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OUND THE LAKES. ais ee - in J. E. Moore, et #], have purchased er Louisiana, consideration $121,- 1 last year; Ashtabula, 562,125 287,808 tons; Fairport, 138 660 eighths of the propeller Fred Kelly Warner has ben b ught radley and Curis Grover of inson of Cleveland. built eight steel and seven propellers last yar, all but two of were about 1,500 tons measurement besides one schooner and five tugs. snow has cansed much embar. ent othe winter lumber trade, It is 0 from Lake Superior that some of lumber camps are abcut to freeze up. ‘This office is in receipt ot the Baffulo Ex: statictics. The numerous curs are splendid, and the entire work is a mast erpicce of to- “pogrophy. We take p'easure in recommending the Mount Olive Erasive Liquid, manufactured by Cap'ain D.A. McLachlin, for cleaning varnish and painted articles without injury tothe polish. Price 40c¢ per gallon. Ad- dress the Captain at 583 Trumbuil avenue, Detroit, Mich. ; Col. Po2’s annual report shows thut thovgh the number of passengers through the Sault cxnal fell off 1.552 last year the tonnage increased 238,061 and the freight increased 916,736 tons. But for the talling off in grain, manufactured iron and copper, the increare would have been much greater, Cap’ain James Corrigan has sold to his brother, John Corrigan, the steamboat Raleigh, recently reported by the daily pa- pers as being made over to Captain Morley, in part payment for the new steamboat W. B, Morley. he Raeigh is valued in Inland Lloyds at $65,000, but the terms on which she has been purchased are private. Theannu | report of Collector of Customs W.J. McKinnie, of ( leveland, presents some Startling figures regarding the bituminous coal business of this neighborhood A li tle work in xddition shows that (Jeyeland, Ash- tabula, Fairport, and Lorain last sea-on ship ped 3,136,996 tons of bituminous coal. Tole- do’s shipments would jrolab'y bring the amount up to 4,500,000 tons, to say nothing of a very heavy movement out of Erie. When it is known ‘hai the shipments of : nthracite out of Buffalo comp»re fav: rably with the bituminous trade and that 4,500,000 gross tuns of ore were transported by lake, a fair es'i- mate of the water c mmerce of this neigh borhood can be formed. Grain shipments and the movement of general merchandise also contributed very largely to the business. Lhis office is in receipt of a bandsomet prog:amme, and a complimentary ticket to the eiguth annval ball given by the marine engineer’s beneficial association, to be held at Heard’s hal), Euclid avenue, on Wedneg- day, January 23rd. Music will be rendered by M. Ficsher’s full orchestra. ‘Ihe officials will be arranged as follows: Businéss com- mittee—M. B. Sturtevant, D. W. Johnson, 8. H. Hunter; reception commiitee—C, M. Stoddard, Q. Miller, R.S. Hay, J. Smith: supper cemmitte—Jas. Chase, Jas. Kirby, J. Aikin; sergeant-at-arms—J, T. Mead; floor directors—O. N. Steele, Geo. Parsons; floor managers—Wm. Lloyd, Frank Rad- cliffe, J. C. Chadwick, Wm. Lowe. We can vouch for a most enjoyable ball and shall endeavor to be present to witness the festiyi- tes in person. i ‘pre 8 year book und ‘calender, a handsomely }; of: trated chronicle of Buffalo events und uN. Wie DEVOTED 10 NATIGATION, COMMERCE, ENGINEERING AND SCIENCE. ~ CLEVELAND. O.. JANUARY 10. 1889. dry deck to have bottom and ceiling calked. The Cleveland Ship Building Co., sre dn- ing general repiire on the boilers of the pro- pellers Onoko and Shel.'on. William Mullen who has charge of the propeller machinery on the new Michiyzan Central ferry boat, will on the opening of navigation, resume his old position as chief of the JessieH Farwe'l. We have received during the week a pro- fueely illuatrated catalogne of stoves from F. & H, Rorn, Superior St. The membe-s of this firm sre practical men, and seem to be entering more extensively into the ship ping trade. x The contract for the outfit of the kitchen on the new stesmer City of Detroit of the Ditroit and Cleveland steam naviya'ion company, has been awarded to the well known firm of F. & H. Born, Cleveland, O. The order will consist of one nine feet rang» containing three ovens, two of F. & H, Born’s steel plate fire ranges, one twenty- four inch charcoal meat Uroiler, a complete set of Born’s mammoth urns for tea, coffee, hot water and milk, copper boilers with steamers, etc. This office is in receipt of a unique mauve tinted programme and complimentary ticket _ from the brotherhood of the lake marine engineers, parent lodge, No. ], Cleveland O., who will give their first