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ae spent aA SINA NA ENS ARLENE NID IAC RC e city ‘Thursday, of this week, The Globe Tron Werks Co. is putting vp a co work both furnaces at once. rona is fast approaching comple- ‘The > tion, she has her engines ubourd and one of her boilers and they expect to get the othor ‘week, She will be ready for sea _ Mr. William-on, of the firm of Wiltiam- son Bros, Philidelphia Pa,, manufacturers of the Williamson steam steerer, was in the city Thursday. He is patting one of his en- _ gines into the steamer Horace A. Tuttle, _ the city Monday. These signals will work the boat if necessary, The new steamer Pyrotecnic, recently an- nounced in some of the dailies, as being loaded with coal and powder, Cleveland to “Milwaukee, has not been heard from since her departure. It'is supposed that she is laying by, in some isolated port, waiting for ‘July celebration, in McNeff, of the tug Sumpson, is 60 well pleased with his genuine sailor navy flannel shirts, which were made in the shirt factory of Kohn & Co. 213 Detroit street, Cleveland, O., that he wishes to acknowl- edge it, and recommend them to his friends, becanse they are made of the genuine U.S. navy flannel. The launch of the Corona last week, gave evidence that the Globe Iron Works Co, are active in construction. Since the organiza- tion of the new firm, the Cambria, Sheffield, Ira H. Owen, Corsica, E. P. Wilbur, North- ern Light, and Corona, have -been built, making seven large tonnage steamboats, a driving bussiness for one firm, in less than ten years, / The revenue cutter Commodore Perry, made this port Munday afternoon, about 5 o'clock, in command of first Lieutenant Goodwin. She came ‘from Erie and left here Tuesday morning for Detroit, Captain Hendrix, who is at present at Wash- ington doing special duty on the board of ex- commander of cadets, will join her. The new drydock is progressing as rapidly as possible the work they have already done is considerable. ‘hey have succeeded in making the large spot look as ifa full grown Kansas cyclone had taken a fall out of it, but Mr, Radcliffe says, us far as they have gone, everything has been favorable, for success be does not anticapate any trouble. Captain M, M. Drake, general manager of the Lackawanna Transportation Co. was in the city Friday of this week and speaks very highly of the. new steamer Lacka- wanna. He says she. has developed one mile per.hour more’ speed and.wwill carry 75 tons more than was anticipated, that she handles remarkably fora boat of that size and that he is more than pleated with her. At the Cleveland Dryddek, they have the new mud scow well ilong and: have now in dock, the tug John Gordon from Ashtabula fora ‘new wheel, and schooner J. G. Masten which will receive five new frames forward 10 strake of plank outside and 7 strake in- side and a new breast hook on one side. They have also. puta new siphon on the steamer EK, M. Peck and some new stringers on the schooner Montana, The steam yacht Cyclone has, under the careful management of Wm. H. Radclifie, been converted intoa splendid looking ex, cursiun craft, She will be used as such at Pe- tosky this season. During the winter and spring has been hauled out, recalked, refas- tened, and has been fitted out with entirely new upper works, atan expense of about $400. Mr. Chas. W. Casky, her°owner, is ‘Mr, Ricketson of Milwaukee, who fitted up the Electric belles Iutween. master and enzioeer, and placed his system of signals on the new steamer Northern “Light, wis in DEVOLIED 10 KAVIGATION, COMMERCE, ENGINE EING AND SCIENCE. CLEVELAND. O.. JUNE 21, 4888. $2.10PER ANNUM, SineLe Copixs 5 cENTs. expected from Petosky daily, to take her up and place her in her route, The new steamer building at Quayle’s Sons yard for Moore, Bartow et al is fast approach- ing completion and will be ready to launch about one week from Saturday. Some time ago we asserted that her name would be the Ganneymede, but have recently changed the name and will now call her Neosho, while the latter name is not as suggestive as the former, we think it the more appropriate as Quayle,s boats alway take to water as readily as a duck Captain Sherwood will command her, Napoleon Bonaparte Tovat, a diminutive Frenelhman proprietor of a ship supply store formerly an old Jake sailor and life saver, who hus not ploughed the damp wet main for a score of years, was out to Wade Park last week and while rowinga party of ladies across the water «ccidentally discovered a compass, he took his course at once from it and after some heavy work with the waves landed his v«luable cargo safe and sound, Trust a Frenchman to remember the points of the compass, The folowing iist is the tonnage of lake vesseis stexm and sail reported by the bureau of navigation for the week, June 16, 1888: Schooner C. H. Plummer, Sandusky, O,, | gross 