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2 4 ° = TED 10 NAVIGATION, COMMERCE, ENGINEERING AND SCIENCE. _CLEVELAND. O.. NOVEMBER 15 1888. The steamer Columbia will take the Cley-| Steve B. Conklin, sailmaker, is meeting | engine and two pumps from the Bugle Iron! All the tug companies have begun tola: land drydock when the Corsica vacates it.| with a fair share of patronage, having al-| Works, the steam yacht Romona having | their tugs for the season, The year has he “The bent plates have all been placed on| ready several vessel outfitsin his loft, in-| alterations to her machinery. far below 1887 in profits. The com ccior steamer Corsica, now in Cleveland dry- | cluding the canvas of the Swallow, Boidy,| The superior sailing qualities of the rival| have made money, but not enough of it to é dock and she will likely betuken out this| Morley, and one of J, T. Hurley’s veseels.| yachts, Enright of Toledo, and the. City of| please them. At the beginning of the seaso ge the ‘evening. Captain Cammings is regaining] ‘The steamer J. W. Steinhoff, which was] the Straits, will huve to be decided in the| rates were reduced 10 per cent bel he for} his good rature under the prosp.cts of| formerly on the Detroit & Chatham route, | future; much interest was felc in the late tariff of last year. Owing to this nea th . sited eee other trip or two before the close. has been transferred from Buftalo to Toron-| brush, and the competition onght not to be causes, mainly the dull season, the a; Pi a Sheet _ Captain W. P. Henry, of Buffalo, manager | te. allowed to fizzle out. receipts of the tug companies carb prin: to er the | of the Anchor line, was in the city yester-| The propeller Don M Dickinson is atotal| The work on the new boat of the Detroit] have fallen off about 25 per cent, There i Cent day in consultation with Mr. J, F, Pank-| loss, being burned to a shell, valuation|& Cleveland Steam Navigation Company | still amargin, however, fora fair aie hurst in relation to the two new steamers | Lloyds register $7,500; insurance $8,000.| teing now fitted out at the yard of the Dry fe WILLiAms ‘ line. 1 ese steamers will be dup- | The last transfer ot shares in this vessel was | Dock Company, is being pushed rapidly to-| The new bridge the Alton railroad Haw ica f the W. j based on a valuation of $12,000. ward completion, her engines are placed, W. P. Wilbur. been building across the South F i The Cleveland Drydock’ Go. has taken al Captain L. L. Slyfield, of Port Huron, | and the wiil be entirely covered in towards | be completed Sunday. The draws sak Bae was in the city Tuesday and intends going|the end of this week. Her paddle wheel contract to build a steamboat 265 feet keel, be dredged out and the troublesome pil 280 feet over all, 41 feet beam, 21 feet depth | on to Cleveland. shafts are alongside, and will be fi:ted with-| moved. This was the spot where ihe r. L oe Mr. McIachlan, the pilot of the Detroit} out delay; the feathering floats for wheels oe olf. She will be built for Messrs. e 7 Van ; i ry J. dotatos: Philo Johi.son, John | & Cleveland Steam Navigation Co,’s steam-| are ef oak timber, 8 feet long and 4 fee ibe Biba the® ted cable poet ee Cole, George Presley, and Upson, Walton | &f City of Detroit, reports an unusual num-| wide and 5 inches thick. There will be 12 To dredeitic the d : CO” ber of small meteors visible on Lake Erie! flonts on each wheel. The lon gitudinal irom piece age ae pada Chicago avenue - Quayles & Sons’ ship yard promises to be| ety Tuesday morning. Their path was) sirders fitted under the promenade deck are Malic sows ue. : j AdehoedeS uit jules, distinctly visible for several seconds and} apout ready and the top girders for the up ourteen feet of water. It this winter, In addition to the con- i" ay tee 8 winte ar Sa : ad been this obs ad bore nearly trne east and west. The solar} poy saloon deck are allin place. The bur- obstruction that had caused | tract for R. RB. Rhodes, Mr. Lockwood, of ie Milan, Ohio, bas pis Suk order Kath Fick spots now visible may have some connec- so much trouble