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y of the line steam- of sixteen miles per lian steamers Atha- as the boss Lake Erie A, Y. & P. docks, manayed Lake Shore docks at ted as having done s difficult to see how could anywhere be beaten. Se EH n toreplace the one | ll come out entirely d the City of Mar- ‘a fir-t-class single deck commanded by Captain Hugh ‘Thomas Tereleven as chief » She will be out Sept. 5th. Phoenix Iron works are making tor Marine Transit company a compound ine 22 and 44 by 40, boiler 10 feet by 16 long, to be allowed 120 pounds of steam. _ As soon as the Levi Kawson leaves the dock Dunford & Alverson will place the Olean in the dock and rebuild her, making her a first-class barge for lumber or grain. The barge Plymouth is expected here for an entire overhauling and will be placed in first-class condition. Captain Frank Walters has come home from the marine hospital, of Cleveland. His hand was badly crushed at Lorain, Ohio, and it is doubtful if he will sail any more this season. On last Wednesday a boy named Joseph Scan- Jan was crushed about the head by the iron pro- peller Ira H. Owen. The boy was climbing about the boat to reach a hat which had fallen into the water when the boat swung into the dock ¢rushing him to deach, and leaving him a'terrible object. The boy was nine years old. The steamer William H. Stevens passed down Saturday afternoon towing the disabled steam- ship Ira H. Owen. The Owen’s high-pressure steam-chest cover burst when she was about thirty-five miles out from Detour, The schooner White Star is in the upper dry dock receiving a thorough rebuild, and will be ready for sea in about two weeks. The Britannic and consorts, Mary Woolson, and H. C, Richards, bound up, came into colli- sion with a large raft, in tow of the tug Niagara, atthe southeast bend of St. Clair flats, The Woolson’s tow line parted, causing her to drift into the Richards, resulting in the latter vessel baving her rail and twenty-nine stanchions, to- gether with some headgear forward, carried away. The Woolson lost twelve stanchions and had her yawl smashed. Schooner A. M. Peterson is here having @new transom and new jibboom and bow- sprit. She will get away as soon as the weather will permit, K, BUFFALO. The schooner William Shupe went into drydock for a job of calking. The propeller Nahant tried to get up into the Evans Canal stern first, but went aground and had to give itup, The schooner Homer was at the Evans, and the channel on tho lum- ber dock side has not been dredged out. Work has been resumed on the extention to the Evans elevator, which was suspended last fall. ‘The Canisteo and tow went out light rather than wait for their loads. They came up from Tonawanda on Sunday, but with th wind and other difficulties went aground ando were considerably delayed. | The little schooner Adventure is haying hard luck with shortages. She carries only 1 gentlewanly | Peasure of look. | Houghton, 58; Shupe, 65. These are in all sel od dis;atch.. That | iown by the record of the ., there has been unload- ‘morning and Friday ders get this the old E bushels, and lately did the yery unusual thing of carrying wheat from Detroit to To- ledo, On that load she was 25 bushels short, 17 short on her next load, brought edoto Buffalo, ‘he cry comes trom the veesel captains that somebody is robbing them. As arule every sel from Detroit, Toledo and Sandusky is ly short, though some of the large car- goes from Toledo Intely have bee, excep- tious. But the little schooners catch it. Here is « partial list: G. W. Davis, 75 bushels short; Homer, 60; propeller St. Joseph, 42; ses two bushels to the 1,000, while the last named is over four. The Buffalo tallymen | maintain their inpocence by saying that these shortages occur without reference to ‘the evevator they unload at, and the cap- tains, who are a ive to the tituation, have ! prevented any error from carelessness by 5 | Ove:sreing toch the weighing in and the ‘weighing out of their cargoes, On the other hand the Chicago and Milwaukee cargoes have done well fora longtime. Ihe Helena, which overran on her first cargo, brought from Milwaukee, again overran from Chi- ¢ago, as did also the A. P. Wright.