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f ¥ 2S 4 ‘waste tant, 98 cea “I fave no desir Siac any to ree flect at all upon-the distinguished -gentle- 4 Da arine Hecord. Pobtighed Every Thursday at 144 Superior Street, [Leader Bullding) Cleveland, O. A. A.POMEROY, EDITOR AND PuB. BRANCH OFFICE: 252-South Water Street, Chicago, Mlinois, THOMAS WILLIAMS, Associate Editor. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: ‘One year, postage paid,..... evelbesteas8l ootboct 42,00 Six months, postage paid...... ssssceeecerseeeee 1,00 Invariably i n advance. THE MARINE RECORD can ve found for tale by the following news dealers: CLEVELAND, O,—G. F. Bowman, corner of Pear] and Detroit Streets. Evang & Van Epps, Superior street, Cleveland. R. A. Castner, 254 Detroit street, Cleveland. ASHTABULA HARBOR, O. =A Large. CHICAGO, ILL,—Joseph Gray, 9 West Ran- dolph Street. CHICAGO, ILL.—H. B. Hansen, 33 West Randolph Street. BUFFALO, N. Y.—Miss McCabe, Elk Street, wear Ohio. DULUTH, MINN.—C. F. Johnson, 323 West Saperior Street. MARQUETTE, MICH.—J. A. Vannier. ESCANABA, MICH.—Wm. Godley. ESCANABA, MICH.—George Preston. SARNIA, ONT.—D. McMasters. OWEN SOUND, ONT.—J. Sharpe, Jr. KINGSTON, ONT.—F, Nisbet, corner Br: ok and Wellington Streets. Subscribers and others are respectfully invited to use the columns of the MARINE RECORD @er the discussion of pertinent topics. “Entere@at the Post Office at Cleveland as second- elasemail matter. CLEVELAND, 0., THURSDAY, JUNE 14, CLEVELAND VESSEL OWNERS’ ASSN ORGANIZED IN 1880, (Membership, 1887] Bixty-five steamers aggregating. ....-..... 67,865 tons. Ninety-five sail and consort, aggregating.60,089 ons, Maintains sbipping offices at Cleveland and Ashta- ‘ula Harbor.. Regulates wages, protects crews, and takes cognizauce of all matters in the interest of its members and of the Lake Commerce generally. OFFIOEBS. BH. M. Hanna, Se eer President HP. lavumripcr, -. -_ -..- Vice President B. L. PennincTon, + Secretary and Treasurer. H.D.Gowxrperk - - - - =-= = Counsel EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE, 4H. M. Hanna, H. P, Lillibridge, M, A. Bradley, Geo, '. McKay, Thomas Wilson, R. K. Winslow, W. D Rees, J. H. Palmer, J. “We Moore, Wee. Richardson, ; . (SHIPPING MASTERS! +: Ri, Rumsey, 98 dock, Cleveland; ‘Fred Bennet. sige ‘orig Rei wis ee Ashta- DETROIT RIVER BRIDGE. int belo ‘the point prepared by . P: ta use before the man who has 80: ably presented’ ‘his cate. He has discharged well his duty. Bat L must reply that bis proposition is regarded ‘by many people as one most impudent and scandalous. The whole schece is bused upon the belief that congress will grant a public charter to a bedy of speculators, to “build a private bridge over the Detroit ‘river, purely for speculative and mercenary -purposes, With all proper respect for the ‘proprietors of such a scheme, we denounce it as impudent and scandalous, The Detroit river connects the upper and lower lakes, and there is no other water “connection possible. To voluntarily ub- struct this great natural highway, and im- pair, retard, obstruct the enormous com- merce of the lakes, to place for all time a «ponderous bridge across the very throat of a narrow stream, through which muat pass every vessel and tow from the upper or “lower lakes, is to strike a deadly blow at the -richest and most prospercus ccmmerce of the world, and cccasion infinite private logs, ‘delay and vexation to the entire marine in- “‘terests of the lake regions. If a railroad ‘bridge is needed across the Detroit river, ‘and the necessities of rapid transit are abso- iuteiy such as are set forth in the petition presented, then such crossing should be made by means of a tunnel which all our engineers unite in saying is feasible, not much more evpensive, and the passage can be used uninterruptedly all the year round without injury to navigation. The attempt to influence the committee by calling this a “winter bridge” only, is absurd and misleading. The piers upon which the propored enormous structure is to be built will remain during the entire year, and only the spans of the superstruct- ure are to be taken down during the period of navigation. To say that these piers and the closed portion of the bridge are no im- pediments to navigation, is