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new v steamship, build- wells, Detroit, will probably be next. saturday. opeller Don M. Dickinson, bound ‘Lake Superior, broke her condenser in he schooner crashed into the g, smashing in two planks in bow. She was. beached to avoid sinking. Captain G. W. Stoddard, ot the Mascotte, was in- steambarge that is being built in that city as soon as. she goes into commission. Captain. George Travis, master of the Ca- - nadian secow Rover, reports to the Detroit police that on Thursday some sneak. thief gained an entrance to his cabin by removing a wire set ee en. from one of the windows and secured $260 which he had placed in a trunk. Captain | 8. A. Murphy is making prepara- tions to raise the schooner J. T, Mott, which sank over a year ago atthe head ot Lake Erie with a cargo of coal. Some difficulty was encountered in finding the wreck as the spot. where 1e went down had not been marked, She was finally found and a buoy placed over her, She will be raised by means of pontoons and work will probably be commenced in a few days. Another war has broken out between the rival boats on the river. The managers of the Star line steamers claim that the man- agers of the Cole have broken the agreement entered into some time ago and carried pas- sengers at less than schedule rates. The Star line people have reduced the fare to 25 and 35 cents, ‘and may go lower. The rate on the Cole remains the same as heretofore, 75 and 50 cents. Samuel F. Hodge & Company of Detroit have contracted with the St, Clair steamship company te furnish them a fore and aft com- pound marine engine 31 and 54 by 45 inch stroke and two steel boilers 12x12 feet. ‘They will be placed in the steambarge which is being built by Simon Langell of St. Clair. The vessel will measure 270 feet keel, 288 feet over all and 40 feet beam. ‘he new steamer will have a Providence steam wind: lass and capstan aft, from the American Ship Windlass Company. The largest steamship ever built in De- troit was launched at the Springwells dry- dock on Tuesday August 31. The new steamer is owned by Eddy Brothers and Captain John Shaw, all of Bay City, and is not only large in size but complete in every detail, and built with a thoroughness that insures the best possible results as to sea- worthiness and other requisites. Her prin- cipal dimensions are: Length over all, 275 feet; beam, 38 feet; depth of hold, 23 feet. She is built of the best white oak that could be procured. A steel cord 18 inches wide runs around her at the top of the frames and her shelf piece is of steel, 36 inches wide. She is diagonally strapped from steel cord past the turn of the bilge with 5}¢ inch straps. She is double decked and will carry three spars. Her engine will be a fore and aft compound with cylinders 28 and 48 inches in diameter and 48 inch stroke. She will be supplied with steam from two boilers 9 feet Ginches by 14 feet and will turna screw 12 feet 4 inches in diameter. She will be steered by steam, and her windlass and capstan aft will work bysteam. Her carry- ing capacity will be 1,900 tons on a draught of 15 feet 6 inches. Her cabins are large, finished off in mahogany and furnished with every modern convenience. The new steam- er will be commanded by Captain W.C. Brown, late of the D. M. Wilson. The launch will take place at2 p. m. on Tuesday and the steamer is expected to be ready to receive a cargo on September 12, It has been decided to call her the John F, Eddy. Captain A. A. Cox, of the steamer Jesse Farwell, writes the Free Press that he has located a hitherto unkuown rock, with less than fourteen feet of water on it, lying two miles west southwest from Waugoshance lighthouse, Lake Michigan. It ranges with St. Helena and Waugoshance lights, about two miles from the latter. As nearly as he could ascertain it isin mid-channel and isa dangerous obstruction to vessels, Captain Cox thinks the lighthouse department should take immediate steps to mark this dangerous rock. His own vessel struck it on 22nd of this month and she was obliged to go Into dock at Chicago in consequence. The barge Queen of the West, bound up coal laden, sprungaleakin Lake Huron, ae from Ist Page.) Nroit. It is said that Captain |, Stoddard is to take command of the new| to Detroit for repairs, arriving there Mon- day night without her tow. Parker & Millen agreed to take out part of her cargo for $1a ton, and after being sufficiently