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* P foigde:tereat of the members and te ‘M. Hanna, R. K. Winslow, uw p (ORGANIZED 1880.) VELAND VESSEL OWNERS’ ASSOCIATION. ae cok (Membership 1892.) r and Bashunted and frttooraatt and argo, || Aeeoeting 20415 font iw e Cua ie yatery ‘cognizance of all matters of the lake commerce generally, EG) 5 é ‘ . President. ee alee 7 E - "Vice-President, aan Fe McKay, - - - - Secretary and gpcsuiep ), GOULDER, . . . 5 . t MANAGERA OR ADVISORY BOAR , ‘Thomas Wilson, P. G. Minch, M. A. Bradley, » D. , Geo. P, McKay, J. H. Palmer, B, L, Peanington, W. ©. Richardson, J, W. Moore, Jas. Corrigan, H. G, Dalton, H. H. Brown, 2 BXECUTIVE COMMITTEE : Bradley, Thomas Wilson, J. W. Moore, Geo. P. McKay, james Corrigan, B, L. Pennington. SHE MARINE RECORD,—Official Paper, Hi, M, Hanna, M. A. CLEVELAND, O. Captain Joseph Doville and Captain BE, ©. Benham have dissolved partnership in the vessel brokerage and mariue insurance business. Captain Benham has opened anew office in the Perry-Payne building, and Captain Poville enters the arena for mariue favors under the firm name of Joseph Voville & Son in the same building. The junior partner of the latter firm is a well known energetic young man who has been in the vessel line during all of his business career. The lighthouse tender Amaranth, built by the Cleve- land Ship Building Company, has been accepted by the Lighthouse Board. In a letter to Mr. Joseph R. Oldham, who superintended the construction, Col. William Ludlow, U.S. A. Corps of Engineers, and inspector of the light- house district, speaks in very high terms of the speed, seagoing qualities, and the entire excellent work through- out the vessel. It is a pleasure to chronicle the success- ful completion of special class tonnage, and to give the full measure of credit to the skill of lake shipbuilders. Mitchell & Co., vessel owners, brokers, and insuranoe agents, have just added to their fine suite of offices in the Perry-Payne an elegantly appointed private office. The members of the drm, Captain John Mitchell, Mr. John C. Fitzpatrick, and Mr. John F. Wedow, are a trio of ener- getic men who are thoroughly well versed in the vessel business, and they now represent a large volume of ton- nage, which is being taken care of to the entire satisfac- tion of their several owners. The well known firm of Sherman, Hoyt & Dustin will move their offices in a few weeks from the present loca- tion in the Perry-Payne to the new Western Reserve building. Captain McKay, general manager of the Mutual and Menominee Line of steamers, has just returned to port after releasing the stranded steamer German. Prompt measures and no lack of assistance made the work of floating the large vessel the work of only a few hours, and no great amount of damage is anticipated from the casualty. The Menominee Lire fleet of six steel steamers and the Mutual Line of three high classed 1odern steel steamers have nearly all made their second round trips between Escanaba and Ashtabula on their regular five day schedule time. This record shows highly favorable «for their machinery and the men who look after it. Mr. F. B. Smith, late chief engineer of the yacht Wa- dena, which he left at Alexandria, Egypt, arrived home on Tuesday. He took passage for London in an Ocean Steamship line steamer, and came across the Atlantic on one of the Inman line ships When asked about the rumor that the Wadena had sunk in the Mediterranean Sea, he said that the great sea was quite a region for rumors, and that nearly every large pleasure yacht that had sailed upon its waters had at one time or another been reported lost. “The failure to hear from her,’ Mr, Smith continued, “is very easily ac- counted for. When I left, the party had arranged to go to the Holy Land, and were to disembark at Jaffa, where the yacht would be kept for three weeks or a month, and where there is no telegraphic communication, so that when this story was started the party were doubtless all on dry land. I understand, however, that the rumors of disaster could be traced to no source outside the city. If so, there is reason to suspect malice in the spreading of such a report, as I never had my foot on a finer little sea boat, and would cheerfully risk a Cape Horn voyage in her, H.R. Spencer, proctor in admiralty, Duluta Minn., visited the city this week in company with Mr. John McKinley, owner of the McKinley mine in the new Me- saba range, and one of tne hest known mine owners in the North-west. While here Mr. McKinley made arrang- ments for receiving his ore shipments at Lake Erie poris for the season. Both