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ARRIERS’ ASSOCIATION, 0 TAKE ACTION UPON ALL GENERAL QUESTIONS RE NAVIGATION AND 9 RECORD—OFFICIAL _PAPER, Lakes Continued from 1st Page. ] CHICAGO, Record, t I. N. Foster formerly of Lorain here last Thursday with lumber ee, in tew ofthe steambarge Thos. n Bay. The Foster went on ‘Shoals last summer. She was atham & Smith, of Sturgeon Bay, in wrecking, and on the hey pulled her off the shoals ii Owego on her last trip made the Buffalo and Chicago in 61 hours and steamer Scranton of the Lacka- ntly built by the Cleveland Ship- company, arrived here on her first visit day evening with 400 tons ef merchant- 2000 tons of coalfrom Buffalo. She is ship to the Lackawanna and everything her is of the very best, and she isa splendid imen of marine architecture. ptain Davis is in command, Hugh Philiips st mate, Luther Schryder 2nd mate, James L. alker formerly of the Anchor line, steamship Clarion, chief engineer, John Douglass assistant clit scribed in the RD recently that it would be superfluous for me to make further com- ment. M. M. Drake, who superintended her building arrived on her. The handsome new steamship John Rugee ar- rived from Milwaukee, light, on her maiden trip early Sunday morning last. She was launched at the Milwaukee Shipbuilding company’s ship- yard onthe 22nd of August. She is 215 feet keel, 230 feet over all, 35 beam, 20 feet depth of hold, She has a fore-and-aft cempound engine 22 and 40 by 40, built by the Trout King Iron Works, Buffalo, and boiler 10 by 16, by Davis, Milwaukee. and a Trout wheel 10 by 8 inches dia- meter; also the American Ship Windlass com- pany’s windlass and capstan. She is owned by a syndicate of Milwaukee gentlemen and Captain Peter Chriskuson, who commands her, J. Frank Williams chief engineer, Jacob Zeh assistant engineer, Samuel Olsen 1st mate, P. J. Petersen 2nd mate. She loaded 63,700 bushels of corn at this port for Buffalo, Martin MeNulty’s, schooner E, P. Royce, Captain L. Sterling Jr., arrived here Satur- day afternoon, with cedar posts from Snow Island, in tow of the Dunham towing and wrecking companys tug T. T. Morford which left Cheboygan with her the previous Thursday at noon, having first placed a steam pump on board her to keep her free. The Royce struck onarock and sprung aleak after leaving Snow Island on August 25th. She arrived at Cheboygan on the 26th with 4 feet of water in her hold which in- creased to seven feet althongh her pumps were kept in continued use, She will be placed in drydock ‘as soon as her cargo is taken out, The schooner Clipper City had a fine of $20 imposed upon her by the customs authorities on her arrival in port Tuesday. It is reported that her captain, before leav- ing kere for Manistee, requested another captain who was going to the barge office to Clear to obtain a clearance for his vessel also, but that it was refused him and he left without one. Hence the fine. The steamsbip Helena, of Milwaukee, ar- rived here Tuesday with about 2600 tons of coal consigned to Robert Law at his coal yard at Division street bridge. On her way up the north branch she was delayed nearly two hours by getting on the bottom in the draw of North Halsted street bridge. Cuap- tain Leisk, her commander, and assictant har- bor master Anderson were equal to the oc- casion and with the assistance of the V. O. T. tugs Protection, Ferry and Union got her through all right. The passenger and freight steamer H. W. Williams will be delayed in porta day or two in consequence of her machinery hav- ing broken down on her passage over from South Haven. Tbe pussenger and freight steamer Petos- | 7) sunk decks to.” key, arrived Tuesday morning, with more than 1C0 passengers and considerable freight We are pleased to mention that Captain Alfred Seymour who brought her out and was stricken down with a severe sickness and forced to give up command and go home to Manistee, is now in a fair way towards recovery. At Miller Brothers Dry Dock Co’s,, the ‘steamer Lucille is in dock. for calking and general repairs, the tug O. B. Green for re- | pairsto her stern bearing, steamer Leo for calking, tug Satisfaction for repairs to her wheel, tug Parker for repairs to stern bear- ing, tug Rebel to have leak stopped, and re- pairs tostern bearing, the schooner Kanters was in for bottom calking, cutter Verve and | sloop Minnie M. to have bottoms fixed for racing, the Minnesota for some new plank on her bottom, the barge Florence Lester for overhauling steambarge Inter-Ocean to have her wheel tightened, schooner Lookout had her bottom calked, steambarge Chas. Mc- Vea received a new wheel, the schooner Antelope is having her top sides calked, the | tug Stanwood at the derrick to fix stern bearing, At the Chicago Drydock