annual ball at Rhote’s hall, corner Pear! street and Frank- lin avenne, Friday evening, January 18th. Bowman & MvAffee’s full voiced orchestra, will be in attendance, the committee of Management are as follows: Matthew Thomas, George Matthews, Richard Masten, Albert Eckard, John Bodrick, William Doubelde; reception committee H. A. Howe, P. H. Doyle, Chas. Gumlich; floor directors, John B, Miller, Matthew Thomas; floor managers Charles Rice, Thomas Shannon, George Ellsworth. Althongh this is the first annual given by the brotherhood, we feel sure that all of the arrangements, even to the minutest details will be weil attended to and the success of the festivities is already a foregone conclusion. We trust to meet at the balla jarge number of our marine engi- neering friends and their ladies, The draw of the Main street bridge was wide enough to admit passage of the boar, but tue J. H. Devereux being abreast the Transter stuck, After moving the J. H. Deveraux the new boat went through as nicely as though she had been measured for the pa-sage and she tied up to the coal dock anid took abourd thiee hundred tons of coul She wil! probably leave here early on Satur- day morning tor Detroit, under the com- giand of Captain J. R. Ennis, as-isted, we presume by Captain McLachlin and others, John A, Westaway will control ber ma- chinery with chief engineer Arthur O. Bur- ton, Engineer William Cullen having charge of the propeller machinery, Several invitn- tions have been issued, and we trust that she will experience @ pleasant rnn up Lake Erie, The new ferry boat built by the C’eveland ship building company for the Michigan Central rail road, came down to the coalda k yesterday under her own steam. Her mni- chinery worked well, and the many gentleman on bourd spoke highly of her genersl build and finithings. The extra strength given othe micship part of this ve-sel is a remaikable, and+xcellent feature in shipbuilding, for in addition to the usual frames she has for 60 feet in the wake of the sidewheels and en- gines heavy belt frames, with three double fore and aft frames, all diamond piated at each rection, where they cross. In the lower bold forward there is a watertight compart- ment with a fore and aft bulkhead which is another departure from the usual! mode of building. She has five iron bulkheads di- viding the vessel into seven compartments. The spacivus tween decks on which her.ma- chinery is placed, resemble: a clean and eommodious engine house on shore more The darge Havina is in the Cleveland ———— $2,00PEm Asem OM SINGLE Copies 5 Opa TS thar the enyine room of a vessel, and we may ventnre to say that it will be kept so while tie boat is in active service. Among the gentlemen who came “own the river in the steamer was Captain J, R, Ennis, Cap- tain McLachlin of the steamer City of Cleve- land, Captain Horn of the Garland, Jvhn A. Westaway, William Cullen, Mr, Pemberthy, president of the Eigle Iron Worka, Detroit. The White R se, club at the Adams House was well attended Mr, Griffin doing the honois, CHICAGO, ILL. Special to the Marine Record. The sch oner America was eold by Davi- son & Holmes, to Captain A, L. McGraw; consideration $4,000, Captain E. E. Hapier, sold his tug A.S. Allen to Ciptain T, J. Svanlan; considera- tion $4,000. Captain Hapier will replace the Allen with atug which will be built here this winter on the composite plan, with steel frames and wonden planking. She will be 70 feet Jong, 16 feet beam 8 feet hold. She will have a fore and aft compound engine 9 and 16 by 16, which will be built by C. F. Eimes, Cricago, and a steel boiler 5 by 10 to be allowed 175 pounds of steam to be builr by the Bee boiler works, Chicago. Engiveer Juhn Rigg, ot-the steamship D. ‘W: Rost, passed through on his way to Mil- waukee, to look after the Chapin Mining Co’s, steamship Progress laid up there, Captain Robert Cusweil, of Ludington, stayed in Chicago a few days visiting his friends before starting for San Diago, Sin Francisco and Pnget sound to try and re- cuperate his health. Our lumber merchants and vesse) men are being crowded out of South Water street by commission men who trade in poultry and other cosmetibles, During 1888 Jessie Spaulding and Ira H. Owen, removed to the Metropolitan build- ing, Mnellcr, Christy and Raber to the Grand Pacific hotel, Hitekcock and Foster and Edward K. Ayer tothe Rookery baild- ing. WILLIAMS. BUFFALO, N. Y. Captain Henry Andrews, of the schooner Nellie Redington, has closed his thirty-ninth season as master of lake vessels. Of this time thirty-four years were spentin three vessels, He