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sages. spare = IX No. 17. CLEVELAND. O.. APRIL 28. 7 $2.00 PER ANNUM, SINGLE Coprgs 5 CENTS. AROUND THE LAKES. ee CLEVELAND. ‘Hon. Wiley M. Eagan, of Chicago, was in the city yesterday. ‘The tugs James Amadeus and Ida Sims are doing some boiler work, made neces- sary by recent tests of their boilers. The tug W. D. Cushing has been sold by. order of the court for $4,850, Palmer & Ben- ham being the nominal purchasers. The official number of the steamer Wiley M. Eagan is 81,143, her tonnage 1677.48 e gross, and her ‘home port Milwaukee, ‘The new steamer Horace A. Tuttle was surveyed and rated Tuesday at Barnhisel’s dock by insurance agents W. B. Scott and A. R. Manning. Captain George Berriman, this week, re- ceived a draft from W. M. Eagan for $100,- 000, part payment for the steamer sold to Eagan, Vance and others. The lighthouse board has issued a new list of the lights of the northern lakes and rivers, as also those in Cxnadijan waters, corrected up to the opening ot navigation. Captain Russe}l, of the schooner Sumatra, advises Captain George McKay that the ice at Marquette will waste away sufficiently to let vessels out to-day or by Saturday at the latest. _G. C. Barnes will put the tna shaking grate into all the new steamers building at this port. This grate is one of the really good things for the steamboat, and we do not hesitate to recommend it. Vessel transactions recorded during the week are the tug Tom Maytham, one-third, Wm. Kennedy to Collier & Logie, for $1,800 and tug Chas. Castle, one-third, W, A. Col- lier to Wm. Kennedy for $1,200, The schooner St. Lawrence, Captain Do- ville, has received a thorongh overhauling and repairs at the head of the old river bed, consisting of all new keelsons, new stan- chions, recalking and refastening. Mr, Charles Barron, for several seasons past chief engineer of the favorite excur- sion steamer Pearl, has resigned to accept the same position on the steamer City of Mi! waukee, plying between Milwaukee and Grand Haven. Michael Mullen, agent and dealer in Youghiegheny and Massillon coal, has gone into the coal business in the old central tug office, Perkins block, mear East Main street . bridge, where he will be found ready to coal steamers day and night. The appointments for the Smith tug line have been made and are as follows: Patrick Henry, Captain George Stephens; L. P- Smith, Captain Del Moffatt; James Ama- deus, Captain William Dwyer; S.S. Stone, Captain 8. T. Dwyer; N. P. Gates, Captain John Brown, The Chase fog whistle was tested last Sat- urday and worked admirably. Every one who is obliged to endure its musical noise can not but enjoy the regularity with which it blows the whistle. One of these machines has been placed on the Kasota, Tower, Wallula, Outhwaite, Fay, Henry Chisholm, D. P. Rhodes and Sheffield. Moore & Bartow’s new steamer Robert Rhodes will probably be launched on Tues- day, May 3, at Quayle’s Sons’ yard. She is counterpart of the Samuel Mather and both will make good records during the coming years, as they are classed with the best ton- nage on the lakes, The dimensions of the Robert Rhodes are: Over all 258 feet, keel 245 feet, beam 40 feet, depth 20 feet. Extensive improvements have been made to the steamer City of Detroit, Captain Me- Laughlin, at a cost of about $30,000 to $35,- 000. Principal among them are the remodel- ing of the cabin somewhat like that of the City of Cleveland, and putting in feathering wheels. This has increased her speed so that she will be able to make as good time between this port and Detroit as the City of Cleveland. the first time this season, looking well. The company has established a ticket office on She arrived here Monday for | | Bank street, which is in charge of the genial ticket. agent Mr. Jackson, and is a conven- ience both to the RTOS, public and the company. At the Cleveland Drydock the tug Paige had her iron rudder replaced by a wooden one, and shaft straightened. Her machinery was overhauled by the Globe tron Works Co. The scow J. U. Porter had her bottom calked. The tug Cushing was in for a new Trout wheel, During the winter the Cush- ing had her engines enlarged to 2014 by 22 inch. The Tempest was in dock for a new shoe and to have her shaft straightened. Three of Captain Thos. Wilson’s fleet were the first arrivals at Chicago from the lower lakes, the Wallula, Captain Wm. Car- lisle, Eugineer Robert McCutcheon, on one side of the Rush street bridge, and the Charlemagne Tower, Captain N. S. Murphy, Engineer George Averill, on the otker side, at 7:30 Tuesday.evening. At 8:30 the Ka- sota, Captain A. E. White, Engineer Charles Rice, which had the honor of being the first up boat through the straits, steamed up the river, followed an hour later by the steamer James Pickands. The circulars issued by the railroad com- panies inviting every one to give views and plans on the prevention of loss of life on railroads by fire have not only prompted