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ers : THE MARINE RECORD. “=n 9 (Continuea from page five.) can now be found in this hitherto troublesome locality. The Codorus will not be launched until next waek. Captain Brown, last season in the Northern King, and one of the most affable and best liked vessel master on the lakes, died on Tuesday from the effects of an illness contracted last year. The new whaleback steamer Thomas Wilson arrived “here Tuesday with 86,000 bushels of wheat, the largest cargo brought down from Lake Superior this season. PARKE. ro TORONTO, ONT. Special Correspondence to The Marine Record. ‘The steamers of the Hamilton Steamboat Co. are un— _ able to stop at Oakville this season on account of low water, but it is hoped that this will not be the case very Jong, as the town council have let contracts for dredging the harbor so that there will be sufficient water in a very short time. Owing to the low stage of water in the St. Lawrence, steamers are unable to come up from Montreal with more than half a cargo, as there is not more than seven feet of water at Morrisburg. If they could come up out- side the canal they would beable to carry a larger cargo. The Government have been asked to place a tug at this point to help staamers up the rapids, but they have re- fused to do so on the ground that the low water is due to natural causes. uch sympathy is expressed for Capt. Kelly, of the schooner Dundee, whose eldest son was drowned in the bay last week. When the accident occurred, a telegram was sent to the Captain at Oswego, but he had sailed for Toronto before the message could be delivered, and con- sequently he did not know of the sad fatality until he arrived here. That troubles never come singly was again exemplified in this case, for in addition to losing his eldest son by drowning, his youngest son, who had been ill for some time, received such a shock when he heard of his brother’s death that he died the following morning. The two wero buried last Sunday. The propeller Acadia, Capt. A. H. Malcolmson, which is taking the place of the Celtic, arrived last Saturday from Montreal, and after taking on cargo, cleared for Duluth. Messrs. Mackay’s Sons paid $24,000 for the Acadia to Capt. S. Malcolmson. J. B. Herreschoff, the celebrated yacht designer and builder of Bristol, R. I., was in the city for a few days last week. During his visit here he was entertained at a dinner at the Toronto Club by Commodore Boswell of the R. C. Y. C., several of the most prominent members of the yacht clubs of the city being present. : The steamer Cibola, of the Niagara Nay’ Co., com- menced her regular trips across the lake last Monday morning. The Carmona commences running between Toronto and Charlotte on the 23rd instant and will make tri-weekly trips during the season. She has had several improvements made in her cabin and stateroom accom- odation, has been thoroughly painted and is in excellent shape to handle the large passenger trade which is ex- pected this summer. Work on the Campana is progressing rapidly and it is expected she will be ready for astart about the 27th of this month. The steamers of the R. & O. Nay’ Wo. were to have commenced their regular trips this week between To- ronto and Montreal, but on Saturday their agent here was notified that owing to the low water in the Coteau Rapids they would have to cancel their trips for the present. The Meteorological offiee of this city is working in connection with the Weather Bureau of the United States in ascertaining the set, of lake currents, etc., and will distribute bottle papers among captains of steamers trading from the port. The principal attraction in the harbor this week was the Government cruiser Constance, which arrived on Sunday en route from Owen Sound to Quebec, Capt. George May in command. ‘The steamer presents a very neat appearance, but so many accounts of this vessel have appeared in the columns of the Recorp that any further description is unnecessary. After having some slight alterations made in her machinery by the Polson Iron Works Co., she left for Quebec on Wednesday. A correspondent, writing to THe Marine REcoRD from Toronto, in speaking of the proposed levying of tolls on Canadian craft passing through the Sault Canal, states that this will not materially affect the Canadian marine interests with the exception of the steamers of the Canadian Pacific R’y Co.; of course it will affect these vessels very seriously, but it will also be detri- mental to all Canadian steamers using the canal, and your correspondent has been very seriously interviewed by several steamboat owners regarding the appearance of the article in the Recorp. Your correspondence from Ottawa in last week’s issue puts the Canadian view of the question very clearly. The tug Jaeman, while engaged towing a dredge and scows from Hamilton to Toronto