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Adams, ough. ihdts now now laid up for the winter. | easure in sopomnmeading the Erasive Liquid, manufactured “McLachlin, tor cleaning ted articles without injury 40c per gallon.» Ad- ptain at 683 Seren te ade her first tact : eiapileand and fin- ly on. Lake ‘Bupertor a ap viz: 11 single mish hap o if Riviog station at this port closed on the 15th, simultaneously with the other ten stations in the ninth district for the season _of 1888. The Cleveland staff has covered a perio. of just eight months ot service, the crew having been sworn in on the 15th of last April. The term thus ended bas been Jess eventful than most seasons co far as the number of large disasters are concerned, -bnt the record of the crew is nevertheless one of as fuithful percormance of duty as though such had been the case. They have been as constantiy on watch, have suved nu- merous lives which would have been lost in connection with smalkr mis/ortunes, res- ‘eYed valuable property, and have at all times been prompt and efficient in their ser- vices and assis'ance, fully maintaining the a excellent reputation of previous years, Tue propeller E. P. Wilber, owned by the Lehigh Valley Co., Captain P, McFar- Jane, bas the distinction of being the last ar- rival here this season. She came light from Buffule in 12 hours from pier to pier. As considerable attention has been paid to this yessel during the season by vessel-owners, builders, and charterers, we herewith give an acconnt of her performances for the sea- son, She was built by the Globe Iron Works Co., and sailed on her trial trip to Buffalo i on the 20th of May and gave entire satisfac- tion. She left Buffalo on the 28rd of May, cval laden for Chicago, and up'to date has mace 18 round trips, or 19 including her trial and return trips. Sbe bas cariied 36 cargoes, viz: four round trips between (hi- cage and Buffalo, taking coal up and bring- ing grain and peckage freight down. Four- teen trips to Gladstone, Mich., carrying coal and merchandise up, and flour down i to Buffalo. The entire season’s work of this fine steamer has been eminently satisfactory to her owners, officers and builders. Work at the Globe Iron Works Shipyaid, j is progressing satisfactorily to all parties concerned, the recent bliz2 has given em- i ployment to a number of men and the erec- } tion of new machine shops are being pushed rapidly along. The Lehigh Valley line boat is nearly completed and she will be launched i early in January, tie exact date can not yet i be given and further particulars muy be left : | pea SUIS Sete over till our next issue. Ac the engine and boiler shops they are very busy for besides the machinery to be placed in the bouts now under construction, contracts have been entered into for two boilers measuring 16 feet long to the order of the Union Pacific | Michigan Central ferry boat to-day and the | testing was satisfactory in every respect, in 2 feicagh her whole sea F DEVOTED TO NAVIGATION, COMMERCE, ENGINEERING AND SCLENGE. CLEVELAND. O.. ‘DECEMBER 20 1888. $2,.00PER Awnum SINGLE Cops 6 cunts railroad company, 4 sulphite boilers measur- ing 40 feet in length by 13 feet in di- ameter to be shipped to Dexter, N. Y. These large boilers will be launched and towed down Lake Erie by a tug boat, due notice of which will be published in the columns of this paper, so that ovr subscribers may not be put to the trouble of repoiting the sight- ing of a sea monster in 4 fog. Mr. John Griffin, superintendent carpen- ter of the Michigaa Central Ferry line, is in the city attending the fitting out of the com- pany’s new boat. The scheme to bridge the Detroit river, is meeting with considerable opposition from vessel owners, not only at this port, but ac- cording to our advices from all of the larger ports on the chain of lukes, The Cleveland Shipbuilding C»., have the new steamer building for the Cleveland Iron Mining Co., about halt plated, a consider- able showing for eight weeks work. The keel of the secund boat for the same com | pany will be laid this week and the ma- terials for her construction are well ad- vanced,the local inspectors Messrs. De Wolf and McG@ath inspected the machinery of the ddition to their. shipbuilding contracts the “Me¥ W fomuna; suporptiin Snatnoeh ot the Michigan Central feriy line, is in