lightened she will go into Detroit drydock for repairs. Negotations are pending for the sale of the steamer Mascotte to Detroit parties. This is the preliminary step in the scheme to build a new excursion steamer for Toledo, The propeller Fountain City of the Lake Superior transit line left Detroit, bound up at 1 o’clock Tuesday morning, and when near Lexington became disabled by the bursting of her cylinder head. She was towed back to this port by the propeller Albany. EAST SAGINAW. Special to the Marine Record. Mr. ‘Temple Emery, of Emery Brothers, at Tawas, principal owners of the log barge Wahnapetae, was in the city during the week and reports the first accident which occurred on board the barge while loading loge, at French river, Georgian Bay, on last Monday. The cause of the accident was the breaking of the forwaré derrick or fore- mast, which in falling struck a young man named David Turecott, of West Bay City, who was: engaged in loading, causing his death. The barge was nearly loaded and at once started for Bay City, in tow of the tug Peter Smith, and upon arrival there an in- quest was leld; but in view of the fact that Mr. Turcott’s death was purely accidental, no blame could be attached to anyone. The steambarge Wm. Rudolph and con- sorts R. Martiniand Walbridge, all stone laden, came in the river Saturday and are reported to have got a nice rise in stone freights for two trips to come, Frank Sears, of this city, has contracted with Petosky parties for a $1,200 pleasure yacht, which, if carried out after the model, will be a sleek craft. The steamer Metropolis has gone her last Sunday excursion to Point Lookout for the season. ‘The steamer Lucile will continue a short time longer if business warrants it. There is once more trouble among our dockwollopers. A new gang, known as ‘Jinglers,’’ has organized, and as freights increase they intend to bring up the price of labor per hour accordingly. If the barge men stuck out as well,as the wollopers for their rights, freights would certainly hold ata fair rate and not so low as has been the case before the recent rise. The Tittabawassee Boom Company shut down its main boom Saturday and will from now out run only a small crew. The Com- pany has rafted and delivered to date 275,- 000,000 feet. The total output will reach 340,000,000 feet. The barge Stur of the North, Captain J. Nagle,arrived inthe river the first of the week from Buftalo, with five hundred barrels of vinegar for the Stewart Company, limited. She loaded again with lumber for Cleve- land. The tug Logie, recently condemned, is to have a new boiler put into her during the winter, Lumber freights are getting stiffer each day. It seems as if all the eastern and Ohio lumbermen had just awaken froma long sleep and wanted the lumber brought forward at once; and the vessel man who sold out his craft at a great cut, thinking the good times would never return,{begins to kick himself and ring his “chestnut bell’? for comfort. SHaw. SAULT STE. MARIE. During a heavy fog the steamer Norther- ner and Winslow grounded above the canal, and released themselves, Propeller Wisconsin, bound down, while trying to enter the canal, grounded on Mid- dle-ground shoals, one-half mile above the canal, She will lighter about one hundred tons. A lighter has gone to her assistance. The heavy fog of the past forty-eight hours lifted Sunday afternoon for a few hours, The canal up to this hour was badly jammed with vessels awaiting passage. The steambarge E. B. Hale*and consort Fayette Brown were released from Pancake shoal by the tug Mystic. The steamer jet- tisoned four hundred tons ef ore, the schooner about one hundred tons. The steambarge Cormorant and consort Richard Winslow ran aground near Round island, Waiska bay, during the fog. The Winslow was released by the steamer S. F. Hodge. A lighter and tug have gone to the Cormorant. The steambarge R. J. Hackett and con- sort during the dense fog ran aground inside of Churchville point, twelve miles below this place. As both vessels are light and as the bottom is clay it will probably be some time before they can be released. Assist- ance has been sent them. DULUTH, Light keeper Jefferson says the rumor prone about her crank pin, and ran back | that range lights will be substituted for the Mhe Marine eb ian fixed light now in use at the entrance to Duluth harbor, is entirely erroneous, A!l vessel men are pleased with the fixed light and state that it