a theory from the ‘‘Second Engineer,’’ but Mead & Thomson are striving to show that the thing can be done. A personal inspec- tion of their mechanism of heating cars must convince any one that they are on the right road, These gentlemen can heat cars or steamboats by a very simple device, one that will not be expensive, will not scald passen- gers instead of burning them, and which can be applied in an instant and detached as quickly. If we live the natural span of life it is short, and anything of this kind that will prevent death by painful accident should be adopted. A test of this principle will be made in the rooms over John Thom- son’s shop next week, and due notice will be given to all interested so that they may be present, Meteorological summary for the week ending April 27: Meansbarometer) 22). osteo t is ah 29 859 Mean “temperaturets(. 250. JA lees Che. 47-4 Mean ‘humidity 22. 22502. 0¢8. Ure 69.8 Total precipitation, inch,..,. Jc. -c-< ccne 1 0 3E Prevailing direction of wind, ...........South. Total wind movement........ .....-. -- 1843 PAY CLONGINCRS oe coat ciicpcein aia ael giciemininuey oe Ay, state of weather,...- -.-..-- ovoeD air, Max, temperature, highest.... ........-.66.0 Min temperature, lowest... - caen sere sre Wix1aM Linge, Sergt. Signal Corps, U. ‘é Hs SAND BEACH, Special to the Marine Record Navigation on Lake Huron may be said t be thoroughly open now. ‘The propeller Atlantic, which left Detroit Monday, April 1¥, came up the lake without much trouble Wednesday, and after about two hours’ work, pushed her way into the dock, and, after a short stay, proceeded on her way up the lake, but stuck in the ice in Thunder Bay for several days. Several steambarges, with tows, have the propeller A. B. Taylor, Saturday, was sighted eight miles off this port. The Taylor, which was lying here weather-bound, brought her in, The two men aboard had a rough experience, having been thirty six hours withont food. CHICAGO, Special to the Marine Record. The shipchandlers, sail makers, and vessel supply storekeepers have been having a busy time fitting out and providing for the large grain fleet which is this week leaving this port for the lower lakes, and O. 8. Rich- ardson & Co., and other coal merchants have been kept hard at it, night and day, coaling up the steam vessels prior to their leaving. A collision occurred as the Wallula was coming up the river, with the schooner Cape Horn, going down, near the Illinois Central railroad bridge. The tug J. C. Ingram, towing the Cape Horn, tried to pass between. the Wallulaand the barge Stephenson, lying at a dock. The Wallula struck the Cape Horn amidships, carrying away some of her rail and stanchions, and the Cape Horn car- ried away the Stephenson’s mizzen rigging and her own head gear and martingale. ~ Captain M. A. Gunderson’s schooner Ra- cine is getting new ceiling and timbers aft, new hatch combings, recalking and painting. The T. W. Harvey line will be commanded as follows: Schooner Delos de Wolf, Captain A. J. Brown; schooner H. H. Badger, Cap- tain John Bailey; schooner Adirondac, Cap- tain "Robert Blackburn; steambarge St. Jo- }. seph, Captain John Conley; engineer, James McGuirk. The H. H. Badger has received new ceiling and plank sheer, decks calked, and a general overhauling, the Delos de Wolf and Adirondac a thorough overhaul- ing, and all have received new coats of paint. The St. Joseph is at Manitowoc., receiving a thorough rebuild. The tug Uncle Sam is receiving new stan- chions, bulwarks, rail, wearing piece, and general repairs; the tug Flossie Thielcke new decks and ceiling, new lower fender strake and general repairs. The propeller J, C. Perret, Captain Thos. Chron, was in one of the Chicago Drydock Co.s’ docks Tuerday, having her bottom calked and stern bearing fixed. She looks elegantly in her new dress coat of paint. She left Wednesday for Menominee with barges Witbeck, Wm. Grandy, and Empire State, and will call at Manitowoc on her way down for the barges D. L. Filer and F.S. Robinson, which have been rebuilt at that port during the winter months. The first of the lower lake fleet to reach Chicago was the steamer Wallula. She ar- rived.at 7 o’clock Monday evening and was followed by the steamers Charlemagne Tower, Kasota, James Pickands. After steaming through the Straits they en- countered but little drift ice although the wind was blowing hard from the west. They had a quick run up Lake Michigan. Masters of the steamers think vessels will have no further trouble in passing through the Straits. The first of the grain fleet that left were the Nipigon, Wayne, Melbourne, passed up. The first tows to take refuge in| Vernon, Red White and Blue, C, C. Barnes, the harbor were the Yosewite and one, and| F. M. Knapp, D. Ballentine, Northwest, L. Westford and three, A force of men are engaged in fitting out | the government boats for the season’s cam- paign, and it is expected that work will be- gin about the first of May. The tugs Angler