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es city, and Felix Cin 4 yr vemselves, made a success- trip. “She louds | coal for Chicago. nn) on the Robert Mills,is th, Davis & Co., but purchaser e will not be given till the sale is mated, KINGSTON, ONT. he steambarge D. D. Calvin of Garden sland lost her tow of three barges off the Ducks’? and they are now drifting about the lace. Steamers have gone to the rescue. hhree barges, lumber Jaden, are ashore at - Long point, supposed to be the Baldwin’s _ tow from Bay City. The crews are reported lost and the boats going to pieces. The pro- peller Tecuinseh, which ran in here Tues- j day afternoon for shelter, passed three barges = the “Ducks” and saw one man in an yawlboat and another man clinging to a of timber. He thought the barges were tow of the D, D. Calvin. uesday afterncon the schooner Sylvester elon arrived and the captain said he dthe barges also. The Armenia was patched to the rescue. She picked up the ooner Norway fifteen miles from here ater logged—and towed her in. The crew are all safe, but the other two schocners are not in yet nor is the D. D. Calvin. It is feared that the two former have lost some of} shove § The Norway is sailed by Captain | their crew. | managed to come to anchor after being | Special gal Marine Record. ire built by R. were said to be offering 95c without its being | consignment over the new route to arrived at : a Sa . accepted. Port Arthur early this week and is now om : ae The Howard Towing Association, the! Circaco, May, 29.—A. good inquiry existed’ its way to Chicago on board the propeller ee }name of thenew tug line formed at this | for grain tonnage to-day but spot room was|Jay Gould. It was carried from China by The worst disaster that has occurréd on tario 1 ) many years, took place ay. The ymbarge D. D. Caivin, of with: a tow of three schooners a lade otf Looe Point. The tow line parted, ‘and the Norway, Valencia,and Bivarin were lin the trough of the sex, The two former were picked up by the and brought here, The d oon cabin tops fer thout food, and with over them and suffered ria went ashore on Gal strom here, and the ng a wife and three B; first mate Felix ( wed mother; Wi), Island; Sandy |. w, was picked op by the steamer Arme- of only two hands an Will'am a crew of telght in all The yacht Fanchon, owned oy the Rev. _ | Mr. Bloodgood, which his been remodled and iscomparatively new, under thefcuper- vision of A. P. Kinyon, the well. known bailder of our port, was successfully launched and presents a decidedly better appearance, She will ply on the river and flats as an excursion boat, where charterers may call her, Mr. B'oodgood will take commaud with his son Will, to put in the balance of the season_as chief. Charters "| Solicited. The J. P, Donaldson and tow s‘opped at our port this afternoon, on account of her captain, Sharles Marsden, being very ill Tho captain will undoubtedly have to Jay off a trip, so his physician says. The steam barge Otego, Captain § iatte, and tow bound up, stopped at this port for repsirs to her air pump, which was artis- tically repaired by Joseph Wocds & Son. The captain was made happy at 6p. m., Sunday, and when on his way othe Port- age where she will return to Buflalo with cargoes of stone, which will be her last trip down this way. She willtrade between the Portage and Chicago. The sfeamer City of Detroit, formerly of the Detroit and Cleveland line, passed np on her way to Chieage, where she will ply as an excursion boat between there and Sc. Joseph, Captain J. Millen’: steam barge Sea Gul was launched at6.15p. m. The launch was n complete Succes:, and was witnessed by a large number of our people who pio- nounced hera fine looking li'tle -teamer, The Steambarge 8. C Clark, Ciptain C M. Siph, of Marine Ciry, bound up, whe: Sag Isiand ran sground, § e com- pletely demoli-hed her low pressure cyliader H.Smith, the Bavaria by John Marshall) inq jg now ut Pore Haron waiting revai s and the Valencia by R. Lauss. All the crafts belong to Calyin & Co. of Garden island. Tne new boat building at the Muriuve transit company’s yard will probably be Many think the two missing schooners, unless’ yoaqy {o jaunch about July 1. assistance reaches them, will go ashore. The It is probable that Robert Holland will tug Calvin was standing by them when last! 9, commence work upon another boat, seen, butas the boats were waterlogged she | could not pick them up. The Sylvester Neelson sprunga