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VOL. XV. LAKE CARRIERS’ ASSOCIATION. : To consider and take action upon all general questions relating to the navigation and carrying business of the Great Lakes, maintain nec- essary shipping offices and in general to protect the common interest of Lake Carriers, and improve the charac- ter of the service rendered to the public. President: M,A.Bravury, - - Cleveland. Vice-Presidents : Joun G. Knits, Chicago. Jamas W. MILLEN, - Detroit. W. S. BRAINARD, - Toledo. F, J. Firrs, - Erie. R. P. Frrz@eraup, Milwaukee. Txomas WILSON, Cleveland. ALEXANDER McDoveatt, Duluth, =P. P. Miuuer, ° = - Buffalo, Secretary: CHarurs H. Kerr, Buffalo. Treasurer: Gxo. P. McKay, Cleveland. Counsel : Harvey D. Goutper, - Cleveland, Board of Managers. . W. Baldwin, Ogdensburg. ‘Thomas Wilson, Cleveland. F. J. Firth, | - - Erie, _H. M, Bradley, - Cleveland, W.E. Chapman, - Sandusky, Jas, Corrigan, - Cleveland. C.. Morley, '- Marine City. H.M. Hanna, - - Cleveland. Alvin Neal,’ - - PortHuron. @. P. McKay, 5 Cleveland. James Davidson, - Bay City. H.G. Dalton, - - Cleveland. Charles A. Eddy, - Bay City. Harvey H. Brown, - Cleveland. Alexander McDougal, - Duluth. J. W. Moora, - = Cleveland, F, W. Gilchrist, - Alpena. B.L. Pennington, - Cleveland: J. C. Gilchrist, - Vermillion. Henry A. Hawgood, - Cleveland. J. L. Higgie, | - Chicago. W.C. Richardson, - Cleveland. Jesse Spaulding, Chicago. —_S. D. Caldwell, - Buffalo. J. 8. Dunham, Chicago. Peter P. Miller, = Buffalo. John Keith, "- - - Chicago. E.T. Evans, ' - - Buffalo. Joseph Austrian > _ Chicago. _ James Ash, 3 + Buffalo. David Vance, - Milwaukee. W. Bullard, — - : Buffalo. R. P. Fitzgerald, - Milwaukee. J.J.H.Brown, - + Buffalo. W. Livingstone, Jr., - Detroit. W.P. Henry,’ + - Buffalo. James Millen, - Detroit. John Gordon, - + Buffalo. David Carter, - + Detroit. _W.S, Brainard, - Toledo. E. M, Peck, - Detroit. _L. 8. Sullivan, - + Toledo. D.C. Whitney, — - Detroit. A.W. Colton, - + ‘Toledo. HLS, Hodge,’ - - Detroit. CLEVELAND, O. Mr. George B. Hunter, of Newcastle-on-Tyne, Eng land, a member of the firm of Swan & Hunter, who own one of the finest shipyards on the Tyne, visited the city this week. He is making a tour of inspection of lake shipyards. Mr. Joseph R. Oldham kindly escorted Mr. Hunter around the shipyards at this port. B. D. Babcock, who has resigned as superintendent of the Cleveland & Pittsburg docks, will open an oflice as agent for the Moon Run Coal Company. The product of this mine comes to market over a new road recently built by Cleveland capital. Assistant superintendent Gibson will now have charge of the Cleveland & Pitts- burg docks, with Mr. M. Andrews acting as agent. Ore receipts at the port of Cleveland for the month of May were 186,629 tons, lumber, 36,862,000 feet; coal ship- ments, 122,700 tons. On Saturday afternoon as the steamer J. H. Wade was off this port, bound in, a youth named Robert Hanna, second cook, shot himself. Dime novel reading led him to believe that there was better hunting “in the happy hunting grounds.” The Wade’s ensign was half mast all day Sunday. W. J. White, owner of the handsome yacht Say When, gave a number of his local friends a spin to Rocky River and return on Saturday. Every courtesy was extended, and the guests heartily enjoyed the trip. The Briton had her cargo discharged Monday, and the repairs, although heavy, will be completed in about a week. ‘he Progress is in bad shape, lying at the bottom of Detroit river, near Mamajuda. Lights are kept on the after end of the wreck, and vessels pass to the eastward. Our thanks are due to the Chicago Ship Building Co., for an invitation to attend the launch of the Minnesota Steamship Co.’s steel steamer Maritana from their ship- yard on the Calumet River, foot of luist. St., Chicago. Mr. Leon F. Almy, of the Almy Water Tube Boiler Co., Providence, R. I., visited this port Tuesday, after making a tour of the lakes. Mr. Almy informs us that they have placed their forty-eighth water tube boiler this year, and are now enlarging their plant to meet a steadily increasing patronage in their special manufacture. Dr. H. J. Penrod, the marine agent injcharge of the take territory and stationed at tis port, is now engage CLEVELAND, OHIO, JUNE 9, 1892. on a tour of the lakes under special orders from the chief of the Weather Bureau. He will distribute a large num- ber of current bottles, interest the Weather Bureau offie- ials at the several ports in the meteorlogical work now being carried on and obtain a larger number of voluntary observers among vessel masters and pilots. At the yards of the Clevetand Ship Building Co. ‘the keel for another freight monitor has been laid. She will be 324 feet koel, 42 feet beam and 24 feet depth of hold triple expansion engines, cylinders 20, 33,54 by 40 inch stroke, and two Scotch type boilers 1214 feet in diameter and length. In the machine shop department the large blowing engines having 40 inch steam cylinder, and 84 inch blowing cylinders, with 54 inches stroke, are being turned out to the order of the Ilinois Steel Co., Chicago. The boiler shop, foundry and the other departments are running at their full capacity and a large quantity of work is being turned out regularly. Wrecking master; Diffenbach, of Port Huron, had an easy task releasing the schooner J. D. Sawyer, as the rise in the level of J. D. Sawyer, as the rise in the level of Lake Erie almost floated her off from near Avon Point, she is now on her way to Port Huron for repairs. Among the vesselmen visiting the port this week were Capt. Denny Sullivan, representing David Vance, of