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ti d Friday cos +, &mounting to about two thou: “which haa st them about $125, _ seventy thousand bushels of wheat: for by Superintendent Wood. Two cables of the great ship into the river. two men had been placed with uphited axes, - and when they saw that the palls were loosed and the chain had broken they cut the cables, and away went the monster steel steamer. TO Oo SUSQUEHANNA AND TIOGA. ‘Tioga, and the Anchor liner Susquehanna are racing from Chicago to Buffalo, and if the Susquehanna “maintains her speed she will:in in the run to the head of Lake Erie. The Tioga left Chicago last Sunday morning with 2,700 tons of freight. She got away at 9:45 o'clock. The big Susquehanna was just finish- ing, and as Captain Reilly. saw his fleet rival pull out into the open lake his heart jumped up into his throat, Here was the opportunity hecaptain had waited for, long and patiently. The Susquehanna had made some remarkable runs, but never had the: opportunity . been big Anchor Liner was almostiloaded, and so hp Mpcncdathe Mrioges: engine ® ahead for all there wasin her. When, at 10 off, the Tioga’s streak of heavy, black smoke was fully twelve miles northward, Tlie Sus_ , leveled at the rapidly receding big black hull of the Tioga. Once outside the North Pier the captuin leaned forward and jingled for afullhead of steym and the monster wheel of the Susquehanna a moment luter was kick- tg up a sea which almost submerged her tsffrail. Forward the steel ship darted like a thing of life. The Tioga~was soon beyond the range of eyes ashore, and shortly after the Anchor Line greyhound was lost to view. The ruce was over. It is safe to say that Byrnes and Reilley spared no pains in their endeavors to reach Buffalo first. The race up lake Michigan’s stretch of 819 miles must have been a hotly contested one, for the Susquehanna bad gained but 40 minutes in the race to the Straits. At Mackinaw City, on Monday afternoon, the Tioga darted by at 12:20 o’clock, the Susquehanna, carrying all the steam her boilers could gen- erate, passing at 1 o’clock. At Port Huron Tuesday morning the Susquehanna had overcome the forty-minute lead. the Tioga had at Mackinaw, and gained twenty min- utes bseides, They passed in the following order: Susquehanna, 7:50 o’clock; Tioga, 8:100’clock. Later, at Detroit the Susque- hanna “ad increased her lead to thirty-five minutes, both vessels passing in the follow. ing order: Susquehanna, 12:15 o’clock; Tioga, 12:50. LAKE FREIGHTS, Coal tonnage was in active demand yesterday and the Milwaukee and Chicago rates were firm at 80 and 95c and to Lake Superior ports 70 and 75c, The demand for ore carriers was also quite active, as charters show, and shippers were in. clined to anticipate any advance in rates by se- curing tonnage for more than single trips. Such parties had evidently made up their minds that ore rates had reached about as low a point as they would this season, Burrato, N. Y., July 11.—Coal freights were quiet and steady. The demand for ton- nage was only moderate, and it was found nec- essary to change some vessels owing to the pre- sure atdifferent docks. Charters: for Duluth, 760; for Conner’s point, 750; for Gladstone, 750; for Racine, $!; for Manitowoc, 90c; for East _ Saginaw, 50c; schooner B, F. Bruce was changed from Milwaukee to Duluth and will be towed by the steamer John Craig. The steamer J. C. Kershaw will load for Chicago or Milwaukee at shipper’s option, Canal freights were still nominal, but the feeling among carriers was strong for an ad- vance, A dispatch from Assistant Superintend- er Algonquin, owned of : r, Ont., Me. near : idgow. at Montreal and at Ogdensburg ternoon July 6. of people were present to event. About fifty workmen have oyed upon and about her fora little ormed is about $2,500.and Mr. White’s for the work done here is about the! at. To these sums must be added ‘3 and'meat billie ‘and the plumbers: for their steamer, has Cos , it valued at $200,000. She has capacity for carrying <The preparations for the launch were com-_| pleted about 2:45, It was necessary to draw her up upon the railway a little; in order to tet the palls or catchers off before commencing _ to lether down the railways, and just at the same time when she was raised sufficiently to let the catchers out, the chain broke, but this - ymishap had been’ anticipated and provided had been placed to hold the vessel if the chain should break. When the pall let go everything was in readiness for a quick run Accordingly The Union Steamboat Company's flyer ne all likelihood beat the Tioga four or five hours | |this port seven days and thirteen hours| ioga's engine and sent her} taken “along 78,000 bushels of corn to Buf-' o'clock, the Susquehanna’s lines were thrown, quehanna pulled out of the river slowly, enough. Cuaptain Reilly’s glasses.all the while | ‘Dagan, in the same business. Both of