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Forenoon,down—Steambarge OsearTown- send and consort, Keystone and consort, propeller Juniata, and schooner Annie Sher- wood, tug Samson and schooner E. C. - Hutchison, S. L. Watson, propeller Chicago, Cuba, steambarge City of Cleveland, and schooner A. Cobb, Wagstaff, Afternoon—Propeller Commodore, steam- barge Oscoda, tug A. Sumner and barge This leaves of the old fleet only the Roch- ester, New York, Avon, Portage, Starucea, and Nyack, with the Jewett and Tioga lately added. It is understood that the plan is to replace all these with large steel steam- ers as soon as possible. The one now pro- jected will be hurried forward so as to be Michigan, propeller §. F. Hodge, barge | launched in January, and come out in June. R. Wallace and consort, C. H. Green and Following her a second one will be built as _ consorts, Republic and consorts. Derroit, Sep. 8.—Passed up, morning— Propellers Wissahickon, Arctiv, barge M. _ Sicken and barges,James Pickands and con- sort, Smith Moore, tug Ballentine and achooner Columbian. Afternoon—-TugJohn Martin and schooner 1. Stewart, barge J. H. Farwell and con- sorts, A. A. Turner and four barges, pro- peller St. Paul, barge Columbia, consort, and schooner Jura, Morning, down—Tug Metamora and three barges, steambarge Henry Chisholm and schooner Alva Bradley, propeller B. W. Blanchard, tug Torrent and raft. _ _ Afternoon—Propeller New York, barges R. J. Hackett and consort, R. P. Ranney and schooners S. J. ‘Tilden, Negaunee. THROUGH THE SAULT. SAULT ste Marte,Sept. 6 —Morning,down —Seambarge W. L. Wetmore, schooner Brunette, propellers Ontario, Nyack, Roan- oke, ; Afternoon—S‘eambarge Raleigh,schooner Niagara, Lucerne, propeller B. W. Blanch , ard, steambarges M. M. Drake, Alcona. schooner enn ee A.Everett,schoon ers Sophia Minch, J. H. Webb, Delaware, steambarge Cumberland, schooners W. S. Crosthwaite, Erastus Corning. Morning, up—?ropellers United Empire, Remora, schooner Kate M. Chambers, pro- peller J. L. Hurd. Afternoon—Propellers Japan, Philetus Sawyer, steambarge Bruno and schooner Laura, tug Tom Dowling, and schooner E. R. Williams, steambarge Kittie M. Forbes and propeller Northerner. SavLt stE Marin, Sept.7.—Forenoon,down —Steambarge Charlemagne Tower, Jr., and schooner San Diego, propeller James Fisk, Jr., steambarge V. Swain, schooner Helve- tia, tug Constitution, schooner Conquest, |. propeller City of Owen Sound. Afternoon—Steambarges Wm. Chisholm, Oregon, schooner Francis Palms, P. 8. Marsh, Florida. Morning, up—Steambarge Spokane, Ari- zona, propeller Escanaba, schooner Thos. L. Parker, steambarge Continental, schooner Maguetic. Afternoon—Tug Mystic, schooners Sel- kirk, W. Chappel, Annie P. Grover, pro- peller David Sutton, Vernon, Queen of the West, steambarge Alpena, schooner G. W. Wesley, tug Laura Gibbs, schooner H. G. Cleveland. { Around the Lakes Continued from Ist Page. | ——z———_=—===£=z=az={Zz{=@E=——i=—Ee—EeE—=K&K&—aT=—#_=E=E—_ BUFFALO, The little schooner Honora Carr left Fri- day evening with 200 tons of coal for Pert Huron. About mid-night she began leak- ing. ‘This increased, and she started back for this port. When about two miles oft Point Abino and fourteen miles above Buf- falo, she foundered in sixty feet of water. A sailor named Thomas Scott of this city was carried down by the suction of the sink- ing vessel and drowned. Captain Edward Carr, James McGerry, William Keith and Scott’s wife were picked up by the tug Inez, which had been sent to Buffale for fuel, and taken to Port Colborne, arriving here on the steamer Huntress. The Honora Carr was formerly the Canadian schooner Maple Leaf; which was driven ashore near here in the fall of 1888. In the summer of 1884 the wreck was bought by Michael Carr, who re- leased her and fitted her out the next season, She had been in hard luck ever since, be- ing tied up much of this season. She was worth about $2,000. The local underwriters would not insure her though she classed Bl. An application for a risk of $800 was for- ; warded to John Prindiville at Chicago but probably had not been accepted when the disaster occurred. The coal was shipped by the Pennsylvania company and insured for $750. The owners of the schooner Thos. P. Sheldon have come to an understanding and an adjustment has been affected on the basis of the survey, which fixed a partial loss of $11,800 as the damages. Captain Latavor of Oswego, the owner of the injured schooner O. M. Bond is in port. Negotiations with the underwriters have been carried so far that it is