to coal laden vessels going $2.00Pmr Argo SIncLy Comms 5 cwivas sai = > te, found the end of the reef off Pilot Island Tuesday. She wus broadside on with her stern pointing to the island, and must - haye gone on just before daylight. She was light for Escanaba. The schooners Zack Chandler, H. C. Rich- ards, Baldwin, Brunette, Joseph- Page, Constitution, Erie Belie, Republic ayd Co- lumbian are all stripped here. The Burton has gone into winter quarters at Lorain and the Melvin Bacon goes from Fairport to Ver- million, her home port, for shelter during the winter, The schooner Kate Winslow will go to Vermillion tolay up. Itis understood that at that port she will be rebuilt this winter Captain O. Lochway of the schooner H. Fitzhugh, paid the Recorp office a pleasant visit Tuesday. His schooner will take a cargo of coa!, Cleveland to Detroit and from Detroit she will goto Ogdensburg witha load of wheat. The Fitzhugh will strip and lay up at the latter port, A settlement has been reached and car- ried into effect between the owners, Messrs. ep, and th Writers | ener 97aue, S00 the underwriters for | John Owen, and to the 8. BE. Sheldon, and | had the tug W. A Moore cleaning out. the dumages done by fire onthetug Tom Maytham. Asurvey of the latter vessel has shown that she was more serious}y in- jured than at first supposed. It has been ascertained by careful examination that it will cost between $8,000 and $9,000 to put herin yood shape again. The insurance companies have therefore paid over the above amount, and allowed the owners to goforward and make the repairs. They willdosoduring the coming winter, In the meantime sufficient temporary repairs have been made to enable the boxt harbor towing. The Cleveland Shipbuilding company has just shipped a 2,500 pound steam hammer to Patterson, N. J.,and have placed a new direct acting steam hummer in their blacksmith shop. the ferry steamer, although tne paddles and gears are not yet placed. They are also building a tore and aft compound engine for to do the M, Bradley steamer at Radcliffe’s yard | 98 and 54 by 40, atriple expansion for the | Rhodes steamer 20,81 and 52 by 40, which sizes are duplicated for the Lockwood steamer, with boilers 111g by 14 feet to “carry 150 pounds of steam, The two latter steamers are being built at Quayles Sow’s yard. The first of the new steamers for the Cleveland Iron Mining company is weil along. {he keel laid, about two-thirds of This firm has all the machinery. on | _ Theiron'ship yard of the Globe Iron | from Buffalo parted her tow Works Co., presents a very active appear- comp S wy 1e fram | fourth is stillin an embryo state. It is the purpose of Mr. Smith to have four new boats ready at the opening next season. ‘ DETROIT, MICH, Special to the Marine Keeord. At an early hour Sunday morning, when wear Belle Island, the iron wrecking steam- er Don Dickinson was discovered on fire. Her entire upper works were Gestroyed and machinery probably ruined. She drifted on the Canada shore abeve Walkerville, where she now lies. The crew escaped. She was built in Wilmington, Del., valued at $7,500. She had considerable wrecking machinery aboard, which was destroyed. One of the barges in tow of the Turner line off Port Stanley and is still missing. Samuel F, Hodge & Company have put new wheels on the tug Kittie Smoke and propeller Dean Richmond; also made a new crosshead for the steamer Durius Cole, new shaft, stern pipe, stern bearing, and driving bearing for the propeller Mackinaw, new crank shaft for the tug A. R. Wright, and crank shaft for the tug Cheney. They have made some repairs to the engine of the tng M. $. Smith & Co., jewellers of this city, have hud shipped to their order a gondola from Venice. Ic arrived Tuesday cuused a ripple of comment among murine people, and the Cuptain Dusenberry, a marine diver, left here on the City of Detroit for Cleveland Tuesday night. 