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THE MARINE RECORD 5s : BUFFALO, N.Y. Special to The Marine Record. uffalo lodge, E. M. B. A , has removed their headquar- ters to the large rooms over No. 356 Main St., a location which is much more central than the old rooms. “Capt. D. Sullivan and Capt. David Vance, of Milwau- kee, were in the city Tuesday. y -Maytham’s tug office is undergoing a general overhaul- ing preparatory to opening for the season. The annual meeting of the Lake Carriers Association was held Thursday, March 3, in the secretary’s room of the Board of Trade. But few of the managers were present and no business of importance was transacted. President Caldwell’s annual report was read, and the as- sociation approved the bill appropriating $125,000 to be- gin a harbor of refuge at Portage Lake, on the east coast of Lake Michigan. The approval of the association was conditioned on the fayorable report of a committee which was ordered to thoroughly investigate the matter. The Northern Steamship Co, has moved into handsome quarters in the Potter block, on lower Main street. Extensive improvements are being made in the Erie’s dock terminals here. It is said $300,000 will be put into warehouses and other additions this season. Next Monday the Tioga explosion case will be tried in the Supreme Court here. Superintendent M. M. Drake, of the Lackawanna Line, has gone to California, and Capt. W. P. Henry, the Le- high Valley manager, is in New Y ork. The Lackawanna fleet will probably be about the same as last year, though as yet the Newburg is the only steamer chartered outside the company’s own vessels. The Chemung has been undergoing extensive repairs in the Union dry dock. She will be out next week. The Crystal Beach Steamboat Co. have purchased another excursion steamer. She is 123 feet long and 25 feet beam. She was built at Detroit in 1873 and has never until last fall, at least, had a rebuild. The prospects are for lively times among the excursion boats at the foot of Main street this coming season. The landing facilities were most inadequate last year, but, with no more room and about twice as many steamers this year, it will be first on hand is the first to land, and not more than three boats can get up to the wharf at one time. ‘The Northern Line were the first to announce the ap- pointments of the masters of their steamers for the season of 1892. Manager John Gordon is without doubt one of the most skillful line managers on the whole ehain of lakes. The engineers of the fleet have also been appointed, but have not yet been assigned to their boats. MANITOWOC, WIS. Special to The Marine Record. It is expected that some 100,000 tons of coal more than last year will be brought to this port by lake the coming season. P. Olson, shipchandler, has found business pretty fair in his line on account of the number of vessels in winter quarters here. He has had considerable work done on sails and will supply a number of vessels with outfits be- fore the opening of navigation. The Manitowoc Steam Boiler Co. are building a boiler 54x10 feet of 7-16 steel, to be allowed 150 pounds steam pressure for the tug Peter Coates; putting a new fire-box in the boiler of the tug Albatross; building a boiler 11 feet long by 12 feet diameter for the steamer building by Rieboldt, Wolter & Co., ship-builders, Sheboygan. It is of steel % of an inch thick and will be allowed 150 pounds pressure, The Goodrich Transportation Co,’s steamers Virginia, Indiana, City of Racine, Atlanta, Chicago, Sheboygan and Muskegon are undergoing general necessary repairs and being put in first-class condition for next season’s business. On the steel steamer Virginia the duplex air pumps are being replaced by the Knowles compound air pump, and the Howden system of force draft is being applied to the boilers, which changes are expected to in- crease her power 35 percent. Some slight alterations in the cabins for the comfort and convenience of passen- gers will be made. A very powerful search-light will be placed on her foremast, by the aid of which small objects can, it is said, be plainly seen at a distance of two miles, it is of French manufacture and the same as those used on the first-class cruisers of the navies of the world and is the first of that class to be used on any passenger or meant at steamer either on the lakes or ocean. WILLIAMS. SHEBOYGAN, WIS. Special to The Marine Record. - ‘The steamer building by Rieboldt Wolters & Co., Ship- builders is planked fastened and has her deck beams in _ Her dimensions are 185 feet over all, 35 feet beam, 11 feet hold, engine is anew style of English type, high pressure eylinder 16 inches, low pressure cylinder 43 inches, stroke 36 inches, wheel 9 feet 8 inches diameter: by Sheriffs Manufacturing Co., Milwaukee, boiler 12 feet diameter 11 feet long of % steel allowed 150 lbs steam, Conrad Starke’s new deatigrh building