the city to-day and leaves again tur Detroit on Fri- day. TOLEDO, OHIO. Special to the Marine Record, The Toledo foundry and machine com- pany, have been awarded the contract to build a dredge for Buffalo parties. She will be built entirely of iron and steel and will be put together in the ¢ttrongest possible manner as she is to be used for excavating rock. She is to be completed by April 15th and is to cost $20,000 finished. The Toledo marine men are indebted to Geo.H. Ketchum, for a trolding vard giving a table of knots and miles. Mr. 1. S. Sullivan, the well knuwn vessel agent is wearing a large sized smile, cause agirl baby. Cigars. Captain Louis M. Stoddard first mate of the large steamship North Wind has arrived heme and will go into wintr quarters im- mediately. ‘Yoledo may well feel proud of having so promising a young man as he is, first mate of so fine a bout and his well known and popular father Captain Geo W. Stoddard, master ef the Northern Light a sister boat of the North Wind. Captain Brown Chamberlain, of the tug A. W. Colton, is here, he will go buck to De troit for the winter. The marine men here regret that he wil not winter in Yoledo. The A. W, Colton is laid up in Detroit. The St. Peter is receiving a new mizzen mast, TORONTO, ONT. The first regular meeting of the Canadian En- gineers’ Association was held in room C,Shaftes- bury hall. Several new members were admil- ted and afew applications for admission re- ceived. Mr. Jobn Salt, C. E., gave a short ad- dress on steam and its expansion. An inter- esting discussion on the question ensued. It is proposed to held lectures on subjects which will be beneficial to the members at the meetings during the season. A special meeting will be held to consider the prc position of Honorable 3. W. Ross, on the question of mechanical instruc- tion at the school of practical science. SANDUSKY, OHIO, The owners of the tugs Buffalo and Monk ask $2,000 for towing the steambarge Michigan into Sandusky while she was afire last fall, but the barge owners refuse to pay the amount and a suit is looked for. The Michigan was nearly ruined by the fire. MENOMINEE, MICH. There is re;orted to be 150,000,000 feet of lumber piled oa the docks of Meuominee river at Menominee and Marinette, here Wednesday night, December 12 und made an excellent trip and expericneed good weather. She will go to Milwaukee and lay up. The Vessel Owners’ Towing Association are giving their tags Thomus Hood, J. V Taylor and E. P. Ferry new deck frames and decks, coambings and rails; their tug Protection will receive a new boiler, their tug A. G. VanSchaick will be rebuilt and raised two feet. Al! their tugs will receive a general overhauling. Their tug Calumet will be kept running duriog the winter. I cannot hear of any charters having been made for winter storage. They will pro- bably come along soon. Last year at this date some had been made. WILLIAMS. MILWAUKEE, WIS. Special to the Mairne Record. ‘There are only two more boats expected here to lay up, the steambarges Starke and Carter. Ther does nct seem io be as many vessels and steamers laid up here as in for- mer years, the river being comparatively empty. The F. and P. M. road will run four boats all winter between here and Ludington and they seem to be inadequate to tho amount OHICAGO, ILL. Special to the Marine Keo d. Happy Tim Griffin, chief engineer of the steamer Japan, of the Anchor line, with his family, passed through Chicago on Friday cn the way to Southern California, to spend the winter. We wish hima peasant trip and tafe return, Captain F. J. Miner, of the schooner Annabel Wilson, is here looking atter her and the steambuarge C. Hebard. He is hav- ing the schooners, decks, ceiling and top- side; re-culked. The remainder of Chas. Hebard & Son’s fleet, comprisicg the steam- barge Alpena and barge Aloha and Brink are in winter quarters at Pequaming. Captain P. O’Connor is giving the schoon- er Sunrise new stanchions stringers rail and quick work forward, It is with feelings of deepest regret that we announce the sudden death of Thomas Quayle of the firm of McKeown & Quayle, the well known shipsmith of 82 Kinzie street» Chicago, The two partners who were also next door neighboure, left their workshop Thursday evening last soon after five o’elock and drove to the deceased residenee at'34| Lincoln