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Bt 4 zs ea Pl acine Record. S Be L, PENNINGTON, — “nothing of its merits. he Marine Revond. Published Every Thursday at 144 Superior Street, [Leader Bullding) Cleveland, 0. A A. POMEROY, EDITOR AND PUB: BRANCH OFFICE: 252 South Water Street, Chicago, Mlinois, THOMAS WILLIAMS, Associate Editor. Piste nee CR a TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: One year, postage paid Six months, postage paid Invariably n advance. THE MARINE RECORD can ve found for gale by the following news dealers : CLEVELAD, O,—G. F. Bowman, corner of @ear] and Detroit Streets. Evans & Van Epps, Superior street, Cleveland. R. A. Castner, 254 Detroit street, C leveland, ASHTABULA HARBOR, O,—C, Large. CHICAGO, ILL.—Joseph Gray, 9 West Ran- @olph Street. CHICAGO, ILL,—H. B, Hansen, 33 West Randolph Street. BUFFALO, N, Y.—Miss McCabe, Elk Street, aear Ohio. DULUTH, MINN.—C. F. Johnson, 323 West Superior Street. MARQUETTE, MICH.—J. A, Vannier. ESCANABA, MICH.—Wm. Godley. ESCANABA, MICH.—George Preston, SARNIA, ONT.—D, McMasters. 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Vice President - Secretary and Treasurer. to the facts in stating thet Norway was among the foremost nations, a3 regards ite ship} ing under a free ship policy, more ea- pecially when theclass of ships is tuken into considerstion, The western representative referred to, Mr. Felson, of Minnesota, as far as his in- tere+t in the American merchant marine is concerned, is mighty small, in fact aa he urserts, he isa foreigner, and second the state which he represents has very little Water tre file, and therefore cannot porsibly requre much champining of waterways or ships. In his remarks te referred to the country of his birth, Norway, as a“pocr coubtry, with Jess than 2,000 000 inhabi tante. She wasso pocr that she could, net subsidize a singleship for a single year; and yet with free trade and free shij 8 -t od next tothe United States in tonnage and commerce. In every port of the world could be found a Norwegian ship; and the idea that, in this eccuntry, with all its, wealth ard al) its resources American shipping could not exist without a subsidy to a few steamship lines, was preposterous, The granting of bounties to a few steamship lines would not stimulate commerce, brt would simpy arm them with a weapon to fight off all competition,” Mr. Nelson failed to give the causes which brought atovtsuch a rapid increase in the shipping of Ncrway. The adoption of the Plimegoll load line, whereby a great many vessels were condemned for use by Great Britain, was the prime cause, Most of these yeseels were sold to subjects of Norway. Great Britain at that time had Jarger marine interests than any country, gained by subsidy ard gifts, or bounty, and she protected her seamen by a law requiring that all masters sheuld employ none but English subjects. In the event of the free ship bil], under the provisions of a commercial union be- ween Great Britain and the United States, and with the reciprocal admission of ships, built in either country, to all the advatages of the registry in the other, and with the coasting and Juke trades in common, and withthe present relaions of Canada to Great Britain, not only would most of our shipbuilding be dene, eventually under the the British flag,but our ships would become to be British owned as well as built. “This state of things is exactly what Great Britain and her loyal Dominion wante, Theinterest and policy of Great Britain is todo as muchas possible of the world’s commerce and navigation; to help her colonies transact what she van not do herself, and to diffuse the remainder of her trade among the small powers of Europe, a8 in no event can any ot them:.become her} rivals for the rnle of the sea. The United States have been her target for more than et.