Co’s., the steams barge Mary Durr was in dock to have aleak stopped, the propellers Rhoda Emily and H. D, Coffinberry for calking and repaire, the steambarge C, H. Starke to have aleak stopped, schooners Hunter Savidge, David, Vance, Bertie Calkins and Ellen Williams, i- | propeller City of Montreal, barges Menom- | 60 inee, Wenona and Uranus received minor repairs, » The schooner E. P. ‘Royce was placed in the Chicago. Drydock company’s dock | Wednesday, and it was found that two or three planks were stove in just abaft the tore foot on the port side; otherwise her: | bottom was in excellent condition. The owner ot the Scotch built cutter ‘yacht Verve, not being satisfied with her defeat by the sloop yacht Minnie M. at: the Mackinaw regatta, challenged Captain John Prindiville, of the cutter, to a race over a twenty mile course, ten miles, to windward and back, The race came oft last Saturday afternoon and resulted in the Minnie M. beating the Verve on all points and winning the race with twenty-four minutes to spare, Last Friday morning in a heavy north- easter the schooner Cuyahoga was driven on to the government breakwater and re- ceived considerable damage. She was towed to the light house slip where she ‘Her ‘deek load “bas been’ taken off. She will be raised and towed to Miller Brothers’ drydock for repairs, and will then be laid up for the winter, WILLIAMS. PORT HURON. Special to the Marine Record. The schooner Red White and Blue arrived here in a bad condition. She at once took off the oil which was on deck and went into the drydock and received some repairs. She is now loading up ready to leave. The yacht Speranza arrived here the 30th, The passengers have been taking in the city for a couple of days. She will leave in tow of the tug Hercules, The Harry Cottrell has been here today taking the machinery for Holland’s new boat building at Marine City. The propeller Lansing, towing the schooner 8. V. R. Watson, went hard agroundin the cut at the canal,and the Watson ran into the Lansing, making a hole in her upper works and breaking berown head gear. She is here repairing the dam- ages. The Lansing has gone on her way. The tug Hercules has been here for the past week repairing her engine. She will be ready the 2nd. The schooner Unadilla,in tow of the Oswego, ran jhard aground at the foot of the middle ground off this port. The tugs are working on her. Ed. J. Kindall, the marine reporter, took it upon himself to have a telephone in the signal office. He circulated a petition among the vessel owners and masters and got about seventy-five signers, and now his office is connected with the United States signal office so he can get the report as soon as it is receiyed by the observer. He will also display the signal flags and lights from his office, foot of Sarnia street, The schooner Nelson, in tow of the A. Folsom, was hard aground on the flats at Fitzgerald’s old ship yard. It tooktwo tugs to pull her off. The vessel men should re- member that the water at this point is very low and the boats that have to stop have more or less trouble. The tug Saginaw arrived down with the wrecked schooner Crosthwaite jn tow. She will be repaired at this port. The schooner A. Boody, bound up, and the steamer Tran+fer, bound down, had a col- lision on Lake Huron. The Transfer was not injured, but the Boody lost all her head gear. She isatSand Beach. K, SAND BEACH, Special to the Marine Record, The following;craft sheltered here during the past week: ~ 26, tug George N. Brady and t-w, barge Ira! Chaffee and tow, tug Mystic, steamer Mary Prin- 1A. P. Wright. _experienced such..weather..: ch Marine, Recon. gle, steamer Messenzer and tow, steamer City of Mt, Clemens, sctooner J. B. Kitchen, tug O. Wilcox, tug M.D. Carrington and California en route to Bay City fora rebuild, tug Cushing- and tow, steamer Mackinaw and tow. 31, steamer Raleigh and tow, tug O. M. Che- ney and tow, steamer D. Ballentine and tow, tug W.B. Castle aud tow, tug Bob Anderson and tow, steamer Burlington and tow. Three bar,es of the Burlingtons tow got badly shook up in a northeast gale going around Pvint aux Barques. and ran in here to get pumped out. 31, schooners’ Margaret Muir and John “Magee, September 2, steamer Bessie, Wm. Cowie and tow and schooner A. Boody were in for shelter, The Boodywas run into by -an unknown steam barge and had herbob atays carried away and jibboom badly shattered, repairs were made here and she, went on op thé lake, T. BUFFALO, The government appropriations at Buffalo will be expended ¢n the old breakwater. On the Niagara river the $100,000 voted will be used in cutting a channel 200 feet wide and 18 feet deep at a point 8,000 feet north of the dummy light to cut off the ends of the reef, ; A Buffalo dispatch says: