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Page. j|red over white, At Fish dock there will be |@ range from the mill on Walpole island PoRTE ; pr eth dock, after soe you iit ow etorm Aun. | ange running you to the Canada clu a snow storm Sun-/| house, foot of Herson’sisland. ‘The lights eason; rather a| will be the same as last season until further navigation. | notice, with the exception of those on Fish | dock, which last season were a red over a white on the same stake; this year will be a red over a white range. aye The City of New Baltimore left Baltimore Bae! Asis to day, the 28th, for Detroit, and will be the hant, is to load a bulkhead first passenger boat of the season, ice per- ushels of wheat, at Green | mitting. Bos. g of navigation; no rate of ; ed. Civkaleeae ss > a8 rt Northwest, st of grain car- OSWEGO. Special to Marine Record. has been| Following additional appointments have topmnasts aie been‘ made: Samana, Captain Jno, Graham; eohsort Willie Kellar, Captain Fred Prichard; Blaz- ing Star, Captain Edward Comerford; White Star, Captain Wm: Griffin; Mystic Star nd main 1 t will serve as Bath tokarsseeia itt _ |side parties, and W. I, Preston, have not mer Merrimac, isin drydock at! been given out. vidson’s, to be ironed off at light} Captain B. Chambers has removed his he will also be thoronghly re-| family to Cleveland to reside there. hs Lewis. at BUFFALO. ‘Captain Ed. Lohr of Detroit, who is to sail he schooner Redwing is in port, The tug} The underwriters state that no move o on their boxes for a thorough | towards forming a hull pool has been made, epairs to City of New York, are| and deny the report from Chicago last week ( pleted, as are also repairs to st-am- | that a meeting was held there. er Keystone and schooner Watson. Wolf &| Crosthwaite & Case have leased the Ca- avidson’s mammoth is growing steadily |nadian propeller Isaac May and consorts and with ood weather she will grow faster} Muskoka and Waubaushene for a term of than anything of her size around the lakes. | years with the privilege of buying. They Captain S. W. Cramer, has gone home to| Will bring lumber from Georgian Bay to Tonawanda, on a visit, but is expeeted back | Buffalo. The Severn, formerly of this tow, this week. Captain John Dudcleson, of the | has been sold to the Michael’s Bay Lumber F. & P. M. No. 2, will leave shortly for De-|Company. The May. tow is receiving gen- troit, to assame command of the new No, 8, | eral repairs. of the same line. He will appear in uniform,} The Express says there were numerous this season and that same pleases John all|rumors on the street. that coal charters toa right. But he says that his better half|grenter or less extent had been made, dissaproves of it. ‘Thinks it is entirely to| though all but one nominal transaction was haudy, gaudy ete., but Superintendent |denied. The Pennsylvania coal company Keeler’s word is law. has made an arrangement with Captain I notice that Captain Ben Chambers, is to} Thomas Wilson to load the propeller W. A. sail the schooner Marie Martin, under the| Avery and consort H, A. Hawgood for Chi- new owners. They made a good selection, | cago at their leisure. The boats will go to Fat Ben has no superior either as captain or | dock at once. They are to have opening him success from the first trip to the last. Captain Mart Swain, will shortly ad M. D., to his official signature. He began the study of medicine, some time agoina quiet, unobtrusive manner and lately he has begun to air his knowledge and expound his theories, with all the ardor of a true disciple of Galen and the gall of an ox, considerably to the sorrow of one of our Milwaukee captains. Captain Conard Starke, has gone to the Hot Springs, for the benefit of his health. Japtain MeGregor, will sail the steamer Ballentine this season. Fred Starke, is getting lean and Meyer is getting himself together for his season’s sail- ing. His studies during the past winter have fitted him for sailing the sand scow as long asshe lies at anchor; in fact, iti he will get out newspapers this spring; but I must close this missive to go np and help him adjust his charts, so, vale for the pres- ent. CaprTain Kipp, MARINE