herald says a meeting was held in Duluth last Friday and a company organ- ized to be known a the Duluth Dock Com- pany and which hasa paid up capital of $100,000. The company is officered ag fol- lows: KE. D. Cummings, president; G. G. Hartley, vice president; F. W. Farnham, secretary; W. O. Hughart, treasurer; and J. B. Howard, general manager. The board of directors consists of G. G. Hartley, J. B. Howard, W. O. Hughart, Duluth, F. W. Farnham, Brainard, E. D. Cummings, St. Paul, The dock will have a frontage of 500 feet and its width will be about 150 feet. It will be devoted to the use of all boats and is considered a long felt want. Captain Joseph Lloyd has returned from Chicago. The captain settled his differences with the owners of the steamer Queen of the Lakes and completed her purchase, She will be brought to Duluth at the earliest opening of the lake and wiil be used almost exclusively for excursions. Captain Lloyd says he never in all his experience asa mariner stepped adeck of a more perfect boat in every respect than the Queen. He cannot understand why some people should seek to injure his business by speaking in derogatory terms of his new boat but says he will not undertake to convince people to the contrary by what he might say, but will submit the beat for the public’s approval when she arrives in the harbor, CHEBOYGAN. The Algoma, after making minor repairs resumed her trips across the Straits withou difficulty. Thisshe has never done success, fully until this winter. The ice has not packed in, andis mot very thick. ‘Teams are very cautious in crossing it, Considerable snow fell Monday night and Tuesday, but this Is probably the forerunner of a general break up. The weather is mild, and the snow is disappearing rapidly, inmates ed