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sisiateaconet reine Se Sm eNO PO £25 STN UU DEVOTED 10 AAVIGATION, (OMMBACE, EAGINEEAING AND SCIENCE. : srerag EN Pome Hl Wea Ted AEE: ‘The city dock at the foot of St. Clair street needs overhauling. - in James Davidson was in the city ng after his Corrigan case, iin toth steamer Roumania. he schooner Cheney | Ames chartered to stone from Portage ‘Entry on contract J. .Frink and Co's red stone quarries, “There is a fair prospect of'a successor be- ing started to the Cleveland Lighterage Co, For particulars enquire of a A Given Thomas W, Bristow, Rifertorubent of the Cleveland. Ship Building Co.’a yard, made a three days visit to Detroit, leaving here on the boat Saturday night of last week. The new snpplement issued by the Inland Lloyds shows that the steam tonnage alone, which has gone into commission on the lakes, since their ‘report for 1888, amounts to $3,786,- 000 for 31 vessels. Geo. Elsey, manager of Grummond’s line of boats, Captain James Millen, of Parker » and Millen and. Mr. John. Craig, the well known shipbuilder of Trenton, were in the city Wednesday, to attend the launch of the Corona. © $. B. McCiure, late book keeper of the Cuyahoga Furnace Co., has just returned from: an extended trip to Colorado and other - western states, Although he has not entirely recovered bis health and strength, he, is now ready for more business. Mr. Ashley, of Lorain, half owner of the Brooklyn, was in town Wednesday looking oyer his boat, and Mr, 8. L. Watson, of Buffalo, owner of the damaged schooner Champion, was also looking over his boat Wednesday of this week. The Lorain tug Selah Chamberlain | is here waiting an opportunity to get into dry- dock. She is to be recalked, have her stern bearings repaired, and will be tested before she returus to Lorain. Thetug Tom May- athm, of this port, takes her place at Lorain while she undergoes the repairs. The schooner Alice B. Norris, Captain Truman Moore, master, made a rapid run for a sail vessel last week, She discharged 1249 tons of coal at Milwaukee on Monday night, June 4; twenty-six hours afrer, finished taken on 1123 gross tons of ore at Escanaba, made the run down and arrived at thia port Sunday morning at 5 o’clock. The steambarge Mackinaw, Captain Paul Rivard, arrived Saturday morning from Black River, Lake Huron, with 220,000 feet of lumber for the Cleveland sawmill and lum- ber company. She will take lumber camp supplies and rafting chains. The Mackinaw has made eight round trips thus far this sea- son, towed a barge three trips and trane- ported five full loads of supplies, Commander Horace Elmer finds as a result of his investigation that the sunken ore or whatever it may be on which the Lehigh struck it about one thousand feet west of the main channel from the light ship to the Belle Isle light, A vessel steered by the old land marks would be in danger of striking the ore. Capt. Elmer has had the place buoyed. .The propeller V. Swain, towing the schooner Helvetia, arrived at Sandusky, on Tuesday with 1180 tons of ore. The Helvetia going on to Lorain with 1530 tons, Both boats will take coal to Duluth at contract price made early in the season, Captain J. J. Higgins and engineer Richard Masten are making good time aud will endeavor to show one more round trip than some of the new beats in the same line. According to the report from the bureau ef navigation the tonnage of the following lake vessels, steam and sail is: sloop yacht Mallard of Chicago, grose, 11.62, net, 11.04; schooner Sunrise, Milwaukee, gross, 26.17, net, 24.87; steamer Britannic, Buffalo, grose, 1121.90, net, 904.84; steamer Charles Hebard, Marquette, gross, 768.82, net, 614,32; steamer M. C. Neff, Milwaukee, CLEVELAND. O.. JUNE 14. 1888. gross, 276.19, net, 210.53; steam yacht Valleta, Oswego, groes, 27.84, net, 13.90. Mr. Pat Carlin, one of the life saving crew at this»port, bas invented and» been granted a patent for a double breeches buoy tor bringing people ashore in time of ship. wreck, which is;believed to be much snpe- rior to the one now in use in the service, Mr. Cariin left for New York City thie week where his device will be pronounced upon by an exumining board of the life rav- ing service, with a view to having it adopted by them foruse onthe lakes and seabourd. The Shipowners’ Drydock Company, has, within the last few days, made a liberal ad- dition to their drydock property. They have secured a piece ot ground adjoining their first purchase, and lying between the latrer and the Globe Iron Shipyard. By this pur chase the plant now owns about $75,000 worth of real estate. ‘he work of constructing the new drydock is making good headway. About ten or twelve teet of the length of the new dock has already been exvavated to the full denth