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AND VESSEL OWNERS’ ASSOCIATION. - ORGANIZED IN 1880. (Membership 1800.) One hundred and thirty-eight steamers, and ‘One hundred and thirty-two sail and barge, } Aggregating 245,703 tons. Maintains shipping offices at Cleveland, Ashtabula Harbor, Fairport and Poledo, Regulates wages, protects crews, and takes cognizance of all matters n the ioterest of the members and of the lake commarce penerat'y. OFFICERS. H M, Hansa, * - < - . President M. A. BRADLEY, z 4 . = Vics President Bronow P, McKay, - - Lies Secreiary and Treasurer H. D, Gowuper, - - - 1s . Counsel MANAGERS OR ADVISORY BOARD. H. M. Hanna, R. «. Winslow, H, P. Lillibridge, P. G. Minch, M. A, Bradley, W. D. Reese, George P, McKay, J. H. Palmer, Thomas Wilson, W. ©, Richardson, J. W. Moore, James Corrigan, EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. Ht. M. Hanna, M, A. Bradley, Thomas Wilson, J. W. Moore, George P. McKay, James Corrigan, B. L, Pennington. SHIPPING MASTERS. ‘A BR, Rumsey, 98 dock, Cleveland; Fred Bennet, Assistant, Wm, Rennick, Ashtabula Harbor; Andrew Biemel, Fairport; John O'Connor, 205 Madison Street, Toledo. THE MARINE RECORD.—OFFICIAL PAPER. . TSS — NEWS AROUND THE LAKES. CLEVELAND, 0. Captain M. Driscoll, purchased the small schooner Racine, last week, at marshal’s sale for $300. Mr. Joseph R. Oldham, left for Buffalo, on Wednesday night to inspect the construction of the new Anchor Line steamer building at the yards of the Union Dry Dock Co. The steamers contracted for by the Detroit Dry Dock Go. and the Globe Iron Works o. will also be built under the inspection of Mr. Oldham. Vessel owners should be on the ajert for incendiaries and paltry robbers who are turning their attention to vessels now in winter quarters. A piece of a large hawser, some blocks and other tackle were recently stolen from the propeller H. B. Tuttle and no less than four yachts have received a scorching since navigation closed. The Wilson Liner Spokane the first steel boat built at Cleveland is now to be lengthened forty-eight feet at a eost of about $35,000. The contract has been taken by the Cleveland Ship Building Co., and she will enter the Ship Owners Dry Dock for her new section about the middle of February, this plan is considered a most economical way to increase the carrying capacity of the Liner, The Albany and Syracuse built by the Detroit Dry Dock Co. at Wyandotte were the first steel built steamers on the lakes and they, are considered yery valu- able tonnage to-day, The executive committee of the Cleveland Vessel Own- ers’ Association held a meeting or Saturday and ap- pointed Captain George P. McKay a delegate to go to Washington and appear before the Lighthouse Board and the River and Harbor Committee and present the urgent needs of navigation. Captain McKay was in- structed to select two other delegates to accompany him, The annual meeting of the Association will be held Thursday morning December 31st in the rooms of the Excelsior Marine Benevolent Association. Officers for the coming year will be elected, and other important matters will come up before the Association for action to be taken. ‘ The Marine Engineers’ Beneficial Association, No. 2, met Wednesday night and elected the following officers for the coming year: ©. M. Stoddard, president; J. B. ‘Wood, vice president; J. Kirby, corresponding secretary; 8. H. Hunter, recording secretary; William Lowe, financial secretary; M. B. Sturtevant, treasurer; James Carr, conductor; William Seaman, chaplain; John Me- Monagle, inside keeper; William IF. Rieley, outside keeper; O. N. Steele, J. B. Wood, William Donovan, trustees. The new officers will be installed at the next regular meeting. Messrs. J. B. Wood and Evans Jenkins were elected delegates to the national convention to be held at Washington, January 25. A new vessel Line which smacks something of the American Steel Barge Co., and named the Huron Barge Co., with headquarters at Ashtabula, was incorporated under the Ohio State law on Monday. The company is formed for the purpose of owning steamships, sailing vessels and barges for the transportation of ore, coal and other freight upon and over the seas, navigable rivers and great lakes, with power to construct or purchase yessels and machinery, and to do a towing business on the seas, control docks and do a general stevedore, docking and commission business, ‘The capital stock is $500,000 and the incorporators are Samuel M, Mather, C. W. P. Murray, H.G. Dalton, Harry Coulby and J. H. Hoyt. CHICAGO, ILLS. Special to The Marine Record. The schooner American Union is receiving part new stern and quarters and some new bulwarks and general repairs. Miller Brothers presented’ their employes, numbering