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: CLEVELAND. Mr. ‘bee McCutcheon, has resigned his position as chief eugineer of the steamer rallula, and has lett an unbeaten record “new tiopatter Sitka broke her air on in the St. Clair river while on her fo Daluth: ith coal last week, She got ow he ae ofa quarter interest in the steam- er] . B. Tuttle was consummated Monday on a basis of about $40, 000. , Captain C..E. Berham, already ber managing owner, was purebaser of this. share from Captain Me- _ Millen, in connection with Captain Mullen, who will goin ber as master. * The propeller Favorite, Captain A. C. Smith, was in port last week with the famous log barge Wahnipatae. The barge had on 1, 708,200 feet ot lumber from On- tonagon for the Diamond Match Co, She ~ yeturned to Ashland for 2,500,000 fect of dry lumber for Tonawanda. Phe Cleveland shipbuilding company held its annual meeting Monday in the office of the new works. The officers of the com- pany who have served during the past. year, were ull re-elected, The progress toward thé erection of the new plant and the large amount of work on hand surely satisfied the members of the company. “Pbe Bulgaria is the property of Captain James Corrigan and others, of Cleveland, owners of the steamship Roumania and Australasia, and the schooner Polynesia, all of which were built by Captain Davidson. The government admeasurement places the Bulgaria’s gross tonnage at 1,887.87; net tonnage at 1,485.57. The Bulgaria cost $140,- 000. Captain Davidson bas another propeller on the stocks, 212 feet keel, 37 feet beam, and 20 feet bold, that will be ready for Jaunching in November, She is to have fore and aft compound engine, 22 and 44 by 40 inches, and a steel boiler 91g The keel has just been Jaid for a propeller 220 feet keel, 36 feet beam, and 20 feet hold, which will be ready tor launching some time during the winter. At Lorain the builders ofa spile driver, which will be propelled by steam, were not aware that the plates entering into the con- struction of a marine boiler must be snb- jected to a test by the government inspectors. The boiler for the spile driver has been built and James McGrath, government inspector for this district, must now go to Lorajn and see that a piece of the plate is cut ont and sent to Buffalo to be tested. Meteorological summary for the week ending September 7. Mean barometer 30 O1 Mean temperature,....-.--.---- 67-9 Mean humidity.....-------.--- 61.3 Total precipitation, inch,. .-.....-------- 1,30 | Prevailing direction of wind, ...-..--.-- S.E Total wind moyement......- .------ -- 1236 Av. cloudiness.....-..--.-- been cirees 5d Av. state of weather.......-..---.------ Fair. Max, temperature, highest.........--.-- 85 fe) Min temperature, lowest...-.------- +--+ 47- Wu..iaM Ling, Sergt. Signal Corps, U.S. A The yellow flag with a white center which is displayed. from the signal service station _ is one of the new series of flags ordered for display along the Atlantic and gulf coasts and on the great Jakes. red or white pennant the old flags denoting the direction of heavy winds will be used for the present. The yellow flag white center indicates that the winds ex- pected are not /o severe but well found and seaworthy vessels can meet them withou great danger. The tendency is towards another advance in ore freights. The Escanaba rate on ore is now fully established at $1.65, and consider- ing the demand for Ashland carriers itis very | probable that better than $2.40 could be ob- The greater | tained for ore from that port, part of the coal and ore fleet is at lower lake ports snd coal shippers are being benefited. by 16 feet. | The entire series | has not yet been received and instead of the | with a | “Milwaukee coal is being pretty well ered for. There is no advance on coal to the head of Lake Superior as yet. Tbe propeller Horave A. Tuttle, which was said to have obtained an advance to Duluth, is loaded for West Superior, and the rate is 85 cents. Charters are: Schooner St. Lawrence, ore, Marquette to Ohio ports, $2; schooner Save- land, ore Excanaba' to Ohio. ports, $1.65; schooner J.C. King, coal, Ashtabula to Mil- waukee, $1; schooners Monteagle, White “Star and Mystic Siar, coal, Ashtabula to Chi- cago, $1.15; schooner Colonel Cook, coal, Cleveland to Escanaba, 75 cents; schooner | H. P. Baldwin, coal Toledo to ee a: 7 cents, : ‘CHICAGO. Special to the Marine Record The water in the Chicago river, was very low last Sunday and the steamship Susque- hanna, was on the bottom nearly four honrs in the south draw of the Illinois railroad bridge when leaving port, * The schooner Flying Cloud, in tow of a tug collided with the protection to the North Halsted steel bridge and received consider- sable damage to her rail, bulwark and stanch- ions. 5 