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“the patent screw steering and propelling | DEVOTED. VOL. VIII. NO. 42. —— ‘EO 7-COMMERC CLEVELAND. O.. OCTOBER 214.1886. $2.00 Park ANNUM SINGLE | @pIns 4 CENTS AROUND THE LAKES. Captain George Stevens has been made master of the tug L. P. Smith. Commodore Geo. Gardner attended the ae yacht race at Toledo last Thursday. Mr. J. C. Gilchrist has sold the schooner | Milwaukee, which split her mainsail and _ Havana to Captain A. P. Reed, of Kenosha, | jibs and broke oft ber bowsprit and one Wis., the consideration being $7,300. CHICAGO. Special to the Marine Record. The schooner Conquest, Captain W. H. McDonald, arrived Friday morning with ceived word that the schooner was lost. Maggie Kreiger, the cook, had been in the Case for three seasona, and was about 50 years of age. Her home was in Detroit. eopble stones from Point Iroquois, Lake] She jeaves a danghter, who resides some- Superior, She was caught in the heavy! where in Canada. gale of Thursday last, when about twenty- | known five miles ont in Lake Michigan, E.N.E. of chain plate from her foremast. She was ‘Up fo the hour of going to press no tidings | rendered almost unmanageable, labored very have come to hand regarding the Belle) heavily and the great waves broke com- Mitchell, which was on Lake Erie during | pletely over her. Her deck load was thrown L the big gale of last week. She is the only ‘vessel now missing. It is to be hoped that »her crew are safe in some harbor, although there is not much ground for the belief. Freights were firm to day at $7.80, $2, and $2.60 for ore from Escanaba, Marquette, and _ Ashland, respectively, and $1 for coal to most Lake Michigan or Lake Superior ports except Marquette. For the latter port the schooners George Sherman and U, H, John- son were placed at 75c. These were the only cbarters closed and in shape to report. Partially completed engagements include. the propeller Raleigh and consorts Niagara and Lucerne. Two of the tow will take coal from Sandusky to Ashland at $1. The speed test of the tire boat took place on Monday, Messrs. Wm. Cowles the archi- teet, and J. J. Kunstadter the inventor of wheel, Mayor Gardner, the fire commis- sioners and Chiet Dickson being aboard. The boat was maneuvered in backing and turning, and the fire commissioners and visitors were surprised at the ease with which she was handled. A test on Sunday showed that she could be turned completely around trom a dead stop, in one minute and fifteen seconds in a water space of 90 feet, which is but a trifle more than her length,and that while going at full speed she made nine circles in one minute twenty-nine seconds each, from starboard to port and from port to starboard, after which she was run up the river and grounded in about a foot of mud and by the use of the Kunstadter screw re- leased herself without assistance, a feat hard to perform, which demonstrates the immense power of this swiveling screw. The boat Was run quite a distance ahead and astern quite rapidly and winded around the nar- row bends in the river and slips, all of which pleased the commissioners, who expressed themselves as being highly pleased with the Kunstadter patent screw, and thonght it just the wheel to enable a boat to avoid col- lisions in crowded channels, inasmuch as it enabled the boat to change her course so readily. All the trials were made without | the slightest hitch, and it was evident that the speed was considerably increased by the use of the Kunstadter screw, turning in un- broken water outside of the rudéer. The boat was guaranteed to develop a speed of | nine miles an hour, but in the test to Rocky | River and back she logged off eleven tniles. The tests of her water throwing capacities were egually satisfactory. The pumps are, steam 16x10 inches and water 8x10 inches, The first trial) was made through ten links | of hose 100 feet each, the water beirg thrown through four 14¢-inch and six l-inch nozzles a distance of 200 feet,then two 2-inch nozzles were put on and the streams thrown 200 feet, then two 2-inch pipes 240 feet, three 2-inch pipes 250 feet, three 24-inch pipes 210 feet, through one 3-inch pipe 240 feet, | through one 34-inch pipe 275 feet, all of | lakes for many years, and was at one time which delighted Chief Dickson. The boat | on the Chicago police force. This was his .blown away. Captain Corey has sailed | with three of her crew, left Chicago on the overboard to save her from foundering. She was then hauled in for the west shore and fetched the vicinity of Grosse Point, when she made better weather and came along to Chicago. Captain McDonald says it was the toughest time he ever experi- enced, and but for the coolness and courage of his excellent crew the vessel would never have reached port. The schooner Manzanilla, Captain E. W. Corey, arrived Friday afternoon, with cedar