The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

“DETHOTT?. — | Detroit Dry Dock company’s yard at Wyan- Record. OK a dotte, will be larnched in a couple of weeks. post successful wrecking jobs | She will be;called the “Hatlem.” “Hor. hed inthe history of wrecking BUFFALO. Govenor Hill has signed the elevator bill, the bill does away with the half eent paid by boate for trimmiog grain to leg of the elevator, Just what that charge would be nobody could tell, The bill provides that elevators. shall charge not to exceed § of a cent for elevating, receiving, weighing, and discharging grain, ex- clusive of actual cost of trimming to leg, but makes no provision for storage charges. Buf- falo elevators have been charging } of a cent for receivsng and discharging, including five days’ storage, New rates were isaned by the Western Elevating Company, making a charge of five- eighth cent, one-half to be paid by the grain, one« eighth by vessel. Storage, however, will be charged from the mement the grain enters the house at the rate of one-fourth of a ceht for each ten days or any part thereof. Under the old plan vessels also paid one-eighth of acent, All the elevator owners nowjinte:d to make no di- ect transfer from vessel to boat, bot to keep the grain long enough in store to give them the ad- diticnal quarter of a cent, just what they did before, but the grain can getjten duys storage in- stead of five. There seems to be no provision in the bill cowpelling au elevator to make a direct transfer. In spite of the increased offorts on Saturday to get the Saginaw Valley afloat she remains on the ways from which she was to be launched. The schooner Northwest goes to Mill’s dry- dock on arrival te repair an accident sustained on Lake Michigan, The new propeller Robert Mills, having made @ satisfactory trial trip on Saturday was tied up atthe foot of Washington street reaay to load coal fer Chicago. The propeller J. C. Pringle in addition to her regular tow, the Sunshine, Sweetheart, and Gar- dner, took out the Houghton and the barge Gol- den Harvest A. Mills, of Dunham’s wrecking y, went down to Point au Pelee ten with an outfit. After lightering her cargo of coal he raised her and ht her to Detroit. She now lies ai drydock, where she will be thorough- erbauled, ‘he Frontier Iron work delivered to the Thomas McGregor boiler works, corner of Congress and Tuird streets, the largest cast- ever made In Detroit, in the form of a 120 ton steam riveter weighing 12 tons; it is a labor caving invention of great value, ng four or five times the work of a gang of men. It takes up a space of eight feet ~ gquare and will enable the McGregor boiler works to keep up with their orders. While _ the large machine was being set up in place the foreman of the works was finishing up the smallest boiler they ever worked on, to be used on board a steam Jaunch with one of the new styles of oil burning engines used on small pleasure boats. The steamer Cambria, which was aground and jettisoned two hundred tons of her cargo before being released, passed down Tuesday morning in apparently good con- dition. : - Work is progressing finely on the floating ’ drydock, building by the Detroit Drydock gompany,'for the Sw Ignace at the straits. - ‘When finished it will be taken apart and transported up by boat. The new F. & P. M. No. 4 is being fin- ishedrapely- and ‘will be ready to launch in 4a couple of weeks. She is a fine boat an well constructed. ‘ An the Detroit drydock they have the tug Charles McDonald for§new wheel and the steambarge H. C. Schnoor fora new. stem, pony pumps, calking and a general over- “hauling. oye Captain H. Brock left Toledo, light, with the schooner Icsman in tow, went to Har-| risville, loaded 7,500 ties on the schooner, 8,500 on the Icsman, lost twelve hours and. made the round trip in four days and ~ eighteen hours. i At the drydocks at Springwells, in one dock they have the schconer A. Boody for very extensive repaire; she will. receive “mostly new bottom, new stern, rail, bul- warke, part new keel, and will havea thor- ough overhauling to put her in the best pos- aible condition; the work is belng carried “on under the supervision of Captain Will- fam T. Brown. formerly of the tug William Moore. The Riverside is fast being com- pleted, and when she comes out will be in better trim than she eyer was. The schooner White Star, ashore at Point Au Pelee, has been raised by Stephen Mil- lar, of the Duuham wrecking fleet, and now lies alongside the dock half full of coal, and the other half full of water, waiting her turn into the drydock for repairs. Mr. George Elsey left for Cleveland Tues- day evening, and among other Detroit busi- é ‘ness men were Captain James Millen and ; John Craig, the well known shipbuilder. Mr. Bristow, of the Cleveland Shipbuild- ing company, returned from a few days visit among old friends Tuesday eveving. eq Detroit river bridge advocates are very quiet; once in a while you can find a be- nighted individual