expected that a settlement will be made. Canal boat construction is becoming quite active. Notice of the launch of the Wm. F. Sheeban was given a few days ago and others are under way. Geo. Notter is reported. The fleet sorely needs the new craft, both in respect to numbers and valuation, for old boats were fast becoming the rule. It is very apparent that the Union Steam- boat Company has resolved on a radical change of base, so far as the make-up of the fleet is concerned. Following close on the advertising of the propeller Dean Richmond for sale comes the Newburgh, Waverly, Fisk and Blanchard on the same list, and it is now said that the Arctic and St. Louis | this port. soon as room can be had in the yard and she will be outin July next. After that a steel vessel will be built every year until the transformation of the fleet is complete. It is confidently stated that the Susque- hanna will be faster than either the Jewett or Tioga, and no one who looks at the sharp bow of the model of the new Union boat will doubt for a moment that her speed will be great. Repairs on the schooner O. M. Bond, which had been sunk at Port Dalhousie, have been completed. Her owner to-day made a settlement with the underwriters, accepting the vessel on the basis of the sur- vey. It will be remembered that he had contended she was a constructive total Joss, the insurance men holding to the contrary. The steamer Empire State, which should have left for Duluth last evening, was held till to-night, owing to the China being be- hind time. The latter was delayed by fog and smoke, Excitement is reported among residents along the Welland on account of a state- ment that the water will be drawn off the canal during the five months that it is being deepened. This would result in throwing 2,500 men out of employment and elosing establishments in which over $2,000,000 are invested. A mass meeting is called at St. Catharines to protest against the proposed action, and the government will be memoral- ized on the subject. A deckhand of the steamer Japan fell overboard at Presque Isle on the down trip and was drowned. p CLAYTON. Special to the Marine Record, We had quite an electric storm here Mon- day morning and a heavy squall from the southwest in the afternoon, Charles Steele, from Calumet island, who was going from Jayton over to the island, was struck by the equall,and his boat capsized about eighty rods from the dock. The steamer Magic which had just left, rounded to, and picked him up and brought him to the dock. The yacht Cora, from Detroit, which has been on the river for a cruise, left for home this week. The week has been a busy one on the river. The steain yacht Idler, which had been on the ways since June, has been launched from Pine’s shipyard at Greenpoint. The Idler was designed and built by Jacob Loril- lard for James McMillan, of the Michigan Car Company, of Detroit. Mr. McMillan will use her as a pleasure boat on the lakes. The Idler is 98 feet and 3 inches in length on her keel, and 106 feet over all. She has 16 feet beam and 7 teet depth of hold. Her screw is 42 inches, and will make three hun- dred revolutions per minute. She will have a compound ergine of 250-horse power, All the wood work willbe of mahogany and the furniture of mahogany and silk plush. The sum which Mr, McMillan expects to pay for his new yacht is $25,000. We were very fortunate in this section in not having anything to do with the earth- quake, The pleasure seekers are fast returning home. Two weeks more and the river will be deserted with the exception of the few who come for their fall fishing, as this month is the best in the whole year for that sport. Jasper Ellis will, the coming winter,build a pleasure yacht to carry seventy-five or a hundred passengers. B. KINGSTON. Captain Donnelly left the city last Thurs day morning for Cornwall, by the steamer Pierrepont with his steam pumps to raise the Passport. He landed at that place at 9 o’clock and had his apparatus in position by noon. Pumping wes commenced at 1 o’clock and at 4 0’clock the Passport was afloat. The company intend putting her in the canal basin before proceeding to the drydock in Montreal. PORT HURON. H. N. Jex is trying to raise the barge Russell, sunk in the Soo river. She is loaded with iron ore. Mr. Jex owns the boat ana cargo. Deputy U. 8S. Marshal George Phillips seized the schooner J. C. Woodruff, at this port for an unpaid tow bill. She settled the bill and went on her way. marine diver, got $3,500 for raising the ‘Whe Marine Reconi. BAY CITY. Special to the Marine