required, Everything indicates good. progress, . Mr. Seth Woodmansee, residing at Noble about twelve miles below this port, did a very manly and proper act in sending the following information to the custom-house. He says: «There came ashore on the lake beach directly north of Noble, near the L. 8. & M. 8. Railway twelve miles east of Cleveland, seven sticks of oak and pine timber chained together, about sixty feeviong, “Net being posted’in law con- cluded te notify you by muil. It came on Sunday evening. You may know to whom it belongs and can notify the owners of it or inform the public through the papers. I am writing this at the request of my neighbor, John Larick, and he wants it advertised.” At the Cleveland drydock they have fin- ished the repairs on the schooner Brooklyn which went out of dock, and now they have the tugs Allie May for repairs to bent shoe, George R. Paige for 1.ew wheel, repairs to stern bearings and calking; Selah Chamber- lain for repairs to stern. bearings. The schooner Champion, which ran into. the steambarge Escanaba, is also receiving re- pairs where she was damaged by the ‘'tan- gle-up,’’ and will also receive new fore and main masts whilein port. The Dry Dock company sent a gang cf men along with the Kecanaba to make good the damage’she received, This compxuny ‘havealso begun work on a new mud ecow for C. H. Strong & Co., 100 yards capacity. Cottage Grove Lake is getting to be quite a popular summer resort, This is the third seuson ithas been open to the public, and great pains have been taken to make ita pleas- ant, attractive and economical place to spend the heated term: On the lake there have been placed over eigh ty pleasure boats, built especi ally as regards safely, and the new and staunch steamer has been remodeled and greatly im- proved The grove is thoroughly equipped with tables, benches, and swings, which are scattered throughout the grounds tothe best advantage, The large and commodious danc. ing pavilion, roller coaster, bowling alley photograph gallery, ball grounds, and in fact’ everything pertaining to first a class excursion resort are provided, for the comfort and en joyment of visitors. Meteorological summary for the week ending June 13, 1888: Mean actual barometer... 2.2.2... .2-- 30.02 Mean temperature,, ot} 02.2 Mean humidity... 6. coc cade tess 73.0 Total a... SE aS 1.12 rection of wind.........- South, Total wind movement 1562 Ay, cloudiness...... ° Ay. state of weather..... 2... air, Max, temperature, 860 Min temperature, low 43-4 W.H. Hammon, Sergi Signal Corps,U, S.A, LORAIN, The schooner Columbia, while making in this harbor last week in tow of a tug from Cleveland, ran into the bridge. The tug sig- naled twice, but the tender being asleep did nothear. The captain put his wheel hard a-port, and§so ran intoone end. Thecollision did p~*49q very serious damage. CHICAGO, Special to the Marine Record. I'he wooden steamship Henry J. John- son, recently built at Cleveland by the Cleye- land Drydcck.Company for Henry J. Jobn- son and others, made her firet appearance at thie port Wednesduy morning June 6th, with 1929 tons of cou! from Cleveland. Her, length over all is 276 feet, breadth of beum | 40 tect depth ot hold 21 feet. She has a fore’ and att-compound engine 28 by 50 by. 42 yand two boilers 16 by 9 each built by the Globe Iron Works Co. who also supplied her with a 11 foot wheel. She also has the American Ship. Windlass Co. steam - windlass and cap- stan anda Williamson Bros, steam steerer. steamer ever running out of Cnicago, and Captain Cochrane is always. cxreful to have the ecmpany on board as select as possible, which gives a good name to his boat, and the most fastidious can take a ride upon her with grent pleasure. Last Friday some,of Captain Cochrane’s many friends presented him with a very fine new set of flags com- prising Ensign, Jack and Burgee, The latter ig 22 feet long with a red ground bordered with blue and the letters John A. Dix in large white letters, She is an elegantly moieled steamer and looks splendid in her uew suit of black, and new colors flying. The mishap is the Fryer’s introduction to this port, as she was on, her maiden trip, Her cabins are mahogany finished and the| She is from Wheeler’s Bay City yard, and is cxptains cabin is finished with birds eye] valued at $120,000. She belonge to Gratwick marle and her fitout which was furnished by | and others ot Buffalo. - Upson & Walton, is first class in every par- Owing to her new machinery. the Fryer ticulur. She is a very fine lookir g steamship was twelve hours Jate in coming, from the und is as good as che looks. CuptuinjJ. C.