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ROUND THE LAKES. f CLEVELAKD. The schooner Wend-the- Wave, has been ) » Bay City parties. » . H. Eltis, of Milwaukee, has become ES ccccunaree the scow Sassacus by purchase, ‘A steambarge and two towbarges are re- ported. placed iu the lumber trade for the sea- (son. _ The schooner S. H. Kimball, is undergoing extensive repairs in the line of new deck ‘beams and decks. a Mr. Louis DeMay, who has been second engineer in the large steambarge Yakima, is now in the city. e Captain P. G. Minch has sold the schooner H. J Webb, to Bay City parties for a con- _ sideration of $16,000 cash. "Mr. W.C. Richardson and others have sold _ the schooner Red, White’ and Blue, to N. OC. _ Alton and others of Lorain for $13,000. The Globe Iron Works Co., are putting the "machinery in the new Lehigh boat. She will ~ pe ready to launch about the first of March. While no ore charters haye yet been made, orders haye been booked for 700,000 tons of steel rails, which is equivalent to 2,100,060 tons of ore. Wm. Burgess, of Duluth, who has been in Pittsburg some time looking into the West- inghouse alternating system of incandescent —- light for the plant in Paint, was in yesterday. Itis reported awong marine people that Captain Thomas Wilson, has placed two of his vessels for the season in the grain trade. ~The firm taking them was the Delaware & Lackawanna railway company. Captain J. F. Friok and Mr. J. H. Jacobs, of Marquette, were in the city yesterday. Both gentlemen have made an extended trip around the lakes and report the prospects for vessel men as being very gocd for the com- ing season. Captain Truman Moors, through Captain T. Wilford; has sold the schooner Monti- cello, to J.H. Jacobs, of the Marquette & Portage Entry Stone Co., for $6,800. The Monticello is one of the best built canal boats on the Jakes and will do good service for her owner. Captain Thomas Wilford and Captain Truman Moore, of Loruin, are in the city to-day. Captain Wilford will go in the steamer J. H, Devereux next season. Geo, F. Parsons will be engineer. Captain Moore will sail the schooner Alice B. Norris. We desire to correct a paragraph printed last week, which said that Captain J. Collins, was superintending the construction of the two boats for Hon. James Asb, of Buffalo, at Quayle’s yard. The steamboat is under the supervision of Captain Frank Welcome, and the schooner is being looked after by Captain Collins. Both boats are well along. Messrs. Duffy & Rourke have been making extensive repairs to their schooner Maria Martin, this winter, consisting of new quar- | ters and stern, new hatches and hatch comb- ings, refastening with three-fourths inch iron, recalking all over and other necessary repairs, which places her in first-class shape for the coming season’s work. We are in receipt of a neat pamphlet issued by M. H. Dodge, regarding the merits of oil as a means of quelling the bad effects of a storm, tem is as perfect as It can be made and that if a vessel carries an equitable number of these bags, which disseminate oj] on the ocean waste there is no combination that can Gefeat the good ends they are calculated to accomplish. At the Cleveland drydock the steamer William Edwards in getting new stringers, rail and belwarks all sround, new steel arches { by 14, two ona side, new iron boiler house and stanchions and knees under boiler house deck; her bottom will be searched up and all necessary repairs made, The Allie May is getting a new rudder and other minor repairs. The J. B. Kitchen is '| bership in all the states of the union, Mr. Dodge holds that bis sys- getting a new foremast and having some other work done, Meteorological summary for the week ending February 15, 1888: Mean barometer ......... 02. eed cece 30 46 Mean temperature 18.8 Mean humidity... ..5..c5tei. succes 79-7 Total. precipitation......-..... 2.2.2... +15 Prevailing direction of wind ......... N. E. Total wind movement....... ....... 1532 Ay, cloudiness....... 50 Av. state of weather..... 2.2.2... eons) Baar Max, temperature, highest........... Ger agS Min temperature, lowest... . 