who claims that bridging the river would be ot no harm to the Jake marine, but we are pleased to find they are rare specimens of deluded mortality, and are hard, very hard to find. The wrecker Saginaw left Detroit at 7 o'clock Tuesday morning to effect the re- lease of the propeller Syracuse, which went aground about 5 o’clock Sunday evening between the United States light and Bois Blane, in the Detroit river. The Saginaw lightered off 200 tons of package freight, and released the Syracuse at 1 o’clock is the afternoon. The steamer Hiawatha ran into a raft in tow of the tug John Owen, near. Southeast Bend, Tuesday morning, scattering the raft. The tug Swain helped pick up and put it together. The propeller Syracuse went aground Monday night between the United States light and Bois Blanc light, being pretty well to westward. A tug is working on her. The water is eighteen inches lower. At the yard ot John Oades they have fin- ished the work on the yacht Louise and are building the secoud of two ice scows for Messre. Hoadley & Houghton. ‘They are 86 feet long, 24 feet beam, and five feet depth ; as soon as this work is finished, and it is progressing very rapidly, he will begin on a scow lighter for Hebard & Sons to tow as consort to the new steamer Charles He- bard, carrying lumber between the Soo and Tacoma, where the gentlemen above named have a branch yard. She will be 150 feet long, 30 feet beam, and 8 feet depth, witha capacity for 750,000 feet of lumber. usinese in marine circles is very quiet ust at this time. There is nothing doing - charters, sales, or anything else of im- portance. Counting several vessels that went out on Sat- urday without clearing it is safe to say that the proper list of coal clearings for that ‘day would foot fully 25,000 tons, There is now about an equal amount of tonnage chartered to load as soon as they are ready this week, which, if kept up, will’ exceed last week’s shipment of a round 100,000 tons, the largest amount that ever left | here in a single week. . The board of supervising inspectors have of a sailing vessel to serve one year on 4) steamer as mate before being granted a steam- boat master’s license. : While the tug Johnson was taking the steam- barge Tower up the Blackwell canal she was capsized by alineand sunk in eighteen feet of water. She was raised by two dredges and is now being pumped out. The schooner Northwest arrived from Ashtabula in tow. of | the propeller R. P. Fitzgerald. She’ was docked to'stop a leak which was ‘discovered while at Escanaba. She needs calking only. The propeller Miami goes into the dock for anew wheel. The wet wheat onthe propeller Toledo, damaged by a heavy sea on Lake Superior, amounted to 553 bushels. The tug Johnson, sunk on Monday, was raised Tuesday, tand will soon be ready for business again. The new propeller, R. Mills, left early Tues day with a full load of coal for Chicago. Z The propeller Lackawanna, due here Tues- night, has on board twelve earloads of black walnut logs for export. She also has patkage freight besides her grain. Captain Themas Crosby, mdrine-insurance agent of Chicago, was in Buffalo Tuesday, The new Union-line propeller Chenango will be out early next month, Ward’s line boat about the middle of July, and the new Lackawanna- line boat not before August, The long-looked-for propeller, John Craig arrived Friday from Detroit. having waited for trial trips anda call from Cleveland. She gets her first load here, Her owner is Mr. J, C. Gilchrist ef Cleveland and she is named for her builder. Captain Louis Weeks is in com- mand. The boat is a stanch, fine-looking one and will do good work. The steam-yacht Ramona, the fastest on the lakes, which wintered here, is now fitted out and will leave for the Sault, her hi me port, probably Sunday. Mr. Alexander McDonald, who tallied out the Onoko’s cargo of 160,286 bushels of oats in 1884, the largest cargo ever afloat on the lakes, Friday tallied the cargo of the schooner George Nester, 56,517 bushels ef corn, the first cargo of grain shipped to Buffalo in a boat built on Luke Superior, MT, CLEMENS, Special to the Marine Record. An event of more than ordinary interest to those present was the christening at Mt. Clemens, Mich., on Wednesday last of a trim steam yacht built by Mr. E. R. Egnew, proprietor of the popular Avery House at that place. Railroad men and hotel men are not infrequently given to piscatorial ex- cursions, doubtless as a pleasant diversion from the sort of angling that occupies their business hours. *Host Egnew is a devotee of the rod and reel, and he likes to have as one of his companions on ‘oft day»’’ Gen- eral Passenger Agent Ruggles of the Mich- igan Central, This happy pair, and otbers who had been of the party, were talking over ficherman’s luck and discomforts at the Avery on the evening of June 6, 1887, at the close of several days’ outing on Lake St. Clair. Poor transportation facilities and tor unloading at New York, ‘but all tows charge. reported