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a ete -of the Argonaut, has been appointed master OW Olee Ld LO. SOs ENGINEERING “AN'D. ae. CLEVELAND. O.. JUNE 30, 1887. = $2.00 Park ANNUM SinGLe Copme 5 Cenmrs AROUND THE LAKES. CLEVELAND. Paptain Edward N. Ellis has been made master of the schooner Minnehaha. The Northerner is in the Cleveland dry- dock for the completion of her rebuild. Wm. Radcliffe is double decking the pro- peller Handy Boy, the recent purchase of the Kelley Island Lime Co. Grover & Son will furnish the outfit of the steel steamer Wiley M. Eagan. They commenced putting in the spars Tuesday. Captain Robert Hayes, four years master of the Escanaba, and Captain P. Caniff master of the Argonaut. Mr. Radcliffe is building a fishing tug for Mr. Smith, engineer at Weideman & Kenvs, The new tug will be 48 feet keel, 54 feet over al], 11 feet beam and 5 feet hold. She will be supplied with old machinery, and is to be ready in three weeks. The new steel steamer, Ira H. Owen, will be launched on Thursday, the 7th of July, at the Globe Iron Works Co.’s yard. She will be commanded by Captain John Q: Owen, who has been master of the Escanaba six years; Charles B. Calder will be chief engineer, and Eli Barry assistant. Mr. P. L. Locklin is building several small boats, one for the new steamer Aurora at Murphy & Miller’s yard, two for the new steamer at Radclifte’s yard, two for the Horace A, Tuttle, and several for the Brad- ley fleet, in all about fifteen. He has built a cutter yacht, the Unique, for Messrs. Leutkemeyer, Cleveland and Ryder. The alterations and repairs to be made to the steamer Handy Boy are well along at Radcliffe’s yard, and will consist of double decks, two gangways to each side, planked with 2-inch oak, new stanchions, and rail all around, ceiling and floor, calking, and a spar forward to be used as a derrick, and her pilot house will be moved forward, all involving an expense of about $1,000. Captain Cannon, of Conneaut, mate of the Harvey Brown, fell through a hatch Monday and broke his leg. He was taken to his brother’s house on Norwood avenue, this city, where his injuries were attended to. This is the first season Mr. Cannon has sailed tor a number of years,as he was comfortably fixed and on the wrong side of 50. Inspectors DeWolf and McGrath have again fined the propeller Mayflower, ofgDe- troit, now engaged in the passenger trade at Toledo. It is claimed that she has been run by a non-licensed pilot, and the owners and pilot will be held liable for the payment of $100 each. It is said the boat is also bonded to secure the payment of a fine of $500, assessed last fall, for carrying passen- yers on Lake Erie without water-tight bulk- heads, Racing seems to be in vogue on the lakes this season, and many good natured tests of speed are made by the engineers of the dif- ferent craft. The new steamer Maurice B. Grover and George T. Hope came together at Sand Beach on the way down and hada tilt which lasted till Lake St. Clair was reached, a distance of about eighty miles, the George T. Hope winning the heat. It is presumed that the second heat will come off as soon as these boats can get tegether again. The lakes again lead the list in large steamers, the composite steamer Fayette Brown, built at Wyandotte by the Detroit Drydock Co, measuring 1740.55 gross or 1515.75 net tons. The next largest was the steamer New York, hailing from New York. Her tonnage is 1552.52 gross or 1091.89 net. The net tonnage for the lakes during the week is 1707.47, comprising the yacht Countess, of Chicago; tug Deland, of Fair- port; steamer Fayette Brown, of Detroit; and Swansie, of Toledo. The new steamer at Radcliffe’s yard is progressing finely. The deck frames are FSR PS aS a > ie See ee ten * EEE Se arene TRCN TE eeeeeentinpeeeeiaiepeeretnemcementenenenaet “ ————_——— <3 all in and part of the deck laid, planked to the bilge and four strakes on the topsides. She will have two steel arches on the out- side, 10 and 12 inches, and one on the in- side 14 inches; her keelsons are sawed to size. Her machinery and boilers will be duplicates of that in the steamer Wiley M. Eagan, the former being built by H. G. Trout, of the King Iron Works,. Buffalo, and the boilers by the Lake Erie Boiler Works, Buffalo. She will be ready to go into the water between August 15 and Sep- tember 1, When this steamer ie completed there will be good timber enough at Rad- cliffe’s yard to build another large vessel. The funeral services over the reinains of Mrs. Margaret O, Smith, (the wife of Cap- tain Patrick Smith), who died on Monday, was held yesterday morning at St. Malachi’s church, A Jarge number of people were in attendance, including members or the Irish National League and the Women’s Christian Temperance Union, of which Mrs. Smith was an active and efficient member. The services at the church were conducted by Revs, Sheridan, Mahony and Koudelka, and Rev. T. P. Thorpe delivered the address, The remains were laid away in