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CLEVELAND. ooner Brady, Capivin John Nel- will leave this week, taking coal from River to Alpena. new steambarge Henry J. Johnson is early finished and will be launched in about wo weeks, She will be commanded by ain John Thompson this season, who pro- himself much pleased with ber thus tonnage given of the following named is, steam and sail, is according to the rt of the bureau of navigation :. Schooner Adame, 1810.67 gross, 1810 67 net; steamer Bnterprise, 1403 gross, 7,02 net; Lulu Eddy, 19.35 gross, 9.68 net; : odoc, 18,29 gross, 12.54 net; and Phillip Minch, 1988.00 gross, 1657.72 the Cleveland drydock the schooner Winslow, which has been receiving tensive repairs, under the super- vision of Captain “John Conners, will be taken out of dock. The schooner certainly ‘will present a much better appearence when finished. The Zach Chandler follows her ‘in. The tug Allie May will also go out of the dock the same time as the Winslow. “Schooner Anna Belle Wilson, recently urehased by Hebard & Son, of Detroit, will from Cleveland to.Portage. at 75. She will sail the latter part of the week, Captain T. J. Minor, who is to sail the Anna Belle Wilson this season, has put ber "in first-class shape, and with a new coat of ; ' white paint, she looks like a huge snow ee Sarit. i Last September a sailor named Jacob C. Kuhn came to this city to ship in some barge or schooner. He was known to have left here on some schooner that was Jost Jast tall. Any one who was shipmate with bim dur- ing the fall will confer a favor on ‘friends and relatives if they will give what infor- mation they have to the Marrnzr Recorp office. Some of our readers may possibly remember him. > Captain C. N. DeOtt, formerly master of the schooner David Dows, will not sail this summer. He is located at Ashland, where he wil] engage in superintending the trim- ming of ore vessels this season. Captain DeOtt is well known on the lakes as a man thoroughly familiar with the details of the business, and we can safely say his old friends will find him fally able to give the best of satisfaction in that capacity. John Thomson, for a long time the only steam fitting and engineers’ supplies establish_ ment in Cleveland, has removed his business to 123 River street, and has now the most commodious and complete shop on the entire chain of lakes. Mr. Thomson is well known to all lake engineers, and anything we may say will but add to a reputation already gained by him for good work and quick dispatch: The new tools put in by Mr. Thomson will hs add greatly to his facilities for dispstch and quick work. : = Meteorological summary for the week ending i April 17, 1888: a Mean actual barometer..........-..--- %, re £ - 30:17 wees cone cons cece 41.1 i Mean humidity... ....-..-.- --- 06 9 ; Total precipitation,.....-...-..-- : 5 fone a wid sEasw 3 Total wind movement......- .------ 1439 B Ay, Saag gaan Pee con ses Ls Ay, state o! Sisuer Min temperature, lowest....------ ---- 2 W.H. Hammon, Sergt. Signal Corps,U. S A. The body of Mary Bayard, which has been in the Cuyahoga river since March 12, was discovered in the water near the Willow street bridge by Paul Keyes of No, 34 West Clinton street at 7:15 Monday morning. Mrs. Bayard fell in the river on the night of March 12, while on her way to the vessel Colonel Cook, where she and her husband lived during the winter. The body was taken to; Schwan’s undertaking rooms and - the coroner notified. The new outfits for the crew of the life- | Za = a |Z Ez EZ —a E SE ss * = ee DEV OT ED. "LO-~COMMERC NGINEER! = = : = NG AND SCIENCE. CLEVELAND. O.. APRIL 19. 4888. 92:00 Py NUM. 4 SINGLE Come 5 camera, saving station at Cleveland are furnished by Kohn & Co., 213 Detroit street, second door from corner of Pear], who procured the genuine U.S, navy flannel through the de- partment, and therefore will make to order real snilor shirts, »s required by regulation Mr, Fries’ fleet will be commanded as fol lows: Steamer W. Edwards, J. H. Mallory master, S. A. Wells engineer; schooner Golden Age. John Fior master; Charles Foster, Hugh Hastings master; M. W. Page, Dan Stalker master; Atmosphere, John Me- Gougan master; W. Shupe, Joseph Christie master, TORONTO. Lhe Empire says, the schooner Caroline Mareh is expected toarrive on Monday with a cargo of coal from Charlotte. Propeller Cuba has shifted from the whart at the foot of Yonge street to the dockyard above it, Steambarge Niagara, now at Port Dal- housie, has been charterd to load barley here, and is expected to arrive on