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a round the L Continued from 1st Page[ aptain Fred Har will stay on shor? and fine fleet next season. We may here remark | that a practical ruling as to details is always beneficial to the ownership of each and every | enterprise. : wo steamers; also ulean, Stettin, Ger- aents are fur the new Hamburg American ished the Harlaa & Fletcher & Co., New engines; the Puritan, Astra; also the King Y., packing for four for the new oil tank 1 Charlois; the new feamship line, Adiron- Cufic, the Beaver line uron, Lake Winnipeg, Lake sideral le packing for the Ham- ud North German i builders, king. During the past three mouths the Inman Line, ‘Paris.’ — t They have considerable orders on hand and prospects for the future. We have only entioned a few of their contracts, but we nk this will do for the present. ‘City of New York’ and : MONTREAL HARBOR IMPROVEMENTS, The city has undertaken an immense scheme of harbor improvement at an outlay of $4,000,- 000. It will give four miles of wharfage and a till water basin of eix square miles. A pier is to be built in the middle of the river extending tothe Vaetoria bridge, which will be used to _ formabasin and for handling heavy freight a, well as to prute ct the shore wharves from the €ncroachment of theice, The street running _ along the river front isto be widened and the wharves are to be raised to the same level, Steamers will then have their decks level with _ the wharf, instead of as at present, where their _ €&rgoes have to be raised from the hold and then lowered to the Janding. A permanent dike will be erected to prevent floods, and it wil] be Pierced with drain ways, which will be guarded With immense iron grates. There will be ample ‘Space outside for lines of railway, which will eonnect with the Grand Trunk and Canadian Pacific systems. At present the sheds erected by the Allan, Dominion, and other steamship Companies have to be removed each fall, but when the wharves are raised permanent struc- tures will be erected. Ths cost will be borne by the harbor commissioners and the city, and the Scheme will be submitted to popular vote when ‘the detailsare arranged. ‘The scheme has the _ Stpportof eminent engineers and in conjuuc- tion with the recent deepening of the channel from Montreal to the Gulf of St. Lawrence to a Mniform depth of twenty-seven feet, it wiil be a Steat stimulus to navigation. For years it bas Tron Works, and the. | The Dry Dock Sheet Metal Works, and the Yoe Manufac’uring Company, have con- Solidated their business interests and will trade under the name of the Detroit Steel Metal aid Brass Works. The bni ding re cently erected for this firm, corner of Orieang and Guion streets, is now occupied in addi- tion to this former plant. We predict a large volume of business tor this enterprising firm under its present efficient management. The Peninsular bridge company has been l. Wis. duly incorporated in the state of Michigan: Its objest is the construction of a low winter bridge over Detroit river for the accommo | dation of railroad traffic. It is learned from undeniable authority that among its incorpo rators are Capt. J.{W. Millen, John Pridgeon, Alexander McVittie and F, E. Kirby, all of Detroit and prominently conneeted with the great vessel interests which would suffer much embarasement from the bridging of that river. Capt. Millen is of the firm of Parker & Millen, vessel agents and owners; Mr. Pridgeon has owned many vessels in his time, and still is interested in several. Messrs. Mc- Vitte and Kirby are leading officials of the Detroit Drydock company. All of these gen- tlemen are in agreeable financial circumstan- ces, brought about by their identification with the lake trade. Vessel men generally are making a determined fight against the con- struction of any bridge over Detroit river, but itis plain that still more persistent efforts are being made in favor uf such a bridge. It is interrsting to consider how much more sup- port from lake men the project will require in order to go through. _ Candler Bros. of Detroit have sold the steamer Chauncy Hurlburt to Sandusky peo- ple for $40,000. : PORT HURON, MICH. Special to the Martine Record, ' Captain Thomas Currie, of this city, hs purchated the sunken schooner Jobn T. Mott. She is loaded with coal and Captain | Currie intends to raise her as soon as navi- gation will permit, Henry MeMoran, of this city, has pur- chased the steam barge Mary for $5,500. | He will make a first class wrecker out of her. : Mr. Lynn, the marine reporter, will put a big Worthington fire pump on his tug, the George R. Hand, in case of fire atthe ele- "| vators an umber “yards, The Hand will be.a very useful "boat. ian a0 The river steamer Mary is making daily trips from Marine City and this port. There is no ice running in the river. P. H. Fleming, the hustling vessei agent of Chieago, will visit this city on his return from the east. Captain Fiten and Mr. Fleming wi!l make a great team for the vessel business. 