the Wood- land Avenue cemetery. Uhe pall bearers were Captain M. C. Frawley, Captain Ed- ward Kelley, Luke Brennan, W. J. Gleason, Mike Gibbons, and Messrs. Carran, O2- borne and McCart. To enable them to fulfill present and prob- able contracts for new boats the Globe Iron Works Co. are already engaged in enlarging their yard and putting in a large amount of new machinery. Vart of the timber is on the ground for a new building on 800 feet river front secured adjoining their present shipbuilding yard. , The building will be 160 feet long, 48 feet wide, and will probably be complete within thirty days. When fin- ished it will be furnished with a complete new outfit of tools and machinery. At the boiler shop of the company a complete hy- draulic plant, purchased through the Mor- gan Engineering Co., of Alliance, Ohio, is being putin. he latter will comprise a hydraulic riveting machine, built on T'wee- dle’s system, said to be the largest outside of one used in Cramp’s shipyard at Phila- delphia. It will weigh forty-five tons, With this plant is also a hydraulic flanger 4 feet gap 5 feet daylight, and a hydraulic crane to serve the riveter, having the *tapacity of twenty-five tons, The company has also built an addition to their boiler shop, 46x48 feet, three stories high, to accommodate new machinery and tools. FRANKFORT. Special to the Marine Record. Lieut J. H. Rugers, inspector of life-saving service, 11th district, was here several days the past week, drilling and inspecting the men at Point Betsy and Frankfort stations. He had also visited the Manitou and Beaver islands stations, and narrowly escaped being a passenger on the lost propeller Champlain. He has plans and specifications with him for acommodious dwelling for the keeper of North Manitou station, to cost $4,000. Mr. Lazon and crew of the lighthouse establishment, are here rebuilding the walk and pierhead light at this place. Lieut. Rogers is now getting all the sta- tions in this district in training to fire long distance shots with the Lyle gun. Hereto- fore 75 yards with two ounces of powder was the limit; now sixounces are used, Cap- tain Matthews, on his shot of 250 yards, hit the target first trial. Quite a breeze pre- vailed at the time, involving some fine cal- culations for press of wind, with the above result. Captain Mose Gerard is now in command of fine tug D. P. Hall. BURMEISTER. PORT ARTHUR. CHICAGO. Special to the Marine Record. The new steambarge Thomas R. Scott, commanded by her managing owner, Cap- tain John Lang, put in her first appearance at this port on Thursday last. She was built by the Grand Haven Shipbuilding Co., and does them great credit, as she is a very good looking and substantially built craft, and her captain is yery proud of her. At Miller Bro.’s drydocks the schooner Conquest was in dock for calking; the tug A. Mosher for repairs to herjstern bearing; the barge George Dunbar for a new stem; the schooner Kate Darley for bottom calk- ing; the schooner Sunrise for refasteniag, recalking, some new stanchions, bulwarks, rail, and other necessary repairs; the steam- barge T. D. Stimpson for repairs to wheel; the tug Chicago was at the derrick and had her stern bearing fixed; the schooner Jessie Phillips received a new bowspric and jib- boom; the schooner Surprise a new jib- boom; the schooner Anglo Saxon new lum- ber ports; the schooner Blazing Star a new boom, At the Chicago drydock the steambarge J. E, Runkle was in dock for fixing her wheel; the propeller City of Duluth was in dock for some new plank on her bottom; the schooner E. J. McVea received new hatch combings and some new deck; the barge Newcombe a new timber head;. pro- peller J. L. Hard a new gangway board; ; the schooner Ebenezer a new jibboom; eis The boulders which have been a source of | annoyance in the harbor will soon be re- moved, an appropriation of $8,000 having been placed in the supplementary estimates for the purpose by the dominion govern- ment. | | week for the first time, light, | for Buffalo. schooner DeLos de Wolfe received some new stanchions, stringers, bulwarks, rail, and her decks calked. Saturday the steamer W. M. Egan loaded 80,000 bushels of wheat at Armour & Dole’s Delevator. It is the biggest cargo she has ever carried, and it put her down deeper in the water than any vessel that has left Chi- cago this season. She came down the river drawing 15} feet, and touched the bottom many times before she reached the lake. The new eteambarge Ida E. made her first appearance at this port last Sunday. She is owned by M. Engleman, Manistee, and Captain Peter Hansen, formerly of the steambarge Maggie Marshall, is in com- mand. She isa good looking boat. The schooner yacht Countess, recently rebuilt at Miller Bros.’ shipyard, has been enrolled as an American bottom, When Alderman Clarke called the com mittee on fire and water to order Tuesday, Professor Barrett and Aldermen Deal, Ernst and Burmeister were present. The problem of regulating the bridges