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SAE Wak ah lig states to your cor- ‘in the spring he hesitated and was towed Grummond’s tug roit. dry-dock for é extremly regrets the loss little scow Mary Alice hauled out w frames, new planking and recalking, ‘She will leave the yard in much better dition than she has been in for a num- ber of years. The East End Boiler Works are building four large buckets for the Calumet and Hecla mines. They will hold about 75 gal- lons each, and are to be used for bailing out the surplus water. Robert McKinzie the, shipsmith, is yery busy now doing the iron work on the new scow building at Oade’s yard, and the little ecow which is being repaired at the same place. The Detroit Dry Dock Co. sre making considerable improvements around their plant. They have purchased a lot of ground, and are erecting a new brick building for the foreman of the barn, and have moved their wood shops across Atwater street. The fine new steamer Volunteer, built by Messrs. John Craig & Son, Trenton, for Messrs. Alger, Smith & Co., isin port re- ceiving her machinery. Aer appearance is the subject of many complimentary com- ments from marine critics; we join the many who pronounce hera finely modeled and well constructed boat. The Harlem is about ready for sea, and some expect a new record for speed soon. The Hudson passed down at 8:30 a.m., and about two and one-half hours after the Tioga followed; the Hudson this trip is having a walkaway, judging from the time reported on the way down. The schooner Sophia Minch went aground Monday night, and the steamer Everett while releasing her broke 15 stanchions on the schooner, doing about $400 worth of damage. The Everett was laying at O. W. Shipman’s coal dock Tuesday leaking quite badly. One of the Quinn brothers, divers, went down to make the repairs necessury to stop the leak. The new gasengine mentioned in these columns last week is a success, and with a trifling change in the gear, from a friction to a spur gear, it will be all that has been represented. Mr. Seymour of the Detroit Boat Works says: “It is just what has long been needed for small craft, no dirt no smoke, nor smell, »nd anyone can operate it so easily, it is bound to come into general use.’? The schooner A. Ford was aground Tues- day on the Canadian side of Grosse Isle. The yacht race between the different boats of the Detroit Yacht Club, held last Mon- day, was the most closely contested and ex- Nobles, business making suits of can- cht “V.L.T.A.,’? for , for the schooner | Her-B.an | were Tru {and Ella B.. The race was. very enjoyable for all participating, and after. the course [evening is , yard they. willlaunch the. ‘Saturday, August 11. They - tending their fall width. churning of the water by the buckets as it citing sail ever held on their course. In the morning there was hardly a cap full. of wind, but later in the day a good stiff breeze sprang up, and the fun began. The Lulu B.and Turk were entered in the second class, and on account of tonnage the Turk was given 2 minutes and 85 seconds, beating her opponent 1 minute and 87 seconds. The Lulu B. was handicapped on the start. In the third class the Corsair sailed over the course the Alvenia being handicapped too much at the start. The fourth class were Alvina, and Madeline. Fifth class were Let- %, € t, Rowena, Lillie B., Alberta, had been sailed and the time given, thev Adjourned to theif club room and spent the ib a very pleasant manner, all well ased with the success of the race, r. Dick Boylan, of the firm of Arthur & Captain J. W. Millen says the business be- ‘ing done by the vessels this yesr is much greater than ever before in the bulk of stuff teansported, although the rates are not so high, Hop. ; MILWAUKEE. Special to the Marine Record. I have the gratification of announcing the ‘revival of grain shipping from our port again, capacity having been taken for about three hundred thousand bushels the past ten days at a 21¢c rate. The steambarge Marshal! of Manistee was in port with a load of salt. Sbe has received }anew engine and boiler at Manistee this spring. Her engine is a 26 by 30 built by | the Manistee Iron Works Co., new candidate for honors in that line, and gives promise | that it will not be the last engine they will build as it is fully up tothe standard. The | Marshall average nearly 10 miles per hour on her first trip, which is excellent time for a new piece of machinery. _ The Evening Wisconsin. of this place ‘says: ‘Captain Lewis Vance commenced fitting out the tug John