—Buffalo Express. The prope'ler Chemung is engaged in another effort to break her record from Buffa o to Chic- ago. The runto Port Huron was made in 22 hours and 15 minutes. | KINGSTON, The repairs to the schooner Persia at Belleville are nearly completed. They will cost between $4,000 and $5,000, The yacht Gracie was not badly damaged. Only one plank was staved in, She will be taken to Clayton for repairs, The Maud wili be lengthened 30 feet during the winter. Her bow will be remodeled anda new boiler will be put in her. The Kingston foundry has received the contract to do the work. The steamer Ella Ross will make one more round trip this season. . _ Government carpenters are now scattered along i 1 preparing frames and gates to be | put at different locks during the coming winter. ng points where repairs are to beJmade are Smith’s Falls, Oliver’s Ferry, Kingston Mills and Brewer's Mill. : ‘The proposed graving dock at Kingston is con- yeniently situated within the city limits, After the title to the property bas been legally secured, plans and specifications for the improvement will be prep ared and tenders at once called for to enable contractors to goon with the work during the winter season, The stone to be used in the construction of the work will be taken from the penitentiary quarry, but otherwise convict labor will not be employed. This great and mnch needed publie work will cost some- thing 1n the vicinity of halfa million of dollar, and will be of untold benefit, to forwarding the Canadian interests of the great Jakes. ject of the dock is to repair vessels coming down The ob- the St. Lawrence, there being no dock west of Quebec. At this point cargoes are transhipped, and great necessity exists for the improvement. The Government has similar docks at Quebec, Esquimalt, and Halifax, and the people of St. John are demanding one at that point. The tug H. Easton is on the marine railway at Portsmouth, The steamship Algonquin ran aground a short distance from the Point Frederick shoal. She was not damaged. SAULT STE MARIE. The steambarge William Crosthwaite, bound up, and loaded with’ coal, run on the rocks at Sailors’ Encampment Monday, staving a hole in her. Shesank in thirty minutes. Her crew arrived here sate. The disaster previously mentioned in these dispatches occured to the barge William Crosth- waite, bound up in tow of the Edwin 8. Tice, when abreast of the sailors’ encampment, where the current is very rapid and the channel nar- row. The tow line parted. The Crosthwaite swung towards the bank, striking the rocky bot- tom heavily andsoon filled. A lighter with steam pumps left Detroit Monday. Tie vessel is owned by Eastman, East Saginaw, val- ned at $16,000 insured, All available moorage below the locks was filled at 11 o’clock. The locks were closed on the down fleet at midnight. The fleet got cleared Tuesday morning without mishap, ERIE, Thesteamer Progress, ore laden, grounded onthe barin the harbor Tuesday at noon, and tugs worked steadily to get her afloat again. Collector of customs Arbuckle made the troubles of the Progress a text for a vigorous letter to Captain Mahan, Buffalo, United States engineer in charge of this dis- trict. Vessel owners entering here threaten to take their business elsewhere, MANITOWOC. Schooner Rob Roy arrived here in tow of the tug John Leathem. The Rob Roy was beached at Pilot Is!and in the heavy south- west blow of last Wednesday. She was re- leased by the aid of steam pumps by the Leathem, She is leaking some but it is thought her damage will not be very great She will be docked and repaired here. The schooner Richard Mott sprang a leak out in the lake and ran in here to be recalked. It is reported that the Goodrich line ha Sslet a contract fora new steamer about the size of the Menominee, to be ready for the opening of navigation next spring. She will be built by Burger & Burger at Manitowoc, andthe keel will at once be laid. This is the first new boat the Good- rich people have built fersome years, All the nei yard of Burger and have proved satisfactory in every respect. : TRENTON. John Craig & Son, are building a side-wheel steawer 125 feet 1 ng, to run between Gibralter and Detroit, She willbe ready for business extspring. Jha Craig was a passenger on boa dthe new steamship City of New York when she sailed on Saturdiy. He will makea tour of the Clyde shipyards, and probably be ou hand when the City of Rome is launched. DETRE IT. Barge Crossthwaite, coal laden from Buffalo struck rock bottom in twelve feet of water Monday morning and stove a hole in her bo - tom. She sunk in an hour. Her crew ar- rived at the Sault an hour after. The propeller Scranton, bound up, went aground at Grosse point, Lake St, Clair, Mon- day morning, and was released Monday after- noon by the ferry steamer Sapho, The propeller Cumberland, which was burned to the water’s edge at Fairport this summer and had her engine totally destroyed, arrived here Monday in tow of J. C. Gilch- rist and will have new engines put in hera Hodges. EAST SAGINAW. Shipments by water from Saginaw River du- ring the present week are as follows: Lumber, 26,374,000; shingles, 2,740,000; lath, 1,180,000. The Plowboy was sold today ta John Hanson for $8,400, She will ran.to Lake Superior. “SAND BEACH. Special to the Marine Record. The past