was up for discus- sion, Alderman Clarke explained his plan of having the bridges connected by wires and under the direction of one man. He would have precisely the same duties to perform as a train dispatcher on a railroad. Before a vessel could leave a given point, it would get orders, and this vessel dispatcher would manipulate everything so as to make the least inconvenience to everybody. Pro fessor Barrett said the expense of intro- ducing such a system would be less than $4,000. The idea is to connect four bridges on the main branch, six on the north branch and nine on the south branch. The com- mittee unanimously voted to authorize the mayor to have the bridges connected in this manner. The committee then decided to refer the mayor’s project to light the river by electricity to the law department for an ordinance. John Ender and H. Buby, of Chicago, have purchased the side- wheel steamer Ivan- hoe and will run her in the excursion busi- ness out of Chicago during the summer. The splendid new steel steamship Chas. J. | Sheffield, recently built at Cleveland by the Globe Shipbuilding Co., arrived here last from South Chicago and loaded 85,000 bushels of wheat She is a nobie looking steam- ship and is fitted up elegantly with all the most modern iaiproved machinery and out- | fit. The steamburge H. 8. Hubble, Captain | Island. G. W. Flood had her compass adjusted for local attraction, by Captain George A. Simp- son on Wednesday. The fine new steamship Roumania, Cap- tain A. W. Reed, recently built by James Davidson at Bay City, paid us her first visit this week, She is a very fine steamship and everything on board tending, toward handling the freight she loads and unloads, is of the most complete and improved de- scription. She is the best hoat ever built by Captain Davidson, and that is saying a great deal, as he has built quite a number of good, substantial, paying steamships. She left here Tuesday with 81,000 bushels of wheat for Buffalo. Captain Sam Thornton arrived here by rail Monday. Since the Oneida went into commission this season he has been her mas- ter. Concerning her recent mishap he says that after taking on acargo of lumber at Bayfield he backed away from the dock but had got but a few lengths when he noticed that the steamer hada bad list. He at- tempted to return to the dock but claims that the engineer disobeyed his signal and — ran the steamer on the bank. As soon as_ her nose touched the mud she rolled over on her side until the water rushed into the — engine room, when she filled and settled down on the bottom. After raising he went to Washburn, where the owners reside, and demanded the discharge of the engineer. They refused to comply with his request so he quit and came home. He has asked the © government inspectors of steamboats to make an investigation of the mishap. Beckwith & Fleming have purchased the schooner R. B. Hayes for $28,000 from W. T. Baker. The R. B. Hayes will carry about 1,450 tons. She was built by Lynn & Craig at Gibraltar In 1877. The Hayes rates Al}¢. Graham &“Morton’s new passenger pro- peller Puritan, which is run between Chi- cago and St. Joseph, and which 1s expected to attain a greater speed than any steamer now on the lakes, is reputed to have averaged a speed of eighteen miles an hour on her trial trip. Two remarkable achievements by steam- boats were reported Tuesday, The Susque- banna, which arrived here at 11 o’clock in the morning, made the run from Mackinaw City in twenty-two hours, beating the best record by one hour and twenty minutes. The Tioga, which came in Monday night, completed a round trip between Chicago and Buffalo in six days and twenty hours, including the time spent in handling cargo at Buffalo, where she discharged 2,600 tons of grain and merchandise and took on 1,050 tons of back freight. It is the fastest round trip ever made between the two ports. It is claimed that she would have got here at least four hours earlier if her fuel had been up to standard grade, The propeller Syracuse of the Western Transit line, left Buffalo Saturday evening at 7:15 o’clock, passed Mackinac at 2:30 o’elock Monday afternoon, rounded the Shank at 4 o’clock, and was on the books of the barge office at 1:15 o’clock Tuesday— covering the distance from Buffalo to Cl i- cayo in 2 days, 17 hours and 45 minutes. Deputy Collector Greene, of the marine department at the customs house, has left on a two weeks’ leave of absence. Negotiations are pending for the charter or purchase of a passenger boat, to replace the lost CHamplain on the Northern Michigan line. The propeller City of Duluth was placed in drydock to see what damage she had sustained by striking the beach as Fox it was found that a single strake of plank on her bottom had been chafed and this was replaced. The steamer left for Duluth Tuesday night. WILLIAMS. SANDUSKY. The steambarge Walters, sunk off Lorain, has been located and a diver is now at work on her, She will soon be raised. | Uunlinuce On All pages;