the rule which compelled the master |. Ihe Marine Reconil The new steel steamer, building at thé| nucthe great “caict?? being “the | tupic, Mr | Bay to'get away from one of the owners _ Ruggles suggested that the host build a : o There is a dispute over the ownership of half the vessel “steam yacht tiv'to properly carry pleasure | which will have to be settled by Judge Brown. ‘seekers om the inland sear, Mr. Egnew acted on the suggestion, honored his friend with the privilége of naming the new boat, and the anniversary.of the discussion saw the work complete and steam up on one ot the sauciest véarels afloat on Michigan wa ter. So trim acraft seemed worthy a fair name and Mr. Ruggles selected that “of his eldest daughter, Rober‘a, who appropriately voiced her thanks tor the honor conferred and tormerly christened the yacht in the presence of about 50 guests, A short. trial trip on the Clinton river followed by a hop at the Avery House in the evening were the other features of an enjoyable day. Amony those present were Mr, and Mrs. O. W. Ruggles and daughiers, Maj. UG. W. Courtwright of Boston; W. R. Busenbark, W. B. Jerome, Mr. and Mrs. W. 8S, Eden and Miss Maud Cush of Chicago; W. H. Underwood and L, F. Kendall of Buffalo; J.G@. Lavin cf, Toronto; R. Gs Butler and a large number of the host’s Detroit Friends, who presented the boat with » brass howit- zer, an article without which no yacht would be complete. The “Roberta” adda another to the list of attractions with which Landlord Egnew contrives to make The Avery a popular resort. SAND BEACH, Special to the Marine Record. There has been more stir this week than usual for quiet weather like we have been having, The following crafts have made short stops here for shelterfetc., since last week: Sixth, tug John Owen and raft came in, tug A. J. Wright, for- merly a passenger propeller on this route, stopped here a few hours, and the schoonera Mary Hat- tie, 8. P. Ames, Reindeer, Hellen, and Francis, hung on for a short time, Saturday, tne propeller Newburgh came in to make repairs on‘her air pump which gave out at the heaa of Lake Huron, after several hours delay she got away and; proceeded on her way ‘down the lake, ’ _ Sunday, during a severe gale from the west, the ateambarges Canisteo and consorts, Main and consorts, T. W. Snook and eonsorts, aad tng W.'D. Cushing and consorts, sheltered here, The Government tug Sand Beach, fs now hoisted out of the water undergoing a thorough scouring and painting. T. ts Si pUnUTE ES 4 Ore The Dean Richmond, while leaving port was caught by a current and heavy sea in the entry, and dashed against the government pier, disabling her rudder and wheel. She will probably be able, the captain says, to take a load down, but will have to be docked for repairs at Detroit or Cleveland. ~ F Schooners under sail are such a rare visitor at’ Duluth that the arrival of the Chris Grover ‘there,Jast week, was-hailed asa’ curiosity, — A current carried tne propeller Dean Rich- mond against the government pier Saturday, disabling her rudder and one wheel. She will probably be able to get down, but will have to repair in Detroit or Cleveland. The big lumber barge Wahnapitac arrived here Sunday morning in tow of Veronica, five days from Mud Lake, having on board 42,400 cedar ties. When fifteen miles off Onter island, the tug Winslow, having the barges in tow, cast her adrift and ran for shelter to re- pair her engine, The barge drifted for thirty hours on her stay-sails, logging sixty miles, and was finally picked by the Verenica, just in time to save her from running ashore. The water in this end of Lake Superior is unusually high. Vessel men say it is two feet higher than last season and at least one and one-half feet higher than at any time in the last six years. In McDougall’s shipyard there are now six inches of water, greatly interfer- ing with work. The propeller F. W. Wheeler crashed into, and almost demolished the tug Alarm, Sunday a. m. PORT HURON. The Minnie Davis is unloading Inmber at A. M. Carpenter & Co’s. The ferry Beard is about ready tor service again after receiving a fresh coat of paint. The wrecking steamer, Saginaw is at work re- leasing the steamer Escanaba from Stag Island. Captain Cowan, of the barge Ogemaw, was fined $400 for violating the customs law at Sar- nia during the week. The-steam barge Escanaba, bound down with the schooner Champion, run aground at the head cof Stag Island Thursday morning. Selkert & Go, have purchased the tug Fred L, from Teledo parties, and will use her to carry fish between their fishing station, at Blue Point, Lake Huron, and this port. The schooner [ronsides is at anchor in Sarnia bay to get away from one of the owners. There isa dispute over the ownership of the vessel, which will have to be settled by Judge Brown. Vesselmen are much exercised over the rapid strides made by railroad companies toward con- trolling the lake traffic, Nearly all of the east- ern lines now run boats to all important