Evenson, for the pur- | pose of making a test of the wheel recently patented by E. D. Bangs, of this city. He proposed first to test accurately the speed as well.as towing and backing qualities of the tug with her present wheel, and then have her docked to receive the Bangs wheel, with which the tests will be repeated in their | order for purposes of comparison. Should the latter fail to demonstrate any marked superiority over the style of wheel now in use, no attempt will be made to introduce ‘it Outside of the Erie‘and-other canals where. steam is used. The wheel with which the experiments are to be conducted is six feet in diameter, and was manufactured by the Filer, Stowell Co., under the direction of Mr. Bangs. Tke buckets #re similar to those now in use, but are encased’ in a band ex- This avoids the must pass through the band while being acted upon. The idea is by no means a new one, 4s can readily be ascertained on perusal of the latest and best German scientific works. But Mr. Bangs, with apparently no knowledge of this fact, was struck by the “happy thought” with such force that he immediately proceeded to have the device patented for the United States and Canada, and seems to have experienced no difficulty in obtaining the financial backing necessary for an attempt at its successful introduction. The experiments, which may be concluded as early as Thursday, barring accidents, will be watched with interest. Jobn 8. George said: “The trial of the Bangs propeller wheel was a perfect success in every reapect, beating the old wheel 37 seconds in a mile and a half, with one-third less coal and torty revolutions less a minute. The wheel will be tiied again Monday on the same tug. The engineer gays the pres- ent Bangs wheel will beat any wheel of the same make as the old wheel,” The actual performance is as follows: Sheriffs wheel 5 feet 8 inches, steam 80 pounds, revolutions 132, time 10.56; Sherifts wheel 5 feet, steam 80 pounds, revolutions 132, time 9.37; new wheel 6 feet, steam 85 pounds, revolutions 100, time 10,07; new whee) 6 feet, steam 80 pounds, revolutions 94, time 11.25; new wheel 6 feet, steam 100 pounds, revolutions 102, time 11.33. They then tried the new wheel with four blades, but it was not right and they took it oft. I can give no figures as to backing as they did not compore the two wheels in that way. Special dispatch to the Sentinel says: The new steambarge Fannie C. Hart, owned by Hart Bros., of Green Bay, made a trial trip. Her machinery has proved satisfactory. It was put in by Sheriffs Bros., of Milwaukee. She ran from Two Rivers point light to Manitowoc, a distance of ten miles, in forty- seven minutes on an average of 65 pounds of steam. Her engine is a 22 by 26 high pressure. Saturday morning a party of about three hundred, among which were the following, left here for Sheboygon to witness the launch of the Milwaukee Tug Co.’s new barge: W. A. Starke and wife, T. C. Starke 'yclone,and the sixth class yachts | “the Marine. Recor and family, W. Myereand family, H. M, Ben- jamin and wife, D. vance, D. W. Howe and wife, W. H, Simpson and wife, Samuel Joys, McKrause, F. Puhlow, A. F. Buee, F. Bues, H. J. Pauley, H. F. Bues, J. A. Sheriffs, W H. Wolf, Chas. Moodey, Ge. Ouigley, C. Sturke and fami, Cnas. Durr, and C. Weideman. The party arrived at Shebovgan at Lp. m. and after dinner adjourned to the yard. Promptly at 4 o’elock Mr. Walter’s gave the signal und the massive bulk slowly glided off the ways. As the boat strack the water, Captain James Liske unfurled her flag disclosing the name Helena, after a daughter of Secretary Myers of the com- pany. his boat is not only a credit to ner builders but to her owners as well, as the Messrs, Sturke have spared no pains to make her one of the finest boats aff.at. She ix | turnished with a Hodge triple expansion 20, 82 and 54 by 42 stroke, Williamson Bros, steam steerer, a Providence Steam Windlass from the American Ship Windlass Co. and steum hoist.) Her cabins are very finely finished in hardwood as is als» her: engine room. She has two Scotch type boilers by J W. Eviston of this place. About an hour after the launch the guests were surprised by the Helena blowing a greeting with ber own whistle. After discussing the viands and eatables, the guests adjourned to the city to awail the return trip. May every year bring forth such an addition to the Mil- waukee fleet as this one and may her suc- cess be so great that her profits will enable her owners to duplicate her every two year. J. Four vessels found the beach below