ties from Trenton, Ontario. Captain Corey says they had light southerly winds when coming up Lake Michigan, until Thursday noon, when off Sheboygan, Wis., the wind suddenly shifted around to the west and blew very hesvily, throwing the vessel on her beam’s end. All her head canvas was taken in as soon as possible and she was hove to under her mainsail and mizzen, from the southeast, which caused the schooner to roll tremendously. The gale increased, and the tupsail which had been clewed up was blown out of the clewings, and two jibs which were hauled down were twenty-one years and never remembers it blowing harder, and does not wish for an- other experience of the kind. At the Chicago Drydock Company’s yards the schooners Barbarian, Norman and Belle Brown were in dock for calking; the steam- barge Rhoda Emily for repairs to her keel and bottom; the steambarge A. E. Wilds for a new stem; the schooner Champion for anew piece of keel; the propeller Argo- naut had her decks calked; the schooner Hattie Earl received a new foremast; the schooner John Raber a new jibboom; the schooner Ellen Spry received some calking; the schooner Pensaukee a new cathead and dolphin striker; the schooner Lizzie A, Law some calking; schooner Adirondac had her center board box calked. At Miller Brothers’ Drydocks the tugs Commodore, Crawford and Prindiville were each in dock fora new wheel; the schooner Ostrich to have a leak stopped; the schooner D. G. Fort had her bottom calked; the steambarge Gordon Campbell, tug Welcome and echooner Orkney Lass had leaks stop- ped; the schooner Cape Horn had her stem and stern fixed; the propeller John Pridg- eon, Jr., received a new stem and some new bulwarks forward; the tugs McCormack | and Pearl were at the derrick and had stern bearings fixed, The schooner George M. Case, which went tothe bottom of Lake Erie Thursday Sth inst. Her cargo consisted of 24,000 bushels of corn, shipped by Watkins & Mueller. Captain William Daily, who lost his life, was a resident of Chicago, and leaves a wife and four children. His wife is an invalid. Captain Daily has sailed the | second trip onthe Case. During the greater is a credit to Messrs. Stovering & Fleming, Ole Greene was well among sailors. He was not married The schooner Live Oak was sold at United States marshall sale Wednesday morning to Charles A. Sirbom for $2075. She will be fitted out at once and Captain Alfred Smith will sail her on her first trip, then Captain A. Smith, whois now sailing the schooner M. Mason, will command her. Vessel owners were greatly excited when they learned that the premium notes given by the defunct Anglo-American Insurance Company had been sent to a Chicago bank for collection. The notes were presented for payment, but after consulting with an attorney, it was decided to contest judgment, and fight the holders of the notes in the courts. About $40,000 is involved in policies, having been written by the company on almost the entire Lake Michigan lumber feet. Ser The propeller John Pridgeon Jr., Captain D. H. Sherwood arrived at this port Friday from Ogdensburg with merchandise, her stem was badly damaged and some of the green paint from the propeller Selah Cham- ™ he Captain Greenley, master of the sunken steamer, arrived here from Sheboygan Satur- day and was met by Mr. H. D. Goulder of Cleveland, attorney tor the owners of the Chamberlain. After along consultation it was decided to begin legal proceedings against the owners of the Pridgeon. Ac- cordingly a libel for $65,000 was filed in the United States district court, and the marshal took charge of the steamer last night. The papers were served on the boat while she was in drydock undergoing repairs. John Prid- geon Jr., owner of the libeled steamer, ar- rived from Detroit before the papers were served, and retained Mr. C, E. Kremer to represent his side of the case. he same attorney has also been employed by the Vermont Central railroad company, to whom the Pridgeon is chartered for the season, Mr. Kremer will file a petition asking the court to have the Pridgeon appraised and allow his clients to limit their liability to the value of the vessel. Mr. Goulder anticipated the action of his opponents and filed the libel at once s0 as to protect his clients, as, by a recent judicial interpretation of the limited liability act, the Pridgeon could have left Chicago for Ogdensburg, her home port, and in the event of her being sunk her owners could limit their liability to the value of the steamer as she lay on the bottom of the lake, Now her owners must pay into court the value of the steamer before she can leave port. WILLIAMs, ERIE, The United States steamer Michigan and revenue cutter Perry and other vessels which went to search for the schooner re- ported in distress off Manchester, seven miles east of Erie, have returned without any tidings of either crew or vessel, All