points and carry full two-thirds of the grain shipped from Chicago, Milwaukee and Duluth. While the Canadian propeller Mt, Olemens was crossing Lake St, Clair Monday night, loaded with cordwood, she was ran down by an unknown stcamer and partly cut intwo., She lies at the bottom of the lake just above Grosse Point lightship, with nothing but her cabin visible above the water. The schooner Westover arrived down to.day with the steamer Arizona. She will be entirely rébuilt here, SARNIA. | The schooner Ironsides is at anchor in Sarria | ‘to procure police ‘protection. A tug lying near ‘schooner, and a few minutes later the craft was OsWdo, The steamer Chaffey, recently condemned at Brockville, has béen taken to Prescott where she will be rebuilt. i Robert Chesnut and A. Stowell of Oswego, steamboat inspectors, were registered at the Seymour House Monday, On Saturday night the schooner Rueben Dowd, while coming down the river, grain laden for Ogdensburg, ran on ashoal asthe head of the island opposite Hillcrest, As soon as daylight came the steamer Island Queen went to her assistance, and after a couple of hours work succeeded in releasing her, when she was found to be but little the worse, and she proceeded to her destination. The steamer Passport, which was injured in the Cornwall canal on her trip westward, last week, has been taken out at Cantlin’s yard in Montreal, and will be ready to leave on her regular trip this week. She had some diffi- culty in avoiding s barge that had just come out of the locks, and in trying to do so struck the masonry on the side with such a force as to knock a hole inherbow. Captain Sinclair, who suffered a fracture of the thigh bone by being thrown to the deck below by the force of the collision, has been taken to his home at Toronto. In 1857 or 1858 the schooner Tornado was wrecked at the head of Wolfe island and all hands lost. The evens, it was said, was one of startling significance, and was attended by much mourning. Some time after consider- able excitement was created by the announce- ment in the papers that all persons on the boat had not been drowned; that among the number was a stowaway, who, after the storm, climbed out of his resting place, plunged Into the lake, swam tothe shore and was saved, Many people did notbelieve the story, and asked where’sthe boy? Well, he was in Kings. ton last Friday—Captain Mat Cummings of of the propeller Monteagle. She hails from Oswego. f : SANDUSKY. The schooner Star of the North, which was seized here to satisfy a claim of $150 for. assist-| Ba; ance rendered in raising her and towing her into this harbor, got away from the officer in charge Friday night and made good her escape The} offiicer, a one armed constable, “was threatened with personal violence by the captain and crew of the schooner, and, fearing injury, he left the boat. by was at once summoned by the captain of the en route to\East Saginaw. wns “OWEN SOUND. © a _ Steambarge Kincardine is just out of about $3,000. She now looks as good as new. ee SHIP WELLS. Josept Moffett, of Cleveland, Ohio, has re- ceived patent for ship wells, which will prove of great utility on all vessels, The specification form part of letters patent No. 381,943, dated May 1, 1888. The application filed February 20, 1888. Serial No. 264,595. (No model.) To all whom it may concern: Be it known that I, Joseph Moffett, a citi- zen of the United States, residing at Cleve- land, in the county of Cuyahoga and state of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful improvements in ships, of which the follow- ing is a specification. This invention relates to ships, and has for its object to provide a quick and ready means of getting down into the hold of loaded ships with a suction hose of a pump for pumping out the water which may, by reason of acci- dent, as collisions, spring aleak, or otherwise, get into the hold. F It consists in providing reserve wells in the ship, reaching from the deck down into the bottom of the hu!l, into which the suc- tion hose of a pump may be inserted and draw the water from the bottom, the water in the hold having access to the wells, there- by greatly facilitating the labor and reduc- ing the expense ot removing water from loaded ships without removing or disturbing the cargo. To accomplish such results I construct and attach to ships wells or com- municating tubes from the deck down into the hold, substantially as shown in the ac- companying drawings, in which— The figure is a longitudinal section of the hull of a ship, showing the location and ar- ranyement of the said wells therewith, A in the several figuresrepresents a a Cas- ing or tubing reaching from the deck qa to tue bottom of the hold ot a ship, forming a well or vertical chamber, In the lower part of said casings are made vetical siots b, ex- tending from the bottom upward about two feet above the said slots. A second row of similar slots care also made about two feet above the said slotsb ‘These slots are two inches