North Point in the fog Friday morning. The steambarge Daisy Day with the schooners G. Barber and Nellie Hammond ran ashore but a short distance below the point, The Hammond and Daisy Day succeeding in re- leasing themselves after jettisoning part of their deckloads. They wi!l be docked, although apparently they suffered no dam- age. The Barber was pulled off by the tug Holton, and though waterlogged was towed into the harbor. The steambarge will be held liable for the damage to the schooners, The Rand struck on a rocky beach about two miles below North Point and in close prox- imity where the steam scow Josephine went to pieces in the spriny. After part of ber deckload was lightered she was released by the tug Hagermann. The life saving crew rendered valuable assistance in getting the vessels off. The Milwaukee seaman’s union has raised wages to $2, claiming that $1.50 is lower than wages were in 1884, while freights are higher. : : BENTON HARBOR, ' A year ago the Grabam & Morton line, running between Benton Harbor and Chi- cago, sold the steamer City of St. Joseph and put in its place the Puritan, which was built for speed and large passenger accom- modations. The experiment of a steamer which can be driven sixteen and seventeen miles an hour has proved so successful that Graham & Morton will probably build another of the same pattern as the Puritan, but much larger, and have her ready for busniess next spring. If this is done the steamer Lora, the companion boat of the Puritan on the Benton Harbor run, will be sold, Where the speed of the Puritan has told most is in the Sunday excursions to St. Joseph. Her limit of 500 passengers is filled on these excursions, and the traffic has proved highly profitable. The new boat will be put on the same run, as it is believed there is enough business for two boats if accommodations could be turnished. The work of the Puritan from 11:30 Saturday night until 10 o’cock Sunday night is sel- dom excelled by any craft on the chain of lakes. In that time she covers the course from Chicago to St. Joseph four times—an aggregate of 260 miles—-takes on and lets off a total of nearly 1,500 passengers, and lies at St. Joseph four hours, PORT HURON, The Flying Star is in the Wolverine drydock eceiving extensive repairs. The propeller City of Rome, ore laden, from Asbland to Lorain with the schooner H, R. New- comb in tow, broke the connection strap to her high-pressure cylinder when 18 miles above Port Huron and had to be towed into this port The cylinder was ruined, making quite an ex- pensive accident, She will be towed to destina- tion and anew cylinder will be seat up from here, A clumsily worded telegram announcing that “the steamer ‘“Ossifrage went down in the lake Wednesday with 400 excursionists” created con. siderable excitement on Wednesday around Port Huron. The telegram was intended to convey the intelligence that the steamer went out on the lake. The Star line has met Captain Grummond’s cut in freight rates to six cents per hundred, in- cluding dockage. The passenger rate to this city from Detroit has also been reduced to 50 eents for the round trip. crowded every trip. NBGAUNEE. [ron Cliff, iron ore mining and smelting com- pany of New York, whose local office is here, ordered the discharge of one shift of miners at the Cliff shaft, Ishpeming, Between 100and 150 men will thus be thrown outof work. The mine has some 40,000 tons of ore in stock and opera- tions will be carried on with as smal! a force as possible till the surplus ore is disposed of, The boats are now | LUDINGTON, Tue big unweildy craft known as the Lud- ington scows are for sale. They are the last of the seow lines with which it was expected a dezen years ago, the carrying trade of the lukes would be revelutionized, but it was not, The Peshtigo and the Menominee barge lines alone, of ull the schemes in vogue tor towing, have proved a success, and they owe it merely to the labor saving they effect io loading and unloading. For the last five yeurs the tendency has been away from tow- ing. In all the craft built ius’ winter but five or six were barges, and they were in- tended for the Lake Superior ore trade, where the tow bills on the So and through the rivers are big items of expense. GRAND HAVEN, The Mary H. Boyce was built at the Grana Haven ship building company’s yard for Monroe, Boyce & Cu, and’ Captain McGregor, formerly AUXILIARY STEAM, Sturgeon Bay vessel men are said to have made more experiments in a marine way, says the Chicago Tribune, than have been made at all the other