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eee” THE MARINE RECORD. Ia ae & _, LAKE CARRIERS’ ASSOCIATION. To consider and take action upon all general questions relating to the Navigation and carrying business of the Great Lakes and the waters tributary thereto, with the intent to improve the character of the servico rendered to the public, to protect the common interests of Lake Carriers and promote their genoral welfare. OFFICERS FoR 1891. §. D. Caldwell, President, Frank J. Firth, Vice Presiden: ‘Thomas Wilson, Vice President P. P. Miller, Vive President. Ira IH. Owen, Vice President.. Charles H. Keep, Secretar: James Carey Evans, Treasurer, BOARD OF MANAGERS, Buffalo, N. Y. Erie, Pa. Cleveland, O: . Buffalo, N.Y. Chicago, Ills. Buffalo, N. Y. Chicago, Ills. Pele Cl eases cise ena W. Bullard, Gen. Mng’r. Union Steamboat C 8. D. Caldwell, Gen. Mng’r. Western Transit Co. E.T. Evans, Gen, Mng’r. Lake Superior Transit Co.. John Gordon, Gen. Mng’r. Northern §, 8- Co... W. P. Henry, Gen. Mng’r. Lehigh Valley Trans. Co P,P. Miller... Frank J. Firth, Pre M. A. Bradley. H. M. Hanna... Thomas Wilson, Manager Wilson's Line Buffalo, N. Y. Buffalo, N.Y. Buffalo, Y. Y. Buffalo, N. Y; Buffalo, N, Y. Buffalo, N. Y. Buffalo, Erie, Pa. Cleveland, 0. » Cleveland, 0. Cleveland, 0. +Y. Harvey H. Brown. Cleveland, 0. A. W. Colton... Toledo, 0. W. Livingstone, Jr., Mng’r. Michigan Nav. © Detroit, Mich. James Davidso Bay City, Mich. W.M, Began... Chicngo, Ills. R. P. Fitzgerald .. Dayid Vance... Alex. McDougall. Duluth, Minn. F. W. Baldwin Ogdensburg, N. ¥. THE MARINE RECORD.—OFFicIAL PAPER. Milwaukee, Wis. Milwaukee, Wia- BUFFALO, N.Y. Special to The Marine Record. Secretary Keep, of the Lake Carriers’ Association, is now at Washington in the interests of lake improve- ments. The Cleveland Vessel Owners’ delegation are well satisfied with the work they have been able to ac- complish thus far, and Secretary Keep will ably supple- ment the views and interests of his Association. The Lake Erie Engineering Works have no notion of being ruled out in their bid for the water works pumps, they submitted the lowest tender, are a responsible firm and believe that local funds should be kept as near home as possible, in this instance, they are capable of doing the work and they desire the contract which they ten- dered for and were the lowest bidders. In addition to his work of measuring the probable outflow of water through Niagara River. Major Stick- ney estimated the cost of constructing a ship-channel from Tonawanda to Port Day, four plans are considered, viz: For a channel 16 feet in depth at low water and 18 feet at mean water stage, 300 feet wide at Conner’s Island and 200 feet wide below, with embankment, $8,694,824.60; a 12 foot channel at mean stage $1,341,029.80; a 9 foot channel at mean stage and 7 feet at low level $380,377.80, while a 6 foot channel at low level with a mean stage of 8 feet with embankment would cost $257,829. The en- gineer believes a channel of eight feet deep at a mean stage of water would accommodate all vessels desiring to pass down the river. Major Stickney is very busy at present preparing to move to his new station at Cincin- nati to which he has been transferred, and to which he will go not unfamiliar with his new duties, since he was previously stationed at Louisville and is well posted on the Ohio improvements from much service on various boards in connection with that work, KINGSTON, ONT, Special to The Marine Record. The schooners Bangalore and Hyderabad, have been sold by A. Gunn to Ryan & Heenan contractors for the Canadian Sault Ste. Marie canal. Mr, Gunn has also sold the schooner Singapore to J. B. Carruthers, Esq. The ice in the vicinity of Wolfe Island is now solid. The Pierrepoint reaches within one mile of the dock and the passengers come out to her on the ice. The wind of the past few days broke up a good deal of the ice beyond Garden Island. A copy of the specifications for the new Government steamer to be built for the fisheries protection service may be seen at Captain Donnelly’s office, by any parties who desire to tender for the construction. The new ves- sels will be 125 feet over all, 22 feet beam and 10 feet 3 inches depth, to draw 8 feet aft and 7 feet forward. Engine to be inyerted compound 18 and 38 cylinders by 22 stroke with one boiler 10 feet 9 inches by 10 feet 6 inches to carry a working pressure of 120 lbs of steel. The hull of course to be built of steel. In the Supreme Court, Ottawa, judgment has just been given in fayor of the appellants in the case of Dixon vs. Richelieu and Ontario Navigation Co, The case arose out of the wreck of the steamer Passport at the entrance to the Cornwall canal in the summer of 1886. Dixon, a commercial traveler, had trunks on board con- ling jewelry, ete. valued at $15,000, which were ruined ; immersed in water. He sued the company and was successful in the lower courts, but the Supreme Court reversed the judgment and