by Manitowoc Steam Boiler Works, The steamer will have a water bottom 30 inches deep from floor to bottom a new departure in wooden tonnage. She will be extra heavy strapped, one Strap around her at the rail will be 24 by 5g, diagonal straps 8 by 1¢ inches 30 on each side crossing ,each other in the middle and on lower end rivetted together with hot rivets. She is expected to carry 750,000 feet of lumber. They are also building a tug 66 feet over all, 14 feet beam, 7 feet hold for Henry Van Ells & Co., Milwaukee, She will have an engine 14 by 16 by Sheriffs Manufacturing Co. and a boiler 5 feet 3 inches by 10 by Johnston Bros., Ferrysburg. Shejwill be launched this week and will be named the P. Reckinger. The firm are also building a dump scow 96 feet long, 24 feet wide, 8 feet deep, to carry 220 yards, also a dredge 75 feet long, 28 feet wide, 8 feet deep for the Racine Dredging Co. They have closeda contract to build a fishing tug for Gerhard Muntinga, Sheboygan, 55 feet long, 13 feet beam, 6 feet hold. They have done considerable repairs on vessels in winter quar- ters here. WILLIAMS. DULUTH, MINN. Special to The Marine Record. The crews this week fitout three of the big boats laid up here for the winter. The boats have been lying here light and will be fitted out so early as this in order that they may go to elevators to load grain, Capt, Inman has received orders to get the tug Record ready for business at a very early date, and the famous ice breaker will cut a passage for these boats to the elevators, They load, I believe, at 4} cents a bushel. Ice in the lake is very weak, and cutting for ice-houses has just begun; this, too, is so close to the shore that the board of health forbids the use of the ice cut for any but storage pur- poses. The ice is only about 8 inches thick at the shore and less than a mile out is too thin for safe passage by teams, and is daily wearing away. Already in the bay teams have brok- ev through. This thin skin of lake ice extends only about 10 miles down the shore, and any heavy northeast storm would break it up. So the prospect for an early opening of naviga- tion here is flattering, and reports from the Sault are to the same general effect. The death of Andrew J. Sawyer, head of the great grain receiving and shipping house of A. J. Sawyer of Duluth and Minneapolis, and of the firm of G. G. Barnum & Co. of Buff- alo, has cast'a gloom over trade and shipping circles here, Mr. Sawyer was the first president of the Duluth Board of Trade and had extensive interests in country elevators in North Dakota and a terminal system here. Dealing in mining stocks and the organization of mining com- panies has included a number of heavy grain men as well as others in every walk of life. The latest and one of. the larg- est Mesaba Range Cos. has C, A, Pillsbury the great Min- neapolis miller as director, A, D. Thomson the big Duluth grain exporter, as president, and several other heavy men in the business interested. Crews for most of the local steam vessels, tugs, whalebacks, ferries etc., have been assigned and the work of getting ready for spring goes actively forward. E. W. D. LUDINGTON, MICH. Special to The Marine Record. Capt. John Duddleson goes this week to Buffalo to fit out the steamer George W. Roby. The Roby has a charter for 35,000 tons of iron ore from Ashland to Ashtabula at $1.25 a ton, The steamer Marion, which is owned here, has also been chartered with iron ore from Escanaba, Mich., to Cleveland at 95 cents a ton. Frank Costello goes as chief engineer on the steambarge Sopher. He left for Chicago this week to fit her out, Marshall Costello goes as chief engineer on the steam-barge Colin Campbell, which laid up in Milwaukee, Charles Hall goes as chief engineer on the steam-barge W, J. Carter, which laid up in Chicago, Ill. The F, & P. M. Line of steamers are getting in some yery quick trips. They have all the cars they want now to take away the freight as fast as the boats can get here with it. Capt, William Young will sail the schooner Mars the coming season, He has been doing some repairs on her this winter. Capt. Raimer Young will sail the schooner Conneaut the coming season, and Capt. Louis Sterling will sail the schooner Mercury; Capt. Mose Gerard and Engineer Mike Rick will have charge of the tugJ. P. Hall this season. Capt. Chris. Hanson will take charge of the steambarge M. F. Butters. Capt. William Robinson, who has been master on the steam- er F, & P. M. No. 2 for some time, will leave this week for Manistee to fit out the steamer Petoskey which he was master of last season. Ed Rowe will go with him as clerk on the Petosky. Nestor, PORT HURON, MICH. Special to The Marine Record. It is reported that Capt. Foote, last season master of the Athabasca, will command the steamer United Empire. Capt. Robinson has been appointed master of the steamer Monarch. Capt. William Simes will sail the