219.43, net 208,46; schooner Frank D. Ewen, Cleveland, O., gross 8&2.50, net 838.38; schodner Geo, Clinton, Buffalo, N. Y., gross 839.99, net 318.86; steamer Bertie, Detroit, gross 14.75, met 8.4; steamer Buffalo, N. Y., gross.2615.30 nety 1918.34; steamer City of Muskegon, Grand Haven, Mich., gross 88.28 net, 83.87; steam- er David B. Hill, Buffalo, N. Y., gross 15.62, net 7.8; steamer Northera Light, Marquette Mich., gross 2476.35, net 1885.14; steamer Servia, Cleveland, O., gross 14.25, net 11.82. Mr. John H. Miller superintendent of construction for the life saving service is in the city with plans for extensive repairs on the life caving station at this port. The station will be raised afoot, and moved back toward the Jake, 13 feet from where it now stands. There will also be an enclosed lookout for the men, which will shelter them from the unnecessary exposure to which they have heretofore been subjected. ‘he look- out station will be moved from the position it now occupies on the building to the ex- treme east end of the main building, with a stair leading to it from the boat room of the building, as it now is the man on watch has ulways been obliged to go through the sleep- ing room of the crew to go on or oft the louk- out watch. Mr. Lewis Kesty an ex-life boat- man,a well known contractor and builder of, thie city will have charge of the work. The bids ure all in for umber and other material and Tuesday they began to build a temporary shed for the boat’s apparatus, while the repails are being carried on. The station bas Jong needed repuirs of this kind; it has been so low that it could never be kept dry, damp- ness accumulating grently to the detriment of the health of both keeper and surfman. Meteorological summary for the week ending June 20, 1888: Mean actual barometer.........2..2.2. (29.93 Mean. temperature, .v.yse. 5.25 oT 54 Mean humidity... mem 1 OBid Total precipitation......... 20. ape | 96 Prevailing direction of wind .._ ot et We Total'wind movement.... 22.) 1.2.22. 1121 AP RMEECIDOSS «oo. oo cece nncccone bare I Ay. state of weather......... .-sdecces Pair, Max, temperature, highest... . gan, . O0:8 Min temperature, lowest... 63.0 W.H, Hammon, Sergt. Signal Corps,U. S.A, MANITOWOC. Special to the Marine Record. During the prevalence of a dense fog at 12 o’clock Tuesday night the schooner Ford River and scow Venture collided when twelve miles from Two Rivers. The Vent- ure’s masts were all carried away a8 was her entire bow, and she sank as low as her load of cedar would permit. Ihe Ford Riyer lost her jibboom, bowsprit, and entire headgear. The Venture’s crew of six men were picked up by the Ford River, and were landed here Wednesday afternoon. The ill-fated vessel was also towed to this port. CHICAGO, Special to the Marine Recora. The hull ot the new passenger steamer built at Saugatuck by Captain John Mar el for Captain Dahlke, of Chicago, arrived Friday morning in tow of the passenger and freight stesmer A. B. Taylor of Saugatuck, Cuptain Rogers has laid up his new steamer Pilgriim until the fruit season com- mences; he finds that carrying pine lumber ness, und that carrying hard wood .lumber is a creat deal worse, +8 the taily runs so tar behind that all the freight is eaten up. The splendid new wooden steamship Rob- ert Mills, recently built at Robert Mills’ ship yard, Buffalo, arrived here for the first time Saturday evening at 8 o’vlock from Buffalo with 2,167 tons of coal, Captain 'P. Kenney is in commard; Fred Gilbert chief engineer; Captain Rice, of Buifalo, who owns an interest in her, was on board. Sheis 271 feet over all, 40 feet 3 inches beam, 22 feet moulded depth; her engine, built by the King iron works, Bulfalo, is fore and aft compound high pressure 28 by 48, low pressure 50 by 48, and two boilers of 3 inch steel 17 feet long, 9 feet 6 inches di- ameter, built by M. Riter Buffalo, Ste has an American Ship Windlass com- }on any boat on the lakes; pany’s steam windlass and capstans and the Williamson Brothers’ steam steerer; her cabins are fitted Gp eleyantly, mahogany finished, and the captain’s cabiu is one of neatest yetmostelegant looking cabins she Carries four masts and has a splendid appearance. Fred Gilbert, her engineer, says her engines work perfectly and that she isa good 12 mile per hour boat when full loaded. The Robert Mills brought along on her Captain Fred Pitcher and his wife and a young woman, who was assistant cook, the mate and four men, comprising the crew of the schooner Willie Keller, which collided with the Mills between Little and Big Point Sauble at 8 p. m., Friday night, in a fog and went down; carrying with her a cargo of corn, which she loaded at Chicago for Georgean Bay, she having left Chicago Thursday night: The Keller was owned by Thomas Martin and others of Oswego. Considerable argu- ment is being used here to whom to at- tach