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ESTABLISHED 1878. VOL. XV. CLEVELAND, OHIO, JUNE 30, 1892. NO. 27 LAKE CARRIERS’ ASSOCIATION. To consider and take action upon all general questions relating to the nayigation 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. BRADLEY, - - Cleveland. Vice-Presidents : Joun G. KErrx, : Chicago, James W. Miuuen, = - Detroit. W. 8. BRatnarD, Toledo. F. J. Firta, - Erie. R. P. Frvzgeraup, - Milwaukee. THomas WILSON, Cleveland. ALEXANDER MoDovueatL, Duluth. P. P. Mituer, Buffalo. Secretary: Cnaruss H. Krxp, Buffalo. Treasurer; Gro. P. McKay, : - Cleveland. Counsel : Harvey D. Goutper, - Cleveland, Board of Managers. F. W. Baldwin, Ogdensburg. Thomas Wilson, Cleveland. FJ. Firth, | - = Erie. -H. M. Brailey, + Cleveland, W. E. Chapman, Sandusky, Jas, Corrigan, Cleveland. ©.T. Morley, ” - Marine City. H.M. Hanna, - Cleveland. Alvin Neal, - + Port Huron. G P. McKay, Cleveland. James Davidson, - Bay Ci H. G. Dalton, - Cleveland. Charles A. Eddy, — - y Harvey H. Brown, - Cleveland. Alexander McDougal, - J. W. Moore, - + Cleveland. F, W. Gilchrist, - - B. L, Pennington, - Cleveland. J. C. Gilchrist, Henry A. Hawgood, - Cleveland. J. L. Higgie, ’ - W. C. Richardson, Cleveland. Jesse Spaulding, S. D. Caldwell, Buffalo, J.8, Dunham, - ~- Peter P. Miller, Buffalo. John Keith, Fae E. T. Evans, . Buffalo. * Joseph Austrian - , James Ash, - 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. 8, Brainard, - Toledo. E. M. Peck, . = Detroit. L. 8. Sullivan, - Toledo, D. C, Whitney, Base Detroit. A.W. Colton, - Toledo H.S, Hodge,’ - - Detroit. CLEVELAND, O. Judge Ricks, of the United States District Court, gave ajudgment against the cargo of the schooner Ganges, on Tuesday morning, to John Oades and other libslants in the sum of $92282. Thefcargo consisted of 648 tons of iron ore, the property of the Milwaukee Iron Mining Com - pany, James Dalliba and J. J. Tracy. Capt. D. P. Nickerson, died on Tuesday at the age of eighty-three years. A few years ago he was one of the best known insurance adjusters on the lakes. Earlier in life he sailed various vessels for a considerable period, and later had charge of the affairs of the Hark- ness estate. The news of his death caused general re- gret among the local vessel men, to nearly all of whom he was well known. The tug W. L. Scott’ for Erie, with the Scott Co.’s new coal lighter Mansfield, was all ready to leave port on Wednesday afternoon, a powerful McMyler derrick and 125 three-ton buckets completed her outfit. The steamer John B. Lyon is expected to come out of the Ship Owner’s dry-dock to day. She is now in the Gilchrist fleet. Ths report that F. W. Wheeler & Co. had secured a contract from Cleveland owners to build a new steel steamer is correct in the main, although no new keel will be laid for her, as the Gratwick syndicate, whose fleet is managed by Mitchell & ©o., of Cleveland, will take over a new steel steamer now in process of con- struction at the Wheeler yards. This new vessel is of the usual large dimensions of modern tonnage and will be equipped with the latest and best. The following are the names of steamers and their home ports whose certificates of inspection expire dur- ing the next seven days. July Ist Olympia, Lorain; July 2nd Winifred, Riverbank; July 3 Loretta Englesbe, Cleveland; July 6 Crown Prince, Cleveland and the Elk, Cleyeland; July 7 John P. Manning, Harbor, O. The schooner Northwest, Captain Ward, lost her rud- der at the head of Lake Erie, in the southwest gale on Monday night. She was towed here and will be docked in the Ship Owners Drydock for a new rudder and be searched up. Major Cooper Overman, who was court martialed last February on a charge of misapplication of funds of the corps of engineers, has voluntarily resigned from the army. The amount involved in the trial was less than $500, and was the first of the kind to be brought against any officer of the corps. The court found that Major Overman did not convert the money to his own use, and sentenced him to a reprimand in general orders. The Detroit and Cleveland Steam Navigation Co. will run excursions to Detroit on July 2 and July 3, the steam- ers leaving this port each evening at 10 0’clock. Excursion tickets will be good on the boat leaving Detroit at 11 p. m. July 4. Anexcursion steamer will run to Put-in-Bay on July 4 and on the same day three lake rides will be given. The steamer H. A. Tuttle arrived in port Tuesday. She had the crew of the sunken schooner F. A. Morse aboard, Frank Glende, one of the crew, was injured in the collision with the steamer Pringle. He was removed to Lakeside hospital. The city should obtain specifications and contract for another fire boat at the earliest opportunity. There is no assistance of greater value than the service which a fire boat can render to all property within easy distance of the river and harbor and asecond boat is the most valuable economical addition which could be made. Congressman V. A. Taylor, returned to Washington on Wednesday, after spending a few days at his home in Bedford. He reports the Lake end of the river and har- bor bill in good shape and is confident that the aids to navigation and improyements as now scheduled will pass. Congressman Taylor speaks in high terms of his col- league Mr. Tom L. Johnson, also Senators, McMillan, of Michigan, and Brice, of Ohio, who have done noble work for the lakes in the present Congress. Mr. Taylor is somewhat modest in speaking of his own work, but his masterly effort in excursioning legislators over the lakes last summer, his late advocacy of the 20 foot chan- nel and the liberal sum appropriated for the Cleveland breakwater are evidences of his having “done his duty.” A CONTRACT FOR THE UNION DRY DOCK CO, Special Correspondence to I'he Marine Kecord. Burrato, N. Y.