1 The work on the schooner Dobbins and the tug George R. Handis getting along fast, and they will come out of Dunford & Alverson’s dock as good as new. It is reported that Mr. Bostford has pur- chased the freight steamers Joho C. Gault, Russel Sige, and A. L. Hopkins from To- ledo parties. The Canadian government will have their new ranga lights on Stag Island finished before navigation opens. They will also continue work to dredge out the middle ground, just below Point Edwards, as soon as navigation will permit the dredge to work, Eber Ward, the vessel owner, was in the city, on business, yesterday. Cuptein Lon Cox will command the Tom Adams next season. Captain John McArter, of the Hiawatha, will jeave for Chicago next week, to load the Minnehaha. The barge T, H. Orton is lying in Sarnia Bay full of water. The tug Sweepstakes has finished her re- pairs at the Wolverine dry dock. The steam barge Westford will go into the same dock for large repairs. The Phenix Iron Works are putting a new bed plate into the steambarge George L. Colwell. Captuin Dave Clarey is in this city look- jing after the repairs on the Westford. TOLEDO, OHIO. been the ambition of the Canadian Pacific rail- { Special to the Marine Record. ‘Way to obtain an entrance into the heart of the tity on the West Side. ‘Parted from Dalhousie Square, in the French end of the city, and the company was at a great disadvantage in competing for passenger traffic. By receat legislation land was obtained and a station was erected in the center of the city cost, including the approaches, of $1,000,- 000. The first train entered the new station “Saturday, and on Monday the trains belonging Atlantic and Ontario divisions will de- rt from that point. The Winnipeg, Ottawa, id Quebeo trains willcontinue to arrive at ie Square for the present. The Grand ak station is only one block from the new , anda new element will be added to nection. The city used every induceweat have the two companies build a union station, ‘the relations between the two companies L. S, Sullivan and Captain George H. Formerly trains de- Breyman have bought from the T. 8. & T, Co. |the large and powerful tug, Roy for $9,000. | she is 20 by 24, and will be used here to do the Lake Huron towing. L. T. Sullivan. George H. Breyman, and Captain E. Winchester have bought from Al- brecht & Bamer of Manitowoc, the schooner CG. C. Banner, for $18,000. She is now laid up at Chicago, and will be commanded by Cap- tain Winchister the coming season. Captain Inman, of Detroit, was here to-day | on his way home from Jacksonville, Florida; Captain Kelley, of Bay City has bough from the T. S. & T. Co., the barque Katie Brainard for $10,000. She will be in the Prentice tow next season. look after the interests of J. Emory Owen’s Captain Ed McNalley, formerly of the steamer Chief Justice Waite, will sail the steamer Pearl the coming season. Captain D. H. Mallory, formerly of the steamer Wm. Edwards, will sail the new steamship George G. Hudley. | Captain H. Donaldson, of Maumee City, has been appointed master of the steamer Monnahanseet, and Wm. Decher as chief en- gineer, for the coming season. Captain D. H. McAllister, of schooner Hattie Weller, who has been sick at his home at Walbridge, Ohio, is recovering slowly. s 8ST, CLAIR, MICH. Captain Henry Leisk, of the propeller Si- mon Langell, is to be succeeded by Captain John E Cornwall. Captain A, Fitts leaves the propeller Monohansett to take command of the new steamer to be run from Toledo to Perrysburgh, Captain Stewart, who was in the Middlesex, goes tothe Idlewild. Cap- tain George Ryan will sail the propeller Os- coda. Captain Carlton, of the schooner Co- lumbia, expects to buy an interest in a steamer and sail her. Captain Henry Don- aldson sails the Monohansett, The name of the steamer California has been changed to E. S. Pease, in honor of her owner, at Kast Saginaw. Robert Holland of St. Clair, is to build a steamer, in which Mark Hopkins, E.G. Re- cor and others will be interested. Captain Frank Holland, who was obliged to give up command of the propeller Porter Chamberlain last season, on account of failing eyesight, is rapidly recovering. MT. CLEMENS, MICH. Special to the Marine Record. The new tow barge Ben Hurrison, built at Captain Wm. Dulac’s shipyards, was suc- cessfully launched Saturnay, Januaay 