31 W.H. Hammon, Sergt. Signal Corps,U, S.A, The lake engineers have two organizations which have heretofore been deemed all sufficient, but it is well known that at the end ot the season of navigation some of them are thrown out of employment. Just here is where the American order of steam engineers step in and show their prociivities. The organization last referred to hasa mem- This society -was, organized in 1886 and hada membersbip in almost all of the states. Its object is to promote a thorough practical knowledge among members of the order and to asslst its members in obtaining employ- ment and help the sick and injured and bury the dead. It hasafund for the relict of widows and orphans and also to assist mem- bers who have been incapacitate from work, to gain a livelihood in some masner. It is the purpose of this society to extend the license laws throughout the United States and believing that arbitration should pre- vail between employer and employe it can at no time take partin any strike. Recog- nizing theinterest of its membersas identical, it shail take no part in any project or enter- prise that can interfere with due harmony. Neither shall it lend its aid to religious or political purposes. In order to become a member a candidate must be a native or naturalized and resident citizen of the United States and an actively employed engineer. Marine, locomotive or stationary engineers who belong to other organizations are elegible to become members of the American order of steam engineers. The sick benefit is $5.00 per week and the death benefit for the husband is $75.00 and for the wife $35.00. In case an engineer belonging to the association is injured so that he can not gain a livelihood for his family he will be started in business by the association. The Cleve land lodge is Forest City No. 2, No.1 being in Cincinnati. DETROIT. Captain E. G. Merrick, one of the oldest and best known vesse]men on the lakes, died very suddenly of heart disease last Sunday lafternoon, He arose as usual, took break- fast and was preparing to go down town when he was stricken down. He was 86 years of age, began business on the lakes in 1842 at Sackett’s Harbor, N. Y., afterward came to Detroit, where he has been for many ‘years. 2 Mr. J. W. Wescott and others, of Detroit, are reported to have purchased the steam- barge Don M. Dickinson, and Comstock Bros,, of Alpena, are reported to have pur- chased the steamer Porter Chamberlain, the ‘latter for the sum of $20,000. It is said the | Chamberlain will be commanded by Captain Frank J.-Holland the coming season. GRAND HAVEN. Special to the Marine Record The propeller Richmond, disabled in the ice off Grand Haven, is drifting northward, and is opposite. White Lake, The steamer Wisconsin is expected to leave Wednesday morning to cut her out of the ice if the weather continues warmer. H. KINGSTON. The White Oak hee arrived from Oswego with coal, Captain Jos, Dix is an early and late nay- |igator and always makes safetrips. He will get the stick of gum for being the last arrival of the season if Captain Tyo fails to get back from Sackett’s Harbor with the Philo Bennett. OSWEGO, Captain Cal. Becker late of the schooner American will sail the big schooner, Janes Mo- watt of Chicago, the coming season. CHICAGO, Special to the Marine Record, John Smith, engineer of the steamer Sitka, has returned from Cleveland, Captain Higgie, president of the V. O. T. Jo., has just returned from a six weeks’ iy to California. Captain James Brian has returned to this city from Ann Arbor, Mich., where he has been attending to the wants of a younger brother who is being treated at the medical institution at that place, Captain Jim will be master of the Rhoda Emily another sea- son. Mr. William Harmon, of the Chicago Tow- ing Co., who, in company with his invalid daughter, went to Texas about two months ago, has returned. ‘The change has proven so beneficial to his daughter that he has de- cided to have her remain down there until about June Ist. Messrs. Davison & Holmes, vessel agents, on South Water street,have sold the schooner Evra F ier for Seymour Coleman, to Ed- ward Warner and B, D. Bung for $4,750. The propeller Raleigh and her consort, the James Couch, have been taken to the Pacific elevator to load grain for Ogdensburg; terms, private. The schooner Champion goes to Severne’s elevator the 15th to load 40,000 bushels of wheat for Buffalo at 4c. Skillagalee lighthouse tower, located on a bowlder in Lake Michigan, near Bear island, will be tern down ard a new one erected in its place, Captain Shanty Morgan, who is welt known along the Wisconsin shore, and who was the originator of the tow barge system of the lakes, is cultivating a large farm near Kalamazoo, Mich. Manitowoc intends dredging the river to a uniform depth of 16 feet from the harbor piers to the new coal docks. Captain John Pridgeon comes out in a letter in