gentlemen started West again on Wednesday night. THE MARINE RECORD. CHICAGO GRIST OF MARINE ITEMS. Special Correspondence to The Marine Record. Cuicaco, Itt —H. Channon Co. have furnished the outfit for the two splendid new steel steamers Maritana and Cardillac, building by the Chicago Shipbuilding com- pany at South Chicago. James B. Bates, the well known foreman of the Chi- cago Dry Dock Co. for so many years, las arranged to open a shipyard at Brown and 'wenty-second streets, head of No. 2 Burlington slip, South Branch of Chicago river. The firm will have a down town office at Finney & Channons, ship chandlers, 4 Market street. ‘At Miller Brothers dry docks the scow H. Bevker is in dock for re-calking, the sloop yacht Seorpion for altera- tions and rebuilding. The schooners Cape Horn and Norman were in for recalking- Graham & Morton’s splendid steel side wheel steamer City of Chicago arrived here Tuesday morning from Ben- ton Harbor and St. Joseph on her first trip this season, with nearly 100 passengers and a full load of merchan- dise. She looks elegant both inside and outside. Her hull bas been painted black to the water line and red be- low it; her smokestacks are also painted black and her cabins and upper works white. The social hall has re- ceived a new polished oak floor and some improvements have been made in the ladies cabin and toilet rooms. Captain C. McIntosh is in command, A. J.Simons Ist mate, W.J. Russell 20 mate, Wm. J. McClure chief engi- neer, Amos Phillips assistant engineer, Charles Young clerk, Charles Tebbetts steward. The City of Chicago is a great favorite with excursionists. She will run tri- weekly trips this week, and commence next week to make daily trips. The steamer Walter Vail and consort Baltic loaded wheat Tuesday at Gladstone for Buffalo at 234 cents. The charter was made by Burton, Calbick & ‘ook, vessel agents, about a month ago. L. L. Burton, of the firm of Burton, Calbick & Cook, returned to Chicago Tuesday from a journey East on business. Grain charters had an upward tendency on Tuesday. Some cargoes were taken at 2 cents on wheat and 1 3-4 cents on corn to Buffalo. There is no change for the better in lumber freights. Plenty of loads are offered, but vessel owners are holding out for an increase in rates. The schooner George A. Marsh arrived Sunday minus her foretopmast, which was carried away near the’ Foxes in a heavy gale. The schooner R. B. Hayes, laden with coal from Buf- falo, arrived here Monday morning from Escanaba in tow of the steam barge City of New York. The schooner had her fore and miintopmasts, square and _ topsail yards and jibboom and sails carried away last December on Lake Michigan, and ran into Escanaba, where she spent the winter months. The Independent Tug Line have had one of the Beck steam steerers placed on their tug Ira O. Smith. The schooner H. A. Richmond, Capt. Dorn, bound from Cheboygan to South Chicago with lumber, ran on Hyde Park reef about 3 a.m. Saturday. The V. O. T. Co.’s tug Black Ball went to her assistance, and after about 25,000 feet of the schooner’s deck load was light- ered the tug succeeded in releasing her at 10 o’clock the same morning. The L. M. & L. 8. Transportation Co.’s steamer City of Duluth, Capt. D. McLain, left here Tuesday evening with merchandise for Duluth and intermediate ports on Lake Michigan and Lake Superior. The steamer Jay Gould, which left here Saturday after- noon for Duluth, ran on Racine reef the same night. She was towed off and taken into Racine and was then towed to Milwaukee and put in dry dock, where it was found that a bent shoe was the only damage she had received. She took on more cargo and left Milwaukee for her des- tination Monday night. The Goodrich Company’s fine steamer Atlanta arrived here Tuesday night from Manitowoc. She will be placed en route at once between Chicago and Grand Haven and Muskegon. Capt. Dorcey, of the Goodrich’s Cvu.’s steamer Indiana, was compelled through sickness to leave the steamer on her arrival from Milwaukee Tuesday. Capt. Raleigh will probably be put in command for the present. Henry Bloecker, engine builder of Grand Haven, was in Chicago on Monday. He has been very busy all the winter building new engines and doing considerable re- pairs to machinery on the steamers John Otis, Faxton City of Grand Rapids, Mary H. Boyce and Wisconsin and tug C. Williams. He has contracted recently to build a high pressure engine 26 by 30, with independent condensor, for the Williams Trans. Go., South Haven for a steamer building there by Capt. John Martel, which is to be ready for lake traffic by May 1, 1893. The