| straite, repeated stops being made to cool off Thompson commands her. heated journals. At the time she. struck the The new steel steamship Owego came into| fda her engine was not working well, and the river Tuesday morning after having | she had not ent ugn steerage way to clear the smashed to pieces all previous records be-| gehooner, ri tween the Straits of Mackinaw and Chicago, Aldermen Landon, Pond and Clarke, spent Both the Susquehanna and the Tioga have! an hour last Friday morning looking’ into covered the 319%g miles. between these two} the working of the bridge telephone system points in twenty-three anda half houre. The} ang then took a tug ride from the monthof Anchor Liner accomplished the feat a short | Chicago river to Van Buren street. Alder- while ago, ‘tieing the Tioga’s time of last| man Landon said he should not oppose the eeason. With 1,000 tons of package freight | motion in the council to refer back to the the Owego, in the face of a dead ahead wind committee.on fire-and water the ordinance, made the stretch between Mackinaw City| to increase the bridge hours bearing: his and Ohieago in twenty-one hours and fifty minutes, or one hovr and forty minutes better than the distance was ever before traversed by a steamer. She averaged over fourteen and a half miles as hour. The fine steamship Susan E. Peck, of Buf- falo, arriving here for the first time on Thursday June 7th, with 2,000 tons of coal, Captain Wn). Borthwick is in command. She is 224 feet keel, 38 feet 8 inches beam, 20 feet hold. Her engine a fore and att compound 21 by 40 by 86 was built by the Kingston Works, Buffalo, and her boiler 91g by 16, by the Lake Erie Boiler Works, Buffalo and is allowed 131 pounds: steam pressure. She has proved'a complete success and runs 10 miles per hour loaded. She left this port with 75,000 bushels of corn Tuesday. after- noon, Captain John Green, her owner, came up to Chicago and has gone back on her to Buffalo, At Miller Bros, shipyard, the schooner White Cloud was in dock for leak stopping and calking, the tug Brand is in dock for a thorough rebuild, the steamer Douglass was in for repairs, the tug A. G. Van Schaick for repairs to damages done to her by com- ing into collision with the steamship Geo. T, Hopes wheel, the schooner John R. Noyes received a new foremast and some repairs. Last Thursday morning the steambarge George Markham, when going into D slip, Mud Lake picked up a schooners center board in her wheel. Scottie the diver was engaged to go down‘and get it out, but he found it too difficult a job and she was towed to the Chicago Drydock Co’s. and put in dock and nearly five hours were spent in cutting it out of the wheel. The Vessel Owners’ Towing Co, have pur- chased the fine tug Calumet of South Chi- cago for $6.750, She will be put in com- mission by the V. O, T. Co, at once. . Andrew Olsen, steward of the schooner Minnie Mueller, bad his right arm horribly mangled at 10 o’clock Tuesday morning. The schooner was leaving the market, and in endeavoring to let go a stern line Olsen’s arm was crushed in between a scow and his vessel. Helis at the marine hospital. Captain David Cochrane, has put his side wheel excursion steamer John A. Dix, in splendid condition for her summer work. He has been at a large expense fitting her out 8 a Al excursion steamer and has re- modeled her cabins and has put in all the most modern conveniences for the accom- modation and comfort of her passengers. The Dix since she has been here has carried a better class of people than any excursion name, which has been reported favorably by the committee. The. new propeller Robert L. Fryer and the schconer Ida collided near the crib Tues- day night about 11 o’clock. The propeller came out ahead in the crash, and was but slightly damaged. ‘The Ida suffered much more severely, but. she was not in danger of going down. Captain Simon O’Day, who arrived Mon- day, with his steambarge D. W. Powers with lumber from Cheboygan, complains bitterly of the negiect of the keeper at Skillagallee lighthouse in keeping the siren whistle at work, and thereby causing his steambarge to go on the reef. He states, the Power’s fog whistle was kept blowing at intervals from 1:15 a. m. until 2:30 a. m. when she struck the reef, as the night was foggy. Notasound was heard from the whistle at Skillagallee until three quarters of an hour after the Powers went on the reef, One of the men from the light- house came to the Powers in tle morning. He said that as soon as they heard the Pow- er’s whistle, at the lighthouse they set to work and get up steam to blow the whistle and that getting up steam took about one hour. Ag all pilots on board vessels expect to hear the whistles at dangerous points, it would be better for none to be there at all if they are not keptin use when necessary, Captain Dunham Buchanan of the schooner Stampede and other captains complained greatly last fall of the non-blowing the whistle