The cry comes from the vessel’ captains that somebody is |; robbing them, Asarule every vessel from Detroit, foledo and Sandusky is badly short, though some of the large cargoes from To- ledo lately have been exceptions, But the little schooners catch it, Here is a partial He G. W: Davis, 7 75 bushels short; Homer ; propeller St. Joseph, 42; Houghton, 58; Shupe, 65. These are in all cases two bushels to the 1,000, while the'last named is over four. The Buffalo tallymen maintain their innocence by saying that these shortages occur without reference to the elevator they unload at, and the captains, who are alive to the situation, have. prevented an error from carelessness by overseeing both the weight in and weighing ont of their car- goes. On the other hand, the Chicago and Milwaukee cargoes have done well fora long time. The Helena, which overran on her first cargo brought from. Milwaukee, again overrar from Chicago, as did also the It is expected that Messrs, Allen and Henry Chisholm, having sold the Sylvia, will replace her with a cutter better adopted to their liking, * * * The crew of the Sylvia} were entertained at Port Dyer and Simeot by the yacht clubs of those places. Hops were given in their honor. Sylvia was storm bound eight days out of fourteen on the trip. In all their sailing her crew had. never The small -boat was lost while sailing under short canvas; and in sailing into Port Burwell the tack of the staysail blew out. The cruisers brought up at Fairport. The barge Manitowoc goes into dock to stop aleak. She was to be rebuilt here at once but the steel for her arches was not ready and she makes another trip. The propeller Enterprise and two consorts load lumber at Midland: for Chicago at $2. The Pringle tow brought down with them the little schooner Chris Grover to Tona- wanda and left the Sunshine at Dunkirk. The Sweetheart, which was waterlogged at Marquette, leaks considerably and will pro- bably be docked. The Ketchum did not come down with the Wilson tow as expected. She lies at Menominee lumber laden for Buftalo unable to get a tow. Ore shippers are eager for tonnage. They are offering $1.25 for Escanaba, but boatsare holding off for $1.50. The yeport that the Lackawanna line is preparing to build more boats, though cor- rect, is a little previous, Nothing will be done this month. It is expected that the new northern line propeller North Wind will be down from Cleveland for a loud some time this week. Tugs Wilsonand Byers, left for Amherstburg to tow here the propeller Tioga, which lost her shoe and 1udder by going aground, The new tug O’Brien, Captain Austin Hand, leaves for Oscoda, where, she takes the place of the tug Hand, burned last fall. The schooner L. A. Law was short 62 bushels of wheat from Sundusky and the pro- peller Nevada 50 bushels from Toledo, The new propeller John Y. Moran of Ward’s line made her first appearance in port. Like her twin sister, the Eber Ward, the Moran went to St. Ignace and breught down a fuly load of pig iron, 1,400 tons, She was built at Frank W. Wheeler’s yard, Bay City, and is a staunch, fine-looking craft. She is com- manded by Captain Albert Stewart, who has been inthe line some time. Mr. Wheeler was in Buffalo yesterday and Mr. Frank Wil- liams, superintendent of the yard where she was turned out came down on board. Captain Frank Williams of the Western line propeller Albany takes command of the new Harlem, and Captain McDonald is trans- ferred from the Chicago to the Albany. The appointment of Captain Cornish tq the Chi- cago and Captain Buie to the Buffalo has al- ready been mentioned. The Manistique tow will not wait for coal this trip, but goes light to Oscoda for lumber to Chicago. Ex-Alderman John M. Laughlin, who lately bought the schooner L, Seaton, has appointed himself master of her and has left with coal for Cleveland. 5 PORT COLBORNE. The schooner Tibbetts, which went down near Port Burwell in a storm some time ago, has gone to pieces and her coal cargo almost completely washed away. Carter Bros. sent their wrecking lighter, the Bay Trader, to the scene of the wreck with their new coal steam pumps, and the ontfit returned here with about one hundred tons of coal from the wrecked vessel’s cargo. The pump worked admirably, and had the Tibbetts held together they would have saved the »| entire cargo, The steamer Frost came through the canal n the rem arkably quick time of twelve hours, being equal to the quickest time of the smallest craft that goes through. ERIR. For months past a bar has been forming across the channel in the harbor, and interfered so se- riously with shipping that Erie was losing a large percentage ot the ore and coal trade, An appeal was made to Congressman Scott, and Friday morning the war department sent