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“f REI te TIT Ny NS t x “VOL. VIL NO. 21. CLEVELAND. O:. .MAY. 27. 1506. rroreperemneitpaen Rarmerenenn ne 9 $2.00 Perm ANNUM Sinene Copizs 5 CanTs “THE CITY OF CLEVELAND, The magnificent steel passenger steamer, ‘named in honor ot Cleveland, met a grand and hearty welcome at the hands of our citizens when she steamed into port yester- day. Everything is comparative, and in order to show by appealing to the eye th e great strides that steam navigation has made in this country during the last century, we lay before our readers a cut of Mr. John Fitch’s first boat, letters patent tor which he took out in 1786, and we place in contrast a finely. executed cut of the City of Cleve- land. We make the cut of Mr. Fitch’s boat for the reason that it was referred to by Mayor George Gardner, in his color pre- sentation speech, which was. delivered ina happy manner, and responded to by Mr. David Carter on behalf of the Detroit & Cleveland Steam — Navigation Company. The Fitch boat, as shown in the engraving, was driven by paddles, six on'each side; as six came out of the water, six were entered, making a. stroke of eleven feet for each revolution of the engine. At 9:30 0’clock Wednesday morning: the presentation of the handsome colors recently yoted by the city council of Cleveland to the city’s beautiful.namesake took place, and at 10 o’clock-she departed for Cleve- land with a number of invited guests, in- cluding Mayor Gardner and a committee of the citizens of Cleveland delegated to present the colors. As is well known, the Detroit Drydock Company are the builders of the steamer. She was designed by Mr. Frank E. Kirby, who was assisted in the work by Mr. Fred Ballen. They take avery laudable pride in their handiwork, and well they may, for the result of their work marks a step in steamboat architecture far in advance of anything previously attempted on the lakes. We have already published a technical des- cription of the steamer, and the following brief description simply aims to indicate a few of the principal features: ‘The hull is constructed of steel and is 285 feet long over all, beam is forty feet six inches inside and seventy-five feet over the guards. Her depth amidships is sixteen feet, sheer 6 feet forward and 8 feet aft. Everything about the main deck is constructed of wood. ‘The hight be- tween decks, on an average, is nine and one- half feet. There are no houses on the sides forward of the middle gangway, and thus an immense space for deck load is furnished, No hatches are provided for loading in the hold. The forward end of this space is shut off by a house that contains an engine for the steam steerer and entrances leading to the crew’s quarters and officers’ staterooms below deck. Forward and aft of the wheels are the usual wash rooms, mess rooms, etc. After these and closed off by a partition are the cook’s and waiters’ quarters, and for- ward the kitchen and pantry. Below the main deck are the boilers. From the social ball you ascend to the main saloon. This saloon is eighteen feet high to the ceiling, and is flanked by a double tier of state roome, the firet of the kind on the lakes. ‘The main cabin is divided by the engine box into a forward and after cabin. A striking feature of the after part is a small dome that furnishes light for the after state rooms. Aft and forward of the engine box is a staircase that leads up to the gallery. From there access is had to the upper tier of state rooms, The fore and aft ends of the eabins are connected by pass- ages on either side of the engine box. Light is furnished by six electraliers suspended from the ceiling. The Detroit Drydock Company, io the construction of the City ef Cleveland, have added much to the reputation of the com- pany, and have demonstrated that in build ing and fitting out a steel passenger steamer they have no superiors. Long may the stand of colors presented by the city of in the breeze. The engine, built by Messrs. Fletcher & Company, of New York, is a vertical je econdensér 66 inches diameter, 12 feet stroke of piston and calculated for working a steam: pressure of 50 pounds to the square inch. On the trip down, as timed by Mr.S. Taylor, vice president of the North River Iron Works, the engine made 10,968 revolutions from dock to dock, the average being 2934 per minute, and the highest number 32 revo- lutions, which were made while passing the City of Detroit, which boat had come out in the lake tO meet the City of Cleveland, the Detroit at the same time turning up 20. It took the City of Cleveland two minutes and a half to pass her sister steamer. ‘| Cleveland to herbeautiful namesake flutter | i in reality of two plants, there being two engines, each driving its own dynamo. They are so arranged and connected that each can run its own circuit of lamps (200 lamps for the large and 150 for the small engine) or both, while both can never run the same cifeuit, The wiring was done by Mr. Phillips, ‘of Cleveland. ‘The wrought fron forgings were made by the Oleveland City Forge & Iron Company and Superintendent Cole was aboard on the trip down and was well satisfied with the true working of everything. © The officers of the new boat are: Captain, Dougal McLachlan. Pilot, Archie Mclachlan. First engineer, James H. Reed. Second engineer, John Sargent. —_— ee CITY OF CLEVELAND, 1886, There are four boilers of the Scotch rotative tubular, twelve and one-half feet in diameter and eleven feet three inches long. Each has three round furnaces three feet three inches in diameter and eight feet in length. ‘The boilers stand in two batteries near the outside of the hull, twoof them facing each other with a common breeching and smoke pipe. Between these, running fore aud aft, are the coal bunkers which have a capacity of 100 tons. Instead of ‘the customary steam chimneys a separator is placed near the engine, into which leads a twenty-two inch steam pipe which takes through four twelve inch: pipes the steam from each boiler. ‘The stop valves in these | pipes can be used to shut off any of the boilers. The boilers are three-quarters o an inch ‘thick on the shell and tested to stand a working pressure of over 100 pounds. An entirely new arrangement is the ash ele- vator that carries the ashes from the fire room overboard, The wheels, Morgan CHICAGO, Special to the Marine Record. Thomas Bageley, yacht and boat builder, has been making things lively this spring, having built yawls for the following vessels: G. Ellen, City of Chicago, Amsden, Ells- worth, Ironsides, Tempest, Moore, M. A. Gregory, Mary E. Ayer, Driver, Golden Fleece, a life boat for the propeller Bosco- bel; a yawl for one of the Peshtigo barges, also one for use at Nelson’s saw mill, She- boygan; ten Whitehall boats for John Weth- erall, Racine, Wis.;two of same for Leopold & Austrian, for parties at Duluth; one Whitehall rowboat for parties at Pullman, Ill.; one 16-feet row boat and one 15-feet cedar boat, copper-fastened, finished with yblack walnut, with’ nickel row locks, for E. H. Barker, Aurora, [)]., for use on Lake Geneva; one 18-feet sail yacht for Mayor D, Barclay, Elgin, Ill., for use on Fox lake; one 19-feet sail yacht for E. Grimes, South Haven, Mich.; one 18-feet sail yacht for feathering, are|A- D. Sprague and others, this city; two twenty-five feet in diameter outside of |18-feet steam launches for D. P. Noble buckets. In each wheel there are two cast | Elk Rapids, Mich.; two 17-feet yawls for iron flanges seven feet in diameter, and in | the Milwaukee Shipyard Company’s new, each flange there are twelve wroughtiron | 8teambarge; three steam yawls for C. P, arms. ‘The buckets are ten feet and three feet four inches wide and 414 The new steamer broke hy first trip pas- | feet long, 4 feet 5 inches beam, 3 senger steamer’s record by just one minute, the City of Detroit on her maiden trip, making the distance, 103 miles, in 6 hours, 6 minutes, 10 seconds, the City of Alpena in Willard, of this city, 32 feet, 25 feet, and inches thick. | 24 feet, respectively; one six oar galley, 40 feet 10 inches deep, copper fastened and riveted, finished in mahogany; and a life boat for the propeller City of Grand 'T'rayerse, ©, O. Malingren launched a steel steam 5 hours, 58 minutes, and