avenue, Mr. McKeown went to was done for him: coulc but he expired in his partner’s arms at 6:80 his home ieaving Mr. Quay eo his seBbis before he sent 108 his partner Thursday evening. The deceased was a widower and leavs one son aged 27 years and four daughters, the youngest of whom is seven years of age, who have lost a kind, good father, who was greatly respected by all who knew him. The firm of McKeown & Quayle has been in existence for 31 years. The deceased was buried on Sunday at Rose- hill cemetery with Masonic honors, he having been a member of the St. Bernard commandery. Many vessel men also fol- lowed their old friend to his last earthly home. At Miller Bro’s. shipyard, the steamship Siberia went out of dock Monday morning and her place was taken by the steamer Boscobel tor bottom calking and the tug John Torrent to have her bottom ironed to enable her to do work in the river this win- ter. The steamship John Emery Owen was in dock for repairs to her wheel, the schoon- er Jessie Phillips to havea leak stopped and apiece of keel forward, the barge Alert for bottom calking, the steamships Haskell and Averill have received necessary repairs, the schooner Mediator will go out of dock this week as good and strong a» when new. She has received a new stern and quartir deck, nearly all new bottom, with plank six inches thick on the bilge and four inch thick above, part new keelsons, an extra piece on top of main keelson, re-calking and re-fastening all over. Captain Oliver Swanson, who is part owner has been supe) - intending .he work. Geston and Swinson, sailmakers at 250 South Water street, have 35 vessel’s outfiis stowed away in their lofts for saft keeping. The Dunham towing and wrecking com- pany are making repairs on their twelve tugs that will cost $20,000. Their tug G. W. Gardner’s hull will be entirely rebuilt and will have new steam steering gear, sume as On their tug O. B. Green; their tug W. R. Crowell will receive a new boiler and steam steering gear; their tug Robert Tarrant will have her hull rebuilt and a new boiler; their tug W. L. Ewing her bull rebuilt and a new eylinder on her engine. All the company’s boats will receive iron bunkers and gencral repairs. Several of their tugs will receive iron tow posts, which will be placed farther forward to make the tugs more suitable for steamship towing. The company will keep their fine tugs I’. T. Morford and O, B. Green running during the winter. The steambarge C. H. Starke, Captain Dan Sullivan, arrived Wednesday morning, December 19 with 425,000 feet of lumber | been spelt nous bel Line B the yh Prdgieas: which ‘will receive & | of work there is to do. The steamer F. L. Vance was 5 Tet, Wolf aud Davidgon’s dcek last week, ne $40,000 rebuild and come out in the she almost better than a new boat. The schooner M. BE. Tremble is receiving ageneral rebuild «t Wolfe and Day idsou’s, as is also the steamer New Era. The steamer R. Holland will receive general repairs at Wolf and Davidsons. ; . At the Milwaukee Ship yard Co., propel- ler Pridgeon is receiving general repairs, steamer Nahant an overhauling, schooners Moonlight and Porter general tepaire, and they have the keel partially luid for the new steambarge, buiiding for a Milwaukee syndicate. She is 225 feet keel, 20 feet 2 inches depth ot hold, 36} feet beam, and her motive power consists of a fore and aft compound engine with, cylinders 24 inch and 44 inch in diameter, by 42 inch stroke, from 8, F. Hodge and Co., of Detroit, and two boiiers8 4 feet diameter by 15 feet long, marine fire box siyle, built by R. Davis, otf this cily. James Sheriffs? Sons have a contract to furnish the Milwaukee tug company with a high ; resgsure engine 20 inches diameter, by 24 inch stroke, for their new tug building at Sheboygan. The tug Starke Bros’ engine will be put in the other new hull. T. L. McGregor, formerly ot D-troit, has purchased the Wiszonsin boiler works from F. M. Wilkinson, and will carry ona gen- eral boiler worke. He has contracts with the Milwaukee tug company to furnish them two boilers for their rew tugs. Mess. s, C. F. Ruggles and otbers of Man- istee, have decided not to build a steam barge after alland therefore, Messrs, Reibolt, Walters and Co., who had ordered the tim- ber for the hull, are that much out, Probably the present owners of the steam barge Joys, willcontract tor a new barge of the same size as the Manistee parties intend- ed to build. If they do, Messrs, Riebolt, Walter and Co., will buifd the hall. There are laid up at this port21 steamers with an ore capacity of 36,900 tons or 1,370, 000 bushels grain, 16 steamers with lumber capacity of 4} million feet, 12 schooners with a grain capacity of 515,000 bnshels, 60 schooners lumber capacity of about 54 mil- lions, 4 steam yachts, 10 tugs; in all a total of 128 steam vessels. Sheriffs have been giving the tug Temple Emery, a general overhauling of machinery. 