is much easier to find and keep in ios than the old flash light. BUFFALO. The activity in shipbuilding circles noted in the Recorp some weeks ago has extended to Buffalo. The latest enterprise is that of R. Mills & Company, shipbuilders, who are laying the keel for a large steamer for their own account. She isto be 225 feet over all and intended to carry 2,000 tons on 1514 feet draft. Captain J. J. H. Brown bought of John Kelderhouse three-fourths each of the pro- peller Araxes and barge L. W. Drake, and one half of the barge American Giant for $20,750. Captain Thumas Maytham, who owns most of the ‘remaining interests, re- fused to dispose of them. The valuations of the three vessels for insurance purposes is $15,000 for the Araxes, $8,000 for the Drake, and $7,000 for the Giant, Captain Brown at once takes possession of the tow, which loads coal for Green Bay. ‘They will continue in the Menominee lumber trade, and no changes of masters are to be made. Mr. Kelderhouse, who has long been one of the most prominent vessel owners along the lakes, having concluded to retire from active participation in that business, has now sold all his stock except the steamer Nevada and the tug Balize and the schooner Harvey Bissell]. The latter two he bought at the sale ot 8S. A. Murphy’s effects last spring. The Nevada will probably be soon sold to Palmer, Johnson and others of Slevelants who have her refusal in hand. Thé Union Steamboat Company have just accepted G. B. Mallory’s model for their new steelsteamship. Her keel will be put down as soon as the Susquehanna is launched, which event will take place next Saturday. The Susquehanna measures 822 feet over all, ‘but the Union boat will be 30 feet longer. The latter will have a triple expansion ‘engine. The high pressure cylinder 36 inches | in diameter and exhaust into a low pressure of 52 inches, and this again into one of 72 inches. Todo this it will be necessary to carry very high steam, which will be fur- nished by six Scotch boilers made of one and one-quarter inch steel. Mr. Mallory will superintend her construction. The schooner Belle Mitchell, ashore above Port Colborne, was released after lightering about 3,000 bushels of corn, and went on to Ogdensburg apparently uninjured. The new tug building for John Hidder at O’Grady & Maher’s yard has been put into commission with her owner as master. She is 49 feet long, 13 feet beam, and 7 feet hold. Her boiler, built by Riter is 9 feet by 5 feet 2 inches, and her engine 14 by 16.. She has been named the Carrie H. Scriven, in com- pliment to the daughter of Mr. Alonzo H. Scriven. Mr. Scriven has for 20 years filled the position of surveyor of vessels at this port. The tug will be sent to the Sault to engage on the contract, work her owner has under way there. The tug Balize was in the Union drydock for repairs and the propeller Conemaugh lies alongside the dock getting a new rudder, Mills & Company have the tug Orient to stop a leak and are building a new foremast for the schooner White Star, now on her way down from Chicago. Lake receipts at Buftalo for last week in- cluded 1,928,210 bushels of grain and 81,290 barrels of flour, Canal shipments aggre- gated 1,975,880 bushels of grain, and rail shipments 381,390 bushels. Coal shipments by lake for the week were 42,330 tons, and for this season 885,780 tons, an increase of only 27,000 tons over last year, The meeting of the board on life saving appliances, which opened at Buffalo Monday, will include an inspection of all the stations of the district, the preliminaries for the establishment of a new one at Fort Niagara, und the rebuilding of the burned one at Salmon creek, on Lake Ontario, ltis reported that John Kelderhouse, who bas recently disposed of most of his vessel property, is n0w making arrangements to build a steamboat that will carry upwards of 90,000 bushels of grain, Captain William Fletcher, who remained ashore one trip on account of illness, has again taken command of the _ propeller Starucca at Buffalo. He was still a little under the weather. Captain Chalcraft re- turns to the Rochester as mate. Captain Rardon has returned from Port Huron where a survey of the T. P. Sheldon was held. He thinks the damages will not amount to a constructive total loss. S. V. Parsons of Buffalo represented the under- writers and H. J. Webb of Cleveland and Mr, Craig of Trenton the owners, The officers present at the meeting on life saving appliances