them ihe. Marine, of the others, “The east bund "package freight bas: not been so large asthe west bound, but the former is much larger in volume than last year. - At Miller Brother’s Shipyard, the tugs J. V. Taylor, W; H. Wolf, and Calumet, wéte in drydock for repairs, ‘the’tug’Alpha for repairs to wheel, the scow Rockway for some new plank on her bottom and calking, the schooners Coral and Chas. E. Wyman for bottom calking, the steambarge A, B. Taylor for repairs, the tug Tom Brown re- ceived new tow posts, The new steambarge C. Hebard, arrived here Tuesday morning, from Peqnaming, with 700,000 lumber. -She made excellent time on her Just trip from this port to Pequaming, making the distance in 174 hours, «veraging nearly 12 miles per hour, Captain J.M. McGregor, is in comm and let in next Saturday. This would allow light draft boats to pass on Sunday and loaded ones on Monday, CHICAGO, July 11.—Lake freights were fairly active, and rates ruled steady and unchanged on the basis of 1jofor wheat, Itc for corn, and tc for oats to Buffalo, Georgian Bay rates on corn are the same as to Buffalo, DuxvurH, July 11, One hundred and twelve thousand bushels was the capacity taken at to Buffalo, IN MEMORIAM. Ata regular meeting of M. E. B. A., No, 61, held on the evening of June 25th, the following resolutions were unanimously adopted: _ WHEREAS, it has pleased Almighty God in His infinite wisdom to remove from our midst Past National President Aspinwall Fuller, it is with deep regret that we hear of his death, cut down in the flower ot manhood; j i THEREFORE, be itjresolved, that we extend to his bereaved wife and family our sincere and heartfelt sympathy in their terrible bereave- ment; ‘ And be it further resolved, that this Associa- tion pay the last sad tribute to his memory by draping our charter and altar in mourning for the period of sixty days; that the board ot offi- cers be directed to atteud the funeral of our late brother, and a copy of these resolutions be sent to his family under the seal of the associa- tion. R. G, Davis, President. CLAUDE DE LORAINE, Secretary. SOME TONNAGE. To.xpo, O., July 10. To the Kditor of the Marine Record: Please give net tonnage of inclosed jist of vessels. , Ans.—Australasia, 1,589 tons; Iron King, 1,223 tons; Spokane, 1,465 tons; Miami, 191 tons; Tioga, 1,744 tons; Yakima, 1,658 tons; I. H. Owen, 1,498 tons; J. H. Deve- reux, 1,312 tons; H. Chisholm, 1,332 tons; Grover, 1,585 tons; W. Chisholm, 1,946 tons; W. H. Gratwick, 1,175 tons; 8. Langell, 678.tons; S. Mather, 1,285 tons; C. J. Sheffield, 1,319 tons; C. Tower, 1,543 tens; H, J. Johnson, 1,444 tons. ie first mate, William Harley, firet engineer, G. W. Addis second engineer. The first step in extending the bridge tele- phone system will be to place a lookout at the lighthouse to report to the véssel dis- patcher the number of bouts to’go up the river, The request to that end was made 1some time ago to the lighthouse board at Washington and Tuesday the required per- mission was granted, Itis next Cesired to place telephones at Halstead street bridge branch from which reliable reports of ves sels-coming down the river can also be re- ceived by the vessel dispatcher. With these reports vessels can be much better bunched through the main bridges than is at present possible, and single ‘boats will not be kept waiting an unréagonable time for other craft when none are on the way. WiLL1aMs. The cteambarge Tuttle was pulled off the bank in the port draw of the Twenty-second street bridge at 3 o’clock Tuesday afternoon, after an enforced sojourn in the - mud fifteen hours. She came in drawing-1514 feet under a cargo. of coul and’ some bright tug men endeavored to pull the steamer through the draw, which only had eleven feet of water, and then she struck. It re- qnired the united efforts of the steamship John F. Eddy and three tuge to disloge the’ Tuttle from her berth. ‘ The experiment of the big ocean steam- ships Owego and Chemung in their adapta- bility for the great lakes has been fairly tried with package freight, and they are by no means the failures they were predicted to be. The Owego has proved a great boat: for the lighter grades of freight. Her immense hold anddeck room can accommodate the contents of a,medium sized warehouse, As cargoes of westboynd package tieight average only about 1,200 tons, all that can be loaded on can becarried. It is in this respect that the big craft have the advantage, and to it they owe their success. p It appears that Chicago is not likely to be overstocked with hard coal yet awhile, in spite of the heavy shipments. Though the receipts are 60,000 tng above last vear at this time, the spring stocks this year were 50,000 tons less than last year, and railroad receipts are twenty-five per cent’ below last year, Captain W. M. Egan of Chicago has re- turned from an extended trip to Lake Su- perior points. Speaking of the prospects of the towns he visited he says that Superior, Washburn and Gladstone are cutting into tbe grain trade of Duluth. Washburn is| Around the Lakes Continued from 1st Page. Te. CHICAGO. Special to the Marine Record. The fine steamship Charles Stewart Par- nell, Captain Patrick Griffin arrived here Saturday noon with 2,100 tons of coal from Buffalo. She was flying the Cieveland and Thurman.