br ught down the first full cargo of Lake Superior iron ore, took the first vessel through the Sault canal, aud landed the first locomo- tives at Marquette, Captain Landgraf, of Vermillion, O., has bought tie propeller Nevada from Kelderhouse, Maytham, and others, the purchase price being $30,000, Captain Landgraf sailed the schooner H, D, Alverson last season and will command the Nevada the coming year. She will run ino the geeral trade, according to the Lloyd’s reg- ister. The Nevada was built in 1882, rates A2 and is valued at $35,000, The Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburg Railroad has bought the Ganson street dock, near South Michigan street, which it has been using under a Jease, and has secured possession of the two adjoiuing docks owned by H. H. Hale and the Wells estate. Mr. George E. Merchant, presi- dent of the Rochester & Pi.tsburg Coal and Iron Comjany, conducted the negotiations, which were concluded on Saturday. These three docks have a water frontage of 1,700 feet on the Pratt & Wadham slip and the city ship canal, and the Buffalo creek railroad ruos along their entire northern frontage, The principal object of this acquisition is to extend aud develop the coal business of the Rochester & Pittspurg Company in Buffalo, and by the way of Buffalo to the lake ports of the North- west. Tue same company bas also bought the Roberts’ property, consisting of fourteen acres, with complete docks, shutes, ete., for the stor- ageand handling of coal at Charlotte, Lake Oatario, <A new railway will be built by June or July next from Lincoln Park, on the Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburg, just west of Rochester, leading direct to the docks and lake and con- necting with the Rome, Watertown & Ogdens- burg railroad, The unusual stir in marine matters has reached Buffalo, though it will not be felt as much here as elsewhere, from tbe fact that there is bat little vessel. property for sale here and ‘The new propeller W. B, Morley, which is win- | Ing at-intermediate points...) the shipyards are quietly at work on crafts that! O, M. Nelson and Uhrig, Darvel & Co., of wili take them some time to finish, and which Milwaukee for $4,000. She was built in will be likely to prevent their accepting any 1878. more work at present. Captain John Green has received from the underwriters the $45,000 insurance on the pro. peller M. M. Drake, Hethinks of making them an offer for her, but says that he refased to withdraw his notice of abandonment when he was given permission last week to do so. New upper works, stanchions, rail, plank- sheer; timber-heads, etc., are to be given the schooner W, A. Rounds, at Toledo, Though tiere seems to be nothing doing in Buffalo in the line of vessel transfers, a great activity has developed at some other ports, tering in Buffalo, has been sold by her owner in Marine City, whose name she bears, to Corrigan & Huntington, of Cleveland, for $140,000, TOLEDO, OHIO, Special to the Marine Record. Tobey & Dai'ey, sh p chandler, have pur chased the steam yacht Parkman, of Mt. Clemens,*Mich., and are lengthening her 15 feetand spreading her 16 inches. She has an upright boiler 3 feet 4 inches by 4 feet 6 inches, allowed 140 pounds steam. Her ens }. gines are two 6x6, Her owners will run her} from the vicinity of their store to the Wheel«| ing & Lake Erie coaland ore docks at Iron- vile, carrying passengers and freight, Before many days you will Lear that, To- ledo parties have bought'a large steymbarge now being built by Davidson at Bay Uiry. Captain Taylor, of the steambarge .Tem- pest, was in the city Tuesday. : The Marine Engineers’ Beneficial Associa~ tion, of this city, will give their annual ball at Odd Fellows Temple, Wednesday evening, January 16. Asthe city is now lighted by electricity it is to be hoped that everybody will get home without having any of their head geur carried away. Captain John Dunseith is visiting relatives at Barrie, Ontario. Captain Brown Chamberlain, of the tug A.W. Colton, will return to this city in a few days to remain the balance of the win~ ter. The Bad Boy, the smallest tug in the har- bor, is yet running. 3. 