the Detroit Free Press, denouncing the present exorbitant taxation of vessel property which is making it necessary for Detroit vesselmen to move their interests outside the city limite. _The Graham and Morton line will put the Lora and Puritan on the line between this city and Benton Harbor this season. The Puritan which ca ut last season, did faoldly gloting around the crib and inlets. not give satisfaction and this winter has been rebuilt, making the necessary changes. She will be commanded by Captain A. McIn- tosh and the Lora by Captain Ed Stein, who sailed her last season. Messrs. Davison and Holmes, have sold the schooner W. H. Dunham, for John Lang, to Thoinas Wilson, for the sum of $3800, Last Monday afternoon, as Mary Peterson, was atepping from the rail of a vessel to the dock, she slipped, feel into the river and must have drowned but for the timely as- sistance of a sailor, H. J. Smith, who heard her call and climbed down a fender, grasped her by her clothing and held her out of the water until she was rescued, There has not been the progress made at the drydocks during the past week that ves- sel men and the proprietors of the docks might wish in consequence of the severity of the weather. Both drydocks have more todo than they possibly can attend to be- tween this and the opening of navigation and they are hindered very materially by cold weather. James Burnes, the marine engineer who was very badly injured about three years ago by being crushed by some machinery was picked up on the street Monday evening in an apparently dying condition. He was given lodging at the station until something could be done for him. 1 Wm P. McKenney, of this city has again been appointed steward of the steamer Spokane. The supply jtug Tom Brown which bas been tending the crib since the Hackley | was disabled, went out last Saturday night in response to a telephone message from Captain McGee, who stuted that the ice was $2.00 Per ANNUM. SINGLE Copms 5 cunts, 4% The tug worked around in the ice for some time, keeping everything free, and then ¢ied up for the night, leaving the watchman at the crib to keep a lookout. About 5 o’clock Sunday morning the ice field began moving, and before the tug bad time to work around and get into shape to meet it, head on, the field pinched her, crushing her amidships in tne starboard side, staving in two or three plank below the water line,and she began fill- ing rapidly. Her pumps were set to work, a matrass placed over the hole andshe was kept afloat until the coal could be shifted to the port sice, throwing her broken planking out of the water, The fire tug Geyser went to her assistance, broke up the ice between the crib and the shore, making a clean pass- age, and the Brown followed in her wake, She went to Miller Bros.’ drydock and ina few houre,she was repaired, and is now ready for service, ; The steambarge Robert Holland will tow the barges S. M. Stephenson and Fannie Nei). The White and Friant the barges Annie Sherwood and Parama, in the lum- ber trade for Bigelow Bros., Jumbermen of this city. The Holland will he commanded by Captain J. A, Caldwick and the White and Friaat by Captain Owen Jones; chief eugameer, G. W. Wilcox. The prospects are looking very bright for | the lumber trade, and lumbermen think un- forward every effurt to increase the output ag much as possible, and before the mill and — furnace men are ready to buy. Producers will be anxious to sell, which means cheaper prices for ore and less freights for carrying. The low stage of the water in the lakes will not affect freights so materially as is antici- pated. The water is lower of course, but, caused largely by the hot dry summer and rainless fall of last year, but the large quan- tities of snow and ice north, with the usual spring rains we may expect, will do much toward remedying that difficulty, and will bring the water level to very nearly, if not fully the same as last year. That this will be a fair season there is no doubt, but with these facts in views, and the 70,000 extra tons of carrying capacity, it will not equal last year nor the expectations of many whe are building and equipping new boats: ‘That the name of Farragut still has ite at- traction for the man who served under the famous admiral was evinced recently, ie ‘number of his old associates et Union er club. The gentleme Ve members of th less some unforeseen occurrence transpires | oe this season will be equally as good as last. The cut is considerably less than that of other years