week has been rather Jively, A severe northeast gale begining the 26th. drove quite a fleet in for shelter from a summer storm. The following sought shelter here: Steamer W. R. Stafford and three, Saint Louis and two, Archie and one, P. H. Birekhead and three, propellers Enspire State, City of Concord, Colonial, S. C. Baldwin and three, schooners Comanche, Geo. C. Finney, M. L. Higgie and Quick- step. The 23rd a severe southwester brought in another fleet, consisting of schooners Corsican, H. Moore, L. L. Lamb, Rucine, Sippican, George Irving, steamers W. P. Thew, Messenger and two, R. C. Brittain and two, Sakie Shephard and one, Ira Chaf- tee and three, Lowell and four. The 24th, Moltie Spencer and three, Mar- varet Olwill and two, and tug Onaping. Sunday morning the tug Geo, N. Brady run ashore north of Port Hope, and towed the barge D. S. Austin on the reef and Jost her own shoe. The tug worked herself oft and made the harbor with one barge, and the propeller Messenger went and pulled the Austin off the rocks after lightering a portion of her cargo. T. MUSKEGON. The propeller Groh, on her passage over Monday night, and when some twenty-five wiles out from Chieago, picked up a small water logged sloop that had been abandon ed or her crew washed overboard. The Groh was unable to bring her over on account of the heavy sea. MARQUETTE. Lake shipments of iron ore from Supe ior mines amounted to 202,384 tons for the week ending Wednesday; 49,564 from Marquette, 52.803 from Escanaba, 3,138 from St Ignace, 2,076 from Ashland and 14,802 from ‘l'wo Harbors. This brings the season’s shipments up to 2,431.330 or 219,782 less than on the same date in 1887, By ranges the shipments are: Marquette 950,305, Gogebie 711,562, Menominee 579,147, Vermillion 190,316. MACKINAC CITY. The propeller Scranton arrived here at § o’clock @ Marine Recon. Goodrich boats have been built at the Manitowoc MAIDEN TRIP OF THE SCRANTON, A short visit to Cleveland was brought to its close Wednesday, 22nd instant, by a most enjoyable trip to Buffalo on the fine, new steel screw steamer Seranton, built by the Cleveland Shipbuilding company. Al- though, asa rule, we like the sea about as much as the sea ijikes us, and therefore make it a rule always to give land traveling! the preference when practicable, yet the a ———_f the cities on the chain of the great lakes, toget her with those on the counectiug rivers and ca” nals, like the Erie, Welland, Chicago and Illi- neis canals. The plan is to raise the surface level of each lake to a hight that will do the most good to the greatest number of cities, har- bors, mouths of affluent and connecting rivers, straits and insular passages and shoals generally, This rise is to be ubtained by placiug proper ob. structions to the free passage of the waters, not inimical to navigation, that would cause the de- opportunity and conditions were so except- sired amount of rise in the waters above them, ionally favorable in this case that we yladly { These obstructions tobe placed at or near the accepted the invitation to make the ran| Pot of beginning of the descent of the waters down in the Scranton. The vessel was highly satisfactory and we almost feel brave enough to assert thai if Captain Drake ever goes back to blue water and makes a short coasting voyage, to San Francisco tor in- stance, we would inirust our valuable life to his care without any hesitation. We have a weakness for judging people by their faces, and having at the same time a good knowledge of what a ship master of the higher type ought to be. Our opinion is very favorable to his abilities, while his genial and amiable qualities make him a most agreeable fellow voyager. The company of visitors was not a very large one, but its quality left nothing to be desired. We left our moorings at 7:5 p. m., “took our departure,” as ship’s logs say, from the pier head at 7:28, with a slight rea and ahead wind, and a beautiful harvest moon just rising on the horizon, At 10 p. m. we passed Fairport; Long Point wes passed at 6a. m., and at a few minutes past 10 a. m. we were entering Buffalo harbor. The entire run having been made in some- thing under fifteen hours, it will be consid- ered as fairly satisfactory. Under more fa- vorable conditions the ship might have im- proved on this. To the eye of one accustomed to a simi- Jar class of vessels on European waters the Scranton does not present much external dissimilarity. Her deck is not so filled up with top hamper, which is a great advant- age in many ways. She is steered from forward, while steamships on salt water have their bridges amidships. If they could also be steered from forward how many fatal collisions would be avoided, for, as matters stand, the sole safeguard is too often only a sleeping