to deny the plainest truth and insult the common sense of the committee. The current is three “tiles an hour at this point, and even with ihe vavigation unimpeded by any artificial ot- straction,,eyer 100 ~veseela. colliled and were more or less injured lest year, owing to the crowded state of river navigation. No sane eailkr will say that with the crowded state of the river, the length of the tows, vessels going in every direction, propelled by sail and stesm, that such a tridge as is proposed by these petitioners will be anything else than a dangerous and intolerable Luisance. What great interest in the country is ask- ing for this bridge; what excuse is made for urg ing this legi-letion; why. should one.ot the richest, most uece-siry, and imposing of all the natural water-waysin the world be obatructed, because by so doing some railroad interest may be benefitted, or a gang of reputsble speculators enriched? The river is the people’s highway; it is the highway made by the Creator; it is the com- mon property of all the people. It weuld be a flagrant, monstrous wrong to injure this great artery of commerce merely t> udvance the private interests of a few, how- ever deservin . There is not the slightest necessity for this legielaticn. If the vast commerce cf the railroad is impeded be- tween the States aud Canada at Detroit; if the delay to travel and loss of time are so great, and the commercial disasters so over- whelming in consequence, then it is high time the railroad company made the neces- sury communicaticn between the two pointe, or yield.it up to these who would gladly. do ‘|¢0. “This can and will. de done ultimately by a tunnel, and in this way every obstacle to commerce is avoided. Crossing the river is done as easily as getting into New York on the Central railrcad, and the Detroit river will be left unobstructed for :he needs of navigation, Within three years $300,000 have been voted by congress to clear the obstructions in the river. From my own knowledge i can say that these obstructions were not half as-fatal to, the interests. of navigation as the piers and pcritions ot the ‘Winter Bridge.”’ The commerce of the’ Detroit river is. al- most the richest and most imposing in the world. Last year there passed thrcugh’ it over 22,000,000 tons of shipping, 37,000 passages, or a number of tons equal to the freight vommerce of the United States with the whole world. Do you propose.to aid in destroying the magnificent commerce of these inland seas, incredsing every year as it does in magnitude, to acccmmodate ap- parently the petty traffic of a railroad cor- | poration. ‘The idea is monstrous. ~ The river proposed to be thus choked and ‘strangled must for all time be the only was ter way over which.all the commercial busi- ness of the weet can ‘find its way to the At- lantic' seaboard. From the west comes all {the coal, iron ore, lumber, salt, copper, pig, iron, which ten yeais ago amounted in value to over $80,000,000 annually. Michi- gan, Ohio an Pennsylvania sre almost de- pendent upon the fine navigation of the lakes for their j prosperity and the continu- ance of their industries, Let the committee place themselves upon one of the great lake stamers heavily loaded and drawing four or five tows heavily loaded, making a line of 3,000 yards. Stand on the deck at midnight with the current running three miles an hour, a heavy gale blowing and hundreds of vessels passing and reparsing up.aad down, beating or sail- ing before the wind. On both: sides of the river are thotsands of lights, and the river is covered with dancing white, red, and green lights from the parsing vessels. Will any sane man say that these five great piers and the comparatively narrow openings are no obstruction to navigstion? ‘That the master can in all this bewildering of lights, and flo.ting’ contusion avoid collision and accident? It is imposrib'e. Tam requested by the board of trade, and the, marine interests of Buffalo, Cleveland Toledo, Detroit, Chicago, Milwaukee, StPaul, to solemnly protest »gainst the structureof this bridge. I represent over $50,000,000 of ship. ping involved in this question. They insist that to obstruct this channe), is against public policy, against good morals, isan invasion and outrage upon the rights of