the blame of the collision, both sides claiming to bein the right, and we presume one of our judges will have to decide the question. The schooner James Mowatt, Captain ©, H. Becker, arrived here Sunday at 6 a. m. from Cleveland with coal. Captain BecKer reports being in collision with an unknown three mast schooner, ten miles off Two Riv- ers point,a little north of same, the wind was blowing light and it was very foggy; the Mowatt way by the wind heading south-west by south and was making about 4 miles per hour; the strange schooner was light, running free at about 6 miles per hour; the Mowatt lost her jibboom ‘and square sail yard, Captain Becker hailed the stranger, but could get no reply; he no- ticed a big hole in her mainsail. At Miller Brothers’ shipyard the scliooner Myrtle'was in dock for a new stem, the schooner Duncan City to have a leak stopped, the schooner Charlie Marshall for new frames and new-plank; on bottom, the steamer Josie Davidson for bottom calking, the schooner Skylark for leak stopping, the ‘tug Earnshaw to have stern bearing } fixed, the tigs Union, Miller, Ingram and Chi- | cago for general repairs, the schooner White Cloud to have a leak stopped, the steam yacht Thistie for bottom cleaning and oyer- hauling, the schooner Ida is receiving new bowsprit and jibboom, schooner Snowdrop new jibboom. At the Chicago Drydock company’s the schooner Ostrich was in dock for bottom calking, steambarge A. E. Wilds for a new shoe, steambarge D. W. Powers fora new shoe and some new plank and bottom calk- |} ing, the schooners Wm. Jones, Jura, James Mowatt and G. P. Royce are receiving gen- eral repairs. | for next kin to nothing is not a poying busi- The three masted schooner Willie Keller, laden with 16,800 bushels of corn, for Midland, was run ito by the new s:eamship Robert Mills at 10:6 oleock Friday night,twelve miles off the Eust shore, and aboat midway between the Little and Great auSab'es, Thesehooner was going north, bef rea mild s.utherly breeze, while the Mills was steering due for Chicago. Ten minutes af- ter the erash, the schooner’ had filled and gone to the bottom, giving the crew of four men, Cap- tain Pritehard and wife, Mate Hughes, and Mary Davidson, the cook, barely sufficient time to get into the yaw! and save their lives. As it was, however, due principally to the coolness and heroism of Mate Hughes, no lives were lost ex- cept that of the great English mastiff Jerry, so familiar to mariners, The stories told are con- flicting, and but for the great dents on the star* board bow of the steamer, proving pretty conclu. sively that the collision was of the “head to head”’ variety, it would be difficult to determine. just how the accident occured. The Keller at 9 o’clock rau into us amidships and sank. That is all there is to the story. Captain Rice then voluntered the information that the rescued par- ty bad all gone ashore and could not be ‘seen. | The first man met, however, after Rice had been tlanked and left was Mate Hughes. jo ht Si alia cousented to tell the story, on a four-mile gait, before a southerly wind in a | thick fog, on Friday night. The lake was as smooth as glass, and the wind showed a disposi- tion to veer around to the east, We had been in heavy weather all day, and our fog horn going, When. off the Sables I heard the whistle} of a steamer. The last blast had died }away when . waslified. bodily. off my feet, I was standing aft on the taffrail and was almost knocked down the companion-way. I got up hastily and saw that immediate action was necessary. I ordered my men to lower the yawl, which was hanging over the sternon the davits. he Mills had stopped and backed We were hoisted aboard and I had barely gotten over the sides of the steamer when the Keller gave a forward lurch, filled up, and with a mighty roar headed into the sea, Captain Pritchard lost everything he had, including nearly $400 in freight money, a valuable gold watch and his own as well as his wife’s ward- robe. The cook managed tosave nothing bnt an old dress. Mate Hughes aod men before the mast wereequally unfortunate. They were all brought to Chicago, The Keller left Chicago with 16,800 bushelsof grain for Midland, on Thursday evening at 7 oclock, She had a rat. ing of B1 in the Inland Lloyds, was built in Os- wego in 18871, was ownedd by Pritchard & Mar- tin, of Oswego, and partially tmsured in lines placed by Keith & Karr. She registered 224 tons. Thomas Wilson and others of Clevelanz owners of the steamship Wallula, the Marine insurance company (limited) of London, and the Union insurance company of Philadelphia filed a libel in the United States district court against the city of Chicago, the NorthChicago street railroad company, and the vessel owners’ towing company to recover $4,200 damages. The libel cites that the city gave the railroad company the work of erecting a new