seaman on the tore- castle head. Then the Scranton has rails but no bulwarks, a deviation from estab- lished usage, which we should not care much about; it*certainly allows a sea to run off her deck, but the crew will have a lively time of it in bad weather when deprived of their usual shelter. However, taking all in all, the Scranton is a favorable specimen of what is usually called “a poor man’s ship,”? and under capable management she will certainly do all that can reasonably be ex- pected of her, It only remains for us to thank Captain Davis, the master of this fine vessel, who we were told has had a very satisfactory career in his profession, for the attention he bestowed on his guests. AS Be eR A es LAKE FREIGHTS. The tendency in ore freights is upward, Coal freights are firm but unchanged. Ore charters are: Propellers Fryer, Two Har- bors to Ohio ports, $1.50; H. J. Johnson and schooners Hutchinson, C. H. Jobnson, Halloran and Columbian, Escanaba to Ohio ports, $1.15; Arctic and consort Ogarita, Escanaba to Buffalo, $1.20. Coal charters: Propellers Fayette Brown, Buffalo to Da- luth, 60 cents; Gratwick, Cleveland to Du- luth, 65 cents; Feryer, Ashtabula to Two Harbors, 65 cents; propeller Lothair and schconers Kacardine, Corisande and Van Wednesday morning in tow of the tug Winslow, She broke the beam to her air pump when off Presque Isle, and will be detained here until a new one arrives from Cleveland. MARINE CITY. The new steel steamer Scranton, of Middle Bass island broke her rocking beam. She arrived here at 5 o’clock Wednesday, in tow of the tug Winslow and will await the ar- rival of a newbea m. —_—_—_——98-- oO i The indicator used on steam engines isa very incomplete instrument as itis now made, and is susceptible of great improvement. This lies in operating the paper cylinder. For slow running engines the present piece of string answers well enough, but for high speed it is wholly unsuitable, for these rea- sons: It stretches more or less and is fitful or jerky in its action. There is no reason why the paper cylinder should not be worked by the same steam that drives the engine piston, and be wholly unconnected with “strings,” piano wire, gallows frames, lazy tongs, or any other outside appurtenance be- longing and rig. A steam engine indicator ought to be wholly self contained, and perform every function by simply opening a cock or valve at the right time or any time, The result would be that much smoother and more exact cards would be obtained at high speeds than is now possi- ble by the string which “yanks,” and the spring which resents more or less, such yank- ing. Such indicators would be more expen- sive than the “string” driven indicators now in use, but they would be far better and more Straubenzie, Cleveland and Huron to Owen Sound, 60 cents; propellers Gladstone and C. Tower and schooner Cobb, Cleveland to Duluth or Superior, 60 cents; schooner Wadena, Fairport to Duluth or Superior, 60 cents. The propellers Elfin Mere and Forbes and schooner Mabel Wilson load at Fair- port, Lorain and Ashtabula, respectively, for Duluth or Superior on contraet. The schooner A, J. McBrier takes coal to Al- pena at 50 cents. TotxEpo, O., Aug. 29.—Charters: Schoon- ers Polly M. Rogers, Arthur, wheat to Buffalo, 214 cents; Jennie White, wheat to Cleveland, 14 cents, free; propeller Lake Michigan, corn to Montreal, 534 cents. Burrato, N. Y., Aug. 29.—No change in coal freights. Charters: Propellers R, A. Packer, Parnell, for Chicago, 75 cents; Donaldson, for Milwaukee, 70 cents; Spo- kane, for Duluth, on contract; schooners Schupe, Barkalow, for Detroit, 35 c@ots Seaton, tor Cleveland, 30 cents, Canal freights were steady with wheat at 41g cents and, corn at 33 cents to New York, Derroir, Micu., Aug. 29.—C. W. Norton réports engagements as follows: Schooners Charger and Mystic Star, wheat to Buffalo 2 cents. THE LAKE LEVEL, In a letter to Walter J. Shephard, vice presi- dent of the Buffalo business men’s association, a Pike county man sets forth the fol- lowing peculiar mode of raising the lake level: I write to call your attention to my plan of reliable for high speed engines than the|lake and harbor improvements in which the present type.