0. D. FRANKFORT, MICH. Special to the Marine Record. A short time ago the RECORD made a typo- graphical error stating that the schooner Mish- tocit was hard up in Portage lake. The facts are she is laid up in snug winter quarters after a successful season in Portage lake, and is in good shape. The first departure for 1888 was the little propel er George D. Sanford making round trip to Manist e and return January 2nd. The tug Maggie Lutz is still running, engaged in fishing. The following are in winter quarters here: Schooner Jennie Weaver, propeller John D> Denver, tugs L. Q. Rawson, Alice M. Campbell, Jessie Slyfield, Cynthia, sloops Nettie, Hooker, and Adeline. On the evening of January Ist a steamer light was seen approaching the harbor, She ran un- der check and wizen near the pliers laid course for Milwaukee, It is supposed to have been the barge G. T. Burroughs bound from Harbor gprings for Milwaukee. We notice that the old Mary Stockton has found a fanal resting place on the rocks at Cleve- land, after thirty-four years’ battle with the ele- ments and the dangers of our ‘‘unsalted’’ seas, She was built at Manitou, Wisconsin, by Cap- tain Bates in his yard near 8th street bridge. As Captain . Bates is still on deck and wields a fluent pen, a few reminiacences of early ship building would prove of interest to the Rec- ORD readers. _ We believe the first vessel built at Manito o¢ was the Citizen, in 1847; and the first charged for leak of snow-t These trarsters are of great signifi- cance, as showing the estimates vessela are placing on the business of next season, The Scove brought jurt her insurance valuation, being old and of small size, but the Wilson is valued at only $55,000 and the Morley at 125,000, Both seil’ st $15,000 above their es'ima ed value, while vessets a year ago were selling away below this valuation. It should be otserved in this connection that vesselmen were entirely mistaken last win— ter as to the business to be done in 1888, and it is quite possible that they are just as far wide of the mark on the other side now, Still it doesn’t look so. Captain James Davidson is building at Bay City a steamer 205 feet long for East. man and Wilhelm ef Enst Saginaw, Captain Chesley Wheeler of Bay. City, father of the well-known shipbuilder F. W. Wheeler of West Bay City, will open asbib- yard at East Saginaw and build tor B, Bou- camp between here and Bay Cit ways. The log crop pr scant t is winter. ST. CATHERINES, ONT. Captain John Frazer, who has been a boarder at the Grand Central hotel for about. two years, was found dead in bed last Satur- Gay morning. He was taken ill Friday night and complained of feeling cold and sore. At 6 o’clock Saturday morning he dismissed his attendants, saying he was better. At 8:30 he was found lying in bed dead. Cap- tain Frazer has been sailing on the lakes for many years and was very popular and highly respected. He hailed trom Windsor. DULUTH, MINN. Coal dock strikers haye been parading the streets. The lumbermen in the northwest are breaking up their camps and giving up busi- ness for the winter. A Duluth correspond- ent says that in all directions lomber camps are prepari.g to break up. “There is no snow, and it 18 impos:ible to work, and lumbermen are gineral y di-couraged.. Twenty camps. at Tower, Minn., bave al- re-dy been closed and fnily feur hundred men have been thrown ous of employ. meut, pinises. icine Tre Boston Chamber of Commerce was crowded on the occasion of the pre-entation to Captain James and his life saving crew, who did such) noble work en the coast during the recent storm, of the famd of $4 700 con- tributed #s a test’m ny to their bravery. In addition, the humane society medals were presente! and the sum of $470 was added, - Appropriate addressés were male. ORS. Query: If nine tenths of the Inman Line fleet is owned by American citizens, why are the British allowed to subsidize these vessels in the interests of her navalreserve. If Eng- land takes umbrage ata power friendly to us, is American capital to assist in the con- clusion or ratification of terms? The entire question wil! stand consider ble ventilation, and the citizens of the United Sta'es have a right t> demand these paticulars. PRESS NEE The new steamer Keewatin, being built at Owen Sound for the Canadian Pacifie rail- prop., Union, in 1860. BURMEISTER, WEST BAY CITY, MICH, The propeller K. M, Forbes baving been sold, her consort, the Mable Wilson, has also Changed hands. F. W. Wheeler of Bay City, has so'd her to Rulph & Waterson of Detroit for $70,009. Peter J..Statom and Peter Pastor have sold the schooner H, M. Scove to Captain way , will be ready for the coming sesson’s work between Owen Sound, Sault ste. Marie and Port Arthur. One great improvement over other boats will be that the hurricane deck will be fitted a8 a promenade, She will be Commanded by Captain Anderson, who bas ro ably commanded the Alberta. The Alberta will be commanded for the season of 1889 by Captain James McAllister, a Toronto boy and a good seaman,