steamer City of Marquette lett here Monday to go en route between Kewaunee, Wis., and Frankfort, Mich. The A ai i i nehoi Line steamer Lehigh left this port on her j The fees formerly paid to collectors of cu Sin first trip this season Monday night were inspected they showed signs 0: remained in port for repairs. Mt The U.S. steamer General Hancock, comman low, was in this port on Monday and had hereomp justed for deviation by Prof. John Maurice, the Chi compass adjuster. i Capt. John W. Keith, who will represent Chie: sel owners at Detroit at the meeting on the 28) Capt. Frank B. Higgie, Secretary of the Chicago y Owners’ Association, are working hard and meetin great success in obtaining a large number of ers at this port as members of the new associat Lake Vessel Owners. 2 ‘The schooner Cora A of this port, whieh was in ion with the steamer City of Paris last week, s from Ladington to Manitowoe, and had repairs m; Burger & Burger, her builders, and left for Pine load lumber for Chicago. Witty ep as 3 SOUNDING THE CHANNEL AT TONAWANDA, Special Correspondence to The Marine Record. ai Burrao, N. Y.—Tonawanda lumber merchants who ) thought the depth of Niagara river was suflicient to “safely float a vessel” drawing fourteen feet, took a ae of Buffalo vessel men on a tug, Tuesday, to make sound. * ings in the channel. The scraper with which they took — the measurements broke on an obstruction after some — work had been done, and the soundings were completed — with lead and line, which could hardly give a conclusive result. Nothing shallower than fourteen feet was found, but another trial will be made, and the result published. ™his will doubtless lead to changing the position of the buoys which now mark the channel. The excursion steamer Oclemena was brought from Sodus’s Point by Captain A. J. Gilbert this week. She will run to Eldorado on the river. sloan & Cowles have ordered Kentucky oak timber and planking for a new excursion steamer which is to be ready for business during the summer. ‘ The coal situation could not very well be worse than it is. The orly company willing to do any shipping is the Delaware and Hudson Company. They have chartered room for about 4,500 tons, all of which will have tobe wheeled on board. The other companies are restricting production according to agreement, and have none here to ship. } ns) The Sailors’ Union is growing in strength here since Shippingmaster Boyd has been in durance vile. The Union occupy Boyd’s old quarters, and take off non- union crews from sailing vessels about as they please. The Grand Jury found no indictment against Boyd on the last charge of grand larceny preferred against him, and now all that stands between him and liberty is bail which he has so far been unable to secure. ‘rhe $15,000 insurance on the schooner John B. Merrill was all placed through John L. Crosthwaite of this city. A log jam, formed of discarded piles and timbers thrown into the Blackwell canal by dock repairers, 0¢ curred at the Lehigh Valley Bridge last Friday, and it took tugs to break it. Floating debris of this kind broke the wheel of the tug Medina Monday, and is a menace to the safety of all craft. The schooner Comanche, which was blown in here in a disabled condition late last fall, during a gale, has had a very thorough rebuild. She has reloaded her cargo of 19,000 bushels of wheat, which was stored here during the winter, and cleared for Oswego. pant The first arrival from Duluth was the steamer 5. R. Kirby, which reached here Sunday. ™ The steamer William Harrison, intended for service on Niagara River this season, has reached Quebec on her way from New York. She will be here next week. PARKE a eee CHANGES IN THE INSPECTION LAWS. Special Correspondence to The Marine Record. Kinasron, ONt.—The Hon. Minister of Marini introduced another act “To further amend the boat Inspection Act,” which provides a great changes in the latter act. The new act brings provisions not only vessels propelled by steam, vessels “propelled by any machinery or power other sails or oars.” In the amended act the Go Council may direct that the act or certain thereof, shall apply to, or shall not apply to, an boat, or class of steamboats, registered elsewhere in Canada, and the Goyernor-in-Council is also em ered to make such regulations as are deemed with respect to boats to be carried by steal other vessels mentioned in the act. In futui shall act in the double capacity of engineer | on any steamboat, or as engineer and fire steamboat, over seven nominal horse-po} quired by law to carry a certificated engin cases where the boiler is fired from tl