26, witnessed by a large crowd of people. Di- mensions: keel, 178 feet; beam, 32 feet; depth of hold, 12 feet; over all, 185 feet. She will bave three spars and schooner rig; she is made of the best of oak and iron strapped. Her carrying capacity is 800,000 feet of lumber, or 1,000 tons of iron ore. The builder Is Mr. Archie Stewart, of Port Huron. Lately the new barge, built by Captain Du ac, has been cold to Hollister & Co., of Tonawanda, N. Y., for $28,000. She is to be employed in the lumder trade of that company. : A new steambarge is being built for Captain John Tuckerand Albert Tucker. Length of keel 97 feet, beam 22} feet, depth of hold 54 feet; over all 105 feet, Sheis made of best of oak and iron strapped. Shejis to; be employed in thesalt ‘rade. Captain) John ‘Tucker will com- mand her. — Lacroix, ASHTABULA HARBOR, OHIO, . Special to the Marine Record. 8 . ‘ wath ames P. Deyuey is repairing and length- ening thé scow Atlantic for Captain E. Henry. He will put in an engine 12x12, and a48 inch wheel; she will be able to propel herself through the creek. He in- tends to load coal on propellers while they are unloaded, and go to the assistance of any vessels or propellers that happen to go aground and lighter them off, Length over all 150 feet; breadth of beam 31 feet, with six gunwales running through the whole length; will have a hoisting machine on deck to load and unload coal, and a rail road track the’ whole length. He is also doing considerable repairs on the schooner Genoa, the steambarge Wheeler, and the barge Wayne, and has two tugs ceady tor machinery, first classin every respect, and ready to launch at any time. Length over all, 49 feet; beam, 11 feet; depth of hold, 4 feet and6 inchea, These tugs are built for stock and will be sold cheap. Dp, CHEBOYGAN, MICH, The lumbermen are encouraged at the prospects of getting out more logs than they had at first anticipated. Operations are being pushed since the snow has covered the ground, and it snows enough at interyals to mske sleighing fine. WYANDOTTE, MICH, The composite steamer built for the Inter Ocean Transportation company and numbered 91 by her builders, will be launched today from the yards of the Detroit Dry Dock Co. Sas TANS teas ee The amaller class of sailing vessel is, now almost wholly confined to Lake Ontario, and the absence of the usual supplies of lumber and grain has rendered it difflcult | to make ends meet. The principal trade for these craft has been coal from Oswego, Charlotte, Sodus Point and Fairhaven, Rates hayeheld higher the Jast year than for some seasons previous. This was largely owing to the fact that lumber vessels did not look upon coal simply as the return cargo, but it has been the wain cargo and what lumber was carried was taken ata lower rate, the coal at almost any price, realizing on the ‘coal freights back. Previously the reverse has been the general rule. Coal rates opened this year on’a basis 25c per ton from Oswego, Fairhaven and Sodus Pointto Toronto, went up to 30c and made a further rise to 85c, at which point they remained steady. This is 10c per ton lower than in 1887. Barley freights on Lake Ontario have been very low asa number of propellers not finding work on the upper lakes and in the trade that they are usually employed in made Toronto, vessels transporting it| x center for obtaining barley freights, Bar- ley opened here at 1c to Sodus P jint, Oswego and Charlotte; 2c to Ogdensburg; 234c for Buffalo and 234 and 3c to Erie. Points east of Toronto are quoted 1c higher. Later on rates adyanced Ye, and the last weck in November a few loads were taken for down the lake at3 and 3c per bushel, but this was just before the close of navi- gation. GENERAL TRADE. For the last few years the trade in gen er- al merchandise at this port has been on the | geeitne, In 1886 the numberof tons brought ta were 17,149, and in 1887 only 14,788, a decrease of 2.411 tons, The figures for thie year have not yet been made up, but will probably tall below those of last year, It is claimed, however, that up to the time ot the break in the Cornwa}l canal imports of general merchandise, which are nearly all) built by Thoroyervft, of about 150 tons from Montreal, were fully up tothe average. There was then nearly six weeks when nene could come by boat.at all, and this at a time when ull the fall shipments should be arriving, so that this will make the total le-8 than usual. Outward shipments of general freight to Montreal have been smaller than usual all year, The railways have been successful competitors with the steamboats for this trade, and seem to be gradually taking itaway from them. Shipments of barley from this port