were, Captain Fran«x R. Baley, president; Captain J. H. Berriman, 5 inspector; Captain D. A. Lyle, United States army; Lievtenant P. D. Walker, recorder; 8. I. Kimball, general superintendent of life saving service; Captains D, P. Dobbins and B. C. Sparrow, district superintendents, and John Waters, assistant superintendent. The repairs on the propeller Quebec at the Union drydock will be complete in another week, She has already been floored and her spars put in,and work is progressing on her rigging. Mr. Murphy was in port inspect-— ing her repairs. Heis not ready to state what trade he will put her into, bat says that with the present vutlook the question is easily solved. The Lake Erie Boiler Works, Hammond & Coon proprietors, have recently put into their boiler shops the best and latest im- proved machinery for the manufacture of heavy marine boilers that can be found in the world, This firm makes a specialty of heavy marine work and can build without a fault in as short a time as any firm in the country. The four boilers now being fur- nished at these works for the Anchor line steamer Susquehanna have been pronounced by experts to be the best constructed boilers they have ever seen, MILWAUKEE, The fine new steambarge at Mr. Fitzgerald’s Milwaukee shipyard will be launched on Saturday. The new boat will be called the Amboy. The schooner Michigan, which sprung a leak in Lake Michigan, had nine feet of water in her hold before the steam pump got to work. A great loss was averted by running the vessel ashore, or she certainly would have sunk in ashort time in deep water, Several Green Bay vessels have been over- _ | hauled by the government authorities for violating the steamboat laws: The steamer North Star was assessed a fine of $1,700, of — which $500 was for carrying more pas- ie sengers than her license permits, $1,000 not having a sufficient number of life boats te and $200 for towing a barge with passengers t without having the necessary appliances for their safety. Thesteamer City ofGreen Bay _ was fined $500 was tor running without an inspector’s certificate, and the captain C. W. Moore $50 for not ‘surre license. The steamship Oceania: with ain and provisions from Chieago for Buffalo; lost her rudder when in mid-lake about abreast. of Sheboygan. She had been steering wildly, and her captain believes that she got a log or something else between her wheel and rudder when leaving Chicago as he knew she struck something. After the accident, with the assistance of her foresail, she was worked into shore, but lost the breeze when under the land below Fox Point, A vessel arriving here reported her in a helpess con- dition, and two tugs were sent to her, re- turning this afternoon. A new rudder is being made for her, and she will ship it Thursday. The schooners 8. L. Watson and Emma Hutchinson were chartered tor 100,000 bushels of wheat to Buffalo at 4 cents, being the first capacity taken here for several weeks. There are indications now of large shipments. ’ 1g his CLAYTON, Special to the Marine Record, Steamer Ontario had the misfortune to break her walking beam, and did not make her trip to the island, but will be down on Monday as usual. The excursion steamers are reaping a good harvest this season. It has been very smoky on the river for the past two weeks, Captain Andy Miller, formerly of the steamer Pierrepont, is now master of the steamer John Thorne, The steamers John Thorne and J. F. Maynard will have a good overhauling this winter and will be put in fine order tor next year’s business. A good propeller, to run from Oswego and Alexandria Bay next year would pay well to the man who has such a steamer, to be used in carrying passengers and in sup- plying the fruit trade on the river, B, ‘The steamer A. Booth, which was wrecked in Lake Superior, Saturday night was one of the most valuable of the fleet owned by A. Booth & Son of Chicago, and her loss will be a serious one. ‘The firm have wired in- structions to Duluth to do all that can be to raise her, Pending the result of the effort to save the boat from the total wreck, the new propeller Vernon will be dispatched to take the place of the Booth on the Lake Su- perior route. The steamer slipped off the reef on which she struck Saturday night and had gone down in forty feet of water. Captain Inman has gone with the tug Williams, two scows, and diving apparatus to raise her. 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