| 100 years, Why should we now lift a THE WEST AND SHIPPING. An article under the above caption, in the New York Maritime Register says: It is agood sign when western representatives in congress begin to take an interest.in the ship- ping question. One of them, a Norwegian by birth, took a firm stand recently for the free ship policy, and made an unswerable argument in favor of it as against subsidies to shipping. He told what so poor a country as Norway had beeu_able to {accomplish threugh the free ship policy. That country had been enabled by it to fight her way to the front rank in the matter of tonnage and carryiog trade. Why cannot our country dothe same? We wish, for the tgood that it would accomplish, that western men “would take more interestin shipping matters. Any intelligent dission of this question in “Congress has been confiued to a comparatively few men. The great majority know little or It is outside the domain of practical polities and apparently there is nothing to be gained by a thorough understand- ing of it, as it does not influence {votes to any appreciable extent, Congress seems ,to be op- posed on principle to granting subsidies to ship- pin g, but on the other hand enough intelligent consideration of the subject is not to be had at the prerent time to effect a repeal of the law re- strict ing the purchase of ships sailing under our fiag to those built in this country, The west is very jealous of the east in many things and in- different astoits welfare in others, the ship- ping question being apparently of great import- ance to the Jatter, the west consequently has taken very little interest init. Itis therefore all the more encouraging that a western man ‘should speak so strongly in favor of a free ship policy, giving such plain common sense reascuns why it would benetit this country and quoting an example to prove the correctness of his views. If the west can be awakened toa sense of the ‘importance to the whole country of the revival -of our merchant marine on this basis, that re- vival may soon become a fact, Certainly the west will not in its own interest favor subsidies. It can be depended uponforthat much, It only remains for its influence to be given in full on the opposite side of the question, anda _begin- ming will then be made towards building up our merchant marine and recovering our lost ground in the shipping trade. In the opinion cited above our esteemed -contemporar y does not fuliy state the case, but writes frora its own stand-point, that is free ships. The discuscussion in Congress at the time, if fully detailed would show that the gentleman from the West did not represent the opinion of western shipping Anterests. Neither did he confine himself finger in aid of the monopolizing ambition of England? he United States have Cone nothing for 60 years to relieve our merchant marine from the mistakes of our statesmen 12nd the policy ot Congressman Nel-on, would hut assist in lessening our prowess ro CHICAGO HARBOR IMPROVEMENT. Captain William L. Marshall, corps of en- gineers, makes the following report in regard to the condition of the work of harbor im- provements at Chicago June 30, last: Outer harbor, Two hundred and sixty- seven thousand yards of material is yet to be dredged from the outer basin beyond the dock line, but as this material will be valuable for filling, should the outer basin be used for wharves and docks, and inasmuch as the pres- ent area already dredged is inadequate for the present needs, acompletion of the work of dredging at this time is not advisable or nee- essary. The piers inclosing this harbor have beep completed for years, but a portion of the southerly breakwater was damaged by storm in December, 1885, and requires reconstruc- tion. The upper structure of the north pier easterly breakwater of the outer basin are rot- and ten and urgently requires rebuilding over an extent of 4,738 linear feet. They should be rebuilt in a permanent mauner at the earliest practical moment. The exterior breakwater answers the purpose for which it was con- structed and its valueasa harbor of refuge and as aid to navigation is conceded by all persons interested in lake commerce. Entrance to Chicago river. The depth of water between the United States piers at the mouth of the Chicago river has been dimin. ished by the influx of sand until at the close of the present fiscal year there is an available channelway of less than fifteen feet at mean lake level. At one place midway the entrance there is but eleven and one-eigth feet of wa- ter, It is needless to say that ata port where the arrivals and departures of vessels aggre- gate each year over twenty thousand, where the commerce of the port exceeds that of the largest of our seaports and where the United Ststes collects from customs $5,000,000 an- nually, such acondition should not be al- lowed to exist, and that son.. provision for maintaining these channels should |.e made The funds asked for the fiscal yen ending June 30, 1890, are for superstructu: over easterly breakwater and outer basin $12,)00; for completing external breakwater and outer basin $240,000, for dredging entrance to Chicago