during the past season have fallen off 861,000 bush- els, a8 compared with last year. The total exports of barley this year by water were 1,247,329 bushels and in 1887 there were 1,598,320 bushels, These figures include both this year’s crop and what was shipped of last year’s product. But while itis a fact that there has been less barley shipped from this port it does not necessarily follow that it has not gone out of the country. Other points of distribution offering better facili- ties or mole advantageous terms may have taken the grain, though it is probable that most other points from which barley has been exported will not be able to show any increase in their business. Receipts at Os- wego, which is the principal shipping point among numerous others, have decreased greatly this year. One reason for thisis the low price offered. for barley on the. other side. In 1887 prices opened tow and grad- ually went up, encouraging shippers to ex- port their holdings, while this year barley opened high, and instead of going higher as a good many expected, went steadily down,.so that there was no inducement for} | merchants to export barley. This state of, things has, of course, been unfortunate for) vesselmen, as, depriving them of work, it, _| made their profits smaller, and the lesser quantity of barley going out of the countr with the abundance of vessel room offered kept barley rates low. H o As with barley so it is with lumber, ex- ports of which from this port have decreased largely this year. During the month of No- vember only one cargo of lumber, contain- ing 166,835 feet, lett here. Shipments to November, 1887, were 3,810,129 feet, 3,643,- 294 feet more than this seasen. All this year but 11,104,540 feet have been exported, against 20,157,565 feet last season, adecrease ot 9,053,025 feet for 1888. These figures in- clude shingles. The shipping of lumber by water from the northern railway dock, which was done for twelve or thirteen years back, was discontinued about a year ago. There has been a falling off in the price of lumber, consequent upon imports into New York and other points of poplar wood, which is taking the place of our clear lum- ber. There are considerable stocks held over accessible,to the railroads which would find their outlet via Torouto, that are being held simply from the fact that they cannot realize the prices that have _ hitherto been ruling. Another reason for the de- creased output lies in the fact that the past year was that of the presidential election, and this has interfered with. business to some extent. Itis not at all unlikely that our exports of lumber in 1889 will be in ex- cess of this year, but, if so, it will probably be only because next year may bea better one for the lumber trade generally. In looking at the figures showing the decreased exports of lumber from this port, a fact that must not be overlooked is this: In _ past yeais, when Toronto has been move ofa dis- tributing centre for lumber than it is at the present time, it has to a great measure been so because it was the most convenient point. Then lumber (could be procvred within a radius of fifty m‘les of the city. Now to reach here it has to be conveyed more than three times that distance, and other points can afford better facilities and grant more advantageous terms than weare able to do. And when it does reach here the railways are such successtul competitors with the vessels that they seize the lion’s share of the business. All these things militate against tbe shipment of lumber from Toronto by water.—The Toronto Empire. TRIAL TRIP OF THE VESUVIUS. The new dynamite gun cruiser Vesuvius, built by Wm. Cramp & Sons, Philadelphia, was put to a trial test on January 11, off the Dela- ware breakwater, and she proved herself fully equal to the government requirement, develop- ing a speed exceeding that of any war vessel of or above her size in the world. The Vesuvius is 252 feet long, 26} feet beam, = * 9 feet draught, with displacement of 725 tons, She has a four-cylinder triple-expansion engine, _ and developed 4,295 1. H. P. on her trial trip, or nearly 6 horse power toa ton of dispiace- ment, and not 17 horse power per ton, asstated = (att to the government on her first trial trip, some- thing we think unheard of in American naval ey accomplishments, : ‘ Mi The after run of 90 miles from the break water to Philadelphia was easily made under low — steam at a epeed of 16 knots per hour, about all ~ that could be attained in the shallow waters of the De'awere without causing a drag wave, The speed attained by the Vesuvius bas only been exceeded by the following small! vessels: A twio-serew torpedo boat, built