last week, broke her piston rod when abreast of Oakville. Fortunately the tug St. George was also with the tow and took the outfit into Oakville and then brought the disabled tug to Toronto, where the necessary repairs were made and sho is again in commission. The tug Onaping of the Charlton Line left for Detroit last week after receiving her new boiler. SPARTA. rt + ee ESCANABA, MICH. Special Correspondence to The Marine Record. The new Lake Carriers’ Association have opened a shipping office at this port, with Edward H. Nesbitt asshipping-master Headquarters will be established on Harrison Ave., directly opposite the postoffice. Mr, Nesbitt comes to us well recom- mended as an able, efficient and industrious officer, and vessel- men who frequented the port of Buffalo for a few seasons back will remember the good judgment and perfect management uf the vessel owners’ troubles, as displayed by him at that port, while in with H, F, Boyd. The I. Stephenson Co., of Escanaba, have this week pur- chased the schooner City of Chicago, of Manager H. D. Hitch- cock, of Chicago, consideration $8,250. The Chicago was built at Cleveland in 1861, and registers 327 gross tons, She loaded lumber at the company’s mill for Chicago, and will hereafter engagein the Jumber trade between Marinette and Chicago. Iron ore shipments from Escanaba have, so far this season, averaged a iittle over 100,000 tons per week, with the carrying trade becoming more active each week, ‘This fact, I think, is an indication of a very large output for 1892. A Longshoremen’s Benevolent Union has been organized in Escanaba with the following officers for the year next en- suing: President, P, A. McCarthy; vice-president, John Fred- erick; secretary and treasurer, John McDonald; dock boss, Wm. Kelly, General Manager George Gane, of the Traverse City Esca- naba line, was in the city this week in the interest of his line. Coal receipts are steadily on the gain at this port. The steamer Nellie commenced her season’s run between this port and Chicago last week. She will make one round trip each week. The steamer City of Grand Rapids arrived here early on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday mornings, leaving in the evening of the same days. This is truly the short line to the East, saving twelve hours, and14) miles, which fact will be highly appreciated by our people. The red cane buoy which marks the northeast end of the shoal off Saunders Point (Gladstone) was carried away by the strong current last week, and vessels making, the Gladstone docks should give the point a wide berth until it can be re- placed. The several steamers of the revenue service, will soon be fitted out, and masters of merchant vessels should be sure they are complying with the new rules respecting lights aft and names forward, otherwise fines are yery apt to be inflicted. Although she is specially designed for quick work at both load- ing and discharging her cargo, will it not prove a big feature if that big pig iron v essel can make twocomplete round trips per week between Marquette and Ohio ports? I am rather inclined to believe that the Zribune marine man is a little off, though. The schooner Jane Anderson is [again in commission and Capt. James Hewlitt will put her in the produce trade between the east shore and this port. Low water in the Sturgeon Bay Ganal has caused the Green Bay lumber fleet to prefer Death’s Door passage. Henry Collett’s tug Thomas Spear was here Sunday after logs for his mill at Nicollet, Wis. No. 5 ore dock is now being operated at full capacity, There are forty acres of desirable land hereabouts that ca be obtained for one dollar by the ‘right party’, if they will establish dry dock and ship-building industry thereon. Another riot broke out at No. 5 dock Monday. The trouble was between the union trimmers and the crew of the steamer Kaliyuga, and arose from the faet that the captain of the Kaliyuga proposed trimming his vessel with his own crew instead of paying the trimmers 4 cents per ton. Numerous shots were fired, but the Kaliyuga, of course, was trimmed, and only one man was shot, he being a union trimmer, and that not seriously. Uno. -eo i KINGSTON, ONT. Special Correspondence to The Marine Record. The barge Union, owned by the Montreal Transportation Co., is on Davis’ dry dock undergoing a very expensive over- hauling to fit her for the St Lawrence river trade. The steamers of the R. & O, Nay, Co., were to commeuce running on the 15th., but owing to the lowness of the, water between Kingston and Montreal. This order has been coun- termanded, and they will not start before June Ist. The past winter new paddle wheels have been placed in the Spartan, and while moored to Swift’s wharf on Saturday, testing them, the mooring chocks carried away, and before the engine could be stopped very serious damage was done to the side of the