CITY. Special to the Marine Record. Saturday, March 28 is the date of the first in the trade. We must say, without any arrival from Detroit, across Lake St. Clair disparagement to others in the same line of nor did it | business, that this establishment is surely a to Algonac, it being a small tug, experience much trouble in getting through, The Edward Smith went to Port Huron to receive a new wheel, but the dock being too short to dock her, the enterprise was abandoned and she returned the same after- noon. The tug Roy went to St, Clair and brought down the barge Wm. Case, lately purchased by Captains C. H. & J. W. Westcott; con- a gentleman, and all of us up this way ‘wish | rates. q| bawser, received by Howard H. Baker, from eat. Valley, and Union Steamboat Company Your correspondent was shown a large the best cebu-Manilla hemp, made specially for the steamer John B. Lyon. This hawser is 140 fathoms in length, four stranded 914 inches in circumference and weighs 2600 lbs., and is certainly a daisy to look at. ‘They have also one Jarge hawser ready for the steam- barge Potomac. They sold over fifty of these large hawsers, last year, and expect to dis- pose of double that number during the com- ing season. ‘This certainty speaks well for the grade of rope handled by this concern. Their sail loft department, which is under the supervision of Provost’s Sons, is also full of orders for sails, flags, awnings, and tents of various kinds. They do the entire sail making work for the Anchor line, Lehigh which, with all their other orders, keep a large gang of men employed during the sea- son of navigation. They import direct, all their nautical instruments of which they carry a large assortment, and handle, no doubt, a greater variety than any other house a model of its kind, and they certainly de- serve all the success which has followed them to their preseut comfortable quarters. THE 8TRAITS. Special to the Marine Record. When will the Straits open, seems to be a question that interests a good many people about this time of year. If one could tell what kind of weather we are to have for the sideration, $2,200. Captain J. W. Westcott | xt month it would be very easy to tell has bought the barge Magnet, formerly the| when the Straits would open. renowned Packer. A great many persons are predicting an early open- The City of New Baltimore is billed from |ing; but why they should make any such Detroit to Marine City on Tuesday, the 29th. | prediction is more than your correspondent If successful she will make tri-weekly trips | can see. between Detroit and Marine City. There is quite a difference of opinion as to from 18 to who is going to control the Star line steam- ere, landing at this port. The new boiler shop of Wm. Love is about completed at this port. Acting as reporter for the well known | was a week ago. A large number of teams ReEcorD, of Cleveland, we deny having any- thing to do with the local in the Marine City colomn pertaining to the purchase and sale | three weeks before boats can get through e steamer Mary. It was handed us for | above here. sea amen ine columns of the Rec-| and we have no reason to expect any other, and on investigation we find it a piece | boats will not be able to get through before McElroy’s } April 20, or later. ORD, of maliciousness on the partof Mr, friends, As soon as needed the range lights at the St. Clair Flats will be put in operation, the There is certainly nothing at pres ent to warrant such an opinion. ‘The ice is 28 inches thick, clear and solid. Much thicker than it was last year at this time. The weather for the past week has been very cold and windy, and instead ot the ice being weaker it is stronger than it are engaged hauling lumber trom here, straight across to Mackinac island, where the ice is usually unsafe to cross on from one to With ordinary spring weather, The Algomah was nearly four hours making a crossing last night. is very cold to-night, and the mercury probably go below zero before morning. s Stimpson, | It} will | of irou ore. Record. ; PORT HURON. Special to the Marine Record. _ Dunford & Alverson, shipbuilders, have been busy all the winter, and have kept about ninety steadily employed