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VOL. VIII. NO. 54. “AROUND THE LAKES. CLEVELAND. . John Thomson has gone to Boston to meet relatives from the old country. The steamer Columbia, laid up at this ‘ port, is having new bottoms put in the big flues of her boiler. The engine for the Harvey Brown steel steamer at the Globe iron yard is being set up at the Globe Iron Works. The Ranney is having new insides put into new fire boxes all around and the ma- chinery a general overhauling, The engine for Messrs. Moore & Bartow’s new steamer at Quaye’s yard has been fin- ished at Globe Iron Works and sent to the shipyard to be placed in the hull, * CHICAGO. Special to the Marine Record. George C. Finney, Captain D. P. Craae chased the one-half interest of Messrs. she is now entirely owned in Chicago. Captain Crane made considerable money with her in the season ju-t passed, and on Tuesday refused to load her at 6 cents per bushel. She classes Al, and is in splendid condition for next season’s work, and we wish them great success, James Sheriffs, of the Vulcan Iron Worke, Milwaukee, was in this city Tuesday, on business. Captain Wm. Chamberlain, of the steam- i , i barge Jim Sheriffs, arrived at Chicago, his ee Captain Fred Grocb, tug and steamboay | home, on Monday from Port Huron, where E : owner, and Captain William Wheeler of the | he had laid up the Sherifts. steamer Norma, of Sandusky, were in the| ‘The following is a correct list of vessels city yesterday. chartered and either loaded or getting ready pe _The Marine Engineer Beneficial Associa- | to load, up to Tuesday, Dee, 21, at Chicago tion held its first meeting last Thursday and South Chicago: night. There was a good attendance and | Steamship Monteagle, corn at......... -.51¢¢ much business of importance was done. Schooner City of Green Bay, corn at...... 5 bge Schooner Chester B, Jones, corn.......... 5hec The Cleveland drydock has a gang of men | Schooner C. C. Barnes, COrm 22... Jao. sa0-546C at work on the schooner Shawnee, putting | Schooner E, C, Hutchinson, corn..... . -.5/¢¢ in new frames fo ot : Schooner E. L, Coyne, corn. .........-.- 5ige Fi of the West i bet and aft. The Queen Schooner F. L. Danforth, corn.,..2...-.-.5'¢ ¥ : ‘Is getting new floors and hatch | Schooner Manitowoc, corn...... .... .2.-.6516C Ae combings. Schooner Mystic Star, corm......-.. v-... 5c = W. W...Waterbury, engineer of the penowuee af B, jtaare*, OOM. shoe veces 536 Oneida, was i i ; Schooner Sweetheart, corn.............- 5Ae ; Way. to his h a gorge yesterday, vgceaes Schooner White Star, se 5 ete BA --5 gc y ts home. r. Waterbury is one Of | Schoone, C. P, Minch, wheat............5%0¢ i the men whose example, not only as a me- | Schooner ( heney Ames, wheat..-....--.-- 6c chanic, but as a man, should be followed. Schooner Melbourne, fiaxseed.......--..-- 6¢ Strict bill of lading. As the amount of carrying capacity of vessels in Chicago this tall is one million and a half less than last fall, that there is considerable more grain in the elevators than at this time last year, and that about 400 cais of corn and 300 of wheat are arriving daily, freights opght to be better than for mauy years, Captain G. E. Mapes, of Detroit, will spend a few weeks in this city visiting friends. Captain Mapes has sold his little schooner Ferret for good value and is now without a quarter deck, Mr. C. G, Orth is having a new engine 5x6 built for his yacht the C. Gorth, anda Scotch boiler. This improvement will add much to the speed of the yacht. With the little 4x4 engine that was in the yecht last year she could make the distance between Cleveland and Rocky River in one hour. L. Cooper Overman, major of engineers U.S. A., hus opened the bids for furnishing material and constructing 1,500 feet of the breakwater east of the river at Cleveland. The iron furnishing is given to the Lake Erie Iron Co., of Cleveland, and the timber furnishing and work to C. E. Williame, of Buffalo, whose bid was $110,815.54, The Joliet Steel Company receives daily large quantities of iron ore from Ashland by rail, Yhe schooner Cheney Anies is getting new decks at South Chicago, prior to her taking on her cargo of whear, The Lehigh Valley line steamships Clyde, H..E. Packer and Fred Mercur, laid up at this port, are having a thorough overhaul- ing and calking, under the superintendence of W. F. Gregory, chief engineer of the line. At Miller Bios.’ drydocks the steamship Australasia is in dock for recalking all over; Duft,.of Duff & Gatfield, from the Lime | the steambarge Manistique was in for some Kiln crossing, were in the city list week. | repairs to her steru and forefoot; tug Alert Mr. Parker chartered the propeller B. W.