river, $12000; total, $120,000, Other estimates are as follows: Harbor of refuge, Milwaukee Bay, Wis., for next year, $200,000; to complete, $488,600; Fox and Wisconsin rivers, Wisconsin, for next year,$ 200,000; to complete, $545,700; care and operation of canals and other works applied to Fox river, for present year, $48,900; Calumettharbor, Illinois, for next year and to| machinery. complete, $63,900, improvement of Illinois’ river for next year, $400,000; to complete $587,500(it is proposed to apply these funds to complete the LaGrange dam and to open the La Grange lock to navigation and to com- plete the Kampsvilie lock and dam) improve- ment of Calumet riyer, Illinois, and Indiana, fur next year, $100,000; to complete, $345,000: Waukegan harbor, Illinois, for next year, $35,- 000; to complete, $71,000; Racine harbor, Wis- cousin, for next year and to complete, $25,000; Kenosha harbor, Wisconsin, for next year | $15,000; to complete, $41,000; Milwaukee harbor, Wisconsin, for next year and to com- plete, $22,000, LITTLE RECORDS. Alpena has shipped 74,735,000 feet of lum- ber this season, The propeller St. Louis was 125 bushels short on her corn cargo trom Chicago, It is difficult tor vessels drawing over thirteen feet of water to get up Sheboygan river. The tug D. P. Hall of Frankfort has been so'd to Pardee Cook of Ludington for $9,- 000. Stephen Murphy, mate of the R. A, Pack- er, has been appointed master, vice Captain Gardner. The propeller John F. Eddy loaded 65,- 000 bushels of wheat at Superior last week for Buftalo in 65 minutes. The schooner Julia Olsen was launched at Johnson’s shipyard Green Bay, at 4 o’clock Monday afternoon, The steamship Missvula, bound down, ran aground neur the cut in St. Clair Thursday She was released by the tug Moore about an hour later, uninjured. Daring the month of June 28 vessels went ashore on the lakes, 32 collisions occurred two were burned and 140 damaged by storms. The losses amounted to $119,500. It is said that the schooner D, P. Rhodes is leaking in consequence of stranding off Sailor’s Encampment. She has gone on to Superior with her cargo of coal. Lumber shuvers of Tonawanda to the number of about 1,000 are again or a strike The union has been strengthened and it is expected that the men will win. It is rumored that the steamer Dove. has been chartered for the balance uf the season from. Darius Cole, ot Detroit, and is to be pressed int» the excursion busines:. ais Captain R illy, of the Susquehanna, is of the belief that the Cambria is faster than the Anchor liner. ‘The latter defeated the Sus- quehanna in arun op Lake Huron last week. The engineer of the Twelfth street bridge closed in on the schooner Pilot carrying away her main gaff, lifts, peak halyards, luzy guys, and maintopmast backstays at Chicago, Conrad Starke of Milwaukee has joined} the Sheboygan shipbuilding firm of Rieboldt | & Wolters. The shipyard will not be re- moved to the island, as had been contem- plited. The board of control of st. Mary’s ship canal, has fixed the rate of tolls on the Manistique river at 20 cents. Permission waa graoted for putting in another dam, to be completed August 1, 1889. The Vermont Central lake line has fol- lowed the lead of the Buffalo lines and raised freights on flour and feed to 25 cents per 100, The reason given is that more freight was offered than could be carried, United States Marshall Pennell will sell the steamer Osceola at auction next Wednes- day just as she lies on the reef near Por: Austin. .The sale is by order of the United States district court, and takes place at De- troit, The schooner Riverside, which went ashore near Bailey’s Harbor last fall, has been released and towed to Manitowoc, She is owned by Captain P. F. Thrall of Green Bay, who puid the underwriters . $2,000 for her last spring. The salt water steamer Algonquin, with 68,419 bushels of wheat trom Port Arthur for Kingston, passed the Welland safely on Saturday night. She drew 14 feet aft. This is the largest cargo by 400 bushels that ever went through the canal. Captain John G, Keith, who has returned from Buffalo, predicts that the drop in coal rates will last until the present sharp tide water demand for anthracite coal is sup- plied, and that the rates westward will then go back to the old figure of $1 a ton, it not higher, Mr. Dingley presented in the house a bill providing for tolls upon Canadian vessels passed through the St. Mary’s and St. Olair Flats cana!s, in case of Ciscrimination on Canadian