when the weather would permit. The steambarge C. F. Curtis, owned by the T. §. & T. Co., ‘Toledo, was in drydock, and was lengthened 24 feet amidshipa; the steambarge George King was on dock and received a rebuild, comprising new keelaons, new cants for- ward and aft, deck frames and decks, stanch- ions and rail, new strake of plank all around, new iron arches 24 inches wide, and re- calked all over; the schooner Unadilla was in dock and received new keelsons, refasten- ing and calking all over; the I’. S. & T. Co.’s steambarge Tempest is in dock for bottom ealking and a new Tront wheel; the barge Hanerford is receiving new deck frames and decks, : Love & Schofield, boiler makers, are building a steel marine boiler, 7 by 13, for the tug Crawford, Toledo. They are also building two steel marine boilers 8 feet 6 incher by 14 feet, of 9-16ths plat», tor the propeller Dean Richmond, owned: by the Botsford Bros., of this port. ‘They have just completed a steel boiler, 6 by 12, tor the steamer Clara, of St. Clair. They also built, recently, a steel boiler, 6 by 12, for the steamer Massassauga. Captain IT. H. Roche, formerly of the schooner Imperial, of Manitowoc, is here, fitting out his new command, the schooner H.C. Richards, She is loaded with coal for Milwaukee, : Captain Thorpe, formerly of the Levia- than, is here and has given his new com-. mand, the steambarge Jim Sheriffs, some necessary repairs, and a coat of paint, which makes her look black to everyone who is not color blind. pees Fitzgerald’s Drydock Iron’ Works have been putting in good shape the boilers and machinery of. the propellers C. F, Curtis, J. C. Pringle, Tempest, Oscoda, Ogema, Porter Chamberlain, Geo. King, Jim Sher_ iffs, Arnold, Hubbel, Kalkaska, Mary and. Clara, and the tugs Jas. Reid, Sprite, 8S. E. Curtis, W. B. Castle and River Queen. The scow 8. E. Curtis, owned by Captain D. C. Curtis, is being convertedinto a steam scow. Her engine, 13 by 13, and boiler, 514 by 9 are on board, and her Trout, wheel 414 diameter, is on, and her boiler and engine and pilot house are being built. Le Blare, the boatbuilder,'is building two fine yawls for the new steambarge building at Trenton for Alger Smith & Co., one for the ‘Tonawanda Barge Line Co.’s new barge, building at Mt. Clemens, and one for the barge David Wallace, of Cleveland. The Phouix Iron Works are building a Scotch type steel boiler, 12 by 12%, for the tug Alanson Sumner, owned by Gilchrist & Fletcher, Alpena; a steel fire box boiler, 814 by 14, tor the steambarge Philetus Saw- yer, owned by Hagen & English, Green Bay, Wis.; a, steel fire box boiler, 8 by 14, for W. D. & H. C. Richards, of Manitowoc, Wis., for a steamboat building there for | them. WILLIAMS. Captain Geel is ona business trip to Toledo and Cleveland, and may extend it to Buffalo. The captain has something on the string, Captain Nelson Little has had his crew to De- troit giving testimony in the case of schooner Mari n W, Paige, colliding with the barge Sag- inaw on Lake Huron last fall. Yacht Sprite has put in her appearance here to do odd jobs of towing etc, B. W. Parker of Detroit, was in the City on business. The Phoenix Iron Works are building a boiler for C. D. & H. D. Richards, of Manitowoe, tor their new steam barge not named yet. The new Scotch boiler being built at the Pheonix is the first one built in Port Huron, and Mr, Archie Wright, the foreman, is confident he can get there. Ed J. Kendall, the marine reporter, will be found in new quarters, in the office formerly occupied by the Moffat Tug Line. The barge J. W. Hanaford is at Dunford & Alverson’s dock to receive new deck beams, decks and spars aud a general calking, at an ex- pense of about $2,500, J. W. Thoossou has purchased the cargo of coal that was unloaded out of the Unadilla, Thie makes the second that Mr. Thomson has bought this winter. JAY. TRENTON. Special to the Marine Record. At Craig’s yard there are two large steamships building, one of which will be ready on May 1 and the other September 1. The first is for Al- ger, Smith & Co, She isa double-decker, 205 feet keel, 36 feet beam and 20 feet deep. She will be used asa freight carrier, and will also assist in raft towing. The