-colors presented to her by ex-har- bor master Juck McCarty when she was in prior to'her present arrival. She baving falo and loaded 2,100 tons of coal there and brought it here in that short time. Which proves her to be one of the fastest wooden ’teamsbip afloat on our lakes. Captain Joe Wilson, who formerly so- ligited for Ford’s.meat market and provision store, has gone into partnership with D. C. ran 60 well in single harness, that in double harness they ought to make splendid time and double up on business, and we wish thera every success, as they well deserve it. The fine tug C. Williams, in command of Captain C, Gnewuch, her owner, arrived 8 in- day night from Manistee with his scow laden with 875 cords of bark consigned to 'Thorp, Clark & Co’s, tannery. Captain Gnewuch’s fine wrecking tug and outfit will be always ready to do wrecking work when required and the captain intends to add one of the best centrifugal pumps to be obtained to his already almost complete wrecking outfit. The North Western railroad bridge, just above Kinzie street bridge, in the north branch, has been put under control of the telephone system and the vessel dispatcher will henceforth be able to keep it under con- trol. Edward E, Skeele, as administrator of the Skeele, estate has transferred to Mrs. Clara Skeele, the schooners Bay State at $2,500, Mediator at $3,200, Charles Luling at $3 000. The steambarge Neft had the top of her pilot house carried away by collision with the schoonor Homer at Rush street bridge Monday evening. Captain LaSalle; formerly of the steam- ships Tacoma, Wiley M. Egan and R. P. Fitzgerald, has gone into the vessel agency business at Duluth. We wish him great success. facilities, and the railroads were acting fairly by the town. Nothing is doing at any of the Lake Superior ports toward increasing their elevator or dock facilities over last season. At Gladstone the Lehigh coal and iron com- pany had just built a dock 500 feet long for handling coal, and the company will supply from that point itsSt, Paul and Minneapolis trade. The unclaimed and unrecognized remains of the man whose body was found in the lake Sunday afternoon by Captain John Nolan, are still stretched on aslab at the morgue. Persistent effort on the part of In- spector Bonfield and his men has failed to identify the dead man or account satisfac torily for bis death. Captain St. Peter, the keeper of the life saving station, adheres to the belief that the man ended his own life. Nothing could be easier than adjusting the | weight to the body in the manner described. Record, of the steamer Saginaw Valley, John Cloasey | and at some convenient point on the north |, practically well situated, having fine harbor |. The steamer Saginaw Valley, recently lengthened and rebuilt at Buffalo, arrived here with coal from that port last Friday. Her lengthening and rebuilding has added greatly to her appearance, J.S8. Dunham has purchased the tug Chi- eago from J, Leon Byron tor $7,000. In but a single branch of lake freights is there a redeeming trait in the general dul)- ness of the present marine season. While grain freights are down and going lower, lumber carriers hunting for loads at starva- tion price3, and the ore boats doing much for small pay, the package freight of the propeller lines is larger thanin any previous season. This traffic has increased steadily since navigation opened, and has fully kept pace with the additions to the lines’ fleet, In the last four weeks but one boatof the!$l.75; Grand Traverse, $1.621¢@$1.75; Erie railway line (Union) has been loaded | Manistee, $1.50@$1.62}; Ludington, $1,364 with coal, and the same is practically true|@$1.50; Muskegon, $1.12}@$1.25. Captain Nolan, of the tug Prindiville, who first sighted the corpse, believes that itis a ease of suicide. Beckwith & Fleming closed a rather singular charter. The firm engaged to carry pig iron from Chicago to London, This is like carrying coals to Newcastle, There is an active demand for lumber- carrying tonnage at present, so active that the supply is only half sufficient to meet inguiries, ‘The cedar-carrying trade is par- ticularly brisk, and many vessels that were transporting lumber Jast season are at pres- ent tied up in the cedar trade. Prices are firm as follows from the ports named to Chicago: Menomonee, $1.3614 @$1.50; Man- istique, $1 50@$1.62}g; Cheboygan, $1.50 @$1.624¢; Detour, $1.62! @$1.72; Alpena, j ote ats beg cre Tarande Nem ots aerate BUFFALO, The propeller Oregon and schooner B. F. Bruce are coming here to