15 ASHLAND, WIS. The papers trausferring the North Star [ron Worksfrom Chicago tothis city have been signed, The company will build a dry-dock from Naubanway, Lake Michigan. She left, early in the spring and ex ploy 400 hands. _| Zo into winter quarjers here. z sia’ au 3 -in the grocery business here, was KENOSHA, WIs. Special to the Marine Record. The season of navigation that has just terminated at this port is one that the vessel men a3 well as all ochers interested in ma- rine affairs can look buck with pleasure and record one more season of success although lake freights have not ruled quite as wellas the season of 1887 yet there is a fair margin on the side of the vessel owner. The fall of 1887 ca: sed the destruction of several of our fleet which his been replaced during the past season by aclass of more substantial and seaworthy vessels, Th arriyals at this port for the season just closed was 335 including 90 steam craft the first to arrive was the steambarge Monitor, Aptil 14th, the last arrival the schooner Morning Star, December 8th, the schooner Contest, was the first to take her departure on March 3ist,and the last clearance waa issued tothe tug Jobn Harerson. ©. A.E. ASHTABULA HARBOR, OHIO. Special to the Marine Record. The dredges Hercules and Erie are work- ing night and day cutting through the old L.S, dock No. 1. They are attended by tugs Thomas Thompson and Red Cloud, and — as soon as the work is finished they will We ‘Starkey, an old lake c tunate as to isso une of ‘bis eyes b: mation. : The Lake Shore railroad steam aioe is. working at the clay bank east of the Lake’ Shore docks, to make more room for their fast increasing business. The clay is dumped;into the swamp west of the Lake Shore slip, to extend the storage capacity in that direction. FRANKFORT, MICH. _Propeller L awrence called here > December 5 on her last trip en “ronte “to Chi cago, , where. she will lay up. Tug Alice Campbell went inco winter quar- ters December 3. The shore steamers John D. Dewar and George D. Sanford are making daily trips to Manistee. Tug Jessie Slyfield is being hauled out on | the Island near the harbor piers, The Frankfort, als» Point Betsy life s!a- tion, closed at t.oon December 5. Schooner Jennie Weaver is laid up at South Frankfort, The fishing tugs Hannah Suilivan, John Smith, Maggie Dutz, Maria, B. M , Pottowat- tomie, are still engaged in fishing in vicinity of the islands. No ice in harbor at time of’ writing, De- cember 5: fine fall weather. Scow Mishicott is hard up at Onckama, Portage Lace, Mich. EAST SAGINAW, MICH. Captain Chesley Wheeler, of Bay City, father of congressman-elect and the well known ship« builder, F. W. Wheeler of West Bay City, has extensive property here, and will at once estab- lish aship yard and give employment to fifty men, Captain Wheeler has designed and will build a propel'er for B, Boutelle, of Bay City, The vessel will be 180 feet long, 34 feet’ beam, 13 feet depth of hold, and cost $45,000, HAMILTON, ONT, At the court of generai sessions the marine ac- tion of Myles vy. Foster took up the entire at~ tention of the court, Thomas Myles & Son, of this city, brought suit ayainst D. Boster for $200 damages, Lo June, 1887, the little steam- er Foster was engaged tp tow. the three. masted schooner Gulnair down from the piera to Myles? wharf, As the steamer and her tow were enter- ing the caval the; iufnair swung round and col- lided witn the’ north pier, Bagh? party claim that the other was to blame for’ ‘the oollision. Hi Carscallen for plaintiff}; Jathes Patkes ‘for de- fence. During the progress of the case the knowledge of nautical terms possessed by the court was severely taxed. The court of general sessions returned a verdict in favor of the plain- tiff for $150, | | | 1 - 4 \