an order to Captain Mahan, the superintendent of this district, to remove the obstruction in the Erie harbor forthwith. mA piledriver owned by John Dodge of Erie broke loose from her mgorings at that port and is lost on the lake. NIGHT LIGHTS, To the Rditor of the Marine Kecord. In a recent issue of your paper, there is an ar ticle on lights to be shown by vessels at night to designate: the course cver ‘which they are steer. ing, and the system there advocated and ex- plained seems to be excellent in its simple and direct form of application, Yet in’ the event of fog, mist, or falling snow, the lights could not be distinguished and ‘consequeutly, something more would be necessary to warp vessels of each others proximity, While on the other hand, it may be argued that if the uight was fine enough for an officer to watch the lights and distinguish the colors exhibited by a passing vessel, he could alse see the regulation lights carried from sunset to sunrise, and by taking a bearing, de- termine the section of the compass, over which the vessel was steering with as much accuracy as if two or more vessels were havinga pyro- technic display, Attbhe same time I am well aware of the fact that the pyrotechnic system has been in use by the various transatlantic lin- ers for a number of years past, as a distin- guishing signal, but the system has never been used to sus plement the rule of the road; nor can T believe that the system would tend to dimin- ish the chances of collisi n, if made compulsory by law, and Iam inclined to believe that the rocket fired at intervals denoting the interna- tional danger or distress signal is almost asfaras itis desirable to go, for I can see more fruitful souce of accident and misunder- standing in burning wrong colored lights, and by holding them in reverse positions, than if they were severely let alone, for any one can imagine an officer in charge of a ship on a dark, cloudy night, rushing below, probably, in his wet oi} clothes, and hastily gathering up several lights; would be very liable to burnared over white when blue was intended, or a blue light over red when white was intended. Of course this case does not apply to naval vessels or large passen- ger steamers, where plenty of talent and as:is* tance are always at commaud, but it does hold the full force of the argument, so far as the mer- chant service 1s concerned, and where one per- son only has charge of,the deek of a vessel dur- ing the night, and it is this service that requires the extra safeguards, and aids to navigation, ad- mitting that a strict observance of the rules of the road will in all ordinary cases clear vessels from danger,yet there are sometimes exceptiona! cireumstances where more aids mechanical, and scientific, would be very acceptable to the toil- ers of the deep, MARIMERS, THE NEW LINE FREIGHTERS. The marine editor of the Chicago Tribune has been interviewing the management of some of the line freighters and finds the following discouraging facts in regard to some new boats this year. The notes made are of special interest to marine people of Cleveland as fhe boats named are among the carriers launched at this port within the past few mouths. The report is as follows: “When the Lehigh Valley brought out its handsome steamship E. P. Wilbur, Jast spring, and the Lackawanna opened Its line, it was their expectation to work into the package freight traffic which had proved so profitable to the other railway lines. ‘These expectations have not been fulfilled. The Wilbur has been withdrawn from the Chi- cago trade, and is taking coal up to Glad- stone and flour back. Three of the other Lehigh Valley boats are carrying coul to Duluth, and the merchandise moved by the remainder trading here isemall. ‘The Lacka- wanna line has been equally unsuccessful in this branch of traffic, and its steamers are mainly carrying coal and grain, The sea- sop has not been favorable for newcomers, in that freights have been so Jow that rates could net be cut sufficiently to bring busi- ness and leave any profit, On this account the increase in their fleets which it was announced would be made remains in abeyance. At the same time the low freights have prevented other lines from building, and not a boat is projected, whereas a year ago contracts for over $2,000,000 in new craft had been placed. [The mansgers of Lehigh Valley line has no doubt placed their bottoms where they will do the most good financially and the same may be said of the Lackawanna line. The marine editor of the Chicago Tribune: seems to imagine that so handsome a steam- ship as the E. P. Wilbur ought not to earry- flour or coal but have the monopoly of a choice package freight. Itis unnecessary for- us to mention that these vessels were built to carry freight and earn dividends, which they do to the satisfaction of the interested parties.