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CONTRA iW ; Windar J Isle & Wi 68 Ferry (@ DEVOTED T0 NAVIGATION, COMMERCE, BNGIA LEKING AND SCIENCE. mer W. B. Morley, rumored for $140,000, to s.veral differ- city, is not yet disposed ot. Parsons paid this city a brief to Washington yesterday e rthe Detroit river bridge scheme . Grover und Son, ship-chandlerg riggers are busy fitting out the Hill ding at the yard of the Globe Iron > vessel owners dry dock, dimensions hhuve been given in a previous is- ll be ready for opening in about The new boat building at Radcliff’s yard Messis. Bradley, Grover, aud others, is about two thirds in frame, and she will be Teady for business at the opening of navi- on, ‘The propeller Germanic, recently bought nd people, from C.ptain James y city, is to be placed he command of ‘Captain C. L. Hateh- - jnson, late master of the Rube Richards. This office is in rectipt of a hands me steel engraving calendar for 1889, represent- inga marine scene of great beauty. We areindebted to Howard H. Buker'& Co., ship- chandlers of Buffalo, tor their thouxtfal ‘kindness, The River machine company, Messrs. Teare, Wight «nd Co,, will erect a new boiler shop, in addition to their present works, the i: crease of business :equiring a larger plant, and mote facilities 10 meet the rmqgitiremenis of trade. Peter Liston, president of the seamen’s union benevolent association of this port leaves here for San Diego, Cal,, today, For over twenty years Mr. Liston, although leaving here in the fall has never failed io reach this city again in the spring. The murine engineers beneficial associa- tion will hold their annual ball on January 23rd, at Hurd’s Hall, a.d if we may judge from the directors already appointed the affair will be cone of the mostenjoyable ever given by this favorite organization. This office is in receipt of a most artis‘ic programme of the bali given by the Buffalo harbor tugmen. While we were notin a position to attind, we heartily acknowledge the kindness ef the «ffivers in notifying us, and trust that fortune may favor us so that we muy be pees to attend the third an- nual. The marine engineers beneficial associa- tion held their annual meeting last Thurs- day night, when the following officers were elected for the ensuing year, and were in stalled in their respective ¢ffices Thursday night. President, M. B. Sturtevant; vice president, J. F, Chadwick; Treasurer,C. M. Stoddara; Financial Secretary, B, Jerome; Corresponding Secretary, Wm. Lowe; Re- cording S.certary, Frank Randall; Chap- lain, A. Bury; Conductor, J. Williams; Doorkeeper, C. Steadman. Captain Innes, John A. Westaway, and Mr. Griffin, superintendents of different de- partments of the Michigan Central Co., are now on-the qui vive, expecting the comple- tion of the new ferry boat in twu weeks. The trip along Lake Erie in the middle of January, will be a notable event in the bi - tory of lake nuyigation and marine engin- eering, and although a limited number of guests are already invited to embark on whe maiden trip of this fine steamer, we keep strictly within the bounds of truth by say- ing that hundreds of our citizens wouid eagerly accept the honor of participating in breaking the mid winter record of lake navigation. CLEVELAND. 0. JANUARY 3. 4888. The new wooden boat now iting at the yar] of the Cleveland dry Messrs. Johnson and others is about two- thir‘sin frame, and work on her is being pushed rapidly along. We learn from a re- li-ble source that this boat isto be named the G orge Prerley. Mr. Presley has long been connected with the firm that is build- ing this new steamboat, and we think that no berter name could have been chosen by them than th»t of the pioneer ot dry-dock building in Clev-land, Captain Scott, now in the marine insur- ance b:siness here, suggests that we may possib'y have a much lower average temper- ature during the next summer senson. Yet whatever truth there m y be in the sugges- tior, the same rate would apply backwards and the average low temperature of last summer might give a clue to the present mild state of the atmosph-re. Woile an upper current of air may have served to earry a portion of the colder air and snow nway to the South, their present standpo‘nt, yetif a compiled data of the readings of the many messures, daily ohservatiors, and weather memorandums, direction and foree ot winds, rainfall, e'c., was placed before