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4 i j ; 4. Ihe Marine Record. Marine Bercora. Published Every Thursday at 144 Superior Street, |Leader Building] Cleveland, 0. A. A. POMEROY, EDITOR AND PROP’R TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: One year, postage paid 0.1.0... ....cs00e seseeeeee $2.00 Six months, postage paid............106 ceeeeeeee 1.00 Invariably in advance, THE MARINE RECORD can be found for sale by the following news dealers: CLEVELA\D, O.—G. F. Bowman, corner of Pear] and Detroit Streets. Evans & Van Epps. Superior street, Cleve'and. R. A. Castner. 254 Detroit s reet, ( leveland, ASHTABULA HARBOR, O,—C. Large. CHICAGO, ILL.—Joseph Gray, 9 West Ran- dolph Street, CHICAGO, ILL, —August Semper, 345 Noble Street. BUFFALO, N, Y.—A. C. Brideson, Michigan Swing Bridge, Also, Miss McCabe, Elk Street, near Ohio. DULUTH, MINN.—C. F. Johnson, 117 West Superior Street. MARQUETTE, MICH.—J. A. Vannier. ESCANABA, MICH.—Wm. Godley, PORT HURON, MICH.—G. H. Mann. WASHBURN, WJS,—John A. Jacobs SARNIA, ONT --D. McMasters. ST, CLAIR FLATS, MICH.— MeNiff & Son, Subscribers and others are respectfully invited to use the columns of the MARINE RECORD for the discussion of pertinent topics. Entered at the Post Officeat Cleveland as second- class mai] matter. EE STIR PEAY Sr es neta Tyee Pere. Feel See) POR SLE New CLEVELAND, OHIO, THURSDAY, JUNE 24. THE LIFE SAVING SERVICH. The report of S, l. Kimball, superintendent of the life saving service, Washington, for the year ended June 30, 1885, has just come to hand. The report shows the increased efficiency of the service which is, without doubt one of the most hnmane movement un- der the auspices of any governmen’, [n this report the description of rescue and the gallant conduct of individual members of the different crews are very vivid and but show that when the American life saver is bent on duty no terrors of the lakes or #peans will deter him. In the lake districts, North, South and Eleventh districts presided over by Captains Dobbins, J.G. Kiah and Nathaniel 8, respectively, the casualties as de- ailed by the report and the lives and pro- - perty saved are as follows, aggregate of the action of the three districts being made: Number of disasters 138, value of vessels $1,178,620, value of cargoes $214,530. Total value of property $1,392,150. Number of per sons on board of vessels 903, number of per- sons saved 901, making the number of per- sons lost2. There have been 25 persons succored at stations for 44 days. The amount of property saved in the three lake districts above mentioned amounts to $1,296,- 825, the amount lost being but $96,525 and “but seven vessels totally lost. This is an excellent record and wherever the government finds that the establishment of a life saving station will do general good equal to the above it should not hesitate a moment in pushing it to completion. It is a pleasure to be able to note that the establishment of several additional stations have been provided for, but there is a very important locality which has not yet been designated. We refer to Ashtabula Harbor. The growing importance of that port leads us to advocate the speedy adoption ofa measure that will lead to the establishment there of a well equipped life saving station. THE MILITIA OF THE SEA. ‘The secretary of the navy has addressed a communication to the president ot the board of inspection of vessels, at New York, with a view of securing an invoice of the mercan- tile marine of the United States, to ascer- tain the number that can be utilizedin the event of their services being needed, auxili- ary to the navy, as cruisers for transports or for special purposes. It is also the purpose of the department to extend the functions of the inspection board to the examination of steamers of all classes in order to ascer- tain and report upon their adaptability for the above mentioned service. Necessary action will be taken to enlist the interest of ship owners in the project, and the names of desirable vessels will be listed and designated as the auxiliary naval list. The merchant marine, at the close of the fiscal year, ended June 30, 1885, numbered 23,963 vessels of all classes, with a tonnage of 4,265,934 tons, and the estimated value of the whole amount of floating property under the fing, by adopting the methods usually nade use of, and allowing 10 per cent for he difference between wooden and iron vessels, is put by the commissioner of navi- gation at about $180,000,000, which shows | that vessels will average about $7,511.16) eich. As the proportion of iron vessels on the lakes, as compared to the whole, is equal to vessels built of that material on the ocean the average will stand good if applied to the lakes. In case this measure is followed to results it is quite probable that a number of iron and wooden vessels here would finda place on this list, (as they are built equal to the best in any trade,) especially as it would be found necessary to have a number of these auxiliary .cruisers to guard our ex- tensive coast line in caseany unpleasantness should arise between this country and our Canadian neighbors. ot eel ie Tue Northwestern Miller says that it is claimed in authoritive circles that the rail- road elevators at Bnftalo will shortly be made free to their own business and thus break up the elevating combination and greatly reduce rates. The movement is said to have originated in Chie¢ago, and the statement is made that the Illinois railroad will not renew the contract with-the Buck- ingham elevators which soon expires, and that it was the intention of the road to make elevation free and do its own business. This doubtless means the absorption of the Buck- ingham houses by the railroad, and it will if consummated entirely revolutionize the grain trade of the lakes. The trade will re. joice in what can bardly fail to be the re- moval of a burden from the lake trade, even it the railroads get the best of the bargain. SS ro oo A VIGORGUS protest often changes ill-con- ceived action on the part of any of the bu- reaus controlling maritime aftairs. In the case of the abandonment of the light at Escanaba, in order to place one at Green Bay, the protest of the citizens at Hscanaba worked good results and the light will be continued. If the Escanaba light was a necessary aid to navigation when it was constructed there is no reason why its de- struction by fire should lead the govern- ment to abandon the site unless the new light. should be erected on the eleven-foot shoal. After acknowledging that a hght house is necessary at Green Bay, steps should be taken to put one there without depriving any other port of its light. ALTHOUGH the president has opposed the new Dingley shipping bill, which virtually disposes of all fees heretofore levied against vessels, he discovered a defect in the bill which will require amendment before it will become operative. Mr. Dingley made an effort to have the necessary change made but Mr, Randall, smarting under the defeat of his tariff measure objected to the suspen- sion of the rules, The adoption of the amendment has therefore been delayed. THERE seems to be a feeling of uneasiness among the members of the shippers com- bination in Buffalo, bad faith being charged against some. The morerings we can break the greater the benefits to accrue to the ves- sel men. THE river and harbor bill will come up in the Senate this week for final action, THE NEW STEAMER. The steamer building at Quayles’yard for Captain Thomas Wilson will be launched on Saturday and will add another Al steam- er to Captain Wilson’s fine fleet. The launch will be attended with a christening ceremony. ‘The dimensions are: Length of keel 255 feet, over all 270 feet, breadth of beam 39 feet, depth 22 feet. The main keelson is 16x16 inches, sister keelson 14x16, floor keelson 10x13 and 8 inches in thick- ness, running athwartships; the bilge keel- sons are 10, 9, and 8 inches thick. The ceiling is 6 inches thick from the bilge up to the wake of the gangways where it is 4 inches, and above the gangways there are three strakes 8 inches thick. The lower deck beams are 10x10 inches and the upper 8x8; the lower shelf piece 6 and the upper 5 inches. Her ends are secured by heavy breast hooks and points running fore and aft from the main keelson to the shelf piece. The outside planking is, garboard 6 inches and the balance to the bilge and on the bottom 5 inch, the bilge being turned with 6 inch plank; from the bilge to the bottom of the freight gangways 5inch and in the waist 4 inch; above the gangways 6 inch and the fender straké is 7 inches in thick- ness. She is diagonally strapped with iron 5 by 4 inch, with steel arches inside and out, extending fore and aft, the outer arch being let in flush on the frames and the inner one on the ceiling. ‘The rudder is strengthened by a wrought iron sleeve extending from the top of the barrel to about four feet below the backing. The machinery built by Globe Iron Works, is compound, the cylinders be- ing 