—Ep. ] ——— te LAUNCH OF THE STEAMER NORTH- ERN KING, The new steamship Northern King was launched from the Globe Iron Works Shipyard on Tues day at 3 o'clock, the christening ceremony being appropriately performed by Miss Lula Forsythe, who also hai the pleasure of celebrating by this event her own natal day. The Northern King is the third steel steamship built bythe Globe Tron Works Shipyard for the Northern line, the two preceding ones being respe ctively the North- ernLightand Northern Wind, The launh was wit- nessed by a large number of people, and we might add that to see a launch from the Globe Work iss now becoming quite an institution amongst a portion of the citizens of Cleveland, so much order and regularity being observed, that the time occupied in attending a launch may usu- ally be determined on beforehand. We gladly pay tribute tothe mechanical genius, and the therough workmanship exhibited in the successful launching of this fine vessel, Too much praise cannot be given io the head of the department, who directed this important branch of the work. Two more steamers for the same. line are als ready onthe blocks, and another goes en the block that ‘the Northern King has just vacated so that the contract for the Northern line when completed will represent six of the finest class of vessels on the chain ef lakes, As we have mens tioned in a former edition, this line will next seas son be in a position to take care of a large freight business between Buffalo and Duluth, and the growing importance of the latter port warrants the introduction of this splendid fleet of steamers, The Northern King being an exact duplicate of the two steamships already finished, “her dimen~ ions have already been published, yet at ihe risk of a repetition, we may state that her length over: all is 312 feet, beam 40 feet, and 24 feet 6 inches. {isthe depth of her hold. She has a triple x= pansion engine, cylinders 24, 38 and 61 inches with a 42inch stroke. Her estimated carrying capacity is 2800 tons and her cost is Her draft on launching: was 6 ft. 10 7in. forward, Captain Charles Brown, who was for several years in the steamship Columbia, who is a brother of Captain Frank Brown wi on the new steamship, as’ master, and ney inthe R. P. Flower, late engia in her as first engineer, THE MONTHLY LLOYDS SUPPLE. MENT. The September supplement of the Lloyds vesse] register, is more than usually inter- esting. There are eleven new propellers, one tug, and two schooners in the list. Six of the first measure above 1,000 tons. The list includes the Mary H. Royce (size not given,) owned by Monroe of Grand Haven, and valued at $70,000; F.R. Buell, 1,199 tons, Weston and others, Tonawanda, $90,- 000; Harlem 1,858 tons, Western Transit Co., Buffalo, $250,000; Helena, 1,578 tons, Milwaukee tug line, $130,900; Sam Marshall, 649 tons, T. W. Kirby, Grand Haven, $78,- 000; John V. Moran, 1,035 tons; Ward’s !ine Detroit, $90,000; W. B. Morley, 1,469 tons, W. B. Morley, Marine City, $125,000; North Wind, 1,885 tons, Northern Steamship Co. Superior, $225,000; John Rugee, 950 tons, J. Fitzgerald, Milwaukee, $80,000; Volun- teer, 1.506 tons, Alger, Smith & Co., Detroit, $123,000; schooner Mary B. Mitchell, 915. tons, William Mitchell, Bay City , $53,000.— Buffalo Express. LAKE FREIGHTS. The scarcity of vessels on the market for the last two or three days has had a strengthening effect on carrying rates for both ore and coal cargoes. A rumor was aflost-that a few carriers had been placed for ore from Ashland to Ohio ports at $1.65,. and. the call for coal tonnage was sufficient to make the tone of that market quite as strong ‘as in the matter of ore freights. Engagements yesterday were: Schooner J, E. Gilmore, coal, Cleveland to Gladstone, 60c; schooner E, R. Williams, coal, Lorain to Gladstone, 60c; schooner John Burt, coa), Fairport to Milwaukee, 75c; steamer Che~ land to Milwaukee, 75c ; steamer Servia and consort Moravia, coal, Toledo to Duluth, on contract, 70c. Cuicaco, Ixu., September 5.—Vesee room in good demand, but owing to the scarcity of available tonnage rates to Buf- falo were stronger, being quoted on the basis of 344¢ for wheat, 3c for corn, and 2c for oats. ‘The Erie canal rate is steady at 4%c for wheat, and 4tc forcorn. The Georgian Bay rate is firm at 234c for corn and 2}¢c for oats. Burrato, N. Y.,September 5.—Fair de- mand for coal tonnage at former rates. The situation is firming up a little and with freer receipte; in a few days freights will be stronger. Canal freights were firm and a fraction better, with good demand for capacity. Wheat closed at 4c, corn 854c¢ to N ew York, nango and schooner Ishpeming, coal, Cleve- | i [ a