points on the lakes combined. Their Jatest effort came into port Saturday in the shape of the old schooner Pewaukee, which has had a amall engine placed in her while the fall schooner rig is maitained. The Pewaukee’s trip up the river did not augur the success of the scheme, At Clark street she ran into the north abutment and cleared ‘out a stairway, at the same time breaking her headgear. She fairly distinguished herself at Harrison street by striking the bridge a solid blow which knocked it five inches out of place and came near send- ing it into the river. Wha: was left of the boat’s beadgear was carried away. The bridge was got back in shape after a half day’s work with jack-screws, The plan of putting power into sailing ves- ce mmander of the steamer Wisconsin, at a cost | 8@18 looks nice, but does not work well. In the of $70,000. Her dimensions are as follows: Length on water line, 185 feet; over all, 202 feet; | de} th of hold, 14 feet; beam 34 feet and 2 inches; tonnage measurement, 607; carrying capacity, 1,200 tons, Her engines are fore and aft com- pound, 22 and 40 inches bore by 36inches stroke, and were built by H.G. Trout, Buffalo, N. Y. She has a warine boiler 10 feet in diameter by 15 feet long, built by Johnson Bros., Ferrysburg, Mich, She will no doubt go into the lumber carrying trade, SANDUSKY. While the tug Buffalo was towing the schooner M, E. Trimble out of this harbor the towline slipped, while taut, and struck Otto Biemiller, a lineman on the tug, break ing his jaw bone and otherwise severely injur- ing him. He was removed to the Marine hos- pital, WAUKEGON. The steamer John A. Dix rescued six men out of the waterlogged yacht Minnie M. six miles off Waukegon. LAUNCH OF THE PROPELLER NORTH WIND. North Wind, the second of the six steel steamers contracted fer by J. J. Hill, president of the St. Paul, Minneapolis, Manitoba rail- road, was launched at the Globe Iron Works company’s shipyard on Tuesday afternoon, July 31st, at 3 o’clock. She madea fine launch and looks well in the water, even better than did the Northern Light, which was added to the lake fleet April 17, and has a much) smocther finish of hull, cabin and houses: Quite a number of citizens were present, | largely interspersed with women and children, | js and many prominent sailer men saw her go. Amozg those from out of town were the Messrs. Morgan, canal boat builders at Lockport, N. Y., and intimate friends of Mr. Smith, superintendent of the shipyard and also inspector, ete., of the International bridge at Lockport.’ " = Say The marine men were very complimentary in their remarks about Mr. Smith’s skill in getting a large steam boat off the ways on the minute and in having her strike the water on an even keel. The North Wind was chris- tened by MissCarrie Ashburn ina happy man- ner, the escaping nectar covering the bows oj the boat, although a swallow was left in the neck of the bottle, In dimensions the North Wind is an exact duplicate of the Northern Light, they being 312 feet over all, 293 feet keel, 40 feet beam and 24} feet depth of held, The propelling power is a triple expansion engine, the cylinders of which are 24, 48 and 61 inches by 42 inches stroke; in- dicated horse power, 1,200, The wheel is sec- tional, 14 feet in diameter and 14 feet pitch. The boilers are not aboard the boat, but her engines were in place and she drew but 3 feet and 6 inches forward and 6 feet ro inches aft, all built by the Globe Iron Works Co. The Providence steam windlass and capstans, of the American Ship Windlass Co., Providence, R. I,, and Globe works steam steerers, are among the fitout. Messrs. J.W. Grover & Son will fit her out and she will be ready for business in about five weeks. ‘he cost of the North Wind will be about $225,000. The officers are as follows, Delos Waite, now master of the Cormorant, will be in command; James Hay, cheif engineer; John Mceachran, second engineer; Willian Pugh, chief mate. Captain Murch, who is superintending the build- ing of the Northern line boats, is very much pleased with this one. The New York Maritime Register says: The new Inman line steamer, the City of New York, has completed her trial trip. She started on July 21 from the Clyde and arrived at Liver- pool on the 23d at the rate of 18 knots per hour working three-quarters speed. She is considera - bly shorter than the Great Eastern, but fourteen feet longer than the City of Rome, She is built almost on the lines of a yacht and her enormous engines develop extraordinary power. Io this ship the Atlantic voyage will