It is reported that the side wheel steamer Saginaw, which has been in the excursion busityess at Toledo for two years, will arrive here pext week and run as a passenger and treight boat between Chicago and Green Bay. —“4he-echooner John Raber, in tow er a tug collided with the steamships Susque- hanna, on Saturday. The Susquehanna was loading grain at the Rock Jsland elevator when the accident occurred, The schooner lost her jibboom and the steamships bridge was knocked out of place. Leopold & Austrian received word Mon- day, that the propeller City of Fremont, ran ashore at the entrance of Portage canai, Luke Superior, Saturday morning, Tugs and lighters were sent for, but before their acrival the steamer released herself by jettisoning 20,000 brick. T'wo steamers of | this line were ashore last week and fortu- | nately escaped serious consequences. The schooner G. W. Naghtin, left here Wednesday night and arrived back Tbhurs- day morning, with her colors flying at half- mast. While off the marine hospital, Hans Larson, a foremast hand, went aloft to loose the fore gaff topsail and after pertorming the work he was ordered to relieve the man at the wheel. Larson started aft, stopped at the water barrel, took a drink and drop; ed dead. At Miller Brothers drydocks, the schoon- er Barbarian, was in dock for calking; the schooner Iner Lawson, had her bottom calked and received anew foremast; the steamer Lucille, bad her bottom calked and | a new rudder; the schooner City of Chicago, | had her top sides calked; the schooner | Gracie M. Filer, received a new main mast; | the schooner ©. P, Minch a new gaff; the | schooner Flying Cloud, some repairs to her bow; the tug Parker, was at the derrick and | had her stern bearings fixed. At the Chicago drydock company’s, the | schooner DeLos de Wolf, was in dock for | new bilge plank and bottom ecalking; the| | schooner John Schutte, for calking and | | general repairs; the schooner Vermont, for} bottom calking; the schooner Minnie Mueller, to have a leak stopped and anew center board; the schooner John Raber, re- ceived a new jibboom; the schooner West- chester, a new bowsprit and jibboom; the | |tug Earnshaw, barge Empire, propeller | Josephene and Canadian propeller Cuba, | received some minor repairs. To the North Chicago Rolling Mill Co., | D. Cole} but, , ~ CLEVELAND. @.. SEPTEMBER, 8; 4887. Marie, informs us that the company intend putting a much larger steamer on that route next season, which will have splendid ac- commodation for passengers and will run about eigbteeen miles per hour, thereby eu- abling them to make daily trips. eye Ex-County Commissioner John C, Ender has gold his iron excursion steamer, the Ivanhoe. The terms are alleged to be pri- vate, but it is learned that $22,000 is the con- The purchasers are the Chicago As soon as the sale was con- sideration. Excursion Co. summated the purchasers promulgated the belief that it intended to “run” the excur sion business of Chicago. ’ The schooner George W. Nanghton re- turned to the harbor yesterday, on account of the death of one of her crew, a Swede named Hans Larsen, from heart disease, day afternoon and elected Messrs.Wm. Keith, H. L. Christy, and James Mowatt president, | secretary, and superintendent, respectively. n A summing up of the new concern’ 8 books | showed that.the company was justified, by | reason of cash on hand, outstanding claims, ete., in declaring a dividend of 20 per cent, which was done. Among thqse- present were Messrs, Dunham, Keith, Christie, Mow- att, Mueller, Ayer, Green, Bates, Wood, Ripley, Egan, Finney, Leopold, and Aus- { corpor ation, Coffinberry collided with the schooner Mary D. Ayer alittle to the south of Lake street bridge. The Ayer’sforerigging was carried away in the collision, and she sustained damages which required the expenditure of $600 to repair. Captain Ed Ayer, the owner of the vessel, sent a bill to the owner of the Coffinberry, which the latter failed to pay. Messrs. Schuyler & Kraemer, Mr. Ayer’s attorneys, had the vessel tied up. Later in the day she was bonded and sailed for her destination. The Chicago towing company also libelled the schooner Victor for an unpaid towing bill. The schooner was finally released after satisfying the claim and paying tbe cost of the proceed- ings. WILLIAMS, | PORT HURON. Special to the Marine Record, The steambarge Curtis, that was sunk in Black river, was raised by D, N. Rounds. | She had to be unloaded by divers before she could be lifted. At Danfoid & Alverson’s drydock the tug Spencer was in to be recalked and receive a new stem; steamers Ogemaw and Mineral Roek to be calked and for a general over- hauling; steamer R. Stewart to have a loose wheel fixed. Towing has been very slack for harbor tugs for the la8t two weeks, It will make them