the people, is not at all necessary even for furnishing railroad facilities, I protest against it in the name of the great states of Wisconsin, Ohio, Michigan and New York, whose legislatures have boldly expressed their disapproval of the scheme, I protest against it in the name of the people west of Lake Superior, whose interests are about tobe imperriled. No states- man ean think fora moment of the future commerce of that vast region, which must seek water communication with the Atlantic sea- board, without amazement. At this moment the territories lying west ef that water-way, make 15 states as large as Ohio. The possibilities. of wealth and affluence, which future generations will create there, are almost beyond the imagination to conceive, to say nothing of the agricultural products, the coal, iron, Inmber. copper, lead silver and mineral deposits of these lands will one day yield a harvest that can supply the needs of the world itself. If this sub committee should seriously think of favoring the bridge project, then in the name of all tne vast interests mentioned we desire the amplest time for a hearing before Marine Record. the whole committee. The summer is now upon-us, ‘The marine. interests-are now-ac- tively employed, and can not, without the most serious embarrassment prepare their views. I come here at this time to represent them. But when navigation shall close, they will be in force to present with deliberation and calm- ness their views. Hence I ask the postpone- ment of further action until another winter. The vast interests of the present and future generation may beaffected by your decision, Knowing that my clients have the right to be heard, and that you in all fairness will see they have this privelege I close my remark. The subject affects too many vital, national, per sonal interests to be disposed of by hasty action, Let us have ample time, a full and free discussion, and when you shall make your report to congess for final action let it be seen that you can stand upon your opinions wi'h conviction wrought by the full- est knowledge, and the amplest investigation. Whatever these conclusions are like good citizens, we will respect and honur them. VESSEL owners have just d'scovered that the new elevator law provides that vessels shall only pay the actual cost of trimming grain to leg of elevator. Elevating associa- tions still cherge vessels one-eighth cent in addition to shoveling and intend to keep on doing so until ec mpelled to'stop. THE new Union line prc peller Chenango will be out early next month, Ward’s line boat about the middle of July, and the new Lackawanna line boat in the latter part of July or carly in August, LAUNCH OF THE CORONA. This sister to the Corsica, and third steam- ship built for the Mutual Transportation company by the Glebe Iron works company at their yard at the old river bed, was suc- cessfully laur.ched before a Jarge concourse of people last Wednesday, June 13, at 3 o’cleck in the‘afternoon. She is as nearly like the Corsica in mcdel: as is possible to get her, and as che loomed up on the stocks looked indeed a mighty thing to float on the waters of our great Jakes, She has been built with great care throughout and of the best material that could be selected by men of exeperience and judgment. ‘The work has been performed under the watchful eye of a master of his profession, who believes a thing to be well done only when it is done jn tke bert possitle manner, and we can safely say her superior cannot be found or ‘fresh water... The, Corona ‘is,as before de- scribed ir the columns of the REecorp, 292 feet keel, 312 feet over all, 40 feet beam, depth of hold 24 feet; will carry 2,800" tons on 154¢ feet draft of water at an average speed. of 1334 miles-an‘houry” Her* machin= ery consists of triple expansion’ engines, high pressure cylinder 24 irches diameter, |! intermediate’38-inches, and low pressure 61.) inches by 42 inches strcke, indicating 1,200 horse power, She»will »be furnished steam by two Scotch: type bollers each ‘14 feet di-|. ameter by 12 feet ip length, allowed a steam pressure of 180 pounds tothe equare inch; her wheel is 14 feet in diameter and 16 feet lead; all the machinery has been built by the Globe Iron works company, of Cleve. land, the