leak oft! the Ducks and when she reached here was full of water. Her crew worked all night and day at the pumps. Captain Sine is her master. Mariners are wharves and waiting anxiously for news of the missing vesselss. he steamer Armenia has just left Garden island and gone to the assistance of the schooners Bavaria and Valencia. The schooner Norway reached Garden is- Jand in tow of the propeller Armenia, sent to her assistance. She is full of water. A telegram has been sent to the life saving * station at Wellington asking for assistance, Another dispatch from Kingston says that the schooner 8. Neelon, from Toledo for Col- collecting on the Encampment. although the deal is not completed. Rozert McNirr. SAULT STE. MARLK, MICH. John Spry and Dunbar Bros,, the Hay Lake contractors will build a teleshone line forty mileslong, from theSoo to the Nebish and Sailor C. W. Farr will probably put up the line for them, It will cost about $1,000 aad will connect with the local exchange. Busi- hess men in these parts hesitate at nothing that will facilitate matters. Contractor Allen has removed all the timber from above the locks and now hasa force of men at work, on the government dock in front, of Fort Brady, framiog the cribs for the new dock. He bas a derrick and pile driver and two scows which be brought from Cherlevoix. The work of sinking the cribs upon the piles, which were driven during the winter, will be begun at the lower end of the dock line. aE Dene UO ts cee | raft towing. | /making her daily trips between this. port and Detroit, with her popular and oblig- ing crew, Captain Robinson, steward Ker- They were: Cuptain} | Alpena. Captain Rattray formerly of the : uchiay Angier 14 inch ‘stein | pu mp from “The echooner aera ws one bas the Calvin’ 3 ‘than it hus been for twelve years, | Tuesday with a monster raft, containing SL port, have four powerful tugs, the Sumner, Castle, Howard and Brady, and are pre- pared to do ‘all kinds of wrecking and in limited supply. Rates to Buffalo ruled firm| steamer direct to Vancouver. Other con— on the basis of 2}c for wheat, 2¢ for corn, signments of rice are now on the way over- and 1}@1jc for oats. The rate paid on corn| the same route. to Kingston was 4@; corn to Georgian Bay was| The contract for dredging at Toledo has. quoted at I}c, and to Sarnia 1}c. Total| been awarded to James Rooney of Toledo capacity for past twenty-four hours; corn, | who bid 20 cents per cubic yard. It is for 225,000 bushels; oats, 212,000 bushels. dredging straight from the mouth of the- Burrato, May 29.—Coal freights are quiet | Maumee river to deep water and is the larg- and firm at unchanged rates. The demand for | est contract for work of this character made- capacity is less actiye, but heavy enough to] on the lake for several years. It covers the take allready vessels. Buffalo to Milwaukee, | extent of the entire available appropriation’ 60¢; to Chicago, 600; to Saginaw, 50c. Canal] of $132,000. The other bidders were Hings— freights are dull and steady at previous quota-|.ton, French and Rogers, 21 cents. tions. Several big shippers made a deter-| The Detroit & Cleveland steam navigatiom, mined effort to break the forwarding com- company have arranged an attractive sche-. pany’s rates, but were repulsed at every turn. | dule of summer excursions for Cleveland, to- be given upon their two fine new steamers the City of Cleveland and the City of Detroit... See Trips to Put-in-Bay will be made on Wednues—. cs ie day, June 26, and Saturday, June 29, and ae three lake rides will be given on July 4. Put-in-Bay excursions will then be given on Thursday, July 6, and on the Saturday and 4 Tuesday following. Thereafter trips will be Hee made to the Islands on Tuesdays, Thursdays, 4 and Saturdays until September 1. The rate: a: from Cleveland fixed by the company for se the butchers’ nutional convention, which. will be held in Detroit from May 27 to June tied 1, is $3 for the round trip. n The tug Haight pulled the steambarge Clarke off the bottom at Sombra Tuesday» the Clarke’s engines became disabled and her captain 1un her aground to save fur- ther damage. si The river steamer Mary looks handsome in her new coat of paint. The river steamer Cole has commenced very nahau; clerk, McFall and engineer, Gos- tage. _ Tug Folger is at Dunfor] & Alverson’s cry dock receiving repairs and also a new wheel, - George Doty of this — has purchased one half interest of the schooner Ironside from Captain