| in to bave her rudder fixed; the schooner Blanchard to the Ogaensburg line for two | Golden Fleede for a survey and necessary years for the sum of $32,000: The charter- repiirs. She has a new mizzen mast at the ing party pays everything except insurance | derrick; the tug Union was at the derrick and takes all risk of collision. The placing | and had her stern bearing fixed. of the propeller Waverly is on the same| At the Chicago drydock company’s the cerms: schooner Cuyahoga was in for some néw keel forward and aft; a stern post and calk ing; the tug Parker for new ironing; the propeller Cormorant was in for calking bot- tom, ceiling and deck, a piece of new keel | forward and some repairs; the schooner Mr. A. A. Parker, of Detroit, and Mr. TWO RIVERS, A The schooner Annie O. Hanson, lumber laden from Frankfort, for Milwaukee, in tow of the tug Gregory, ran ‘ashore during a blinding snow storm, about four miles north of that place, at 7 o'clock (Friday evening. The tug ‘succeeded im niaking port and notified the life saving crew of the peril of those on boaid the Hanson. They immediately repaired to the wreck and suc- ceeded after several attempts in rescuing the crew, seven in number, at 8 o’clock Saturday morning. The night was bitterly Wayne have received necessary repairs; the ; schooner Julia B. Merrill has had her masts taken out at the ,derrick and will go into dock and receive an extensive rebuild. Captain John Wright, of the schooner John C. Baine, of Milwaukee, arrived at Chicago Tuesday. ‘He will stare for the cold and the sufferings of the life savers and | south on Thursday to spend the winter. He shipwrecked seamen were intense.. The | takes with hind his wife and seven relatives; vessel lies only a few hundred feet from the | quite a jolly party. wreck of the steamer Grace Patterson, is The steambarge Charles Reitz, Captain ‘ full of water, and deeply imbedded in quick- | David Curran, arrived last Friday morning eS sand. Sbe will probably prove a total loss, | from Manistee with salt and lumber. She The Annie O. Hanson, 185 tone, was built | is lying up here. at Depere by Sorenson in 1869 and rebuilt; P-H. Finney, of the firm of Beckwith & in 1882. She was owned at Manistee and | Fleming, vessel agente, has been enabled tu valued at $6,000, class A2. return to business. He suffered about three gre aoe td * " and James Mowatt, of Chicago, have pur- Wolf & Davidson, Milwaukee, in the fine schooner James Mowatt for $15,000, so that ‘CLEVELAND. O.. DECEMBER i} J. B. Wilbur and Eagle Wing and the barge | | Special to the Marine Record. | creek during the week has been kept open | through calking and doing the needed re- $2.00 PER ANNUM / SINGLE Copies 6 Canta 23. 4886. It is reported that the Parker Tr; nsporta-’ tion Company, of Detroit, have purchased from Smith, Davis & Company the schoon- er Red Wind foraconsort to the Annie Smith, owned by that company. The dam- : ‘ age is not mentioned ag yet, An offer of #55,000 has been made H. A. Packer but was refused. It looks very promising for sharp trading and exchange of vessel interests this winter. A great many inquiries are being made 4 about steim tonnage and those who are look- en ing in that direction think the sooner the ren Arges is made the more favorable it will. é ; eZ The number of vessels of all kinds in the. port of Buffalo is not larger than it has been in some previous winters, but for the num. weeks from a very bad abscess, which has now healed up, Nothing has been done by the ore car- riers, They have been, in the habit of ob- taining high rates, and at present writing shippers are not straining themselves in their efforts to secure vessel room, The Northwestern road is now bringing into Chicago 500 tons of ore per day, and this may account, in no small measure, for the | apathy manifested by the shippers. It is believed that an offer of $1.40 per ton, at present, would capture the entire ore fleet in port. 4 The Lehigh Valley Transportation Com- pany will add several propellers to their fleet this winter. Captain W. E. Ladner will act as master for the. é of the steambarge Ida M. Torrent as soon as| ber then isa greater amount of ‘tonnage navigation opens. He succeeds George W. | than there has been for several years past Pardee, very desirable class. Oe Dak one Captain Peter Kiolbassa, whose term as marine enrolling and license clerk at the custom house will expire Dec. 31, will be superseded by M. J. Griffin. W. B. Dimick, the wrecking-master of the Continental Insursnee Company, of Buffalo, passed through Chicago Tuesday on his way to the wreck of the schooner Metropo- lis at Old Mission. He will attempt to sell her cargo of pig iron where it lies in eleven feet of water. Captain William F. Mitchell’s one third interest in the schooner City of Sheboygan, under a foreclosure of a mortgage resting on it, last Friday