8. B. Gruinmond has the Mary Pringle, and the Winslow laying here, waiting for business at short notice. The tug Wm. A, Moore, belonging to this line, left Tuesday for Ashtabula, where she will hook on to the Lizzie A. Law and tow her to Lake Huron, The Eagle Iron Works have taken a large contract to furnish stone quarry machine- ry for people in Detroit; the order con- sists of an engine, boilers, derricks, etc., to be shipped weet. seem to be exceeding}!y busy at their works. H. D. Edwards &.Co., ship chandlers, are going easy at preseut, and report business rather dull, Hustling will be in order, when the outfits for the many new boats building round here are required. Thomas Thurston, boat builder, has just completed a fine rowboat, 17 feet 6 inches long, 4 feet 10 inches beam. She will be used on the river in the business of W. dH. the frames up and water bottom commenced. | Connor, a marine reporter here. | tion with the meteoric showers. f Colonel Parsons, of Cleveland, years and odd, Evidently the Colonel’s legislative experience and his extensive engine, being built at the Frontier Iron & Brass Works, will be finished this week. Mr. Roberts, the managing partner of the firm, says that the engine will develop 120 ‘|horse-power, with 100 pounds of steam, making 300 revolutions per minute, The stand for this engine measures 5 feet 6 inches by 4 feet. The Detroit Boat Works have most of the machinery in place at their new yards near the Belle Isle bridge, and are vow moving their stock there. Four boats have been built for the new Michigan Central ferry steamer recently launched by the Cleveland ; Ship Building Company. It is worthy of notice that this firm has disposed of up- wards of 300 of Clark’s patent metallic life rafts during the season and the demand is still brisk. The Dry Dock Sheet Metal Works are having an extensive addition built on to their present works. It will be L-shaped, 50 feet by 100 feet and 20 fret by 50 feet, three story brick, aud the basement will be used for handling and stoping metal pipes, the first story for a sheet iron department, the second story tor a copper smith shop nnd the third Story for brass finishing, When the extension is completed, the firm will represent the largest works’ in the United States of this description. Mr, Rentz, the superintendent, left here Monday with a party of skilled mechanics to fit the piping, e'¢., on the new bost built by the Cleveland Ship Building Co. recent- ly. At the yards of John Oades & Son, they have had Hubbell’s dump seows in for pairs, the lighter Ioseco for a new rudder} and general repairs, and derricks made to the order of the Eagle Iron Works Co, The barge Reindeer, after being laid up and stripped at this yard, has refitted and gone into service again to accomodate the new vessel now building there. he ways will be lengthened 81 feet. Mr. Whittaker, the well-known], vessel broker, left here Tuesday night for Cleve- re- large This enterprising firm | land via the lake. The Detroit Dry Dock Company have had the tug Kittie Smoke in for a Hedge propel- ler wheel, Oscoda for fixing bearing, etc., the echooner George of Oswego tor cauiking, new hatch coumings, etc., the Canadian steambarge S, C. Clarke for calking, a new rndder and general repairs, the steambarge Rusby for a Hodge propeller wheel, the pressive as ever in spite of the three score] the extra strength and stability bein Aad : plied to meet this important branch ' ey this fine boat, is that her eq found on the chain of lakes. CHICAGO, ILL. Special to the Marine Record. Spe) Atthe Miller Brother’s shipyard, the tug Mosher was in dock fora new wheel. The tug Munson for. fixing stern bearing. The schooner Z. Y, M. C, A. received anew cen- ter board. The schooner L. M. Mason a new cathead. At the Chicago Drydock Company’s the steambarge Fayette was in dock for repairs to her shoe and stern bearing and some ealking. The schooner Mediator in dry dock at Miller Brother’s has been sold by E}ward Skeell and CaptainOliver Swanson to J ohn Rathbourn, just as she lays in Miller Brother’s drydock, for $2,500. The repairs on her will cost about $4,000, which John Rathbourn will pay. The schooner Emerald in dock for some new plank and bottem calking. Schooner