nearly 200, with a fine turkey Christmas eve. to enable them to enjoy a good Christmas dinner. ‘Tom Sullivan, the marine grocery supply man, did a big business last season and he will use his best endeay- ors to:increase his vessel trade next season. Robert Hill’s, Chicago engineer supply house and brass works, is just closing a very prosperous year and getting ready for the spring trade, which bids fair to be exten- sive. ‘A direct result of the agitation regarding the building of a revenue marine steamer for Lake,Michigan, is to be found in the recent visit of Lieut Carden, who was ordered to the Lakes to make a report on the needs of the service. Nearly all the:captains of steamers laying up at this port have gone home, but we have still quite a number of engineers here who will be glad to get home as soon as they have completed laying up the machinery on the steamers they have done good duty on during the past season, The steamer F. M. Butters, Capt. Louis Oleson, made fifty round trips between Chicago and Ludington during the past season. She also took over two locomotives weighing forty-five tons each, irrespective of tenders, from Milwaukee for Butters and Peters for use in their logging camps. The schooner Danforth was chartered last week for wheat for Buffalo at 51g cents for storage and delivery. The steamer George W. Morley is loading wheat this week for Buffalo at 51g cents for storage and delivery. The steamer Iron Age was chartered Tuesday for wheat, to Buffalo at 51g cents for storage and delivery. The grand jury has brought in an indictment against Thomas J. Elderkin, Thomas Nelson and Robert Lind- holtz, officers and members of the Seaman’s union, for conspiracy. It is alleged that the defendants conspired to keep non-union seamen from shipping on lake vessels or from performing certain labor at less wages than the scale established by the seamen’s union. At Chicago Dry Dock Co.’s the tug Robert Farrant is in dock for anew stem and apron, some new outside planking and general repairs. One of Dodges dredges is in dock for a thorough rebuild, repair work is being done on the Brittanic, Escanaba, Ashland, J. B. Merrill, Verona, Ewing, Iron King, G. W. Morley, A. C. Van Raalte, Danforth and City of Cleveland. Gunder Michelson, aged 83 years, died Christmas at the residence of his son Alvor Michelson, vessel-owner. He was anative of Norway and was a salt water captain sailing out of that country, and he was a rigger in Chicago when his son was sail maker here many years ago. He leaves a widow 85 years of age; he was buried on Sunday at Graceland cemetery, and many of his old Scandinavian friends attended his funeral. At Miller Brothers dry docks the steamer Columbia 1s in dock for re-calking, the Anchor Line steamer Wissa- hickon is in dock for a new fore foot and repairs, the steamer Hudson was in dock for repairs to stern bearing, the schooner C. J. Magill will receive new outside plank- ing from low water mark up, new frames where necessary, new kelsons and other repairs. The schooner Lem Ells- worth went out of dock Tuesday morning, also one of Green’s dredges and their places were taken by the schooner Windsor for a thorough overhauling and rebuild and the steamer Josie Davison for a general rebuild, she is also to receive a new steeple compound engine 14 and 6 and 12 by Warringtons Vulcan Iron Works, Chicago. The grand jury brought a true bill last week against Thomas J. Elderkin, Thomas Nelson and Robert. Lind- holtz officers and members of the Chicago Seamen’s Union for conspiracy. The indictment charges them with “preventing Ernest G. Schisbert and Capt. John Freer from using and exercising their trade and profession as managers and sailors of certain water craft and boats which they then used and exercised on October Ist, 1891.” Capt. Freer says the trouble arose out of one man quit- ting the schooner Badger on the fifth day of July while at anchor in the Straits of Mackinac. When the Badger arrived at Chicago the Seamen’s Union libeled the vessel for the seaman’s wages—$12 traveling expenses and $10 proctors fees, which he refused to pay and bonded the vessel. The next trip when the schooner was loaded and a tug alongside to tow out, the delegate Nelson stepped up and said that President Elderkin sent him to tell me that if I did not pay that man what he asks and pay all costs and take the case out of court he was to take the erew and that neither I nor the vessel would sail any more this season. Capt. Freer told him the case was in United States Court and he would get justice, but Nelson said they would not have it that way, Capt, Freer told Nelson that if the crew were slaves enough to go at his bidding they might go, but if they did not want to