be reduced to a little over six days. The rate of speed is tre- mendous for her size. She was tried for speed at short intervals, aod each time she sped through the water at the rate of twenty-three | miles an hour. On her first voyage she will | take out Mr. Blaine and the members of his fam- ily. The stateroom which will be occupied by | Mr. Blaine is magnificently decorated and up- | holstered. It looks as comfortable and as lux- | urious as the apartments in the best hotels. In | the day time it provides all the comforts of a suit of rooms and at night can be converted in- to two bedrooms. The woodwork of the com- partment is constructed of beautifully polished Hungarian ash, Pewaukee’s case the object is to give tne vessel Power enough to get through the Sturgeon Bay canal, move about the harbors without the ex- pense of a tug, and when the wind is unfavorable to keep the boa: going. The last tine this sane plan was tried on the great lakes was in 18639 when the bark Cream City was given machinery. It was fou.id she could neither sail nor be driy- en by her engine, and it was taken out after a year. At Bath Me., three years ago, when a big schooner was fitted out with machinery and started for New York with an excursion party on board, an off-shore storm drove the boat to the Bermudas, It was found tha’ a schooner so rigged became unmanageable in a gale, The vital defect is that the boat has not enough power to come up against the wind and the wheel dragging in the water kills the ac. tion of the rudder. The Pewaukee’s engine takes the place of the cabin, the smokestack rising forward the mizzenmast, ‘The engine in- tetferes with her carrying capacity but slightly, The boat was bought by Sturgeon Bay people pa fitted up after haying been aground last all, Tro AN ANCIENT WRECK. Some three years ago, says the Chicago Tri- bune, the bottom of an old wreck was washed up on the lake shore at Winnetka and founda be the old wreckage at Winnetka, ‘oba share a like fate. Where the wreck had been from 1860 to the time it was washed ashore at Winnetka -12 a question 4Captain Priadiville could not solve. Something likeit lay for many years on the beach seven miles above that place, which was washed off in a heavy northeaster in the fall of 1885. He beleived that it may have been this old wreck, which the waves brought back to shore again at Winnetka, and placed it where it might be identified. ——___ —»—~— = The correspondent of the Watertown Times says: While riding with Captain Estes on the St. Lawrence a few days ago, the writer saw a small yacht clinging pertinaciously to the side of a tug, and puffing hard to keep up with its companion. The tug, however, wanted to get away from its little antagonist but for a long time could not, though it was evidently a great deal faster boat than the yacht, The captain then said: “If that yacht can cling to the tug as she does now, the latter cannot possibly get away from her. Iremember once towing a tug in that way. I had a fast boat and there were two vessels on the lake signaling for assist. ance. There were three tugs; of which the one I had was the fastest. The second and third were very evenly matched, but one of them drew into the wake of my tug and we carried her out so that she got the second vessel. Another time a yacht kept in the wake of my boat, and I could not get rid of her until I sheered off suddenly. Then, whe? she did not get the assistance from the tug, the yacht was left behind. It’s acuri- ous fact.” CORRECTION, Captain John Sullivan has been appointed veseel inspector at Chicago for the Inland Lloyds vessel register, vice Daniel McLeod, resigned. The latter will engage in business at Kansas City.—Leader, (This is evidently a mistake as Captain John Sullivan was Jost with the propeller Vernon last fall,—Ep.] SS pe RD A REET SEAT A RSE EALERTS SE BOAT PROPERTY FOR SALE. HE Barge Seminole, eapacity 250 m ft lumber, % ov 4, or the whole of barge Hor wax,esraccy 600 m tt lumber, now placed for the season. The tug Toledo, 8x8. The tug Sallie, 84x8. A harbor tug, 13x13. A harbortug, 16x18. 4 harbor tug, 14x16. Last three fitted with large Worthington fire pumps. hose, etc. One Rotary and three Duplex fire pumps, One 14x17 engine and marine boiler,i00 unds steam | suitable for small steam barge or tug. ve lighters one pile driver, with Bartlett & Co.’s patent holsting engines, One light draft steambarge, 400 m capacity a bargain be Seag one meaning business for any of the above, if taken at once, : SHAW TRANSFER CO., East Saginaw, Mich.