steamer Seguin this season. Charles D. Thomson of this city has made the following appointments: Steamers, Roancke—Capt. Marten; George E, ase Brockway—Capt. R. Thomson; A. J. Wright—Capt. Andrew Bounsh; M. F, Merrick—Capt. Wash Harrow; F. N. Stine- wood—appointment notyet made. It is reported that the case of W. B. Clark against the steam- er Roumania for running into Clark’s dock at Sarnia, has been settled, the Roumania paying Clark $2,500, Mr. Clark, at the time of the collision, wanted the Roumania to pay him $6,000, Capt. Thomas Harbottle of this city will command the steam- barge Hiawatha the coming season. Last seasou Capt. Har- bottle was mate of the Gogebic, Capt. McDougall, last season master of the steamer United Empire, will command the ©. P. R. steamer Athabasca, George Charlton has been appointed engineer of the steam- er Gogebic, and E, M. Murdock engineer of the steam-barge Hiawatha. GRAND HAVEN Special to The Marine Record. The Grand Haven Shipbuilding Co. are engaged in building a passenger steamer 115 feet long and 20 feet beam to the order of J. H. Webb, Cassopolis, Mich.; a fish tug 105 feet in length and 191g feet beam for the Booth Packing Co., Chicago, also a fish tug for Rudock Bros., Frankfort, Mich., 85]feet long and 17 feet beam, the keel for another fish tug 75 feet in length and 16 feet beam will be laid to the order of the Booth Co. Considerable repair work has been done on the vessels wintering here, and one or two have had repairs amount- ing to a rebuild. H. C. Beeson visited the city this week taking orders for his marine directory, now about ready’to come from press, DETROIT, MICH. Special to The Marine Recora. The excursion steamer Gazelle has been sold by W. A. Ashley and others of Detroit to J. E. Rebstock and others of Buffalo, for $9,500. Gen O. M. Poe opened bids last Friday for contracts to supply valves and valve frames for an 800-foot lock in the Soo Canal. The General commented on the wide differ- ence of opinion, as evidenced by the tenders, which ranged from 9,6-10 cents to 30 cents a pound. J. B. McGuire bid 9.9-10 cents, the lowest received. The other bids were as follows: King Iron Bridge Co., Cleveland; W, C. Colburn, Detroit; Southward Manufacturing and Ma- chine Co., Philadelphia; Russell Wheel and Foundry Co., Detroit; Wicks Bros., East Saginaw; Globe Iron Works Co., Cleveland. Eddy Brothers and Captain Shaw of Bay City have contracted with the Detroit Dry Dock Co. for the con_ struction of a steel steamer 363 feet long over all, 42 feet in beam, and 24 feet in depth, at a cost ofjabout $335,000, This steamer will be about 25 feet longer than the E. ©. Pope, owned by the same company and built by the De— troit Dry Dock Co., which at present is the biggest car- rier on the lakes. The new steamer is to be of the “straightback” model, that is, without sheer. $e 9 + FLOTSAM JETSAM AND LAGAN. Thirteen feet six incbes is the depth of water now reported at Sault St. Marie. Capt. Elmer W. Craine, late of the steamer W. H. Wolf, whose escapade at the close of navigation at Buffalo gave kim unpleasant notoriety, is said to have been in Detroit and Chi- cago recently, The Richeleiu & Ontario Navigation Co.’s new steamer which is now being built at New York will be called the Col- umbia, Her route will be between Kingston and Montreal and according to the contract she will be ready on the 15th of June. Fitzgerald Brothers, of the Port Huron Dry Dock Iron Works, have purchased 200 feet frontage on St. Clair river, midway between the two new Dry Docks, and as soon as spring opens, they will begin the erection of their building, which will be of brick, The machine shop will be 50 by 50 feet, foundry 50 by 50 feet, and boilershop 50 by 100 feat, Thrre hundred steel workers at Wheeler’r sbipyard walked out of the yards last Friday because one of their number had been discharged for shirking. The strikers asked that the man be either taken back or the foreman discharged. The company refused their demands and work on the four government light- ships and the big steel freighter looked like belng delayed. Matters were finally adjusted and work is now proceeding. Lumbermen of the Portage lake district, who are forbidden the use of the Portage lake canals for floating logs to Lake Su- perior, have petitioned the Secretary of War to modify the order, so as to permit them to get a half million dollars’ worth of pine, already cut, to the market, Cheboygan, Mlch., has now been made a full station of the Weather Bureau, and besides displaying wind signals, full observations of the weather will be made. Black Riyer, Mich. will hereafter repeat Alpena wind signals, having been made a repeating station, These changes have been made exclusive- ly for the benefit of the lake marine during the season of nuy- igation, It is expected that lumber freights from Bay City will open at $2 to Buffalo and $1.75 to Ohio ports,