an adept, valuable information n ight possibly be obtained relative to the apparent mystery surrounding the fine open weather we are now enjoying. In conversation with sev- eral expo ticnved. “and. yeternn. n. nayigarors, | f who have had the past 30 t»40 y years to julge from, we were rather pleased with the original remarks of Cip’ain Scott. CHICAGO, ILL, Special to the Marine Record. The old vear 1858, has passed away with its many joys and soriows, If business dar- ing (he new year is as bright and tall of sun- shine as the beautiful weather with which it was u-herel in, everything should go well with us all. I made a new years call to-day, Wednes’ day, on a large number of gentlenen con- nected with versel business. My first call was at the office of W. M. Ezan. I found him in the enjoyment of excellent health also his son Charles W. Egan and his two a-sistants, D. T. Tlelm and Arthur C. Helm, who had presented the worthy captain with asplendid new writing deck of cheery wood as atoken of their esteem. Cuptain Long had also assisted in fursishing it with a fine cuc glass ink bottle and mihogany ink stand. I then paid a visit to Crosby Rardon & Ma Dnalu’s offi e and found the two latter looking will and hearty. Captain Crosby has goue east on business. At Csptain John Pringles, I found the worthy cap ain and his sons, Cap ain Red- mond and John, and R. Rispin bis well known bookeeper, al! enjoying good he. 1h. Calling at Captain W. Elphicke & Co,’s Itound J, B Kelley the marine adjuster in command, Captain Ephicke having gone east on business and his paitner James A. Myers unfortunately detained at his home with a badly spr. ined ankle. At Keith & Cir’s [ found both partners ip and well engaged in some business. transac- tion with Captain Fiizgerald, of the Mil- waukee Shipbuilding Co., who was lookin fir-trate. ‘They informed me thac there was building at bis shipyard for himself and others a fine steamship 236 feet over ali 36 feet beam and 2144 feet molded depth in the shonlest place. Her engine, a fore and aft compound 24 and 44 by 42, is to be built by Hodge & Co., Detroit, and her boiler of steel 15 by 8% by R. Davis, Milwaukee, On calling at what was until very recently Beckwith & Flemings, I fuund achange had been made, Captain Beckwith having re- tired from the business, P. H. Fleming con- tinuing it under the style of Flemiug & Co., with Captain A. L. Fitch associated with him tor the present year. We wish them suc- cess. My next call wasonC.J. Magill who is looking very we!l and hearty, he is of opinion that there will not be many charters made for winter storage as the eleyator capacity here is some 25,000,000 bushels, and do not at present deck — for) s f $2.00PkR ANNUM SINGLE COPiLS 5 CENTS contain hturuiet over 10, 000, 009 bus hels, adi a large quaniitv of new corn is being sent east by rail to be used for feed. I then took arun down to Seuth Water street and called at Dav son & Ho'mes, found Frank looking: nd feeling well and attend ing to business Mr. Holines his partner, ve- ing away in Kansas. Called in on Captain David Dall, who is looking hale and hearty as us ial, found him engaged with T, W. K rby, shipbuilder, Grand Haven, who isalso looking well and he in formed me he is building a fine steamship to carry about 900 gross tons; length over all 200 feet, beam 34 feet, depth of hold 12 feet; her engine a fo e and aft c mpound 36 and i9 by 30, buildisg at Detroit by Hodge & Co., and boiler 15 by 9 by Johnson Bros, Ferrysburg. My next call was at the vessel owners’ mu tual benefit association where I found Si cre tary Frank Higgie, President Muller and several captains discussing vessel business past and future, and all looking rea'y fr next seasoa’s business, and hoping it would be better thah the «ne just past. Captain Jas Dunham of the Dunhum Tow- ing and Wrecking Co,, looks and feelsin ex— cellent condition, He is about t» vacate his present office and is fuemishing three room| Hacty W. Greene, formerly with H. Cian. non Co., Cricago, and who i- now con- nected with and has charge of the sail mak- ing departnent of M. I, Wileox’s Ship Chandlery Cordage and Sipply Company, Toledo, O., was in the c'ty spending Christ- mas week with his 1e’ativ:s and loki: g up old friends. D iriceg the past s’azon ne has fitted cus a large number of yachts, of which business the compiny makes a specialty. Ciptain J. W. Melchert has purebas: d th- half interest of Hinry Asphack, in the Charlotte Raab, Wonsideration $3,000, He now owns the whole of h randis giving her part new ceiling and some devk plank. At the Cnicago Dry Dick Compa y’s the schooner lL. H Howland aud tug Gidner will go out this week. Tne schooner Ellen Willa ns will then go in for overhauling, and the steambarge M C. N-ff will follow her to have her shaft straightened anda new wheel; also some extra keelsons and bortom ealking, At Miller Brothe 8’ shipyard the steam- barge S. K. Martin ‘isin do+sk for anew wheel and bottom calking, the schooner Michigan is receiving a general overhauling and repairs, the barge Noz bay a new stem and a considerable new work f rward and a general overhauling. The steambarge: A. D. Hayward. S,K Martin, and M. C. Neff arrived Sanday morning, December 30, with lumber from Muskegon. They will all be now put into winter quarters. [also called at H. Channon ©», and Fin ney & Channon’s, ship chandlers, and found employers an] emyloyes all look ng and feeling wellafrer having got over the fatigue of last season’s hard work and stock taking. Calling at the V. O. I. Company’s cftice I found Captain James L. Higg'e looking portly and well, his son, J, L. Higgie, Jr., looking hearty, and Captain Juhn Higgie also looking well, but not so portly as his relative, George A. Cannon, secretary of the company, who is about to leave Chicago to take an appointment as bookkeeper with the Helena Lumber Company, Helena, Mon- tana, where his parents reside, as he is de- sirous of being near them, ia Jooking and feeling extra good, he having been pre- sented on New Year’s eve witha muagnifi- cent gold watch by his friends and em- ployes of the V. O. I. Co, The works com- prise one of the very best Howard move- ments, which are enclosed in a 62 penny- wight 18 carat gold case, on the front of which his monogram, Z. A. C.,is very finely engraved, and on the back is a splendid en- graving of one of the Y. 0.1, Co,’s tugs run ing down Lake Mishig.in, m, the Chicago Exp»-ition looming up in the diatance ast rn of the cug. LTnscribed on the back insid+is the following: ‘Presented to Z. A, Camron by his frien }s an! employes of the company, 1889."” M-.Cimero. feels very proid of his beautiful as well as valu— able present, anil also very grateful to the donors for their kindly teeling toward bim. He has been with the V, O. IL. C mpany seven years, and well deserves the present given him, his kind manner und obliging ways having gained for him the esteem and kindest wishes of all, and all are sorry he is going away, but he has all their best wishes for his future prosperity. Iwould like to have made many more calls today, but was forced to get back to my office and write the foregoing and get it inin time for mail. WILLIAMS, BUFFALO, N. Y. Special to the Marine Recora. S eatner Silver Star of Cincinnati, reports with the Tiout wheel an increase of two miles per hour. Steamer Little Sim of Apalachicola, Fjor. ida, reports the boat doing far teiter than she has ever done betore Noles the Trout storm to prevent eiiieg all through ber. ‘The last vessel is shifted tu place nothing will stirtill spring. At the dry- | docks the propeller T. W. Palmer is receiv- ing a rebuild of the side smashed in the col- lision with the Giadstone, aud the Jewett is straightening out the bg dent she received in her collisiin wih ‘he Veronica. ‘The shipyarde are getting along we'l wi h the new vessels. R. Mills & Co, have their wooden stexsmer alin fiame and some planking is on, At the Union yard the steel steamer has her keel plates all in position and abou’ 50 framas are up. The first of Captain Maytham’s new tugs is in frame at O'Grady & Maker's. The people who have been , utting in o prict the fast time cf he Union Line pro- peilers Owego aud Coemung, appear to have guessed at thcir facts. Instead of saillng fri m Butfalo to Cnicago in 58 hours and a traction the Owego’s fastest time is 61 hours 10 mi: utes and ihe Ca: mung’s 61 hours arid 20 minutes. Next season they are tobe put to their metiie and they are promised to form a link of a 3}-day line be- tween New Yirk andCnicaigo. This will be hu-tling, but they’ll get there if they ua- dertake it. The repor ed attempt to boycutt the Brit- i-band Canadian insurance companies in the lake bu-iness appears to have been well- founded, bu: it bas failed all the same, The compauies furesaw that the