quality of which it will beun- necessary to dwell upon, for they have al- ready an enviable reputation in their | ine of business, She is also provided wit Providence steam windlass and 78 td stan from the well known American Ship windl:sy7«ompany, steam steerer ind steam hoisting engines, in fact has everything to be found in a first-clacs modern ship; noth irg that can faciliate and save time and labor in her managen ent, taking on or dis- charging cargo has been cmitted in her build and fitting out. The four spars will be fitted with canvas and she will, like the Corsica, be fore and ait rigged, so as to sail as well as steam; an iron boiler house amid- ship and cabins for the crew are all above | deck, being comfortable and neatly fitted ap, the captain’s cabin even bordering upon luxury; in her construction great fore- thought and care has been used in having everything built to give her the best des- patch in loading and unloading freight; she has seven hatches ard five gangways to be hoisted by a pony engine on deck for package freight, and can be used with ad- vantage in any line of business which she may enter ihto; speedy with great carrying capacity, well constructed of the best ma- terial, che will doubtless prove to be a good investment for her owners and a monument reflecting much credit upon her builders. With all our heart we say success to the Corona, and may she prove tully as satss- factory to all, as have the Cambria and Cor- sica before her. She wil! be fitted up for sea with all possible rapidity and will prob- ably go into harnessin a few weeks, Cap- tain J. B, Hall will have command of this admirable boat and Thomas Shehan will be chief engineer. Among those present were: Mr, Fitz. A, Kirby, of the Detroit Dry Dock company, Captain James Millen, of the firm of Parker & Millen, of Detroit, Mr. John Craig, the well known shipbuilder from Trenton, and other gentlemen from Detroit whose names we failed to get. ‘Lhis vessel lay nicely in the water drawing 7 feet 3 inches aft and 3 feet 3 inches forward, "| LAKE CARRIERS’ ASSOCIATION, TO CONSIDER’ AND’ TAKE ACTION UPON ALL GENERAL posterior LATING TD THE MAVIGATION AND CARRYING SUGINESS OF THE GREAT LAKES AND THE WATERS TRIBUTARY THERETO, WITH THE INTENT TO IMPROVE THE CHARACTER OF THE SERVICE RENDERED TO THE PUBLIC, TO PRO- TECT THE COMMON INTEREST OF LAKE CARRIERS, AND PROMOTE THEIR GENERAL WELFARE* BOARD OF MANAGERS, 1888. Tuomas Martin. - - + = Oswego, N. Y¥ a ae, 23:5 G5 4 Buffalo, N.Y BuLtarp,+ - - - + Buffalo, N. ¥ ba D. CALDWELL, Pr@ident, - «Buffalo, N. Y. E. # EVAns, - - Buffalo, N. Y. W. P. Hexry, os a ae . Buffalo, N. ¥. P. P. MILLER. - + Buffalo, N. Y¥ Frank J. Firtu, Viee President - Erie, Pa, M. A. BRADLEY, - - Cleveland, 0. H. M. Hanna, - - Cleveland, oO. Titomas WIrson, Vive President, » Cleveland, 0. A. W, Cotton, - Toledo, 0: Jauxs W. MILLEN, Vies President, - Detroit, eee EpER WARD, - 2 James Davipson, - + - = Bay City, Mich. Jos AUSTRIAN, - - - « Chicago, DL .M. Eoan, + - - Chicago, Ill. - Chicago, Ul. - Milwaukee, Wis. - M:lwaukee, Wis. Ina H, Owen, Vice President, - = P. tine a - AVID VANCE, - = - = ALEX McDoveatrn, - «+ + Duluth, Minn. HaRrRY MURPHY, Secretary, - = Buffaio, N. Y. Jas. Carry Evans, Treasurer, - Buffalo, N. Y. MARINE RECORD—OFFICIAL PAPER, LAKE FREIGHYTS. Tonnage was in good demand yesterday, but the transactions in lake freighis were much smaller than for the last two days be- cause fewer vessels could be offered. Charters were: Steamer William Chisholm, coal, Buffalo to Milwaukee, 85c; schooner John Burt coal, Fairport to Milwaukee, 70c; barge, Col- onel Brackett, coal, Cleveland to Algonac, 40c; Ashland, 70c; steamer Rube Richards and coal, Cleveland to Port Arthur 70c. Matters were dull and inactive to-day, and Canal freights were quiet and more settled, shippers paid 23c on wheat, 2§c on corn, lgc on oats to New York: Engagements: schooners M. F. Merrick, coal, Toledo to Manitowoc, 70c; Montcalm, St. Peter, coal, Toledo to Green Bay, 70c; T.S. Christie, D. Stewart, ore, Ashland to Ohio ports, $1.25; S. V..R..Watson, lumber, Pequam- ing to Buffalo,.. $2.25 on rail;,Francis. alee ore, Escanaba to Erie 90¢. A SAD. MISFORTUN E. BurraLo, N. Y. June 10. ‘i the Kditor of the Marine Record; ' Iam gure you will ‘be