bridge at Wells street. In its original building of the bridge the city left a stone projecting from the south abutment about five feet under the water. This originally was protected by piles, but these were removed by the railroad company, leaving the projection asa hidden and un- known danger to navigation, The smaller schooners as ‘grain-carriers were given a severe blow below water-line by the Chicago board of marine underwriters, which refused to write grain'in vessels of class A 24 at board rates. All these risks were referred to general agents of the companies for special rates on each one .as,offered, Class ~A: 24 in- cluded nearly all the schooners trading this year to Georgian Bay ports and many to Lake Ontario and Sarnia. Up to two years ago the board rates. included vessels of B1 class, but they were then served inthe same way as A2} is now. The tendency is to stili raise the classes commanding board rates. The general agents of the companies when here asked an advance on the tabooed class of 20 per cent above the schedule. rates,which the board He readily | We were dénddtag} .! On the basis of 30 cents per $100 to Buffalo the smaller schooners will be compelled to re- bate to the shippers six cents per $100 on cargoes taken at going rates, if the agents hold to the 20 per cent increase, _ Proceedings have been commenced by Charles E. Kremer to libel the propeller Robert Mills for sinking the schooner Willie Keller near Big Sauble light last Thursday night, Fifteen thousand dollars will be demanded for- the schooner’s loss, $6,000 on the vessel and $9,000 on her cargo of grain, The latter was fully insured and the hull partially, It will be charged that the Mills ws Tunning at too high speed in a dense fog: The point is identical with the one on which Judge Blod- gett held the propeller Lehigh responsible for sinking a schooner in Thunder Bay, May 31; 1887. The Dunham towing and wrecking com- pany have sent Captain Thomas Johnson wrecking master and a marine diver to Musk- egon to raise the sunken steamer Van Raalte. The diver reports a hole in her 12 feet long P go his vessel, made a misstep and fellinto the river and was drowned, it happened last Friday the body was recovered Sunday. The tug James A. Walker, in attempting to bring her three consorts into port without the aid of harbor tugs, made quite a mistake, the last barge in the tow took a slap at everything along the route, picking up the spar and sail of H. J. Patehins fishing smack, and brioging up against the schooner Teutonia. The Comodore was promptly on hand and settled all damage. I have wondered since why all the tugs in port tooted their whistle was it in derision, or just a shout of welcome? The Kalyuga is being repainted. The consorts of tug James A. Walker load coal for Heroa Bay. Propeller Fayette Doluth, Maurice B. Crover is receiving acoat of ; aint, hull below fender strakefred. The Thompson steam shovel at work for L. S. and M.S. rail road isa grand success, biting the chunks out of the claybank with the seemingly fond relish that a colered man bites chunks out of a red ripe watemelon; we timed’three shovels- full per minnte, Schooner Thos. Gawn loads coal for Hancock. The steamer Tom Adams,.a bright, staunch looking boat, out new this spring, is loading coal for Chicago, is also having driving bearing overhauled and other repairs to machinery. Steamer Onoko is having new chocks, and other rerairs done, Propeller 8S, E., Sheldon gets a coat of paint, Propeller Geo, King and consorts load coak for Portage, Brown loads coal for B.S T.- i MARINE CITY, Special to the Marine Record. The lurge steam ship owned and controled by Captajn Wm. B. Merley, is nearing completion and will goon be launched Captain Morley bas spared no expense in building or the construc- tion of this steamship, and we think him‘deser- ving of great credit. The steam barge Hollan is under full blast, and Gaptain Holland says she has got to make abont four trins this season. She will bea beauty and splendidly constructed, Mr. Alex Anderson is builder, The T, 8. T, Co. owned by Curtis Co. is about is about ready to launch, She is bnilt to fill the place of the ©, H, Brickhead, soli last winter. The new steambarge, built by Captain D. Lester, formerly of the T, 8. T. Co., and will be ready for fall trade, will give dimensions of all later. The river line of steamers are just about get- ting interested in a seasons opposition, the Dar- ius Cole and steamer Dove taking thelead, the refused to make, and threw the responsibility on the general agents to make their own rates, It is probable the agents wiil themselves make acout the advance demanded of the board, Idlewild and Milton Ward being her oponestss All we want is more boats, whose got them? The steamer Mary still continues on the Port Huron and Algonac route, and we think she can dust them all yet,