Monday. Mr. W, Ellie, superintendent of the Well- and canal,telegraphs that navigation through the canal will be opened on April 28, Doty’. steamers, Luella and Mascotte, ar- rived this week from Oakville, and com- menced running to the island. They have been repainted andrefitted and present a fine appearance. The steamer John Hanlan will Dot be ready for a couple of weeks... She is at the Doty wharf, at the feot of Yorkstreet, where she will be renovated and fixed up for the summer’s work. TOLEDO. Fears are expressed for the safety of the schooner Anna P, Grover, which left here a week ago Monday for Cleveland, loaded with wheat. The Penokee, which sailed on the sume day, returned on Monday, and her captain says he sighted the Grover in the middle passage, working ber way Saturday. an ice floe, The tug Pathfiner took the schooner Mon- tana to Sandusky, wheat laden, Monday. Chief Engineer Blunt, of Clevelund, is ex- pected here to-night(Monday) to take charge of operations on the straight channel work, which opens Tuesday. Four dredges, six tugs and sixteen scows will] be used. The steamer Don M. Dickinson which ar- rived on the 8th from Detroit, has cleared with coal for Marine City. Captain C. H. Hubbard, of this city, will go with the steamer Jay Cooke this season, The tug Mystic has left for Port Huron with the schooner Thomas Gawh, coal laden, down, It is thought she was caught in MILWAUKEE, The new steambarge built at the Milwaukee shipsyard for Henry and William A, Starke, was launched Saturday. She was named the Arcadia, after Arcadia, Mich., where Starke’s sawmill is located. She has a capacity of 200, 000 feet of lumber, and cost $20,000, A special from Manitowoc, says that Captain Ruseb, of the schooner Four Brother of Racine; was knocked overboard by a boom and drowned while the vessel was entering that port, BUFFALO, There seems to be no immediate prospect of the lake opening soon, although large quantities ofice have passed down the river. ‘The ice is still very solid, however, and extends as far as Erie, The vesselmen do not expect to get out before May 10, although the Jake may open ear- | lier than that, Propeller J.C, Gilchrist has been taken to Ghicago at 75 cents. Thereare now eleven boats loaded here, and the rest of the fleet is being rapidly cared fcr. Manager Builard, of the Union Line, gives it as his opinion that, if the published reports of the operations of the steamer St. Ignace are true, an expenditure of $2,000,000 will keep the lakes open all winter. Testimony was taken here in the matter of the collision of the steamer Uregon and the side- wheel steamer Alaska on Lake Erie last fall. A computation of the damages is being made. A well attended meeting of the grain shoveler’s union was held April 8th. The scale of prices was made the same as last Beaeo%, CHICAGO,” Special to the Marine Record. F The Dunham towing and wrecking cor - pany are determined to keep pace with the inerensing necessities of the times, and to further this end they recently purchased the fine tug Crowell, which arrived at this port from Manistee last week, and which makes the Dunham company now possess four of the largest. tugs in Chicago harbor. The Crowell is as large as the company’s fine tug TI. T. Morford, and nearly as powerful, and she has the reputation from Buffalo, her place ot birth, as also from Manistee, her late honie port, of being one of the best and most successful tugs on our lakes, Every aiten- tion will be given to. towing and wrecking, and a first class murine diver will be ready at all.times. J. 5S. Dunham is president, Captain J. R. Sinclair superintendent. Cap tain Thos, Johnson chief engineer, Captain Charles Roaci. wrecking muster. The ap- pointments to the company’s eleven tugs will be made soon. Davidson & Holmes and Captain John Lang attended the launch on Saturday after- noon last at Grand Haven of their new steambarge Charles A. Street. She is 160 feet kee], 31 feet 6 inches molded beam, 12 feet depth of hold, and was built by the Grand Haven Shipbuilding Co. She will be driven by a fore and aft compound engine, 20 by 36, and 86 by 36, buileby the Montague iron ‘Works, and boiler, 11 by 11, of Scote pattern, by Johnson Bros., Ferrysburg. A very large number of people attended the Jaunch, whieh was very successful, and the new steambarge is considered a very hand- some model], She has the inevitable Provi- dence windlass. James L, Chase, of the Chase fog whistle machine company, bas been here during the past week, putting his patent fog whistie machine on the steamships