decided in fayor of the company. It is thus affirmed that the baggage of com- mercial travelers, who travel on special rates, is at their own risk in transit, they, in accepting reduced rates ab- solving the carriers from responsibilities for damages. The Marine Department has been notified that the steamer William, of Charlottetown, is a total wreck at St. Pierre, Miquelon, and that the crew, nine in all, are in a destitute condition, there beiag no British Consul on the Island. Hon. Mr. Tupper has asked the Ameri- can Consul to relieve the men’s necessities, send them home and charge the expenses incurred to the Canadian Government. The Marine Department have also been notified of the safe arrival at San Francisco of the Quadra, the new steamer built on the Clyde for Govern- ment service in the waters of British Columbia. The Quadra left the Clyde on October 17th; Valparaiso De- cember 9th, and is expected in Victoria on January 3rd, eighty days on the passage. This is considered splendid time for such a small vessel. The Hon. C. H. Tupper, minister of marine, came to this city on Thursday and delivered arattling speech in favor of Mr, Metcalfe. While here an important delegation waited on him and advocated the needs of Kingston harbor. Captain Gaskin laid the matter of the erection of a fog whistle at Nine Mile Point, before the minister. The cap- tain explained that the old bell could not be heard any distance, especially when the wind was blowing on shore. During the past season, fogs had lasted three or four days at atime and once during the season a fleet of vessels carrying 500,000 bushels of grain were detained for three days between the docks and Nine Mile Point. Kingston harbor is one of the most important on the lakes and as asteam whistle could be operated with very slight in- crease of cost over the present arrangement the Govern- ment should build one at once. The placing of the range lights was also discussed and the matter of lighting the new dry dock by electricity supplied by the local com- pany instead of putting in an expensive dynamo was also well ventilated. The delegation thought that as the dock would only be used for eight months in the year the light could be supplied by the Kingston company and the minister promised to lay the different matters before his colleagues and would assist all in his power to have them carried out. MAGNET, OGDENSBURG, N. Y. Special to The Marine Record. Capt. L. R. Plumb has been confined to his house sever- al days with la grippe. Edward Powers, chief mate of the steamer H. R. James has been seriously ill with pneumonia, superinduced by la grippe. He is now convalescent. Joseph H. Normand, for several years steward of steam- ers of the Anchor Line, and later in the O. T. Co’s Line, has leased the National Hotel in this city. He took pos- session January Ist. Capt. Richard B. Chapman, who died January 5th, aged 75 years, was one of the first navigators on the St. Law- rence river and Lake Ontario, and commanded several of the side-wheel steamers of the American Express Line, among them the Cataract and Niagara which plied be- tween Ogdensburg and Lewistown, in the days before the Welland canal. This Line sold out soon after the breaking out of the late war, and the United States Goy- ernment purchased a number of the boats to be used as transports in the service. Capt. Chapman ran the New York, one of the boats purchased, through the Rapids to Montreal on her way to the seaboard, where she was to be delivered, and took the Northerner the entire distance to New York City. During this time he still retained his lake trading interests, owning a number of sailing vessels and haying interests in others, and was associated in these enterprises with James Wade. After the breaking up of the Line, Capt, Chapman spent two years in Buffalo as superintentent of the Lake Erie Navigation Co’s Line of boats. His residence was at Morristown, N. Y., up to 1865, when he removed with his family to Rye, N. Y. He resided there until 1888, when he took up his residence at Ogdensburg. , E. C. R. GREEN BAY, WIS. Special to The Marine Record. The Fort Boiler Works is crowded with work in the boiler line. . The Industrial Iron Works is reporting business good in the repair line. Capt. P. Peterson of thesteamer Christian left for Manitowoc this week on a business trip. Capt. Peter Larson, who commanded the canaler Riversides, takes command of the steamer Sawyer the coming season, The new K, G. B, & W. railway have commenced hanling flour over to Kewaunee for the new winter route established this winter, Capt, P, F, Thrall, owner of the steamer Preston, made a flying business trip to Milwaukee this week, looking after his boat laid up at that port. The propeller Osceola, of the Delaware & Lackawanna Rail- road system, is now running and keeping neyigation open be- tween Manistee and Kewaunee, The Eugene Hart of the Hart Brothers Line is receiving a new crank shaft. The engines