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THE MARINE RECORD. _ gave out and the barge went hard ona reef near the Inlet, Pier. The captain of the Troy refused help from Buf- falo tugs saying that the Tonawanda tugmen had got- ten him into trouble and would have to get him out. The disabled tug was picked up by the tug International. Sloan & Cowles have made the following appointments on their steamers: Pilgrim, Arthur G. Gilbert, master; Augustus Dilliott, engineer. Oclemena, John O’Brien master; William Bradley, engineer. Vision, Wright Tax- ter, master; B. Whittakcr, engineer. A. H. Sloan, George Robinson, master; William Kramer, engineer. It toox five tugs to pull the Columbia out of the mud in the slip into which she was launched. Mr. Murphy intends to build another steamer next winter, and he will probably select some spot with better water near by. PARKE. BAY CITY SHIPBUILDING. Special Correspondence to The Marine Record. Bay Crry, Mron.—Capt. James Davidson has been elected one of the board of managers of the new Lake Carriers’ Association. The steambarge D. Leuty and tow made the first round trip to Buffalo and return. The steamer Ossifrage that was taken out and length- ened 30 feet at Wheeler & Co.’s has been re-launched. The tug Rumage which has been given a rebuild at the same yard, has also been Jaunched. Her name will be changed, and she will hereafter be known as the Charles Smith. The schooner Montana, owned by Mitchell Barkell, of this port, and which has lain on the bottom of the river all winter has been raised to allow her to be taken up the river, and the ore of which there are about 400 tons taken out when she will be taken back to the dry dock for a rebuild. At James Davidson’s yard three large steamships and two schooners are being built. The former are known as Nos. 48, 49 and 50, and are exactly alike, being 330 feet over all, 45 feet beam and 26 feet deep. Nos. 48 and 49 are rapidly nearing completion. Two boilers each 14 feet long by 1114 feet in diameter are being placed in 3 position in No. 49. They were built by the Cleveland Ship Building Co. The frames of No. 50 are all up and the inside sheating on. They will cost about $150,000 each. The frame of one schooner is nearly all up, and the keel of the other is being laid to-day. All these boats are tor the Davidson Trausportation Co. J. P.R. CHICAGO, ILLS. Special Telegram to The Marine Record. The Beck steam steerer on the Independent Tug Co.’s tug Ira O. Smith was given a first trial last Friday after- noon, and was pronourced a complete success. Captain Thomas Nelson, formerly mate on the steam- karge Charles Rietz, has been appointed master of tre schooner Agnes L. Potter. C, A. Barker, lumber merchant, has purchased the tug Mary McLain, of the Chicago Towing Company. She will go to Traverse City for towing purposes. Captain A. Cleghorn will command her. The L. M. and L. 8. T. Co.’s steamer, City of Tra- verse, left here Sunday, ard the Peerless, Wednesday, for Lake Superior, on their first trips this season. They both took full loads of merchandise and a number of pas- sengers. Captain Kirtland, the well known wrecking master of former years, is now commander of the Goodrich Trans- portation Co.’s side wheel steamer Muskegon. The O. T. Co.’s steamer, William J. Averill, was in dock last week for a new fore foot and re-caulking. Captain John A Keeling, aged 47 years, died at his late residence, 4111 West Washington street, Chicago, Tues- day night, April 26th. Captain Keeling’s last command was the schooner Resumption, of the Ford River Lum- ber Co.’s fleet, which he brought out and sailed for 12 years. TORONTO, ONT. Special Correspondence to The Marine Record. The steamer Rosedale, Captain James Ewart, left for Port Arthur on Saturday to load wheat for Kingston. The new propeller being built by Captain J. B. Fairgrieve at Ham- ilton will be called the Arabian, She is to be Jaunched the 1st of June and will be ready for business about the middle of July. Melancthon Simpson, the well known shipbuilder, is superintending the construction of the wood work of the vessel and his name isa guarantee of excellent construction Captain Henry Chestnut will sail the Arabian, She will rade between Montreal and Duluth. The schooner Sir C, T. Van Straubenzie loaded lumber Ke for Oswego. Schooners Emerald, J. G. Worts, Denmark and Norway loaded equare timber for Garden Island. Schooner Fabiola {cleared with 10,000 bushels barley for Kingston. The schooners Lady Macdonald, Clara Youell, Green- wood, Laura, S. J. Collier and Dundee arrived with coal. Mr. E. Smily has been appointed purser of the steamer Cam- _ pana, _ .The steamer Macassa, of the Hamilton Steamboat Co., made her first appearance this season in port on Saturday last. She is looking in first-class trim this season, having received a thorough outfit everything about her is as neat and clean as paint and varnish can make ip. She will make daily trips until the Ist of June; after that date making double trips. : Her officers for this season are: Captain, A. W. Orawford; mate, Juo. W. Maddock; Ist engineer Wm. Noonan, and purser, M. Arthur. Mr. Fergus Armstrong, popularly known as Fergie, will again act as Toronto agent of this company and will no