go no _ man could take them, so the Badger then lay five days with men watching her, but when Capt. Freer got ready % he sailed. Hesays he will commence suit for $3,000 damages this week and he also states that he will put them where they belong if he ean get alittle assistance financially. WILLIAMS. : TORONTO, ONT. Special to The Marine Record. Messrs. Inglis & Son commenced last week to cut out the old boilers of the steamer Campana, which are to be replaced by new ones this winter. Messrs. Doty & Co. are preparing the steel frames, ete, for a composite tug for the Collingwood Dry Dock Co, The iron work will be shipped by rail from here, and put in position at Collingwood where the Dry Dock Co, will complete the work. Captains McSherry and Baker have got the schooner Flora Carveth off the beach at Whitby and she has un- loaded the balance of her cargo of coal. One thousand dollars was the contract price for floating the vessel and unloading her after taking her into Whitby harbor. The steamer Empress, of India, now in winter quart- ers at Picton is undergoing extensive repairs. Last winter a large sum was expended on her hull, and now it is intended to give her a new main deck, stanchions and bulwarks, also to lower her shafts and provide her with teathering buckets thereby increasing her speed. The cruiser Constance that was built at Owen Sound last summer has been transferred from the Marine De- partment to that of the Customs, and will be used to look after the whisky smugglers in the lower St. Lawrence : who have become very daring in their operations. It is said that plans are being prepared by the Marine Depart- ment for another steamer to replace the Constance in addition to the one now on the stocks at Owen Sound. The Marine Engineers Association held their first meeting of the winter last week in Shaftesbury Hall, Mr. S. A. Mills, first vice-president, occupied the chair. A number of new members were admitted to the asso- ciation, and a mass of correspondence which has aceu- mulated during the past threes months was attended to. The members passed a resolution of condolence to Mrs. Baird, widow of the late Mr. J. Baird, who at his death was president of the association. | No decision has been given yet in the suit for dam- ages arising out of the collision between the steamer Eurydice and yacht Widgeon. After all the evidence was in, the Judge charged the jury and gave them twelve | questions to answer to which they returned but two in- telligible answers, leaving the decision as far off as ever - The Judge in discharging said that he was pleased to discharge them but regretted that they had not come to some more definite decision. He decided to reserve judg- ment until he could look into the law on the subject. I agree with your correspondent “Surveyor” in last week’s issue that it is a shame to have such cases go before a jury composed mostly of farmers who hardly know one end of a steamer from another. SPARTA. BUFFALO, N.Y. Special to I'he Marine Record. Shipping-master Boyd, is on trial for shooting a dele- gate of the Seaman’s Union last summer. It is thought that sufficient provocation can be shown to have war ranted the shipping-master in his action. From a careful computation of custom house figures it is learned that 2.365.895 tons of coal was shipped from this port to57 lake ports during the past season this shows an increase of 186,125 tons over the season of 1890. Major Stickney, the United States Engineer, at this port raceived instructions some time ago from Wasbington to ascertain the outflow of water through Niagara River The Major has already made some valuable measure- ments but it will be some time before the actual results of the survey are compiled. The local life saving crew were not called on to attend any serious disasters this season but Captain Williams and his men were ready at all times todoso. The Buf falo record is: Disasters attended, 14; lives imperiled, 52; lives saved, 52; lives lost, 0; property imperiled, $195,035; property saved, $190,285; property lost, $4,750; bodies re- covered, 1. ‘The Excelsior Marine Benevolent Association has again got into working order for the winter, at its last meeting appropriate resolutions were passed on the loss of Captain Thomas Riordan, who with his crew lost their lives in the schooner George CO. Finney on Lake Erie on November 17th, The resolutions speak of him as ‘a true sailor, benevolent, large hearted and always ready t relieve all in time of distress or in need of help or assist- ance.” Captain Riordan was a member of the order al his death is sincerely mourned. He was well known to th lake trade, and had the good will of all his associates, kindly manner bringing him into easy prominence, —