go into drydock, Now that the Cumberland is disabled it is probable thay the Oregon will tow both the Alverson and the Bruce. The burned Cumberland will be repaired at Cleveland, It was expected that she would come here, but her owner decides it not to be safe to bring her here; Noone has as yet been appointed to survey her. Captain John C. Pringle is building a new steamer for the lumber trade, She will carry 900,000 feet and will be out next spring. The big barge Wahnapitue is pretty heavy on spelling, but when it comes to draft she is very light. She left Monday in tow of the tug Champion with 1,200 tons of coal, draw- ing only six feet eight forward and seven feet ten aft, After returning with one load of lumber she will carry two loads of tele graph poles trom Georgian Bay to Monroe, Mich. ~ The lighthouse. steamer Haze came out of drydock ‘Monday after her annual bout of bottom seraping and calking. The propeller D. Lenty, bound down with lumber, sends only the barge Montgomery here and goes to Ogdensburg with the others. The Empire tow passed down to Tona- ,wanda Monday p, m. There is a divison of advices in regard to ithe time it will take to repair the big canal break at Adams basin. Some claim that ‘boats will be able to pass. by on Thursday night, but others say it will be a week. The break is 60 feet long and about twelve feet deep, There is reported to be plenty of help of all kinds on the spot and lumber was beginning to arrive on Sunday for the work. So far only one boat.is reported to have been caught by the break. The Mary E. Byrnes, loaded with corn here by J. E. Hadcock settled down on the old aqueduct at Rochester and is badly bent, though not broken. The water went down to one foot and it ig thought that she has none in her cargo. & 3 For the first week since the opening of the canals this year the canal traffic is this week in excess of the corresponding year. Each week of canal navigation this year has show great losses in canal shipments when compared with the same time Jast, year. Up to July lst this aggregate loss was 290,405: tons less than up to July 14, 1887. This loss hhas béen almost entirely accounted for by the decreased shipments in wheat and lum- ber, principally the former. The total.ton- nage of the canals up to July 2, 1887 was } 1,459,982 tons, and up to July 1, 1888 it was '1,169,577.tons..For the first week of July, however, the shipments this year have in- creased largely over the corresponding period last year. For the first week in July this year there has been transported upon the canals 182,338 tons, as compared with 162,128 tons last year, and for the first time during the season the shipments of wheat and lumber last week exceeded the corres- ponding week of Jast year. Never before has-property been carried upon the canal as low as during the present season, the average price for carrying wheat from Buffalo to New York last week was 214 cents per bushel. ; The schooner Scotia will go into drydock for a mainmast before taking a cargo of coal. Negotations for the sale of the barge Bree- den-to Algonac parties, which have been pend- ing some days, fell through yesterday. A ‘despatch from Rochester says that 40 teamsters and 150 laborers refused to go to work this morning at the canal break at Adams Basin unless they got 60 cents an hour. This was refused by Superintendent Gonsaul, under whose supervision they were working. The meu had been receiving 20 cents an hour and were paid off this morning. A later despatch says most of the strikers went to work this afternoon at the old rate of 20 cents an hour. MABINE CITY. Jacob Diem has been home for afew days past, having given up his position as second engineer of the J.C, Gault, He will leave on Thursday to accept a similar position on the steambarge 8, C, Clark, The new steamer building at the T. & 8. T, yard is now ceiled up nearly to her deck, and planking will commence next week. It is pro- bable that she will be completed so as to Jaunch about September first. The new steamer building at Captain W. B. Morley,s yard is fast nearing completion. Her decks are nearly all laid, and work is being crowded rapidly, She will probably be launched about July 20, Tuesday morning the Specular passed un, and the captain has a habit of running very close to the docks when passing this city. On this trip he ran within probably 50 or 60 feet, and when just apout Holland’s mill the Specular took a sheer and before she could be stopped struck the steamer David W. Rust, which was coaling at Blood & Hart’s, a glancing blow on her after starboard quarter, breakiog in a part of her buiwarks and springing her quite badly. The Rust proceeded on her trip down, although she was reported to be leaking quite considerably. At 2o’clock Wednesday afternoon the pro- peller Cuba, grain laden, which had come in, ran stern on into the starboard side of)the pro- peller Oceanica, unleading