passed to F. Herhold, who, with his brother, now owns all there is left of the vessel. The City of Sheboygan on November 6 struck a rock near Detour and sank. The severity of the weather pre- vented a successful attempt at saving her. The new boats under construction fort are fast taking shape, —__ Agents Linsted & Owen, ot tl Central, bave perfected arrang the lease next season by that road o propellers Newburg, Waverly, c ard, and St. Paul. The contracts ea drawn up, and are to be signed by the pro- _ per railroad officers at a meeting here next __ week with the owners of the boats. The oe | Newburg is to get $17,000 and the others $16,000 for the seasou’s work between Chi- cago and Ogdensburg. The Pridgeon has been rechartered by the Vermont Central people; thus getting a line of eight boats with the Frost, Haskell, and Averell. The amount of grain and flour received at . Buffalo by lake during the season ot 1886 has been exceeded but once in the history of Buffalo; that was during the season of 1880, yet in 1878 and 1879 more grain of all kinds was received than in 1886. Every year shows increased milling facilities out west, and a consequent increase in the movement of flour. In 1886 there was an increase of 1,381,432 bbls of floor over 1885, Conipared with the year last named, there was an in- crease of 13,694,930 bushels of wheat, an in- crease of 5.249.068 bushels of corn, an in- crease of 174,257 bushels of oats, an increase of 186,167 bushels of barley, and decre asof 86,879 bushels of rye. The total increase in all grain over [885 is 19,217 548 bushels, and in all grain, flour reduerd to wheat, 26,124,- 703-bushels. ‘The receipts ot lumber com- pared with 1885 show an increase of 46,656,- 952 feet; in lath and shingles there is also a large increase, but a decrease in staves, B. Smith, who lately retired from the in- surance firm of Smith, Davis & Company, has sold to E. P. Hollister and A. B. Cottier, of the same firm, his third interest in each of the steamers City ot Rome and ff. D. Coffinberry, and consorts Redwing and Newcomb, the aggregate consideration be- ing about $75,000. ‘The new propeller now being built by R. Mills & Company is all in’ frame. They ure progressing rapidly with the Strapping, the frame is of excellent quality of timber and well proportioned. ‘This vessel will be a very desirable business boat and if the de- sign is fully carried out she will be a barge anda propeller build somewhat of a de- parture from the old rule, The new steel boat or ship for the Union steamboat company ta beginning to take shape; her midship frames are wel] along, WM. Captain Ira H. Owen, the promoter of the recently chartered Owen Line, has returned from Cleveland where a steel steamer is be- ing built for the company by the Globe [ron Works Company. The new company will meet in Chicago some time this week and elect its officers. Captain OC, W. Elphicke buried his young- est son Wilbur Judd Elphicke, aged 5 years and 1 month, at Graceland cemetery on ‘Tuesday. WILLIaMs. BUFFALO, We have but litthe news these days especially from lake marine quarters, Our by the exertions of the tugs, which have been placing boats in their winter quarters from day to day, as they get ready to get their chains out. Nota few of them have been in the drydock to stop leaks and get their bottoms calked and slight repairs. There are boats here that will make quite extensive repairs during the winter. The City of Rome was in dock for several days» She came out on Friday, afiera pairs preparatory for spring business, Propeller Buffalo just came out of dock atter calking and a thorough examination of bottom and was towed to her winter quarters. V. H. Ketchum, Captain George Mallory, is here and it is said will make extensive re- pairs during the winter of which mention will be made. hereafter as the work -pro- gresses. The steambarge D. M. Wilson, is now in one of the Union docks and will make con- siderable repairs, the Wilson has had a streak of uncommon bad lIneck this season, having been ashore at least two or three times and has had five different masters during the season of navigation. We might be pardoned in using the adage. “Too many cooks spoil the broth.’’ We are having quite a busy time amongst the boats, and carpenters will have plenty of business this winter if the weather proves | favorable for out of door work. LORAIN. The Thowas Gawn will receive new deck and other necessiry repairs at this port this | winter. The lumber barge Richard Martini has been hauled out at the old furnace dock and will be lengthened twenty feet and will come out as a steambarge next season, BELLEVILLE, The schooner Belle, owned by Henry Smith, of this city, which was frozen in near Masassauga Point, was burned on the night of the 8th.