Australasia, Bul- garia, Hiawatha, Roumania, and Raleigh. We hope that steamboat owners at this port will give the machine a trial, as it has given entire satisfaction on the thiity fine steam- ships upon which it was placed and used during the season of 1887, and is a great benefit in foggy weather. At Miller Bros.’ shipyard the steamer Lora was in dock for new brasses and _ re- pairs to her shoe; the tug Success for calk- ing and repairs; the schooner Bay State for some new outside plank and rail; the tug F. H. Stanwood for repairs to her rudder; the steamship Colorado tor two new wheels, some repairs and calking: the steamship R. A. Packer for bottom calking; the steam- ship J. F. Eddy fora new wheel. Captain Wm. Roeder, last year of the schooner Maggie Thompson, will sail the schooner Jennie Mullen this season. Capta'n’' Wm, Johnson is giving his fine fleet of schooners new coats of paint to make them look handsome when they go to their first dance over the billows this season. The Chicago Drydock Co, are exceedingly busy, getting many vessels ready for their new season’s work. The propeller Otego is in dock tor bottom calking and general re- pairs, comprising new deck beams and en- larging hatchways to fit ber for large stone carrying; the steamer Charm is in dock for calking and a general overhauling; the pro-! draft boats will find it to their interest to peller Peerless was in for a general over- hauling; the steambarge Fayette has been in dock receiving general repairs und calk- ing; the tug Mestor was in for recalking frames and ceiling aft, also steel arches, new stern and calking all over; schooners Ford River, Resumption, Gilbert Knapp; York State, Belle Brown, John Raber, C. L. Fick, Negaunee, barge Melbourne, and steamships Iron Age, Iron King, C. Tower, City of Traverse, City of Duluth, and J, L. Hurd are receiving general repairs, Lumber freights from Manistee to this port have opened up at $1.62% cents on green, and $1.50 on dry; and from Muskegon at $1.374¢ @m green, and $1.25 on dry. Captain George Simpson is here, getting ready to adjust several steamships for local attraction. Vessel owners’ towing company appoint- ments of masters for 1888 are as follows: Tugs A. G, Van Schaick, Captain Geo. H. Jewell; Rebel, Captain John Quinn; Satisfaction, Captain Richard Brewer; Black Ball No. 2, Captain James Barry; E P. Ferry, Ciptiia F.S. Butler; Protection, Captain Wm. Smith; Union, Captain Pat Gorman; A. A. Carpen- ter, Captain James Inman; Thos. Hood, Ci tain A. C. Wilson; J. V. Taylor, Captain Pat Hart. Captain J. F. Higgie has been ap- pointed superintendent. George F. Kirkham, superintendent of the V. O. T. Co., for the last nine seasons, will this season be connected with Miller Bros.’ Drydock Co. . ‘The schooner Mary L. Higgie, recently pur- chased by H. A. Estelle, of Chicago, will be commanded by Captain P. J. La Voo, of Huron, O. She has received part new decks some new outside planking, and a general overhauling; also, considerable new outfit, and when her new coat of paint has been put on she will Jook and be as good as any A2 canal schooner on the‘lakes. She is chartered | to carry a cargo of iron ore from Escanaba to Detroit, and we wish both owner and captain good luck with her. The schooner Ralph Campbell, coming down the north branch Wednesday morning in tow of a tug, collided with Kinzie street bridge, pand hada portion of her taffrail and a cat- head carried away. ; ~+-"Phe--city-authorities» made an effort’ Tues> day to locate the obstruction at Wells street to which the damage to the propeller Wallula is attributed. For the benefit of mariners the following exact description of this dangerous obstruction is hereby given: About four feet immediately opposite the south bridge abut- ment, and under seven feet of water, there is arow of piles, upon the top of which isa stringer bolted to the piles. Before the bridge improvements were begun, there was a nest of piles which protected vessels from this sub- merged danger. These piles have been re- | moved, and unless the city takes immediate steps to clear the obstruction some very de- plorable and costly accident is likely to occur | at this point, The barge John Shaw became fast at the en- | trance of siip C Tuesday, and prevented craft from going up or down stream for nearly five j hours. A large number of schooners were jammed at the Illinois Central bridge, and a number of river tugs were delayed for several hours. Governor Barry says this sort of | thing is played out. Harbor-master Irwin and his assistauts will | Soon appear in their