28 and 50 by 42 inch stroke. The steam making power consists of two steel boilers, 16 feet long by 8 feet 6 inches in diameter, also built by the Globe Iron Works. The boiler tubes were furnished by Messrs, Bas- sett and’Presley from the cele ,rated Boiler Tube Manufacturing Company of Reading, Pa. The steam windlass is from the American Ship Windlass Company, of Providence, R. I. Unlike any steam capstan windlass in the warket, it makes a direct attachment to the windlass without any counter-shaft, cross pieces, bearings, bevel gear or clutches intervening between the engines and the windlas:, thus avoiding the chance ot break- down. Toavoid any cutting of the worm and worm gear a patent lubricator is furn- ished, which. will oil perfectly every tooth as it passes. The windlass ia also provided with a balance wheel to counterbalance the weight of the cranks and pistons so as to make the engines run smoothly and still. The crank shaft is all torged in one piece, so that there are no keys in the cranks to get loose. The engines are placed elose together and in the most accessible position to be taken care of, thus leaving the gypsey ends all clear and free to use, and without any chance to entangle the hawsers or in- jure same by the heat of the steam. Taken all in ‘all, they are the most simple and durable steam windlasses ever made and the eusiest to handle. [ Around the Lakes Centinued from Ist Page. | CHICAGO. Special to the Marine Record. Grain freights are steady at 3 cents on corn to Buftalo. The schooner Polly M. Rogers, Cuptain O. C. Wilcox, arrived here Friday morning, with coal from Oswego, her firststrip this season. She received new decks and other repairs at Cape Vincent, her heme port, be- fore starting out. A. Booth & Son’s new steam yacht will be supplied with an American Ship Wind- lass Company’s No. 3 capstan windlass and No. B capstan by Messrs. Dunham & Hoit, ship chandlers, Chic ago. The insurance on the schooner 8. G. An- drews, lost last fall at Scott’s Point, Lake Michigan, was last week paid in full by the Anglo-American Assurance Company. The propeller Robert Wallace, Captain F. Brown, arrived Friday last from Avhta- bula, with 1470 tons of coal, consigned to the Chicago South Side Gas Compiny. Her eonsort, the schooner David Wallace, ar- rived with 1780 tons of coal from Cleveland, for O, L. Richardson, of this port. She was in command of Captain McPhail, Captain Henry Wallace having been forced thiough illness to go from Cleveland to bi home at Lorain, - The steambarge New Era bide been in- spected by Stewart Moore and Cyrus Sin- clair, our local inspectors. At Miller Brothers’ the tug Wm. L. Ew- ing is in drydock receiving repairs. She had her shaft bent by getting a pile in her wheel when towing near the new railroad bridge at Twelfth street Sunday afternoon; the tug D. L. Babcock and the schooner J. F. Tracy td have leaks stopped; the tug Success to have her shoe and stern bearing fixed. C. P. Willard & Company have completed a very handsome steam launch, 32 feet over all, 644 feet beam, 16inches draft. Her en- gine indicates at full stroke 20 horse power. Her boiler is of steel, with locomotive fire- box, and her 32 inch wheel is of gun metal. She will be sent. to Oconomowoc lake, and it is anticipated she will make great speed. They last week shipped to Pittsburgh a new steam launch, 25 feet over all, 6 feet beam, 3 feet deep, for C. E. & G. Painter, of the Pittsburgh Iron Works. They are building a steam launch for E. & J. Covert, Farmers Village, for use on Cayauga lake, 45 feet over all, 9 feet beam, 4 feet deep. En- gine 6x8, vertical boiler, 10 horse power. The schooner Daniel G. Fort, Captain C, H. Daniels, arrived on the 16th trom Grina- stone island with granite paving. ‘Vhis is her first trip this season. She received ex- tensive repairs at Ogdensburg this spring, and a new main mast and fore and main top masts at Dunford & Alverson’s ship yard, Port Huron, on her way up. On Tuesday Judge Greshamin the United States circuit court handed down a decision in the Scott-Avon collision case. October 28, 1880, the Union line propeller Avon col- lided with the barge Thomas A. Scott off Milwaukee at 8 o’clock in the evening. The Phenix Insurance Company, which held policies on the Scott cargo, paid its share of the loss, amounting to $5,000, and then libeled the Avon for the full amount. When the case came up in the United States dis- trict court the evidence showed that at the time the disaster occurred the Scott was