Milwaukee; Capt. J. J. Rardon, of Crosby & McDonald’s Chicago; Capt. George McLeod, of Smith, Davis & Co., Buffalo; Capt. John Baxter, of the light-house tender Haze, and Mr. W. H. Doyle, of Detroit. The machinery for the twin screw fueling scow build- ing at the yards of the Clevelard Dry Dock Co.,isnow being put in her, andshe will be lauuched in a few days. The work of excavating the enlarged dry dock is proceed- ing steadily though the continuous wet weather is holding back the work somewhat. Capt. Dick Millen, of the steambarge Nashua, was in port Wednesday, and his friends will be pleased to learn that he looks and feels well and hearty, and is the same genial Richard as of yore. CHICAGO, ILL. Speciai Correspondence to I'he Marine Record. The schooner Marion W. Page, Captain J. R. Wil- liams, arrived here last Thursday afternoon from Man- itowoc with the cargo of coal she took on board at Buf- falo late last fall. She was driven ashore in December last in a heavy gale on Lake Michigan and was re- leased and towed to Manitowoc for repairs, her cargo was discharged and she was put into drydock at Burger & Burger’s shipyard, where she received a new stem, new stern post, some new keel, bottom plank and calk- ing, after which her cargo was reloaded. The 75-foot steam yacht Catharine, built by the Davis Boat and Oar Co., Detroit, for Mr. M. Cudahy, of Chi- cago, Ill., has arrived in Chicago, and is pronounced to be the finest steam yacht of her size on fresh water. She is fitted with a triple expansion engine and water tube boiler, of builders’ own patents, and her elegant appoint- ments are greatly admired by marine men. It is con- ceded that the Davis Boat and Oar Co. have turned out a splendid craft. At Miller Brothers shipyard the steamer Thomas Smith is in dock for repairs to her wheel, the schooner George Steel for some repairs and calking, and the steamer Berrien for repairs to damage done when ashore off Fort Sheridan last week. Detroit to run on the Graham and Morton Line until their steamer Chicora is completed. Saptain William Patterson is making all the haste possible having repairs done on the steamer W. P. Thew and converting her into a lumber carrier. The steamer Arundel will arrive here this week from | Captain John Keelin’s widow last week received $1,000 from Excelsior Marine Benevolent Association, of which ke was a member of Lodge 3, Chicago, The funds of the association were so well supplied that it was not necessary to make an assessment on the members to pay the above sum. Charley Mann, of the firm ef Mann Brothers, was dhere fron Milw: ukee Monday oLt ining material for a wrecking outfit for the purpose of releasing their large scow ,which went ashore on Fox Island last fall. J. B. Johnston, of the firm of Johnston Bros., boiler makers, Ferrysburg, Mich., was in this city Monday. This enterprising firm have built a”* branch boiler works at 71 and 73 Mather street, Ohicago, in which they will commence work about July Ist. The steamer Berrien, lumber laden for this port, went ashore Friday morning, about 2:30 a. m., in a thick fog off Fort Sheridan, about 26 miles north of Chicago, and was not released until 11 a. m. Saturday, after jetti- soning her deck load. The tug Mollie Spencer was sent to her assistance Friday morning,but failing to find her brought along a tow of schooners to Chicago and went to the Berrien again after she got in with her tow, andsucceeded in releasing her. The captain of the Berrien is of the opinion that she could have been released without jettisoning her deck load had the Spencer arrived on the scene on Friday within a few hours after she was sent, for. The Rey. Father Gallagher, of Beaver Island, the well known sailor’s friend,jarrived here Saturday on the steamer City of Charlevoix, and spent afew days in this city visiting his friends. Both of the draws of Madison street bridge was blocked for two hours Saturday, occasioning consider- able delay and inconvenience to city and floating traffic. The steamer Florida was unloading at the dock just above the bridge and blocked the east draw, and the steamer Ida E. when going up the river got jammed in the west draw by four scows in tow of a tug coming down. The tug had more scows in tow than she could manage, hence the trouble. Captain Moses Gerard was here from Muskegon Sat- urday on business, the tug D. P. Hall, of Ludington, which he commanded, having been sold to the Inde- pendent Tug Line, Chicago,he is now commanding the tug Cora Fuller, owned by Crosby & Co., Muskegon, and will run her until their new tug building at Grand Haven by the Grand Haven Ship Building Co. goes into commission. The new tug’s dimensions are as follows. 93 feet over all, 18 feet beam, 91g feet hold, engine 16 and 30 by 24 and boiler 8 by 18, to be allowed 150 pounds pressure; both built by the Montague Iron Works, Mich. Capt. Albert J. Missener was appointed master of the barge Churchill, vice Capt. S. Jones, resigned, Edward Smith, of the firm of Brown & Smith, vessel agents, Buffalo, was in this city Monday. The Canadian steamer Clinton arrived here Friday with 7,000 bushels wet wheat and a steam pump on board. The wheat was purchased by Mr. Armour, of Chicago, and was unloaded at one of the Armour ele- vators. Grain freights are quiet on the basis of 14g cents on wheat, 144 cents on corn to Buffalo. Capt. E. B. Bowen has been appointed to the com- mand of the fine tug James McQGordon, recently pur- chased by the Dunham Towing and Wrecking Co, I learn that active figuring is being done by the Chi- cago Shipbuilding Co., of South Chicago, on new steel tonnage for Southern parties. WILLIAMS,