pained to learn that Captata W. D. Andrews, whose acquaint- ance you formed while he served as a surf- ‘man in the Cleveland life saving station dur-: ing the fall of 1885, has been stricken blind. His object, as you no doubt remember, was to reorganize the Canadian lifeboat stations into regular paid stations and build the ser- | vice up ena par with that of this country, a|in this humane work, however, he failed through the perverseness and shortsightness ofthe marine and fisheries department of Canada, under whose head this falls. Chra- grined Lut still with some hope he entered | the civil service examinations held in 1886 and as no other opening then presented itself, he was appointed as carrier in the Toronto post office until further promotion. Here, however, his health failed him and he was attacked with symptoms which devel- oped iuto blindness. Captain Andrews has had a remarkable career. He was born in Kingston, Ontario, May 19, 1858, and as he grew into manhood all his aims were bent upon that of a life saver. His first achieve- ment in this line occurred when he was but 16 years of age, when he rescued a young lad from drowning in the bay at Kingston, Since then he has saved fully a score or | more from drowning by swimming to their rescue, He also was long actively connected with the volunteer life boat service of that! city, (Toronto) serving as captain. He also was the fcunder of the Dolphin swimming club, of Toronto, and was for a long time teacher of swimming at the Wiman Island baths of the same place. He bears seven first class gold lite saving medals with many illuminated mementoes and other tokens of | esteem that have been tendered him. J... —_— a MERCHANT SEAMEN’S WIDOWS AND OR. PHANS PENSION BILL. The objectionable features of this bill appear | to us to be that it is an attempt to revive a mer. chant seamen’s pension fund, outside state con- trol, on the lines of the old fund, which, from the moment of its inception, was foredoomed to pam failure, and had to be wound up at the cost of the British taxpayer; that there is no prospect that can ever be of any use toa single seaman who subscribes to it; that the weekly dole of 5s, to a widow until she remarries or becomes un- chaste, or to a dependent relative, and the small sum to children, are very inadequate results for the ponderous machinery of the bill; that the whole scheme and conditions on-which the bill steamer George King and schooners Thomas Gawn Teutonia, coal, Ashtabula to Portage, 75c; steamer H. A, Tuttle, coal, Toledo to consorts, May Riehards, and E, C. Hutchings the demand for grain carriers was poor. Rates ruled easy at 2c for wheat, 134 for corn, and 13c for oats to Buffalo. The Georgian Bay rate was firm atl}on corn. Coal freights were active and steady. Charters: F. W. Palmer with Vance, St. Louis with Potomac, Vought and Sawyers, Lackawanna, Tioga, for Chicago, 85c; D. W, Rust with Clint and Butts, T. 8S, Fassett, Montgomery, William Egan, F. L. Vance, Isabel Reed, N. C. Holland, Cum- berland with Bruce, William Chisholm, Mar- engo, J. K. Jackson, for Milwaukee, 85c; Exile for Sheboygan, 85c; schooner Montgomery, for Menominee, 90c; Oregon with Alverson, for Green Bay, 85c; D. Leuty, C. F. Curtis, for Racine, 90c; G. K. Jackson, for Kenosha,90c. is founded are crude and unworkable; and that it accepts an oft-ex; osed fallacy in regard to the oumber of men employed, and, therefor, as re- ; garde the death rate, As @ distinct proclama- tion, however, that shipowners: ate now fully awake to the fact that it is their duty to help to maintain the families of seamen who lose their lives in their ships, and to make provision for seamen disabled or worn out in their service, we hail this bill with satisfaction, and tender our congratulations to its framers. Having now put their bands to the plough, we can only continue to hope that they will not turn back, but that they will persevere in their good work, so that this present bill, which is at best a pantling, may be so nursed, nourished, and strengthened by liberal treatment at their hands, that it may become in fact what itis now on'yin name, a Merchant Seamen’s, Widows and Orphans Pen- sion, Bill, wth a pension fund for aged and dis- abled seamen.