doubt secure a large proportion of the freight and passenger business of the port. The steamer Modjeska, of this line, will not commence her trips until about the 15th of June. Captain John O’Brien, of Brooklyn, N. Y., U. 8. special steamboat inspector, arrived in the city on Friday. He had been at Port Dalhousie, where he inspected the propeller Acadia, and during his stay here he inspected the steamers Cibola, Chicora and Oungiara, of the Niagara Navigation Co.’s fleet. He left on Sunday night for Montreal, where he will inspect the propellers Cuba and Alma Munro, The stenmer Cibola moved from her winter moorings to Geddes Dock on Saturday to take on fuel and left the same night for Kingston, where she will go on the government dry dock to have her hull scraped and painted, and generally overhauled, preparatory to commencing her season’s business on the Lewiston, Niagara and Toronto route, Captain John McGiffen has got the Cibola luoking in elegant trim this season and she will undoubtedly be one of the prime favorites for Toronto’s excursionists and traveling public, The propeller Ocean arrived in porton Thursday last from Hamilton on her first trip to Montreal. She had a profusion of bunting flying and made quite a gay appearance. Her cabin and staterooms have received a thorough renovating in anticipation of a large passenger business, and her bull also | has not been neglected, but everything has been done to put her in first-class shape throughout. Her managing owner, Mr. W. A. Geddes, had invited quite a number of ladies and gentlemen to a sail on the lake on Thursday afternoon. A large number responded to the invitation and in spite of a strong wind and cloudy sky a very pleasant time was spent, The steamer left the wharf at 3 o’clock and went as far as the Exhibition grounds, and returning steamed «round the bay for abont an hour; refreshments were served on board and everyone present expressed themselves as being delighted with the trip and the appointments of the steamer. She left for Montreal on Thursday night with a fnll load of merchan- dise and a number of passengers. ‘The officers of the Ocean are: Captain, J. T. Towers, 1st mate, T, Toupin, Ist engi- neer, R. J. Black; 2d engineer, Robert Lloyd, and purser, John Malcolmson. i Mr. Frank Polson, of the Polson Iron Works Co., was in Ottawa on Saturday on business in connection with the Marine Department. The cruiser Curlew will be launched at Owen Sound on May 23d. Ata meeting of the Royal Canadian Yacht Club held last Saturday night the following officers were elected for the year: Commodore, A. R. Boswell; vice-commodore, T. G. Blackstock; rear-commodore, C. A. B. Brown; honorable secretary, 8. Bruce-Harman. ‘The present year promises to be an unusually bright one for the club, many applications for membership having been received. Mr. J. H. Morley, late passenger agent of the C. N. W. Ry., has been appointed to the position of general passenger agent of the Richelieu and Ontario Navigation Co.,with head- quarters at Montreal. On Saturday night a complimentary banquet was tendered him at the Albany Club by the :ailway and steamship agents, when a very enjoyable time was spent and be was wished good luck in his new sphere of work. Mr, R. O. Mackay, of Hamilton, was in the city on Mon- day and on hia arrival received a telegram from Hamilton, stating thata message had been received from Captain Joha Clifford that the propeller Celtic had bee 1 sunk off Rondeau during a dense fog in collision with the propeller Russia,- of Buffalo, and that the cook, Margaret Strachan, of St. Cath- arines, had been drowned, ‘The message was sent from Ridgetown, and the crew were on their way to Hamilton. Later despatches state that after taking off the Celtic’s crew the Russia had to be run for the shore, and was beached one mile east of Rondeau Piers. The Celtic was owned by Mackay’s Sons, of Hamilton; wag built in 1874 by Arch Robertson, classed A 2 and valued at $16,000, She was in- sured for $12,500 inthe /Htna lusurance Co,, placed through the general agent at Chicago. She was bound from Toledo to Montreal, loaded with 17,000 bushels corn, consigned to D, G. Thomson. Captain John Clifford, of the steamer Lake Michigan, wasin charge of her this trip, as Captain Oliver Patenaude had been compelled to leave her before she left Hamilton on account of the serious illness of his wife at Kingston, The other officers of the lost steamer are: Ist mate, Louis Lefaivre; 1st engineer, Edward Taylor; purser, James Fitzgerald, On the 2d inst., there was launched at Collingwood a very powerful tug built by the Collingwood Dry Dock Company from designs by Mr. 8. D. Anderson, superintendent of the dock. She is called the Reliance and is owned by the Emery Lumber Co., of Midland, her dimensions being 130 feet long, 24 feet beum and 111g feet deep, She will be sailed by Captain F, Burke. SPARTA. DULUTH, MINN. Special Correspondence to The Marine Record. Dururn, MInn.