for the Ttalian | government by Yarrow & Co., witha displace- brea of only 100 tons; length 140 feet, beam 14 | feet, with which a trial speed of 25 knots was % | attained (the developed horse power not being Bi | given). The Courier, a French torpedo boat, dis- placement; length 1474 feet, beam 144 feet, draught 6 feet, which ina trial trip developed ‘ 1,5501. H. P., or 10 horse power toa ton of displacement; attained a speed of 26 knots per hour, And alsoa small torpedo boat for the Dutch government, for which a speed of 27 } sh knots per hour is claimed. aS The relative horse power per ton of displace- ~ ; eR. ment plays so important a part in the perform- ance of all vessels propelled by steam that we give the proportions ina number of war ves- sels of exceptional speed, as far as known: The Wattignies, a French crniser of 1,273 tons dis- ‘ oh placement, having engines of 4,000 I. H, P., or 3.2 H.P. per ton, Just finished. Speed not yet tested, A twin-screw naval steamer (English); length 220 feet, beam 34 feet, draught 15 feet; 1,560 tons and 3,115 I. H.P., or 1.99 H. P, per ton displacement, Speed on trial, 16.91 knots per hour, A twin-screw naval steamer (English); length 300 feet, beam 46 feet, draught 194 feet; 3,584 , tons displacement; has developed 18,000 horse Vie tne power, with the extraordinary speed of 17,8 knots per hour, Considering that the ratio ; 3 shows but 1.331. H.P, to aton of displace- : ¢ pee cee ment, this isan extraordinary speed for an ar- Aged mored cruiser, os 2 Although none of tLe new unarmored cruisers have develcped a speed equal to that of most of the vessels mentioned in the above list, itis Ox- peeted that wost of the cruisers, both armored and unarmored, that are as yet uncompleted will attain speeds that will compare favorably with the Europeanstandard, The Vesuvius has taken a long step forward, and marks a wellde- _ fined live between the slow coaches of theold _ navy and the long hoped for high spe: of the new regime. That o neers are capa’ the case has been strated; and that ou. succeeded, with so littl failures, in producin; gratulation, — A DERELICT, — Bi: A A telegram received by the hydrographer, navy department from Stornoway (in the Hebrides off the north west coast of Scot land) marks the completion of the long and erratic cruise of the derelict American schooner W. L, White, abandoned off Dela- ware Bay, March 13, during the great bliz- zard. <All of her crew were rescued and the vessel, with masts and portion of her sails standing and ensign set, with union down, started off tothe south east beforea north west gale. Upon reaching the gulf stream she turned away to the eastward and commenced her long cruise toward Europe, a directly in the track of the thousands of yes- As sels engaged in transatlantic commeree, and Pate now after an interval of ten months and ten days she has completed her voyage and lies stranded on the coast of Lewis Island, one of the Hebrides. Her track, as platted on the pilot chart, is re = extremely interesting, illustrating, as it j does, the track followed by a derelict vessel, under the combined and varying influence ie, of the prevaiiing winds and currents, as LE well as the danger to commerce of such ob- ae structions on the high seas, twenty-six of iia which are shown on the pilot chart in their : latest reported positions, and every great ec ocean storm adds tothe number, Pape The most notable feature about the track of the W. L. White is the remarkable zig. zag coutse she followed in mid-ocean between latitude 44 and 51 north, longitude 88 and 44 west, from the begianing of May till the fe : ye ab ate time she followed * COUF#e about east north east at an average rate of about thirty-two miles a day, and a % quently she moved eastward und northwar ‘ 1,200 miles in eighty-four days, an average : ; of fifteen miles a day, but during this long eis interval of six months she remained within ig ee this comparatively small area, drifted back and forth by the gulf stream, and the Labra- dor current and tossed about by the varying winds, a constant menace to transatlantic steamships three of which sighted her ina single day) and an obstruction to navigation 4 shown on no chart except the pilot chart, / During these six months alone she was re- : ported by thirty-six vessels, In her cruise of ten months and ten days she traversed a distance of more than 5,000 4 miles, was reported forty-five times, and how many more times vessels passed dan- gerously near her at night and in thick weather cannot even be estimated. The cruise as indicated by the very complete record in the hydrographic office is by tar the most interesting on record,