second has uo owner yet, excepting her builder. Her dimensions are: Length over all, 265 feet; beau., 40 feet; depth, 24 feet. Her capacity will be 2,300 gross tons WILLIAMS, SABNIA, Special lo the Marine Record. Captain E, B, Anderson, commander of the Cunada Pacific Co.’s fine passenger steamship Alberta, left this port Monday morning for Owen Sound to tako charge of the Alberta and have her put in good condition for the coming season, 3 WILLIAMS, TOLEDO. : * Special to the Marine Record. . ' Barge Brooklyn has been towed down to. Smith’s dock, where she is receiving new stanchions, rail, planksheer and other neces-— sary repairs. Bare as: .Tug J. A. Crawford is on Gilmore’s dry- dock. She leaves for Port Huron next. week to receive a new boiler Captain E. Winchester has bought a one- eighth interest in the schooner Maumee, Valley; consideration, $700. M. D. Carrington, well known in marine | circles, and owner of the Geo, W. Adams, and Davtd Dows, died at Marseilles, France, , last week. His remains will be brought here for burial. ; Tugs A. W. Colton, A. Andrews, Jr., Mary A. Green and Farragut are being painted up and getting ready for the sea-. son’s business. The northeast gale of wind Sunday raised the water to the top of the docks, four feet. above the natural stage, 4 The followiug appointments have been made of the Toledo fleet for 1887: Pro- pellers John U. Gault, Captain F. Wetmore; Russell Sage, Captain H. Root; A. L. Hop- kine, Captain W. Cotrell. Schooners Geo, | W. Adams, Captain Chas. N. DeOtt; David Dows, Captain Geo. Otter; St. Peter, Ca Jt | The schooners S. 4 and Snowball are builds) or eae The tugs North Muskegon, and Jack Berry will have fi year. ted ae A severe snow storm visit the 27th inst. hes There has been one new mill built here and C. D. Nelson’s old mill which was idle last summer, will run this season. Pros- pects are good for a lively time among the lumber men, We have about forty-five saw- mills and shingle mills in this port. Mus- kegon is called the largest lumbering town in the world, bl 2 . FRANKFORT. Special to the Marine Record, Navigation opened March 10 by the pro- peller J. D. Dewar making a round trip to Manistee. Pierhead light was resumed March 15, and March 16, the steamer Geo. D..Sanrord wentinto commission, making trips between Frankfort and Manistee, — ‘ Tug John Smith, Oaptain Thomas Ru- deck, having received a thorough rebuild at Manistee, arrived here in good shape on the 18th. She will engage in fishing. Tug D. P. Hall got up steam and broke a p'issage to the steamboat dock on the 23d. ‘ She made a run in the vicinity of Manitou islands and engaged in fishing. Tug John | Smith set her nets the same day. } Harrison Miller, the newly appointed keeper of Point Betsy life-saving station, is here and will open the station April 1st. Captain Thomas E. Matthews will be in command of the new Frankfort station. Tug Potowattamie will fish at this port the coming season. She is expected here from Mil waukee soon, BURMEISTER, SELDOM FOUND AMONG THE MA- RINE NEWs. That captains often are at sea, when they sf least think ot it. Vessel owners and cap- : tains are in search every spring for a re- liabie firm of whom they can procure equip- ments for their bedding as: (33" Sheets, Pillowcases, Tablelinens, Napkins, Blankets, Comfortables, Towels etc. and we, Kohn & sae Company, proprietors of Boston dry goods store, 218 Detroit street, near corner Pearl ; street, Cleveland are fully prepared to { furnish {39~ at short notice the above named ; articles. (3 Owing to our extensive m»nu- 4 tacturing of all kinds of £3 navy blue Flan- ; nel Shirts we have in steady employment i seamstresses to attend the same promptly. bi t# Let it be known toevery mariner, that ig we are the ("only retailers in this city, who manufacture all Flannel Shirts, single and double breast, scarlet Flannel Undershirts and Drawers, Overalls, Jean Pants, we keey in stuck aud are sold over our counters, Our new cutter 69 will tuke measures for first class Custom work iu Cassimere Suits ete., and all above named working men’s gare ments to which invites Kohn & Company, 213 Detroit, street near corner of Pearl street, Cleveland O,