— Engineer. city of Buffalo is largely interested, and also all ofeach lake, This plan isa general improve. ment, upon which local plans, existing or pro jected, may rest as upon a foundation, Anim. provement upon improvements, so to speak, plus the storage of vast areas of water, increased Sea room an | depth in shoal passages and points where needec, with improvements to these can- als, if these obstrue:fons are properly placed, viz., at the foot of Lukes Superior, Huron and Erie. The adoption of this plan would make the utilization of the swift current at your city for manufacturing purposes surer and easier at present, and for which I understand your peo- ple offer $100,000 reward. nee Ae oe nena LOWERING THE LAKE LEVEL, Tt has been objected that the Proposed open ing of the Chicago river into the Desplaines riy- er of a waterway of such dimensions as to cause a flow from Lake Michigan into the Mississippi river of 600,000 eubic feet per minute would lower the level of Lake Michigan. Senator Sherman is reporied to have made such a state. ment in the senate the other aay, That sucha statement is absurd on the face of it must be &p- parent to every thinking man at all acquainted with the facts. It is estimated that 15,000,000 cubic feet of water go over Niagara Fa'ls every minute, Three-fourths of this vast quantity comes from Lakes Michigan, Superior and Huron. To ab- stract from this vast quantity 600,000 cubic feet would make no perceptable diminuation in the Falls of Niagara. For, it must be remembered, that the three great lakes—Superior, Michigan and Huron, are practically one lake, so far as level is concerned, as they are connected by the straits at Mackinac, which are about three miles wide anda hundred feet deep. The level of Lake Michigan could not be lowered without lowering that of the other two great lakes. The Detroit river, again, is about 2,200 feet wide, with adepth of abeut twenty-two feet, anda current of nearly three milesan hour. Just fig- ure up what diminution of this chaanel it would be to cut a channel from the Chicago river into the Desplaines 200 feet wide f depth as the Detroit river. water so oceesioned would not ely, at Detroit, and not noticed: The opponents of water commu’ i the lake region and the Mississippi. find some weightier objection than t on the lowering of the lake levels. The a: ment dves not hold nearly so much water as do the lakes.—American Elevator and Grain Trade, Re peneiie i seaae Sa oe SS OUR WATER HIGHWAYS. The intelligence conveyed in our columns on Saturday that the Dominion government were calling for tenders for the construction of a canal on the Canadian side of the river at Sault ste. Marie, will be hailed with satis- faction by everyone interested in the great lake trade. The further information that the government were calling for tenders for the enlargement of the St. Lawrence canals will also be gratifying news. As the dispatches indicated, with the Canadian Sault canal built, the St, Lawrence and Welland canals enlarged, and the use of the St. Clair flats canals guaranteed by treaty, Canadian vessels will have asure and safe right of way from Port Aurthur, at the head of nayigation, to the ocean. The importance of the construc- tion of the Sault and the enlaigement of the St. Lawrence canals to the shipping of the upper lakes, and to the commerce of Canada especially that of the Canadian Northwest can hardly be estimated. The carrying out of the work will be of special interest tothe people of Port Arthur. As the head of nay- igation, the town can look forward to no dis- tant day when vessels direct from European ports will recieve and discharge their cargoes in our matchless harbor.—Port Arthur Sen- tinel. In reply to an inquiry made some time ago by an engineer from Chicago, who omitted to sign his name to the communication, we say: To re- ceive an engineers license in the United States, one wust be a citizen of the United States, and any one holding a license issued by an inspector of this country, may act in that capacity until said license expires, or is revoked, The tact that he has a license issued by Canadian author- ites does not prohibit him from working under an American license if he is a citizen of the U. 8. Unless he is a citizen he cannot, lawfully obtain one, Captain Joseph Greenhaugh, one of the oldest shipowners and a well known citizen of the lake regions, died at Chicago yester- day. It is our purpose on a future occasion to give a fitting obituary notice showing the past history of the deceased. FUR SALE, TEAM pleasure boat, capacity 50 people, 44 feet over all, 11 feet beam, draws 4}4 feet of water. Good machinery, Apply to D. RANKIN, Room 2, 127 La Salle 8t., Obicago, TIL. ROPOSALS FOR CONSTRUCTION OF SUPER- STRUCTURE.—U., 8, Engineer office, 89 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio, August 28th, 1888. Sea! proposals, in duplicate, will be received at this office until 11 o'’cloek a. m.,on Friday, the 14th day of Sept, next, at which time they will be opened in presence of bidders, for constructing 350 Lineal feet, more or less, of superstructure on east breakwater at Cleveland, Ohio. Forms, specifications and other ine formation can he omnes at pers ee ee United States reserves the r! re) any ropo= sals, L. COOPER OVERMAN, Major of Enginecrs i.