—After several days of waiting in the ice off Duluth about 50 vessels arrived here in a bunch last Thurs- day and the coal docks and elevators have suffered. Ship ments for the week have averaged over 500,000 bushels daily, and for the entire week have been 3,100,000 bushels, In the same time receipts have been large, reaching a total of 900,000 bushels, The month of April just past leads any April in the history of the port, with receipts and shipments of breadstuffs, as follows: Received, flour, 92,052 Ibs., wheat, 4,607,497 bush.; flax, 26,415 bush; shipped flour, 84,766 bbls.; wheat, 3,669,844 bush.; flax, 110,880 bush. Produced flour, 63,992 bbls. There is in store here now 15,000,000 bushels wheat and 250,000 bbls. flour, against wheat a year ago of 5,065,000 bushels, The present week bids fair to beat the spring record again in shipments, as the elevators, as well as the coal docks, are crowded with vessels. In fact, there never has been a time when Duluth and Superior harbor has shown such a fleet of fine Iakecarriers. To add to the big fleet thirty vessels arrived Sunday. At the docks of the Lehigh and Ohio companies there are veritable blockades, boats lying at the Ohio four deep. The company is pushing the extension of its dock, but will hardly be able to haye it ready for several months. Ioman’s new tug, the Joe Dudley, arrived a day or two ago from Port Huron, and is in service, This gives him a fleet of ten serviceable and excellent harbor tugs, most of them of a character hard io beat for their particular work. He is fitting up his large wrecking pump and outfit, and as soon as the spring rush is over, will fit out three tugs with fire purr ps un- der a contract with the city, to be used as fire boats, The H. R. Dixon, Booth & Sons’ eempany’s vessel re- turned last week from Manitowoc, where she hada rebuild. She is 33 feet larger than last year, and has ten double state- rooms added. Other improvements have been made, but her power remains as before. She will make the Isle Royale-Port Arthur ron as heretefore. The A. B. Taylor, belonging to the Isle Royale Sound Corporation, and used last year by the Wendigo Copper Co., of the Island, is lying here, haying been sold. Itis understood that the Copper compauy has given up th search for metal, and will abandon Isle Royale to Booth’s fish- ermen and the occasional transit from Duluth. It is probable, if this is true, that it will be a long time before Isle Royale is again the scene of mining operations, The Thomas Wilson, 119 by builders’ number, was launched Saturday at the Steel Barge Yard. It is the first of the spring launches. The vessel is 322 feet over all, 24 deep, 42 beam. She should carry, on a good draught, 4,000 tons; but the latest Sault advices are that there is only 13.3 feet of water. "Lhe Wilson willload wheat this week. Six more boats are on the stocks in the yards, more or less, near completion. The Path- finder, Samuel Mather’s new whaleback steamer, will be out soon. She is 340 feet over all. .The Sagamore, her consort, is . the size of the Wilson, The six boats now on the stocks at the McDougall yards, are: two for the Soo road, two for Mathers et al., and two on yard account. Two more on yard account are to be started at once, The whaleback fleet has somethtng like 2,500,000 bushels of wheat charters booked; about half of the wheat is now char- tered ahead. Rates now are brisk at about three and a-half cents, though not a great amount of tonnage is being taken. ESCANABA, MICH. Special Correspondence to The Marine Record. Capt. S. B. Grummond’s big side wheeler Atlantic is due here about May 3rd on her maiden Green Bay trip dewn, She will make three round trips each month between Green Bay and Cleveland, stopping at intermediate ports. Hannah, Lay & Co,’s Line steamer City of Grand Rapids will be put on the Traverse City and Manistique route instead of here. She will leave the east shore at 8 p. m. Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, returning on alternate days, The annual election of officers of the Excanaba Lumber Loaders Union, which has just been incorporated, was held last week, The following were chosen for the year next ensuing: Thomas Robilliard, president; John Roddy, secretary; Peter Hoffman, treasurer; William Gallagher, dock boss. An exe— cutive committee of three were appointed as follows: William Gallagher, William Godfrey and John Foster, Regular meetings will be held on the first Monday of each month. We fail tu hear anything of the Sailor’s or Seamen’s Union at this port so far this season, ‘The Canadian steamer Orion and consort Muskoka are tak- ing in a cargo of square timber for shipbuilding. They carry it to Collins Bay, where it is raflted for the trip down theSt. Lawrence, thence across the big pond. It is said that the Orion has on board a few sticks of timber from “Vother — fellers’’”’ land, and for which the other fellow has not re~ ceived pay, consequently the whole outfit is ‘tied up.” Escanaba with a little enterprise and necessary capital cous construct the modern carrier in close competition with the ports for which she now furnishes the structurai material, ‘The steamer German, of the Menominee Line, got off wi the assistance of the tags Monarch and Favorite last Monday, arriving here dates ane deaded aaa dat _for Ashtabi : arently uninjured and only slightly leaking. < » Capt. O. B. Green, of the steel steamship Griffin; Capt. Murphy, of the Saxon, and Capt, P. H. Smith, of the Sh were among our pleasant callers this week, Bon tlemen, ‘