and Fishermen are fish- ing from this port. Last Saturday while out on Saginaw Bay lifting nets, in the heavy gale, the Fishermen lost her rudder and was totally disabled. The Angler towed her into pert, but parted nearly all her lines while doing so. The life saving station went into commis- sion the 15th. Keeper, D. E. Dues;’ surf- men, Charles Lebow, James McCash, Ed Prescott, Ben Teno, Eugene Brown, Albert Brown, John E. Tucker, Hugh Reynolds, LurFr, SOUTH HAVEN. The tug Jennie King, which parted from A. Law, James Mowatt, Mediator, Lake Forest, Charles Luling, E. B. Hale, John Martin, Sandusky, John B, Lyon, J. M. Hutchinson, J. F. Eddy, T. W. Palmer, Escanaba, Josephine, Rhoda Emily, B. W. Blanchard, Iron City, 8. M. Stephenson, N. K, Fairbanks, At Miller Bros.’ shipyard the sloop yacht Frolic was in dock for a new center board box; the barge Butcher Boy to have a leak stopped; the canal boat Ellen C’Connell for some new plank forward; the schooner Im- perial to have her bottom calked; tug Wm. Rollar fur a new wheel; tug Kitty O’Neil and schooner Lone Star to have leak stop- ped; tug Union for repairs to her shoe and rudder; the schooner Trowbridge received a new jibboom; the schooner I. M. Forest a the schooner Rockaway a new WILLIAMS, new topmast; foremast, BUFFALO, Special to the Marine Record, Business is brisk at the drydocks. There are at the Union dock the steambarge City of Cleveland, and schooners Adams and Annie Voght. At the Mills’ docks are the propeller Commodore and steambarge Ore- gon. The former will be ready to come out in a week, but the latter will be in two weeks. Her iron arches are in. A report has reached us from Detroit that some of the winter-storage cargoes are af- fected with weevil,and that many of the Buffalo elevators will refuse to receive said cargoes, but it is thought that those which, are badly affected will be discharged at De- troit before they leave, for examination and then reshipped if the condition be not too bad. Captain Thos, Wilson, of Cleveland, was in town Tuesday on business. He is one of the arbitrators in the case of the H. J. Jew- ett and the Anchor line boat, for assistance last fall when the Jewett lost her rudder on Lake Michigan. He returned to Cleveland without action in the case, which has = postponed for the present. The shipments of hard coal have ‘beat mote lively this week. Sbippers appear to have taken a different view of the inter-state law, and are taking all the tonnage that is offered at the opening rates, 75c. Canal freights are stiff at 6c; boatmen are asking more. The new steamer building at Mills’ acd ef to be named the Lackawanna, and will be commanded by Captain Peter Kenny, late of the Colorado. She will be launched next week. She is fine. WM. The propeller Lansing and four-masted schooner Wadena, the latter in tow of the Spokane, arrived on Saturday, all with heavy grain cargoes, The schooner Typo, which came in about lo’clock Sunday from Detroit, has the honor of being the first to arrive under sail. Captain Crosthwait, has chartered the Isaac May tow for the season. The May and Muskoka are now at Chicago. They will probably run in the Canadian cedar trade. The Express says coal shippers look rue. tully on as the early fleet nears Chicago be- fore May 1st. All coal that isin stock there on that date must stand a city tax of fully 20 cents a ton. It was not thought that the fleet would get there in time to be assessed when it was loaded. . Captain J. J. Rardon, of Crosby & Rardon, Chicago, vessel brokers, is in Buffalo pre- paring to move to the formercity. He states that the outside insurance companies are doing a large business and are quite as well equipped for it as the pool companies. The propeller Oneida was sold by Lorenzo Dimick to John Maxwell of Washburn for $25,000, and it is understood that the same buyer takes the barge R. J. Carney of Cap- tain James Davidson for $8,000. The two will be put together in the lumber trade. Captain Sam Thornton will sail the Oneida. BAY CITY. Lumber freights have been fixed by the charter of the barge Ketchum, to load lum- ber at Sage & Company’s docks for the Ex- port Lumber Company at Buffalo. The rate is $2.50 per thousand, the amount that ves- sel owners have demanded an@ which they deen just and equitable, considering the condition of grain, ore, and coal freights. The rate of freight from Saginaw River ports, on the basis of this charter, are as fol- lows: Bay City to Buffalo, $2.50; Bay City to Tonawanda, 2.50; Bay City to Ohio ports, 2.00; Saginaw to Buffalo, 2.75; Saginaw to Ohio ports, 2.25. Captain Mitchell has sold the tug Music to Loudon and others of East Saginaw. She will tow the barges G. W. Davis, W. L. Peck, and Commodore in the lumber trade, It is said the interstate commerce Jaw has stopped the shipping of salt by rail from the Saginaw Valley toChicago. It will have to be carried by boat. The Michigan Central road alone has hauled about 1,000,000 barrels | a year. paved