canals against vessels or ports of the United States. It was referred to a com- mittee on merchant marine and fisheries. Captain Frank Stenton, of Ward’s Detroit and Lake Superior line steamer S. F, Hodge, will shortly be transferred to the steamer Eber Ward of the same line. Captain Geo, Cruikshank will command the Hodge the 1 | | remainder of the season, The new steamer| [| AKE CARRIERS” ASSOCIATION, John ¥. Moran will be taken charge of by Captain Albert Stewart. A dispatch frou Southampton, Ont., says George Smith’s new steambarge Lillie Smith war lannched there on Satur:cay. She was towed to the Saugeen river to receive her She is to be ready for sea by T@ CONSIDER AND TAKE ACTION UPON ALL GENERAL QUESTIONS Ee LATING TD THE MAVIGATION AMO CARTYING BUSINESS OF THE @REAT LAKES AND THE WATERS TBUTARY THERETO, WITH TME INTENT TO IMPROVE THE CHARACTER OF THE SERNCE RENDERED TO THE PUBLIC, TO PRO- TECT THE COMMON INTEREST OF LAKE CARRIERS, AND PROMOTE THER GENERAL WELFARE- BOARD OF MANAGERS, 1883, 5 i P * THomas MaRTIN, - - - - Oswego, N. Y. ears 16, es is gyi bgedege ory Sasens AS oe a Buta t x. ¥. eutham pton. etroit uffalo an eve- ULLARD, - bg .. uialo, NX. F. ] deste 4 : §. D. CALDWELL, President, - + Buffalo, N. Y. and. % 7. Evans, - : Basile, a > i) 5 ENRY, - = «+ .« Buffalo, N.Y. es A movement is on foot to erect one of the | D+) 0RN Rr - °- Buffalo, N.Y. Beier largest stationary and floating drvdocks | Franx J. Frers. Vice President, - Erie, Pa, 1 hel D A y M. A. BRADLEY, - - Cleveland, 0. along the lakes at Duluth during the com-]| i Wf Haxxa, - a ee ae a rp 0. 7 . . Tuomas WItson, Vie « President, levelan 2 ing winter. The purchase of the necessary ta W: COLTON? pe hed Toledo, 0. water frontage has already been completed. | James W. MicLEN Vee President, -Detroit, Mich , . 4 F EBER Warp - Detroit, Mich, The enterprise is in the hands of a syndicate, | tases Davipsos, - = = - Bay City, Mic Cc . i J Jos AUSTHIAN, = | F) Pit AS TR and ¢a'ls for an outlay of about $250,000. | 37s \peneiass - Chicago, Ill. Several Chicago capitalists are interested, | Ina H. Owes, Vice President, - - Chicago, Hl, b i < R. P. Frrz@ERALD, - Milwaukee, Wis. ut for the present their names sre sup- |Davip Vance, - - + > = Milwaukee, Wis. pressed, | Atex McDoveaLn, - + + +Duluth, Minn. ' HaRRY MURPHY, Secretary, - - Buffaio, N. The Canadian minister of customns says Jas. Carey Evans, Treasurer, ffalo, oN. Canzdian bottoms are in the same position MARINE ; REQOID- OF as the American vessel owners as regards freight landed west of Montrenl. All ves-| READY FOR SEA IN- EIGHTY-ONE sels from the west unloaded at Montreal are DAYS. allowed a rebate of 18 cents per ton upon West Bay Cry, July 28, the Welland canal tolls of 20 cents. It does | Special Correspondence to the Marine Record. 2 The mammoth and handsome schooner, Mary B. Mitchell, which was launched from James Davidson’s ship yard Saturday after- noon, has been on the stocks only eighty-one days. This is a marvelous accomplishment where the size of the vessel is considered, she being 210 feet keel, 37 feet 6 inches beam, and 15 feet 6 inches depth of hold in the shoalest place. The frames are molded at the keel 16 inches, at the bilge 14 inches and at the top 7 inches. The main keelson 16 by 16 and the assist- ant keelsons 14 by 16. There are two rider keelsons 14 by 14 and also ten floor keelsons 8 by 10 running the entire length of the ves- sel. The schooner in addition to this has ex- floor timbers running from bilge to bilge, and has only 2 inches space between the frames, which makes almost an entire solid bottom. There are also eight strakes of bilge keel- sons, of which five strakes are 8 by 10, and three strakes are 7 by 10. The ceiling is all 5 inches up to the clamp strakes. The clamp strakes are 7 inches thick and notched into the frame, 2 inches, The deck beams are 9 by 12 and 9 by 10 and there is adeck beim on every frame hereby making the deck beam: only 8 inches apart, and to these are added a tama- rack knee under each beam and on each side of the vessel, and these are securely bolted — to the side of the ship and to the beam and 9 finch bolts in every knee. Tned beams are also further strengthened b stringers on each side of the hatches hie notched into the deck beams, and rua the length of the vessel. The vessel plan to the rail on the inside and also ‘ and four strakes of the stringers un are notched into the frame 1} inc are several large waste gares, to le off from the deck, — thereby