hump by fall if if continues this way, There are only a few located at thie port, the O. W. Cheney, Kitty Haight, Mystic, Geo. B. Dickson, Sprite, and Orient, I think a vessel coming to Port Huron can have all the harbor tugs she wants, There was a very exciting race Sunday evening between the steamer Mary and the as usval, the Cole, like all other bouts that have raced with the Mary, had to take a back seat, They raced trom St. Clair to Port Huron, a distance of twelve | miles, and the Mary came in ahead about ten lengths. They wili be at it again until the Cole is done up once more, T. & 8.T. Co, The boiler will be 744 feet by 14 feet long, with all the latest improve- ments. The engines will compounds, size of cylinders 16 by 80 by 26, | not the Calumet Steel Works, the credit is due for having unloaded the Ira H. Owen of 2,100 tons of ore in six hours and twenty minutes. W. R. Owen, manager of the Delta Trans- portation Co,, whose passenger and freight | steamers Minnie M. and Ossifrage run be- tween Cheboygan, Mackinac and Sault ste The office of Ed, J. Kendall, marine re- porter. has been’removed to the office over J. W. Thompson, Jr., foot of Sarnia street. Jay. GRAND HAVEN. A telegram was received here yesterday stating that while off Point Au Sable Wednesday afternoon, the 3lst of August, The Chicago Drydock Co, met last Satur- | trian. All these ‘are stockholders i in the new | On the ‘Tst.of Tune last the | ‘ipeipatter i vy : The Phoenix Iron Works are building a | boiler and engine for the new barge of the be fore and aft | $2.00 PmR A 5 SINGLE CoptEs 5 Cents the propeller H. S. Pickands beeame. dis- abled. She was picked up by a tug and towed to Grand Haven, where she was pot in Kirby’s drydock for repairs. The Pick- ands was engaged in the iron ore carrying © trade, The tug Clayt recently launched has been | assigned official number 126,442 and measures | 10.37 gross tons; tug Eagle 135.941 with tonnage of 21.10 tons and the scow Leuzana- 48,556 with tonnage of 12.60, _ Bai vc, TOLEDO. . — eas Special to the Marine Record. - , On Sunday the Chief Justice Waite ran hard aground on Ballast island, The Path- finder and Christian were telegraphed for, but as the Christian was in arydock, the” Andrews was sent instead. ‘ These two tug with the Samson and Ropes after a hard The. fivening Star went hi Sunday. The prospects for low ‘water here th bare very gow ‘ae eee ye Bay ° nee scored ; as a shipbuilding point in the P Taayenie of the steamship Bulgaria at James Davidson’s shipyard. The launch took place at 7 o’clock. This leviathan is justly entitled to the honor of being next to the largest wooden vessel on the chain of lakes, the Aurora, recently launched at Cleveland, standing at the head of the list. The new steamer is of the follows ing dimensions: Length over all, 806 feet; length of keel, 284 feet; breadth of beam, 40 feet; molded depth, 22 feet. Her main keelsons are 16 by 16 inches; assistant keelsons, 16 by 16. There are ten floor keelsons, 15 by 14, running the extreme length. The floor is laid on top. The plank- ing oytside is 5 inches thick, with 6 inch planking at the turn of the bilge; from bilge toclamp strakes it is 6 inches. There are eight strakes of bilge keelsons, 9 and 7 inches, all notched on toa depth of two inches, The hull is thoroughly strapped with steel. The Bulgariahas a fore and aft compound engine, 30 and 52 by 45; two boilers, 81g feet sheel by 17 feet lorg; two smoke stacks, steam stearing gear, steam windlass and capstan on quarter deck; steam reverse gear, three spars, The officers’ quartets are forward, including two elegant spare rooms for passengers, bath room, and parlor, The finishing and furnishings are of the latest and most im- | proved style. FAIR HAVEN, Sunday morning Mr. [oo Ford found the body of a man on the lake shore near his house about six miles east of Fair Haven. It had the appearance of a deck hand or fire- man on some steamer flannel shirt with sleeves rolled up, red overalls with leather suspenders, woolen stockings and coarse shoes, There were no | marks on his person and nothing about his | clothing by which he could be identified. ‘A | knife, pocket. comb, of slate ; pencil and’a small piece of paper. on which ( were a few figures, were tound in his pocket. Deceased was evidently a Canadian about 30 years of age. He wore asmall sandy | mustache. Coroner Hall,, who*was sum- | moned; ordered the: bedy #rotglit‘to Fair | Haven, where an inquest was held and the body buried last night, | SANDUSKY. The Sandusky Steamboat & Fish Co. have purchased the tug J. W. Bennett, of Lay Brothers; consideration $7,500. Captain Henry Lay desires to purchase a | tug about 22 square for use in his business at this port. being dressed ina two pieces { oatianed on 5th page page|