Comanche to have a leak stopped Steambarge Michael plank and re-ironing. The Chicago ‘Towing Company has laid up the tugs Ward and McClellan, and the V. 0, T. Tug Company have laid up the tug Ferry for the season. The Ancho: Line have given notice that no west bound freight will be received at New) York after November 20, The tug Viva Salker and William Morgan to Louis J | Larsen and Conner, for $1,900. The tug A. A. Carpenter, of the VY. O. T. | into | port, got under her head gear, and had her | Groh for some new line, when towing the schooner Alice smoke stack and pilot house and steam pipes | carried sway. | All the boats of the Dall fleet are here. | They are stowing awvy canvas. : Captain W. H, Woif, of the ship building | firm of Wolf & Davidson, was in Chicago ves- | terday. All his big steamers will be in winter | quarters before Saturday, aground there for several seasons. “Tt was Vance, a town yes asa tbe town at this jucture and afew of them.—Chicago Tr i A Chicago exchange says: x dealer gave a version of the situation in the effect toward an early close of navigation. He said the leading dealers here had all the coal they wanted some ten days ago, and | hesitated about bringing more forward for fear of breaking the market if the winter proved a mild one.. Then they talked of shutting off further receipts, but they were met at this point by another element in the circulation which changed their plans, If they stopped shipping freight rates would go to pieces, and a couple of firms with which the “ring” was at loggerheads would be en- abled to get a big supply brought forward on a low freight, and would thus be in a position to cut prices from the start. As but | a few weeks would elapse at the most before the close of navigation the “ring’’ dealers decided to maintain rates to the end, rather than give their competitors this advantage, They will have more coal on hand, of course, than they had desired, but all will Le on equal footing. This has been the policy so far pursued, but it is impossible to tell how | soon the conclusion will be reached to stop | has been sold by Peter| ea | near at hand that the anti-ring dealers will winter sets receipts when the close of navigation is so not have time to do much before in. SAND BEACH, Special to the Marine Record, The following craft sheltered here the last MICH, week ending Sunday, November 11: 9th. LOth. George King and two, Edwin 8S, Tice and two Fred McBrier and two, Miami and two, 8. Cc! Clark and three, Benton and five, J. H. Dey- ereux, Ogemaw and two, 8, E. Curtis, BW. Forest City and one, Monteagle, Steamers City of Alpena, Roanoke, | Arnold, C. H. Green aud two; Messenger and Captain Discher, of the steambarge Fayette, | three, Henry J. Johnson, Anna Smith and was knoesed down and robbed ot his watch and chain on South Water street at noon yes- | day. ‘he thief was caught and the property recovered, A report from Escanaba Tuesday stated that the big schooner Northwest had gone ashore on Pilot Island reef at the entrance of Green Bay.. The Northwest was in tow of the Raleigh. She was recently sold by the one, A. A. ‘Turner and three,’ H. D. Cofin- berry and one, Iron Chief and one, Newburg, | James Pickands, George Campbell, Joseph | P, Farnan, W. P. Fessenden, W, L. Wet- more; tugs Gladiator, Kittie Smoke and one, Champion and one, Crusader, Fannie L. | Baker and two; schooners Jessie, Adventure, Aunt Ruth, Flying Cloud, H. D. Root, ©, C. Barnes, S. L. Watson, Aurora, E, R. Williams Egan-Fitzgerald syndicate to James Corrigan and others of Cleveland. j The propeller St. Louis collided with the and §, Neelon, ~ T. MARINETTE, WIS, i The steamer Robert Noble of Sturgeon Bay steambarge Reed for caulking, the propeller | schooner Moselle, tied up to her dock at Miller | was burned last Thursday on the Green Bay Chas. J. Kershaw for caulkirg and stopping | Brother’s shipyard and damaged the latter’s| shore, ten miles north of here. The crew was a leak, which vessel received a_ hoisting stern and rail. saved, lake coal freights which may have a serious : x j i i