regulation uniforms. Mr. Irwin is clothed with the rank and authority of captain of police, his assistants to rank as lieutenauts, WILLIAMS. PORT HURON, Special to the Marine Record. Everybody is down at the dock to see the ferry St. Ignace, Captain Tod Boynton (very attractive himself to Port Huron people. He is a great favorite here.) J. W. Thompson, Jr., has built a plat: form 9 feet high by 40 wide and 70 feet long. It will bold 1000 tons of coal and will be in first-class shape to supply any high steam- barge that may come to coal with him. He will have men at hand night or day who can put 40 tons per hour on asteambarge of any size; will also have docks lighted with elee- trie lights. He has 450 feet of dock front, with 17 feet of water at the dock. Deep- give him their patronage. Ed J. Kendall, marine reporter, has had his office painted, refurnished, and put in ‘ | first-class shape for the opening of the season and ironing; the barge D. R. Martin for new | of 88, Edis a hustler. Captain Hi Ames is very sick at his home on Harsen island, He is to command the tug W. A. Moore the coming sexson. Captain, Will Hutchinson leaves Monday | for Bay City to fit out his new steamer, the Macosta, of the Whitney line. Harbor tug O. W. Cheney, Captain H. J. Kendall, is out Coing all the work he can get. The Cheney has been entirely over- hauled this winter and will do better work than last season by 15 per cent on 15 per cent legs fuel. Tugs Haight, Mystic, and Spencer are be- i ng paidted and fitred out ready for business Captain Bil} Curtis commands the Kittie Haight ds usual. : ; Barge Brake has discharged her cargo of oats, and will be fitted out at onee. She+will tow with the steamer Ed Smith. Paints have made the Wareham, recently purchased by S. Grummond, of Moffat & Co., look as fine as any in the river, Schooner Newsboy is at Dunford & Alver- son’s, and will reeeive an entire rebuild. The St. Ignace is coaling up here, about 350 tons. There bas been about five thou- sand people, men, women, and. children, to look her over. John Nesbitt, of Port Huron, with the tugs Jessie and Terrice, has the contract for 35,000 tons of ceal from Cleveland to Pt. Edward for the Grand Trunk railroad at 65c per ton, The Oseoda and City of Concord will leave Port Huron this week to load salt an lumber for Ohio, The tug S 2 leaves for Toledo, towing two The river is clear of ic far as the eye can rea 2 % tC April hy C west shore ports. Tug Hannah Sullivan arrived from St. Joseph on April 10, and engaged in fishing here. : Propeller Sanford made her first depart. ure Thursday, March 29, for Manistee. She returned April 1st, Lake Michigan at that time full of floating ice fields, April 5 tug Pottowatomie was sent out and set the first gang of nets, near Point Betsy. The pier head light was resumed April 5 by Keeper Voree, Propeller John D, Dewar arrived from Manistee first trip April 11, Tugs Sullivan, Slyfield, Cowan, Smith, and Pottowatomie are engaged in fishing here. Both life saving stations were opened April 2. BURMEISTER, SANDUSKY, Special to the Marine Record. A new Buffalo leg has been putin at the B. and O. elevator, John Stang, Esq, ot Lorain, was in the city last week, The tug Dan Connelly and steamers Ohio and Lauise were inspected by Messrs, De- Wolf and McGrath last week. B. T. Dwelle’s new tug was christened the Erie. Captain Wm. Molyneaux will com- mand her, It has been decided to ehange the nate of the steamer Jay Cooke to City of Sandusky. She will arrive here about the 23d inst. from Detroit, where she has been receiving a thorough rebuild the past winter. The B. & O. R. R. Co. are building more trestle for the storage of iron ore, They have considerable ore on hand, The first cargo of grain loaded: by J. A. Closser & Co., this season at the C. 8, and OC, elevator (formerly I. B, and W.) was the schooner M. J. Rogers, Jast week. She loaded corn for Oswego at 41¢ cents, Our signal service station was ordered to discontinue business-after April1. A vigor- ous protest was sent to Washington, signed by influential citizens, and also suggesting that free rent might be had if the station were located at the custom house. After due consideration the government decided to make the change in the location, moving it from tte West house to the custom house, Everything {is being put in in first-class style, for it is intended to make it a perma- nent station. Cc. G. 8, The United States government. steamer Haze is lying at the Mighigan Central dock, taking on supplies for the lower district, She will start ou: Tuesday.