profits of the year would attract a host of others into the field, and so a combination between the Boston ‘Marine. and tome . others was at- \empted, but it could pot be efficied, Con- sidering that the foreign companies ‘have been greatly needed to enable the largest steamers to obiain rufficient hull insurance the muvenient was not a very gener, us one, to say the least. The adjustments of the losses on the schooner F. B, Gardner by her going adrift from the L. M. Wilson tow at Alpena last fall are being made and will soon be reduced to figures. Tne purcha-ers of the prope er Kittie M. Forbes were nut Kelley and others, of Black River, as stated when ~+he wa3 sold, buc By- rop Arm ong and Cuarles Smith, of West Bay City, bo had ao interest in her, and Cvul-n MeMacklin, of Port Huron, and Daniel Burt,'of Chicago. She will probably hail from the former port. The szhooner F. B. Gardrer g es into the Manistique lumber trade next sea on, in the Westou tow. She has a ceason contract, The Prentice tow will remain In the Onta- Hazon jin r ‘rade and the Emi ire tow is exre te] to join t! em. The Ca: adian propeller Isaac May and tow are to be given yort: a’ Pi olborne this winter, so that they ean Miele Tt looks as though eemebody would better go io raising flax. Mr. J. 8. Smith’s report of the lake receipts of flax sed is as fol- lows: 3056010 bushels in 1886, 2,342,660 bu-hels in 1887, aud on.y 753,890 Luske’s in 1888, The Erie’s shipping trestle on the Black- well canal is to be extended 700 feet, and the number of pockets increased from thirty-two to eighty-eight. Anew stocking and trans- ferring trestle will be built at East Buffalo. It wall be 500 feet long exclusive of the plane and by the use of a Brown hoist the storage expacity of the trestle will reach 100,000 tons, TOLEDO, OHIO. Special to the Marine Record, Captain Dan McAl ister, of the schooner. Hattie Wells, has been seriously ill with an attack of Br‘ght’s disease, but is now on the way to recovery. The Maumee Boiler Works are extremely busy, they are bui’di tanks and a ie oil t f the steel hull of Dunb be 70 feet long on deck, 63 feet 9] inches The material is new on the way and the hull is to be comp eted March Ist. The contract of building the hull was sub-'et to the Mau- mee Boiler Works by the Toledo Machine Works. ‘fhe boiler works mentioned will also repair the tug Thompson Bros.’s boiler. Your correspondent is informed by the hest of authority that the shipments of coa from this port for the season of 1888 is as fol- low-: Co'umbus and Hocking Valley dock | 425,000 tons, Ohio Ven'ral dock 216 645 tons, eral for fue’,5 dealers 74,000, total 715,645 tons. Thisis more than 800,000 tons over the sipmeats of 1887. In 1887 th re were shipped from here 6,668,732 bushe's of grain, wuile last -eas n the shipments were but 4.° ! 931,110, Cc. O. D. MONTAGUE, MICH. | Special to the Marine Record, The above mak:s the third compound marine engine the Iron Works are building at present, bisides some high pressure ma- rine engines and three large marine boilers. The large +teambarge M. T. owned by the Chicago lumber company, of Chicago, is laid up here for the season. Her engineis a fore and aft comp: und 20 und 86 cylinders, by 86 inch siroke, and |} was built by the Montague Iron Works of this place. The Montage Iron Works, M utague | Mich., have elosed a contract with Captain Thomas J. Waters, 0! Muskegon, Michb., for a fore and aft compound marine engine 16 and 80 inch cylinders by 26 inche: stroke, und a marine boiler eight feet by twelve, to be placed in his new’freight an‘) pas'enger boat which be is having built at Benton Harbor, Mich., this winter, and which will be ready for duty next spring. DULUTH, MINN. Bida were opened yesterday for the new ore docks at Two Harbor, The contract will be let as soon as the bids can be figured out. The bidders are Wolf and Truax, Winston Bros., Shepard & Co., Henry & Balch, Cutter & Rruett, Wm. St. Amon”, Dear & Hayes and Morrison & Co. The present dock is to be extended 500 feet, the old dock raised, most of the pockets rebuilt and improved machinery put ir, Work will begin at once—one of the bidders says he can begin next week if he gets the con- tract and the improvements will be ready for shipping ore at the opening of nayiga- tion. twenty oil car ‘the Ps the bottom, 28 feet heam and6 feet deep : Her bottom is 5-16, sides 3 Sani bow linch. — Greene, .