steamer, The steamer C. Anderson, long in use as a ferry between Cotean and Valleyfield, has been chartered for the use of the engineers who are to have charge of the work in the Galops Rapids, The Anderson is being thoroughly overhauled atthe government workshops on the south side of the canal, pre- paratory to the heavy work she will have to do in the rapids. On Sunday the tug Flora took fire while towing the ship Sa- vannah up the St, Lawrence river, aad the crew not being able to extinguish it let go the tow line and beached the tug on the Island of Orleans, where she burned to the water’s edge, and became a total loss. In trying to scuttle her engineer, Barras was badly burned. The Flora was built in 1867 at Buffalo, was owned by J. H. Powell, of Quebec, valued at $6,000, and partly eovered by insurance. A great many grain carriers from the west came into port on Sunday. The K., &M.F, Co. received the cargoes of the Fay and the Rhodes, the steamer Marquette and consort Kelley and the Langdon, all with wheat, at the M. T.Co. the steamers Omaha, Columbia, Myles, and schooner Ke- watin, but there is a scarcity of barges to carry the grain to Montreal, and some of the largest cargoes had to be trans- ferred to Ogdensburg for transhipment. The grain will be there put in store until barges can be found to transport it. In the Court of Appeals at Toronto, the Wright ys, Collier case was decided last week. In giving judgment the judge paid a very high compliment to Capt. Thomas Donnelly, steamb sat inspector of Kingston. He said that Judge Rose should have taken his evidence as an authority on marine matters when he was under oath at the trial, a truism and compliment that Tue Marre Recorp man is in justice bound to endorse. MaeGyet, OEP se: ee DULUTH, MINN. Special Correspondence to The Marine Record. In the 25 days beginning with April 20th and ending with May 14th, more wheat was shipped from Duluth elevators than any previous records givento any grain market. I haye figured up the total so sent aud find it 11,750,000 bu. in the 34 weeks. This is an average of about 3,000,000 bu. a week, and while Chicago has forwarded an amount ofall grains equal to that, it has never sent out so much wheat alone. Dur- ing this time, departures varied from 1 and 2 a day to 15 and 18, and on one day the elevator records show 815,000 to have cleared, while the state inspection account for the same day was somewhat over a million bushels. The largest cargo taken out was 85,500 bu. on the barge 118, while the Gilcher took the biggest steamer load, 84,000 bu. These cargoes were taken on a draft of about 13.3, and could have been in— creased fully 20 per cent. with plenty of water. On May 15, a half cent storage charge accrued on all wheat in elevators here, and it is probable that shipments will be lighter hence- forth, In fact, charters are quiet and dull at 3} to 3} cents to Buffalo. Wheat stocks are now down to 6,309,000 bushels, the record showing that a year ago there were only 2,523,000 bushels here. On Thursday the steam barge 119, named the Samuel Mather will be launched. She is the same size as the Thomas Wil- son, lauached week before last, and will be driven by a Fron- tier Iron Works Engine. The James B. Colgate will be the next lauuch. She is the size of the Mather, and will be driven by a Marinette Co’s triple expansion engine built in Duluth. Soon after the two Soo line boats, the Pillsbury and Washburne will go into the water. They will b2 launched on the same day, ‘The year’s lumber shipment has begun. Three vessels are at the Rust-Owen Co.'s dock, after last year’s cut, part of which goes to Chicago, and part to the East. There are 10,- 000,000 feet of dry lumber on the Mitchell & McClure dock that is all sold for immediate delivery in Buffalo and Toa- awanda, DP OO Oe We have received from the Joseph Dixon Crucible Co., Jersey City, N. J., a copy of their lutest illustrated catalogue of graphite productions, coutaining a cut of their well do- veloped graphite mines at Ticonderoga, N. Y., and their plant at the outlet of Lake George into Lake Champlain, where they have a mill six stories high and 90 feet square for the perfecting of their graphite. It would seem that every possible use to which graphite may be placed has been discovered by the Joseph Dixon Co., and to prevent Tost and abrasion on wire rope a page of testimonials say that it is an absolute necessity. ro The powerful tug Favorite, owned by the Swain Wrecking Co., towed the steamer John B, Lyon from where she stranded near Sand Beach to Port Huron. eo William Black, of the well known Detroit optician firm of L, Black & Co., died in New York last week from the effects of asevere cold. His remains were forwarded to Detroit for — interment, 4 ee a. 8 One answer to an advertisement in the Deadwo eer’ for a “girl for light house work’? contail a tie | “