Record. : Mr. B. H. Muehble, the well known United States assistant engineer, expects to arrive in this city from Detroit, in a few days, to superintend the improvement of Saginaw river. Work will be commenced as soon as he arrives, and continued until the close of navigation, Messrs. Armstrong & Scott, owners of the Saginaw river fire tug patrol boate, left ,0n Wednesday for Duluth, to look after the steamer David Sutton, which left this port, |bound for Duluth, the first of the week, , Captain Warren Fullerin charge. The Sut- | ton will take a passenger route upon her arrival, Messrs. Arinstrong & Sutton are also building at Wheeler’s shipyard at West Bay City, a fine passenger steamer, 85 feet keel by 21 feet beam, after the style of the steamer Lucile. She isto have acompound engine of the latest design, from the works of A. F, Bartlett & Company, Hast Saginaw, and will be as fine a craft of her size as money can make her. Her owners refuse to state where she will run, but hint that she will go where she can do the most good. The Gratwick, Smith & Fryer Lumber Company has clused a contract with F. W. Wheeler, of Bay City, fora large steam- barge to be finished by next June. She will have a length of 270 feet, be double decked, and have a capacity of 2,300 tons freight. Her engine is to be of the triple expansion pattern. The company intend to to sell the steambarge W. H, Gratwick, in which event the barges Fryer and Marvin would probably be towed by the Edward Smith. Lumber freights are now quoted as given below, with a chance for a move for a three- shilling difference between Bay City and Saginaw on Buffalo freights: Bay City to Buffalo, $2.00; Bay City to Ohio ports, $1.75; Saginaw to Ohio ports, $1.871¢; Sagi- naw to Buffalo, $2.121. Edward Williams, who was arrested some time ago for stealing $98 from Henry Dens- more, of the steamer L. G. Mason, has been bound over to the circuit court for trial, having waived examination. There are now three distinct societies of dockwollopers on the river, known as the ‘longshoremen, stevedores and jinglers, Meesrs. .Flot, Bradley & Company re- ceived ten cars of mast timber from up north Saturday. Each stick was over 100 feet in length and 12 to 14 inches square at the smallest end. It was the finest seen in the Valley for years. It will be loaded into Schoonere and taken to Quebec, thence to England. There is some talk of our dockwollopers raising the price of labor to 50 cents per hour, owing to the rise in freights, but as far as can be learned the advance has not yet been paid. The fire tugs did some excellent work at the late big fire of Bliss Brothers’ mill. They succeedad in saving over $50,000’ of adjoining property. SHaw. DULUTH. Two hundred and thirty thousand bushels wheat was chartered at 644 cents for Buf- falo. : The News says early in the season it was expected here, and by the coal companies, that coal receipts at Duluth and Connor’s Point for the present season would exceed those of last year by fully 200,000 tons, or would be about 800,000 tons. The receipts, however, have been greatly overestimated, and the head of the lake will probably not get more than 600,000 or 650,000 tons. Among the reasons for this are the low freight rates on coal to Duluth, against rather high rates to Chicago, the delay in completion of new coal docks and the trouble with the new Lehigh company’s coal dock at West Superior. Not so much coal has been unloaded here to date this sea- son as ayear ago. About 350,000 tons have been the receipts. Williams, Upham & Company’s new scow is completed and will probably be launched next week, The tug John Martin at Williams, Up- ham & Company’s dock receiving a thorough overhauling trom bow to stern. She forms one of the Inman line now as also does the Amethyst. Captain Armstrong’s fire tug has arrived. Her regalar dock will be at the old Isle Royale dock but she wiil patrol the harbor every day and besides her regular crew will always have a man on the lookout for any indication of a fire. ASHTABULA HARBOR, The tug Gordon, recently brought here oe eh a EE a ae a a j blew out her cylinder head last Sunday Captain John Quinn, the Detroit sub-| from Chicago by Captain William Downe, | eth ihm ibe Ca AN A i PENA A AA UNO AA py eet pine ninth’ EAST SAGINAW. Special to the Marine Record. The schooner York State was in the river during the week and was loaded with lum- ber for Chicago, by L. P. Mason who also has chartered the schooner E. J. McVea for a similar trip. Messrs. L. P. Mason, Gordon Corning and A. N. Pinet have