——Nautical Magazine, —ucqoc©6ooocon— STAKES AND BUOYS. The following is a copy vf a letier received at this office from General O. M, Poe, explaining that he is not connected with the light house board, and that any thing re ating thereto should be addressed to the inspector of the 11th. light house ‘district, under whose supervision such matters are attended to, a fact not gener- ally known awong wasters of many of our ves- sels: To the Editor of the Marine Record: My attention has been called to an editorial in your issue of the 7inst., refering to a protest signed at Duluth, and addressed to me, by cer- tain vessel masters, touching the manmr in which the stakes and buoys are placed, and mantained, in Sault St. Murie river. connected with the matter, as I haye no more to do with the placing and maintaining ofthe stakes and buoys, than I have with the command of of the steamers of which the protestants are the masters, a fact which ought to have been well known to them, and of which the “MARINE RECORD” is well informed, Stakes and buoys come under the supervision and control of the lighthouse establishment, @ branch of the treas- ury departinent, and not ufider the War depart- ment, to which I belong, Complaints concerning the stakes ond buoys in question, should be made to the ‘Inspecto 11th light house district, Detroit, Mich. WRECKS ON THE LAKES. The lamentable loss of vessels on the great lakes seems to have attracted attention at Washington as well as at Ottowa to the danger of overloading. A-return presented to Con- gress contains a report from the Inspector- General of steam vessels stating that there i is no law to prevent overloading, and recommend- ing that such legislation should be passed by Congress. The Tnspector-General alludes to the resolution and preamble of the house of representatives as to the loss of United States vessels on the North-western lakes, were 73 such losses ia 1887, aggregating 20,678 number of lives lost being 204. Asthe charge due to underwriters and the sincompe cy of Government inspectors in allowing th perdi to be loaded beyond their carrying capacity, the Inspector-General says that his office has persons were lost, 16 passengers and of t crew, only one person, one of the crew, being sayed. Whether she was too. fsa ett or badly handled could not. be ascertained. ‘There is also a report from the commissio sai of navigation, showing that existing regulations j orate British freeboard tables to regulate the ‘load line, which being based on the Err cation of Lloyd’s Register, might not be quite suitable to vessels built in the United States. There is a bill to prevent overloading now before Congress. It will be remembered that a bill on the same subject was introduced by the minister of marine at the] last session of the parliament of . Canada, but it drawn by Mr. Foster onthe ground that he had received late information ‘which might modify the proposed measure and required investigation. It is an urgent matter and one whieh Mr, Tupper will find demanding his early attention with a view to the necessary legislation.—Toronto Empire. ——-7.,.-_—_ TRANSPORTATION OF PETROLEUM ON PASSENGER STEAMERS, @ TREASURY DEPARTMENT, APRIL 23, 1888. Srr: The Department is in receipt | letter of the 19th. instant, in reaish you ask its opinion as to whether your x as aalinies refine etroleum Mackinaw Island an bet being accessible by wali and the fora rail and ferry of Sor10 miles across thi In reply, you are informed that it sailing- ant or fi nt steamers t larly between Detroit and the your letter, it would be illeg steamers to carry refined petro are - br ag cage or les yee on the rou’ 6 carriage o} trojan Senger-steamers woul: ain darwin 1a pon bel tariff of freights as ecfnigh ‘ont ferriage route as to a My the traffic in refined be, then such oils coul oe passenger dieses, Ae to patety ey. provided: 1 » of the euler ae of Supervising Ins: r yours, dD. Carne ‘ ‘Ge Cleveland ‘a ‘m Mich, pression, a girl. lam atalossto understand why my name is tons, valued with cargoes at $2,500,000, the | made in the resolution that these losses were Lee no control except over the Steam vessels, In. 1887, he says, only one steam vessel, the Ver- non, foundered. in the, great lakes,(w 41 ; the are defective... He. enclosed , the very elab-—