day long wreckage has been coming ashore in large quantities—spars, portions of the cabin, pails—and everything indicates that the vessel must have gone to pieces within a few minutes after she struck. When seen by some fishermen her crew were in the rig- | ging. Up tothis time there has not been a single thing found which would indicate the contractors, Murphy & Root, the build- | part of the present season he sailed as mate|the name of the unfortunate craft or ers of the hull, Mr. Manning, who furnished | of the schooner E. A, Nicholson, and left} the number of men lost. A portion ot the pumps, Mr. Wm. Cowles, the architect, | that boat several weeks ago to relieve Cap-| of a yawlboat was found but the name board and Mr. J. J. Kunstadter, the inventor of tain Mc Donald of the command of the Case, was wissing. A report obtained currency the screw Steering and propelling wheel. | Captxin McDonald having been compelled | that wreckage had been found on the shore During all her tests the bost has been hand- led by Captain Joseph Gorman, who will to rewain ashore on account of sickness, It was Captain McDonald’s intention to rejoin at Eight mile creck, and that pieces of the wreck which came ashore -bore a name berlain, which she was in collision with the previo Wotnestay night. off Sheboygan ‘The #ea at this tite was running-very- high} 89¢s BUFFALO, Special to the Marine Record. .We have to record this week an account of one of the most severe storms that has visited this city for a number of years, Probably nothing that will compare with it since 1844. The gale commenced on Thurs- day, during the early part of the day, but not until evening, at from 7 until 9 o’clock, did we experience the heaviest and moat destructive part of the storm. The water from the lake rushed into the harbor, filling’ to overflowing the banks of the main creek and Blackwell canal. The sea from the lake made a clean breach across the island into the canal in places for morethan a mile east of South Michigan street bridges, and all the houses and shanties, located on the beach, from .Michigan street east, were demolished, to the number of some thirty residences, occupied by families rangi from three to eight in each house. midnight on that a vestige of hou found on the origi strewn over the island in a extending nearly one mile along A more complete wreck cannot be the people narrowly escapin lives. Two small children, aged ively one year an years, were ¢ itizens of Buflalo ar j i; several arrivals; some inward bound and some that had gone out in the morning but were obliged to run back for shelter. Some received slightdamage. The excellent man- agement of the tugs, always ready to assist, prevented any serious injury to any of the vessels coming into port, The arrivals that evening were the Munteagle with the Mys- tic Star and White Star in tow. The White Star got across the end of the pier, receiy- ing slight injury and had to be docked. The Fred Mereur with the ©, H. Burton, ran back. Coal freights are again stiff at $1 to Chi- cago and Milwaukee, and charters have been made to arrive for Ashland at 90 cents, and 65 cents are paid to Duluth. Coal is more plenty, and boats are loaded with fair dis- patch, Judgé Coxe of the United States district court Monday handed down a decision in the case of the canal boat R. W. Potter against the schooner E. A. Nicholson and the tug James Adams, On September 8, 1885, while towed in by the Adams the Nicholson struck the Potter, doing consider- able damage, ‘The collision happened dur- ing asquall. The judge holds that the Nicholson and Adams were negligent. and that the libelant is entitled to a decree against them, and directs the clerk of court to compute the damage. The propeller Selah Chamberlain had only $6,000 insurance, none of which is held by the Bradley estate. In view of this it is thought possible that the estate will try to raise her, for she is worth $54,000 to them when afloat, but no insurance company will touch her for $6,000. The name of the colored cook drowned ; from the schooner John Kelderhouse, was | A, Millington. and he lived in Chicago, ! The mate and three seamen, who survived the foundering of the schooner George M, Case, arrived from Port Colborne. They leave for Chicago after signing a protest of loss. The schooner Red White and Blue has been surveyed and damages estimated at jabout $1800, She had a narrow escape, WM. HARBOR &PRINGS, The Belle Walbridge is in the barbor leak- jing badly. The Walbridge went ashore at probably be appointed master, while Mr. | his vessel at Buffalo, and he was preparing} which as near as could be remembered, was | Five Mill Point Thursday, and has a bad Ordner presided over the machinery. | to start for that port by rail when he re-| the Pern, of Chicago, holein her bottom, which has been canvased. During the height of the storm there were