Baker of Detroit for $1200. Captain Richardson has resigned master of the tug Sumner and will go to Baffalo to look after the new boat building at the Union dry dock for F. W. Gilchrist of FORE AND AFT, Robert Hunter, for some years master of the schooner Julia Wiliard, has been appoint ed keeper of the Eee Isle lighthouse at Erie. The steambarge O. T. Flint, built by Simon Langell & Sons, was launched at St. Clair on Thursday. She is named for the Buffalo agent of the tna insurance company. The tug owners say that after June 15 they |Will decline to tow any canal boats in the Hamburg canal. They came to this conclus sion on account of the terrible condition of the canal. A vessel has left New York with the first Me Sk Castle tikes command of the Sumnér and Captain Farguson formerly of the Wins- low will command the tug Castle. nn, the 2 marine reporter, re received on Tuts office is in receipt of an invitation to foree.of men and catgo of supplies for the pbs hee conyention, to be held at West beginning of work on the Nicaragua canal. Sveriges Wetec waseer 0, 2800. We ace Phesditlionost/dompauy ‘behind. tha-emer also pleased to note that the chamber of. i pile wanoebisirieus: commerce of Superior and West Superior, Bre C. H. Lane and others, of Buffalo, sold the have issued invitations to the various com—- barge C. B Jones to John Crosthwaite for Mien pee dae ae in: ‘ $10,000, He turned her over to Louder & parca Gee | = him 2: ae ti = : | ound the resolutions 4 bi i i ae for $1R000) Ghd. stkde | spied ouithesothiut: by: the. ‘West Superior- Be The schooner Bay Trader arrived at Port ymca ee be . Colborne Tuesday with 300 tons of coal, SE a ee Conan, taken from the schoouer Leadville, lest at vo boy spennelstows: wilt 7,5, | be found equal to the occasion. While admite- Long Point four years ago. Carter Brothers|. hs E i oe ‘ will attempt to raise the Leadville as soon as Baditbeel obec Mold BN codinn On. 2 the cgal {iad Satoh hae j thusiasm of the citizens at the head of lake The fact that the Ontario coal company will sg = — carry its own goal. this season has caused | prema aks omething of a flutter among the owners the schooners that trade at Montreal. This} company brought in a very large quantity of} coal last year, a and if this-business. is with- drawn it will make quite a difference to th | Lake Ontario craft. A revulsion of feeling regarding the super posed superiority of steel over iron for heavy shafts for steamboats has been gaining strength for some time, and is said that nearly all steel shafts that break nowadays are being replaced by iron. Itis also stated that those made by Krupp, the German iron worker, have fared no better in builders’ timation than some made in this country. the ween engine comany of Bos- oS ae EET SR the Wolverine dry calk ing and other repairs, H. Bridges, a well known e : of Bay City, was here Monday 0 king after his vessel business, ~ Old vessel men at this port say water in St. Clair river at present . that the is lower Captain. John Buzz: it dad ae out west} ‘| for his health, : rent and Mollie Spencer passed this ‘port 8,000,000. feet of umber, pouge for Cleve- Mind. a ee wv Isis. MACKINAC SITY, wicr. The tug Winslow passed down after an unsuccessful effort to release the stranded schooner Erastus Corning from Poverty Island. The tug reports that the schooner is in such bad shape that it is impossible to save her, and that she will have to be abandoned asatotalloss. The agents for the under— writers haye gone to the scene to examine her. The Erastus Corning, 791 tons, was built at Tonawanda by F.N. Jones in 1867 and was purchased last year by Chilson Bros.’ of Lorain, O. Shewas valued at $17,000 and rates Bl, eg- 1eers nied to report upon the féasibility of bridging the Detroit river, will hold another meeting before mak— ing their report. A number of witnesses have expressed a desire to testify before the com~ mission, and for that reason, although some eight or ten days have already been devoted Bids were opened Monday for furnishing 500,000 feet of lumber to go intu the construe tion of the Iron Bay works. A joint bid by Peck & Son and Norton & Co. was the suc- cessful one. The contract calls for the de- PICTON, ONT. The keeper of the S-. Peter lighthous | livery of the lumber by July 15. Work on the| to the hearings, the board will conyene again reports that three lumber laden barges|superstructure of the brick building of the| possibly at Detroit. It may