have caused them lots of trou- ble since she came out, by the crank not being in line. Henry Colette of DePere is having a light draft barge built for the pulp wood trade. She is to be 128 feet keel, 28 feet beam and 6} feet depth of hold, with a single engine 18 by 20. John Duncan’s shipyard is doing nothing this winter, and his machine shop seems to be in the same quiet stage. He in. tends to compete as a builder of Marine and Corliss engines, and it is huped that he will start business booming in that line soon, O’Leary Brothers, boiler makers, are building a 10 by 14 up- right boiler of their own patent. They prove to bea durable and econmical boiler, having built one last summer, 8 by 10) which is doing the work of two tubular boilers on one-third less fuel. The steam barge P. Sawyer was successfully hauled out on Johnson's yard last week. Sle receives a new steeple com- pound engine 18 by 34 by 30, built by the Manistee Iron Works to repluce the two old ones, changing her into a single screw propeller, The tug Charoley is hauled out in the same yard to receive a new wheel and out-board shaft and steam pipe and a heavier shoe, M. E. B, A. No. 73 installed the newly elected officers Sat- urday evening, closing witha grand s ipper and entertainment. The officers for the ensuing year are Zas follows: President, H. F. Spencer; vice president, E. D. Rusmussen; past presi- dent, L. P. Crand; recording secretary, H. ©. Wheelock; cor- responding secretary, H, F’, Spencer; financial secretary, Paul Dennis; treasurer, Alfred Larson; conductor, Josh Richie; door keeper, Manuel Madison; chaplain, Joe Brow. J. M. TORONTO, ONT. Special to The Marine Record. At the meeting of the Canadian Marine Engineers’ Associa- tion held last week, a letter was read from the ©. M. E. Asso. of British Columbia, asking their views in regard to the amal- gamation of the two societies. The matter was left over for discussion at their next meeting, at which time also the nom-- ination of officers for the coming year takes place. Mr. C, A. Jaques, of the well-known forwarding firm of G. E, Jaques & Co., Montreal, was in the city last week on his annual business tour, and left for the West on Saturday. Mr. Wm. Dickinson, of the Empire Warehouse Co. of Chi} cago, agents for the Montreal steamers, was also in town on business counected with his marine interests, and left for home on Saturday. A meeting of the Canadian Marine Association is to be held shortly, when a great many questions of vital im- portance to the marine interests of the Dominion will be un- der discussion. Mr. Sam Mills, engineer of the prop. Alma Munro, was married on the 6th. inst., to Miss Rees, one of Kingston’s fair- est daughters. The happy couple arrived here on Saturday, to settle down for life’s journey. The Recorp extends its best wishes for their future happiness. A very pleasant event took place in Cobourg last week when Miss May Ewart, daughter of Capt John Ewart, was married to Mr. W. J. Wilson of Hamilton. The bride was the recip- ient of many valuable presents from her numerous friends, After the ceremony the newly wedded pair left for Ottawa and other Eastern cities, and after their return will settle in Hamilton. We extend our congratulations to the happy couple. Sparra, LUDINGTON, MICH. Special to The Marine Record. Capt. William Turgeon, manager of the Ludington and Butterville Ferry Co., is building a handsome ferry steamer for his line. The general dimensions of the boat are 62 feet overall, 54 feet water line, and 50 feet keel, 15 feet 6 inches beam, 5 feet 8 inches depth of hold. She will haye a steeple compound engine 8 by 14 by 14, built by George Goodsell & Co, of this town, and a boiler tested for 125 Ibs steam, build- ing by Thomas Davies also of Ludington, Capt.. Turgeon in- tends having the new boat completed and ready for service by April 15th. ee ae It is given out by the American Steel Barge Co. that the two whaleback package freight steamers building at West Su- perior, are torun between Gladstone and Buffalo in connection with the 300 railway, which has for two or three seasons past, been doing some business out of Gladstone. The Soo is the American line of the Canadian Pacific, and through a company now being organized in Milwaukee, Canadian Pacific interests will control the boats. They will be 320 feet long, 42 feet beam, and 25 feet deep. Theincrease over other whalebacks in the depth of these boats is said to be on account of the gang- ways, which will be so constructed as to take in a part of the tumble-home portion of the hull, —_—_—D oe eae The annual report of the Goverment Inspectors of vessels for the Duluth district, contains a number of interesting fig- ures. The report shows that there are in the district 35 pass~ enger steamers, 15 ferry, 16 freight, 42 towing, 22 pleasure and 33 miscellaneous, making a total of 183. The number of passengers carried, 246,612, shows a very large increase over that of the previous year,