in foggy weather. Schuyler & Kremer, proctors in admi- rality, for the owners of the schooner Look- out, will, sue the owner of the schoouer Myrtle, which collided with and damaged the former off Milwaukee on June 1 last. J. S. Dunham’s schooner Lottie Wolfe and the propeller Boston engaged in a set-to in the river Wednesday morning. The Wolfe’s mizzen rigging went by the board in the entanglement. Lumber freights continue unsettled, demand for carriers is good, There are more unemployed seamen, freight handlers and lumber shovers in Chi- cago than ever before this season. The grain trimmers are in trouble again. They refused to recognize the propeller Russia as a line boat today and demanded the regular price, $1.50 per 1,000 bushels, Shovels and scoops were purchased and the line put a gang of its own men to work. There is promise of more trouble. The propeller Oneida is in court on account of & mortgage on her held by the late Lorenzo Di- The $2.00PzrR ANNUM. Sine.e Corres 5 CENTS. mick,the heirs havejadvertisedjherjforisale on the mortgage, but John C, Maxwell, the Iste owner, has begun suit, claiming that arrangments had been made not to forclose the mortgage for some time yet, WIiLLiaMs, ASHTABULA HARBOR, Special to the Marine Keord, Aside from presidential nomination the all absorbing topic here just now is the bridge To straighten the channel and . give a center abutment, would necessitate — question. the purchase of coneiderable river frontage, The owners of property required our city : fathers locked borns ovér prices and the struggle has been quite lively. The property f owners however gave one twist to much and will now be obliged to hold their property. . Old | vessel men here have. submitted plans for a bridge that seem to answer the needs of the | pending the next boom in, real estate, place, and. necessitates the. _ purchase of. only just land enough for the bridge to swing on. saving something like fifty thousand midian to the city, and tax payers smile We notice thesarrival f the fi R. P Flower, with. ore,a new woode! hailing, from Milwaukee. aie Kittie M, Forbes, loads coal for Di The Thos. Davidson, a new stea Milwaukee is in port, it being her Se, cargo since coming out new, -Throughsth ie, courtesy of the second officer our old f Captain Otter, your | correspondent had the __ pleasure of looking the boat over and found — her perfect in every. respect, with every ap- pliance for speed and safety. The Roumania is receiving a coat of paint, We paused to notice the by no means least of our industrier, Captain Tug Wilson’s night and day river express boat. The cap- tain has a fine boat and with his very ex- tensive acquaintance with marine men, gentlemanly bearing, and a desire to please we predict for hima bright future anda paying business. The propeller Schoolcraft and consorts load coal for Portage. The schooner George, ishaving her monkey rail repaired and hull calked, Once more we notice some quick work done on A. Y. & P. docks, by the Excelsior hoisting machine, unloading the steamer Corsica 2600 tons in nine and one half hours and here we rest. By careful estimate I think I would in about six weeks have her un- loaded about twenty minutes before she ar- rived. The steamer Pickands goes to Erie to load coal for Chicago. The infant Clint Enis is second in command and we find him the urbane gentleman as of yore. The steamer S. R. Tilly and consorts load coal Port Willams, The L. 8S. & M.S. have placed on their docks this spring nine new MeMiley, Whirley’s, partly to replace the old time stationary cranes, The Variety Iron Works, is also erecting tor them asix leg hoist which for appearance so tar beats them all. They are also operating four Brown hoists. Prope!ler Araxes and conscris load coal for Houghton, Propeller Lathair and con- sort load coal for Serpent river, steamer Gogebic takes coal to Connors point. F. L. T, ALPENA. Special to the Marine Record. The twenty-six vessele that cleared trom Alpena last week took out 6,284,000 feet of lumber, 100,000 lath, 505,000 shingles and 60,000 railroad ties. The season’s shipments up to last week aggregate 31,911,000 feet of lumber, 3,783,000 shingles, 2,837,000 lath, 130,000 cedar posts, 109,800 railroad ties and 485 cords of cedar, EAST SAGINAW. Only 14,000,000 feet of lumber was shipped from Saginaw river porte last week, The steamship Britanie, costing $170,000, was launched from Davidson’s shipyard, West Bay Oity, Saturday afternoon. The boat is one of the largest afloat, being 312 feet long, of 41 feet Sse 15 with de;: sth of hold 22 feet in the clear. The Britannic 1s owned by the builder, and will tow the schoouer Mar oolson In the lumber trade, Captain J. R. Preston, last year master of the propeller Comberisnds will com- mand her. 2 t t j 4 oy wr