in consequence of the heavy falls of snow, making it impossible to work in the woods. The demand promises to be good, nearly all large stocks of lumber being badly broken up, and taking this into con- sideration with the general prosperity of the country, lumbermen are feeling very good. Mr. J.'H. Jacobs, of the Furst, Jacobs & Co,’s red stone quarries, Marquette, Mich., was in the city last week, making arrange- ments for next season’s business. Mr. Jacobs informed your correspondent that during last year the output of his quarries was 55,000 tons. He has now a force of 250 men, and from the present outlook thinks he will during the year ’88 double the produc- tion of last season. Mr. Jacobs is a veteran in the stone business.’ Since he was sixteen years of age he has had charge of and owned some of the largest quarries in the country. In 1871 he went to Northern Michigan and has opened up and had charge of several large concerns, and is now doing a good business at Portage and other points. Wm. P. Henry, manager of the Lehigh Valley Jine, was in this city last week. He expects to launch his new steamer about March Ist, A gentleman, whose name your corre- spondent is not permitted to use, but if given, would be familiar to many as that of one who jis thoroughly acquainted with the situation, in conversation concerning the prospects for vesselmen for the coming sea- son, says:. The outlook is not so favorable as it was last year. You will admit the de- mand for tonnage depends not so particu- larly upon the preduction of grain and the output of iron ore, but upon the demand for and consumption of there articles, There is no demand upon Chicago trom the eastern markets for grain, very Jittle for corn. The corn we have is not the proper grade and quality to command good prices, Shippers have plenty of storage for what comes in, and they are in no hurry to ship, believing that by waiting until later they will get bet- ter prices and jower freights. This fact expluins the visible inactivity so noticeable in marine circles. Speaking of the iron ore trade, he says: Consumers of ore have good stocks on hand. , Rolling mills and blast turnaces have not, during the winter, used the supply in stock last fall. They are wait- ing the results of labor movements, railroad operatiors and tariff questions. While, on the other hand, ore producers are purting » Lae son, Li. C. Stebbins, ' 7, H. Sherwood, Lieutenant F. Ss. lowed by a supper and the usual conference common to congenial spirits. It is requested that any men who served under Ferragut, and who would like to meet their old com- rades occasionally, communicate with Mr. T. H. Burke, No. 14 Ashland block. Horxrys. BAY CITY. Special to the Marine Record. J. H. Goff, av attorney from Sault ste Marie, has been in East Saginaw for the past few days, taking testimony in a suit for dam- ages, commenced by the John Spry Lumber Co., of this city, against L. P. Mason, Gur- don Corning, and others, of East Saginaw, owners of the propeller C. H. Green. The suit is the result of an accident which oc- curred on the evening of the 3d of October, 1887, in the Sault ste Marie river, when the propeller Green, ore laden, with a consort of three barges, came in contact with and broke up a raft containing 1,000,000 feet of pine logs, owned by the John Spry Lumber Co. The accident, the lumber company claims, was due to carelessness on the part of the officers on board the propeller Green, and they ask for $25,000 damages. In an- swer to the suit the vesselmen claim that the accident was due to neglect on the part of the lumber company, whose logs were 100 feet from boom limit and occupied a part of the navigable channel of the river. Another suit has grown out of the above. The owners of the propeller Green vs, the Jobn Spry Lumber Co. for malicious prose- cution, the lumber company having cause! the propeller Green to be tied up in an illegal manner and without cause. They, in turn, pray and sue for $25,000 damages. H. PORT HURON. | ” Special to the Marine Record. The barge Burnsides is in the Wolverine dock and will be entirely overhauled be ‘a new steel arch put in. : Captain D, Hutchinson will sail a boat tin Botstord’s Lake Superior line. The A. J. Wright will change hands witb- out a doubt before this goes to press, The Spry Lumber Co, will be the purchasers. Things are very dull in marine circles just now, Captain 8. B. Grummond was in the city one day last week. Captain W, W. Stewart was on a business trip to Buffule. No. 4.