sold the tug Tom Maytham to Messrs, Logie, Kennedy & Collier of Cleveland, fora cash consideration of $5,000, which is about one half what the first parties paid for her a few yearsago, The Maytham was a great favorite on the Saginaw river and had the reputation of never having done any damage whileon the river. Engi- neer John Davis and assistant Montgomery will be retained while Captain Jas, Bell, her late commander, returns to this city. . The schooner Geo. Wesley, Captain Wm. Braun, ts now plying in the Ohicago trade from Buffalo, The new bridge at the foot of Genesee avenue is now completed and several ferry bouts are looking around for something to do. The propeller Sanilac took a whole cargo of lumbermen’s camp supplies to Sault ste Marie the first of the week for the Wells store mercantile company. Barge men are warned not to load to over 9 feet 6 inches above Mackinaw street bridge, aga new bar has formed at Wylies dock upon which several have stuck lately. The extensive saw mill, salt works etc., of A. T. Bliss & Bros., of Milwaukee, was entirely destroyed by fire on Friday night, causing a loss of $210,000. 8,000,000 feet of lumber, 2,000,000 feet of lath 2,000,000 shingles and 1,000 cords of slabs were de- stroyed. The fire tugs did excellent work saving adjoining property and the crews were kept employed from 11 o’clock Friday night until Sunday morning before the fire was entirely out. , Captain John Van Loo and wife returned to this city from Grand Marais where the captain has been engaged in business for a year past. ‘i aS Sra en Henry Slade the veteran wolloper who is one of the owners of the sloop Dolphin, has assumed the position of first mate on the same. é } : VEN ee Messrs. O’Brien & Maxwell launched their new lighter on Monday last. She is 100 feet long by 24 feet in beam and will go in- to the brick trade. SHaw. ST, CLAIR FLATS. Special to the Marine Record, While the steambarge Missouri with four barges in tow, from Alpena, lamber laden, bound down, was shut in by a dense fog, when within a quarter of a mile of the canal, with the J. E. Potts and consort close be- hind, grounded, forming a jam at uppér end of the canal, about8a. m. With the agsisstance of tug Champion the Missouri was released, and only for the timely noti- fication of the down bound fleet by McNift & Son, there might have been heavy dam- ages to the detriment of owners and insur- ance companies; but Bob is always on the alert for all such obstructions. The only accident in rounding to and stopping was the loss of the small anchor and jibboom of the Hope’s consort, the Polynesia. The an- chor will be gotten up by McNiff & Son and placed on Star Island dock in time for taking aboard of the Polynesia on her trip up, The names of steamers and vessels notified and stopped by McNiff & Son were the Bal- entine and consort, the Champion and tow of four, the Tecumseh and three consorts, the Hope and consort, the tug Niagara and five in tow, which all stopped within a quarter of a mile, So much for the rauge light owners at Southeast bend. Owners and masters should see that the lights are sustained. During the jam McNiff & Son say they never saw as good seamanship and handling of steamers and vessels, and everyone at the Star Island says they never saw such good handling of vessel property in their lives, MeNiff’s signal is two long blasts and two short blasts. Blow in time and they will land passengers or mail night or day. All collections left in their hands willbe promptly attended to. Bos, Captain Jones, of schooner Owasco, died at Escanaba at 10 o’clock Tuesday morning with congestive chills. He has been ill for twelve days, and was finally taken with convulsions and died. His remains will be taken to Lorain, O., the residenee of his family. (SSR ae a eee eR aA RO RR NR ON A YACHT ENGINE AND BOILER FOR SALE CHEAP, The engine and boiler just taken out of the yacht Calumet, ‘built by Clute Brothers, Schenectady, in | 1881 Engine 11x12 evlinder with cut off. Both war- | ranted in first class order. Pony pump, heater, Han- Thomas P. Sheldon, and delivering her at| While in the lake a few miles west of the sP.§ » ar She is lying below McMorran & will be offered for sale later in the season. Company’s flouring mills. | harbor. | disabled boat. No one injured. Captain Field’s tug towed in the} cock inspirator, fine whistle, two patent yp valves. copper exhaust vipe, smoke stack, batter covered with Asbestos cloth: and Russian iron jacket with brass bands. Completerig. Price $1250. Apyy tP i YM. W. ANGEL, Clayton,