the new City of | launch from Bagley’s boat yard last Satur- Cleveland in 5 hours 57 minutes. from Detroit to Bois Blanc light, 20 miles, was 56 minutes, with two anda half mile current. Alongside the engine under the main deck is the electric light plant furnished by the Brush Electric Light Company. The time | day. i It consists She is 27 feet over all, 6 feet 2 inches beam, 32 inches depth of hold. She will have a three-horse power engine, boiler 26 inches by 40 inches, wheel 22 inches diame- ter 40 inches pitch. She is a counterpart of the launch built for E.J. Lehman last summer for use on Fox lake. Grain freights are considerably lower this week, charters having been made at 21gc on wheat to Buftalo. Iumber freights are | somewhat on the rise and hopes are enter- tained that they will improve still more. The tug Paddy Murphy, recently pur- chased from George Gilman, left this port for Cleveland.last Saturday in command of Captain C. T. Grover: She isa; very fine - tug and was built by Captain John Martel at Saugatuck, the well known tug builder. She is 78 feet over all, 17 feet beam, 9 feet depth of hold. She has two 17-square en- gines and her boiler isa 6x13. She will make an excellent addition to Oleveland’s towing power. The schooners C. ©. Trowbridge ar Jack Thompson were each supplied with one of Chester’s patent fog horns this week. The V. O. T. Company’s tug Rebel, Cap- tain Barry, was in Miller Brothers’ Dry-~ dock Tuesday, getting a new wheel. She was built in 1871 at Buffalo by G. H. Notter,.- and this is the first time she has changed her wheel for a new one, although she has done lots of hard work in our _ and on. Lake Michigan. The steambarge Jim Stride, captain Wm. Chamberlain, fr iron ore, put in her first appearance at tht” port this season on ‘Saturday last with her consort, the schooner Pathfinder. Captain Chamberlain has done excellent work with the Sheriffs already this season. She was laid up at Cleveland and since leaving that port she has been to Toledo, Ogdensburg’s Port Huron, Buffalo, Milwaukee, Marquette and Chicago, good freights and good luck having attended her all through. The steambarge James H. Shrigley, Cap tain G. Olson, arrived Tuesday morning with lumber from Ashland, her first arrival here this season. She took a load of salt from Manistee to Duluth, She encountered considerable ice at Duluth and some at Ash- land, but had splendid weather between the latter port and Chicago. The L. M. & L. S. Company’s steamship City of Duluth, Captain Lyman Hunt, ar- rived Saturday, having made a very success- ful round trip to Duluth and intermediate ports, carrying many passengers and a large quantity of merchandise. The city fire tug is being pushed forward with rapidity at Miller Brothers’. Consid- erable of her outside planking is already in place. The new steambarge Carter, Captain Car- ter, recently built at Milwaukee by Wolf & Davidson, arrived here Monday afternoon, for the first time, lumber laden. She was much admired as she proceeded up the civer, and Captain Carter has good reason to feel proud of his handsome little steam- barge. At Chichgo Drydock Company’s the steambarge 8. H. Johnson was on dock get- ting her bottom calked, sowe new keelsons, a general overhauling and a new wheel; the barge Marinette was in for ealking; the barge;May Richards to have a leak stopped; the tug O. B. Green for calking; schooner Lucinda Van Valkenburg for calking bo:- tom and top sides; schooner Ellen Spry had her center board box calked and a new gaff; the schooners Mary E. Cook and Eveline Bates new anchor stocks, At Miller Brothers’ shipyard the tug Uncle Sam was in dock for calking; the tug Rebel for a new wheel; steambarge Mary Groh for a new rudder and to have her shaft straightened; schooners Annie Dall and ©. J. Roeder to have leaks stopped aud some repairs; the steambarge Tempest for a new stern post and new shoe; the schooner L. Je Conway for a new stern post and stern and other repairs; the tug Crawford was at the derrick having her wheel fixed. Messrs. Miller are having their yacht Minnie M. fitted out, ready for the June races, WILLIAMS,