lying at anchor exhibiting proper lights, and that there was plenty of sea room for vessels approaching in all directions to pass her. Judge Blodgett decided that the Avon was at fault for not having a proper lookout. An appeal was taken and Judge Gresham affirmed the decision, awarding the libelant the full amount of damages claimed, to- “gether with interest and costs. Robert Rae conducted the case for the insurance com pany. Captain James Beckwith and Captain John Prindiville, both well-known vessel agents and marine insurance brokers, were betore the board of directors of the Chicago board of trade, Tuesday, charged by Thomas G. Crosby and Keith & Carr with having refused to turn over commi-sions amount- ing to $1,500 alleged to be due complainants. The affair grows out of an attempt to settle the business of the old Big Four cargo-in- surance combination that flourished for a brief period during the spring of 1883. Fai!- ing to effect a settlement Crosby & Gunning and Keith & Carr brought suit against Cap- tain Prindiville and Atkins & Beckwith to force an accounti.g, When the case came up before Judge Tuley the attorney for the defendants moved to have it erased from the records on the grounds that all pools are against the interests of public welfare and consequently illegal. ‘The motion was over- ruled. ‘he matter has become more com- plicated by the death of Mr. Atkins, Beck- with’s former partner, and an effort has been made by the plaintiffs to obtain a settle- ment by arbitration. Failing to do this the board of trade, of which all parties con- cerned are members, was appealed to. After listening to the affidavits from both sides the board decided that it had no jurisdiction. The Peshtigo barge Fred Carney, in tow of one of the V.O. ‘T. Company’s tugs, when going up the river Friday afternoon collided with the steambarge Otego, doing consid- erable damage to the latter’s bow, on the starboard side, and carrying away her own anchor stock and a cathead. The steambarge New Era was released on Monday without any penalty, for neglect to have her inspected or to procure enrollment papers, by order of the Treasury Depart- ment. ‘The leniency on the part of the government towards an American vessel was well received here. The schooner F. J. King is in port. Since her last appearance here she has undergone a rebuild. The King is owned by J. S. Dun- ham and Capt. William Griffin; her master. Late last fall she was sent down to Garden Island, Lake Ontario, to be rebuilt. Her shipyard work cost $2,681, and as the repairs were made in a Canadian port the Collector of Customs at St. Vincent, N. Y., assessed her owners duty on the new work. An ap- peal was taken to the Treasury Department. Mr. Dunham received notice that as no evidence had been pruduced to show that the King was compelled by stress of weather or other casualty to put into Garden Island for repairs the appeal was rejected. WILLIAMS, MILW AUER: Special to the Marine Record. Schooner Florence M. Smith was in port minus her bowsprit and jibboom which she lost whilst winding at the Minerva dock. There has been a lifeléss grain freight market at this port for two week, but there came a sudden surprise for vessel agents, when a shipper inquired for tonnage. Asa result 85,000 bushels capacity was taken. The new barge John Shaw was placed for 65,000 bushels to Buffalo on a through rate, and the schooner H. M. Scove loaded 21,000 bushels at 3 cents to Buffalo, The Annie Smith—consort of the Shaw—went to Chi- cago to load. The J. S$. Fay and consort D. F. Khodes go to Escanaba. The wrecking tug Leviathan, with the leaking schooner John Raber, arrived here Monday morning from Cheboygan. The steampump was worked continually on the trip to keep her free, but was removed on her arrival, and extra men were engaged to work her pumps until her cargo of cobble- stones is unloaded. She will be docked at Wolf & Davidson’s yard, The scow Nellie Church has been released from the beach at the Door. The schooner Snowdrop ig at Mackinac with four feet of water in her hold. The schooner is cedar-laden for the lower lakes. A tug will be sent from Cheboygan to render her assistance, At Wolf & Davidson’s shipyard the steam hereafter be known‘as the J. A. Pauley,af her owner, is in drydock; she has received a geueral overhauling, comprising | new kelsons and shelve strakes, deck beams, new decks, new pilot ‘house, mast steering gear, new boiler house new barge Thompson Kingsford, which will ies pe: Tce aia cent, Seen act