men easy ship to free herself of ws weather. ‘The outside plank it thick, and 5 strakes ¢ on the bilg not matter whether the vessels are Amer- iean or Canadian, so there is no discrimina- tion. Following is astatement of the visible supply of grain in store and afloat on Satur- day, July, 28, as compiled at the New York Produce Exchange: Wheat 22,190,867 bushels increase, 526.657 bushels; corn 8,374,050 bushels, decrease, 15,807 bushels; oats, 2,689,- 830 bushels, decrease, 335,9&3 bushels; rye. 136,948 bushels, increase, 1,589 bushels; barley, 144,196 bushels, decrease, 7,230 bushels. Captain Alfred Mitchell, of the Edward Smith, which was libeled at Chicago on June 28 for an alleged collision with the schooner Mixer, at Chicago, has settled the claim by paying the costs of suit under pro- test, and will bring a suit against the own- ers of the Mixer to recover the sum paid, When the vessel was libeled an officer went aboard her in the Chicago harbor to serve the writ. Captain Mitchell gave orders for the boat to sail +t once, and told the officer he could stay on or get off a3 he liked. The officer got off, and when the boat arrived at Cleveland Captain Mitchell was required to give $1,000 bonds for resisting. Commis- sioner Hovne, of Chicago, has reduced the bongs to $500 and set the case for a hearing August 1, LAKE FREIGHTs. Derroir,Mich.. August 1.—Engagements: Mineral State and Mystic Siar, wheat to ‘Buffalo, 134 cents;-Mineral-State, coal, But- falo to Toledo, 50 cents; schooner McLeod, pulp wood, St. Joseph’s Island to Detroit, $2.30 per cord; Ariel, lumber, Perry Sound to Amherstburg, $1.50 per M.; propeller Mary Pringle, coal, Lorain to St. Ignace, 70 cents. ‘ Burrato, N. Y., August 1.—Coal freights are quiet and easy. A cut of 5 cents was ‘made in rates at the head of Lake Superior, due to advance in grain. freights trom Duluth. Vessels here were offered 3}con| - wheat from that port, but none would take it. Four cents was asked, Charters were 75c to Chicago, 50c to Detroit and Toledo} + and Kelley Islond, Muskegon 95c. Canal freights dull and strong at 234e for wheat, 24c for corn to New York. j CurcaGo, August 1.—Spot room continues scarce at this port, while there is good de- mand for vessels for grain shipments; en- gagements, however, a‘e limited to 75,000 wheat, and 60,000 corn; rates were firm and steady. ing a neat i comfort of the officers an: She has what no ‘yet been favored, windlass and capstan, company, of fer There i is also a steam THE ‘101. A corrospondent writing in regard to this unique barge says: Captain McDougal, of Duluth, who is a pro- minent marine man of that city, has invented and constructed a novel craft named 101, with- out masts, having no propelling power, is in- tended as a tow barge, having the appearance of a double turreted monitor, is nearly flat on her bottom, with 4} inches dead rise. Sheis built eatirely of steel, her trames go entirely around her bottom sides andtop., Onthe inside, from the bilge up and over the top, she isround likea barrel, She has two iron turrets, one forward to work the capstan on and one aft for the wheel house; her bow is pointed likea cigar, with some stem to keep her nose above water when deep loaded her stern is shaped like her bow which were furnished b: East Saginaw, Mich.. machinery is furnished b “pony” boiler, which is co! out of the way forw ‘ The above appliances a The cabin is fitted oul 2 spi and bee eee the blinds, and oil finis present a lovely sight. large and well fitted uP» above water, high up her run is not well shaped low down, having the appearance of a scow stern, with the corners rounded off, or the stern of a very full vessel, with too smail a rudder,;but with such a runshe would not steer with any rudder, because the water can not run to the rudder like a current. She is doubtless abundantly strong, is a good | carrier, and light draft; is fire proof and Cap- tain McDougal thinks she is proof against rough weather, but we are skeptical on that point, She has no deck on which the crew can get | y around, only that round tep, which must be an unsafe and dangerous place to stay on, or walk on in wet or icy weather, It is not impro- bable that some useful invention may grow out of this. Weadmire the courage that Captain | McDougal has manifested in this Invention, G, site Bois Blan eral honrs, T: grounded high same time, — yl The wreckers have the California pumped out and will leave with her for Port Huron as soon as a tug can be obtained.