at the Sturgis ele- yator. The latter received a second glancing blow. She must be pretty badly damaged, but the full extent of her injuries cannot be | known till she is unloaded, ‘Captain Young, claims that his engineer did not obey signals” The sohooner Scotia. will get anew main mast ere leaving, ‘ The schooner B. F. Bruce dock, While grain freights are down and going oe lower, lumber carriers hunting for loads at starvation prices and the ore boats doing went into dry- much for small pay, the package freight! of the propeller lines ig larger than in any pre- vious.season. This traffic has increased since navigation opened and has fully kept. pace: with the additions to the lines’ fleets, In the last four weeks but cne boat of the Erie rail- way line (Union) has been loaded with coal and the same is practically true of the others: The eastbound package freight has not been so large as the westbound, but the former is much larger in volume than last year. SAUGATUCK. Special to the Marine Recora. The steambarge Kalamazoo was launched at Martel’s shipyard, Saugatuck, Mich.; on 4th of July. Her dimensions are as follows: Keel, 125 feet; beam, 24 feet; depth of hold 9 feet 10 inches. She wili be propelled by ain 18 by 20 engine from the work’ of Henry Bloeker & Oo., Grand Haven; and her boiler will be built by Johnson Bro, Ferrysburg, The Kalamazoo presents a handsome appear- ance inthe water. Sheis built after the model of the barge Saugatuck except that she ig larger by the addition of six frames amidship: She will carry about 175,000 feet lumber and will be engaged in the fruit-and lumber-trade cut of Saugatuck. Her owners are John Wies, D. Cummings, J. B. Martel, Griffin and Henry, all of Saugatuck, Michigan, and they have got as nice a barge as ever was launched on the Kalamazoo, Captain Martel commenced building’ this fine steambarge April 28th and by his indefa- tigable efforts succeeded in getting ner ready for launching in less than ten weeks, ix ; WILttams. _ MANITOWOC. A new steambarge, Fanny Hart, built for Hart | Brothers, of Green Bay, iscompleted. Her route will be between Chicago and Manistique. She _ cost $32,000 and will gers. The builders were H. ; . 3 ~ SThé:big»steamb n the river while” The steam: barge A. L. Hopkins ,is.in, with 1,000 tons of coal. The Gault came in with a large load of merchantdise, “ The steam barge George Spencér is in light, after coal. Y yy, More dry lumber is being received at/this port this year than any year in the history of, jake navigation. ae The steam barge’ Rube Richards! ahd éon- sorts May Richards and E. C. Hutchinson arrived:after coal. © 9 /' ? ) ‘ MARQUETTE, A short time ago J. H. Gillett; of Marquette Mich., purchased from the underwriters the Canadian schooner Richard Morwood, which ran ashore on Grand Island lagt fall and was abandoned as a total, loss. With the assiat- ance of John Dodd, the submarine diver, who patched up the breaks,in the vessel’s hull, he has succeeded in pumping her out and pulling her off the beach,. and she now lies in shoal water in Marquette harbor, . The Morwood’s bottom is badly damaged and eight bales of oakum besides several blankets, etc., weré used in stuffing up holes. Mr. Gillett will re- pair her for the lumber and stone trade. LUDINGTON, Special to the Marine Record. The consolidated ferry company, having other business to attend toout of thecity, will sell out to great advantage their steam ferry boats, Maud, Lilly and Favorite, which are doing an excellent paying business. For particulars see our advertising columns, WILiiaMs. STURGEON BAY. A wrecking expedition recently sent from Sturgeon Bay to the schooner F, D, Baker on Spider Island Reef decided to postpone opera- tions for ashort time in order to procure addi tional assistance in working the steam pump ST 1 U. 8. Enemerr Orrice, } CLEVELAND, O., June 26, 1888, OTICE ishereby giyen to owners and all other parties concern in any manner with the schooner ‘‘Joy,”’ or her cargo, now sunk in and ob- structing the channel at entranee to Ashtabula Har- bor, Ohio, that they must remove said schooner and cargo from the channel; and that if the same isnot remeved within a reasonable time it is the Burpee of the Honorable the Secretary of War to treat said wreck ag abandoned and derelict, and cause it to be removed in the manner res, or LA ae of the Act of Congress approved June , Bree AP Prove’. COOPER. OVERMAN, Major of Engineers. TWO FERRY STEAMB OATS Operated on one of the most paying lines on Lake Michigan, will be.sold for $2,900 cash. No opposition dock privileges and franchise secured; boats in good order, one new in 1887, the other rebufit in'1883. We mean strictly business and to the right party will give a big Haseley Reason for selling: Owners en- gagedin other business out of the clty which de- mands personal attention, Write for particulars at ones to THE CONSOLIDATED FERRY CO, Ludington, Mich.