wide and oneinch apart, the bars forming a grating through which water may pass into the well. Within the casing 1s pro- vided a valve, B, consisting of a box open at each end and fitted to slide snugly in the lower end of the casing. It is designed to close the slots on the inside of the casing A, and is made long enough to cover both rows ot slots bande. Atthe middle part of said valve are made openings in the sides, the purpose of which will hereinafter appear. To the top of said box B are attached rods D D, having eyes or loops d on their upper ends, The rods are designed to be used for ‘cea, Seuss | be st out of dry dock | | being thoroughly rebuilt from keel up ut a cost of TOLEDO, In leaving port the steambarge D, D, Calvin ran her consorts, Bavaria and Norway, aground at the’ Black Can, In attempting to release the Bavaria the Calvin pulled the schooner’s jib and bowspri: out, The tug Birckhend afterwards te leased the Norway and the tug Spinney the Bava. ria. ———_—_—. First-class Merchant Tailoring Done in the nobbiest style , according to monthly new fashion plates, and: the ering made as low as for For ek store gar- ments is adopted by Jos. L. Kohn, practical tailor and cutter, who furnishes none but Gent’s, finest Dress Suits, Business Suits, single Pants and Vests with the guarantee that none be delivered unless they are to the SPER a the customer. Call on Co,, 213 Detroit stree Gare: " t, Cleve. —>—————_&*____ teisk FOR SALE, yacht 27 feet long, engi 5 80 inches. Also marine aagtnen Onis ey et 4 by 6 with boiler 28 by 48. two screw wheels one 20 inches and one 26 inches diameter. Also attern for steam Lava Ade boxes and driving xes, foot ae 1044 inches swing, 32 inches between cuts, Jones reas «& Co, make, and stock of tools. Call or ad- T ress C. G. ORTH 560 Pearl street, ity. . FOR SALE, ree mast scow, light draft, carries 1 Act lumber. Scow and outfit in pat pote A and a steady trade can be had for her all this season. to A.G JOHNSON, 95 Division st., Chica: sel : sis ‘OMAS WILLIAMS, 252 South Water St , Ohi FOR SALE HEAP, for cash, the schooner H. M. Aver ‘South Haven; length over all 67 feet, beam 17 wae depth of hold 5 feet 3 inches; will carry 2,000 bushels of corn, or 42,000 feet of lumber. Came out in May 1887; is very fast. Apply to J. F, SMITH, drawer 46, South Haven, Mich. a PROPOSALS FUR A SHORE PROTECTION AT ERIE, PA., AND F maaeees OR THE IRON TO BE USED U. 8. ENGINEER OFFioxg, N. Y., May 29, will be neces rnished 2 snulleation: wary information will 2 A. MAHAN, Captain ef Engineers. FOR SALE h and were irate = ete a raising: the valve whenever the, well:is:to, be used, and bold it up for uncovering the slots, 8, to freely admit water into the well. The lower ends of the siots are beveled down- ward to prevent the lodgment of grain or other matter which comprises the cargo of the ship. There may be made a holein the deck over the well, which may beclosed with a suitable cover, or there may be scribed a ring in the top surface of the deck to indicate the loca- tion of the well underneath. Then, when necessary for use, a hole way be cut through the deck for the insertion of the pump suc- tion hose. From the foregoing it will be seen that the ship having these wells may be loaded with the cargo completely surrounding the well, and then in case of emergency will be pro- vided with a ready means of withdrawing the water from the midst of the cargo with- out baving to remove or disturb it, the opera- tion of which is as follows: When required to withdraw the water from the hold, an entrance through the deck is made by cutting a hole or removal of a cover, as betore stated. Then the valve is raised by the rods and secured in that posi- tion by running a rod or bar through the loops or eyes above the deck, This opens all the slots and gives ready ingress of water to the well. Now the suction hose of apump may be inserted through the deck and pagsed down to the very bottom of the hull and the water pumped out. The casing and valve chown in the draw- ings are designed to be made of heavy wood plank, in which case the well is made with square sides. By making them of metal they may be made cylindrical; but they should be strong enough to withstand hard blows or usage without injury. Having described my invention, what claim is— The improvement in ships, consisting in the combination of the casing A, secured between the deck and the bottom of the hold, said casing having the slotted or grated open- ing bc in its sides at and near the bottom, and provided with the valve B, playing in- side of the casing, for closing the said slots when down, and having the middle open- ings, whereby when raised by the rods D free openings are wade through the slots or grat- ings, communicating with the interior of the wells, substantially as described, and for the purpose specified. JoszpH Morrert. Witnesses, Gro. W. Trssitts, F, W. CapWELL. ; Rights to Manufacturers for eale. Address G. C, Barnzs, Cleveland, O.. - ee]