be that the report. are ashore there, and are going to | plant will begin June 1. will not be made public until congress meets;. pieces. They broke loose from a iug Tues-! The Times Democrat of New Orleans feels; The commission was authorized by a resolu- day morning. Icis feured their crews will be lo-t, and a telegram hus been sent to the life saving station at Wellington asking for assistance, quite confident that New Orleans will be selected as the proper location for the Gulf navy yard. Itsaysthatanavy yard is de- manded there by twenty odd states, The naval commission’s report will dwell almost entirely upon physical advantage—upon deep water, materials for shipbuilding, &c., but upon these points New Orleans expects to make as good a showing as any other place on the gulf, Judge Johnson at Milwaukee held that the tion adopted by the senate committe on com— merce, and to that body, through the chief of engineers and the secretary of war, the report will probably be made, In the meantime the: members of the board refuse to express any- thing in the way of an opinion as to whether or not the bridge should be built. In the neighborhood of Detroit there is not so muck opposition as comes from other ports along the line of lakes where considerable vessel property ss owned and the matter of obstruct- FAIRPORT, OHIO, James Moran, a watchman on the steamer Fay, accidentally fell into the hold of that ves~ sel about 8 o’clock Tuesday evening and was so seriously injured that he died from the effects about two hours after it happened. He was 22 years old and a nephew. of the captain. WEST SUPERIOR. WIS. - [attachment of the Huron City at that port|ing navigation in so important a channel is pe The machinery and hoisting apparatus for|after she had previously been libeled and | regarded is something that should not be per the great northern coal dock has arrived and|bonded forthe same claim at another port, | mitted, is being putin position. The St. Paul & Pa—| was legal, and required that a bond be given eK ae 52 Si THE owners of steam yacht Natalie of Ny— ack, N. Y, writes that the Trout: wheel put om his boat hag inereased her speéd about two jmiles per hour that her boilers steam bet— ier, andthat there is a saying of coal of } tom in ten hours ran. Wanted--Marine Engineer, A BE JULY 1st One who has had experience with a Triple Expansion Engine and ean give. the best references. Address. L. G, SOWTER.. Dry Dock Engine Works, Detroit, Micliz.; cific coal dock, which has been undergoing repairs, is now complete and ready to receive coal. to 1nsure the delivery of the boat at Milwau- kee should judgment be obtained against her. | A new combination has been made on the chess-board of lake and rail traffic to let the Canadian Pacific into Chicago. This time it is Pacific coast business which is the prize, The line is from the Pacific coast pert of the Canadian Pacific, Vancouver, by rail over that road to Port Arthur and thence to Chi- cago by the Lake Superior line of steamers. The rail haul is 1,192 miles and the lake run 850 miles, A train odd of rice is the firs ALPENA, MICH. An unknown steambarge ran into a large raft in tow of the Sea Gull, bound for Bay City, breaking it up badly. The tug is now trying to pick it up. LAKE FREIGHTS. The general outlook on freights is now as- suming a more favorable turn, and yesse owners will feel somewhat easier on this score. Grain freight from Chicago has gone up within the last 48 hours one-half cent on the bushel and coal freights are propor-— tionately better. There are more inquiries for vessels to carry coal than there has been since the opening of navigation while ore freights, although not changing, are harden- ing. Should the grain charters take an up- ward tendency from the present quotations there is no doubt but what ore, coal and Jum- oer will rise also. On, the whole we may report a better tone in the freight market than there has been existing for some time past. The price for carrying coal to Lake Su- perior ports was advanced to 50e, and the rate J ACOB B ERNATZ ZL. GEORGE TEBO. t BERNITZ & Tee PROPRIETORS OF THE CENTRAL COAL DOCK: DEALERL IF AT TAK DOCK "Ee, HARD & SOFT OOAL, S222" BOATS COALED DAY OR NIGHT WITH GOOD pipe from Erie to Chicago was made 60c. Vessel owners were reported as asking $1 per ton for | Dack Below the Middle (ound, bringing ore from Escanaba, and shipper pretpsic. pe few rau BedpP™®. WEA 4d" Ee Sa ae at aa ad A | 20 Freer se WATER