—The Union Dry Dock Co. have secured a contract to build for Buffalo parties, whose names are withheld, asteamer dredge, six scows and a tug, the whole to cost $75,000. It is understood that the owners of the new outfit will compete with Hingston & Woods, who have long been the leading dredging con- tractors of the lower part of the Great Lakes. The schooner William Home had a narrow escape from being wrecked last Tuesday. With a 40 mile gale blow- ing, she started for Tonawanda in tow of the tug 8. W. Gee, her tow line parted and she went on the inside reef, near the Reading coal trestle. It was with much diffi- culty that the life saving crew got a line to the tug again, and with the assistance of the tug Cheeney was pulled safely behind the breakwater. While on the reef the captain of the Home, thinking his chances of getting off in the sea that was rnunning was small, bored four holes The Globe Iron Works Co., will launch from their} in the pottom of his vessel to scuttle her and keep from yards on Saturday at 3p. m. the steel steamer Schuyl- kill built to the order of the Erie & Western Transporta- tion Co., (Anchor Line,) Buffalo, N. Y. The Schuylkill, _ isone of theso called ‘“‘straightbacks’’— (steamers having "no sheer) and has been designed especially for the pack- _ age or general cargo trade. pounding. When finally towed into safe waters the Home had 16 inches of water in her hold. She went into dry dock the afternoon of her release. Through a typographical error THE MARINE RECORD last week was made to say that over $600 had been raised in Chicago for the widow of the late John L. Schrader. It should have read “On ’Change.” Vessel owners made a determined effort the latter part of last week to raise coal rates to Lake Michigan but enough boats came in Sunday and Monday to tem porarily relieve the demand for tonnage by the shippers, and no advance was secured. There are not enough vessels so far this week to supply the demand, and rates, though unchanged, are strong. The Erie Canal is doing but little business, and a fleet of about 100 boats are quartered in the Erie Basin waiting for better freights. The fleet is liable to stay there most ofthe summer. Rates are dull at 214 cents for wheat, 21 cents for flaxseed, 2 cents for corn and 144 cents for oats to New York. Lumber rates are $1.90 to New York and $1.40 to Albany. Tuesday’s blow scared out most of the excursion steamers, and the only one that made a trip was the Pearl to Crystal Beach, where she succeeded in badly smashing the dock and breaking uer guard rai], without being able to make a landing. Mr. A. J. Maillon, of the firm of Galyin, Mallon & Boland, was married Tuesday morning to Miss Louise Perot, of this city. The bride and groom at once started on a wedding journey down the St. Lawrence. Most of the vessel men here expressed much satisfac- tion at the announcement that the Lake Carriers Asso ciation had taken up the matter of the Cyclone Elevator, and give as their belief that the “floater” will before long cease to be a menace to navigation in the harbor. The steamer John B. Lyon will be a handsome boat when she comes out with her new pole spars and other improvements. Heavy rains caused a quite troublesome current in Buffalo River Monday night, and it took four tugs to handle one large steamer. Buffalo tug men are glad to admit, however, that in currents of this character Buffalo does not hold a candle to Chicago. Capt. Maytham declines to give the price paid for the tug Medina, except to place it between $5,000 and $15,000. About $10,000 is perhaps a fair estimate of the ex change. The schooner Fassett, towing behind the steambarge Curtiss and drawing but 11 feet 3 inches to the steamer’s I2 feet 6 inches, struck bottom in Niagara River, last week, hard enough to make her leak badly. She was dry docked here. It is supposed the schooner took a sheer in the swift current. As predicted in last week’s Recorp, the strife between the Lumber Shovers Union and the steyedores resulted in a reduction of unloading rates, which the vessel owners found very little fault with. No violence is preached by either side, and it seems a case of the best man wins. Both are confident of success, and but little delay is experienced in getting boats out. The fine imposed upon ex-shipping master W. H. Boyd for shooting Michael O’Brien was reduced from $1,000 to $500, by Judge Seaver, and the amount paid. Boyd left for Cleveland last Saturday. The steamer J, C. Pringle, which came to grief off Alpena this week, made quite a towing record, a few days before the casualty, after unloading her lumber at Buffalo, the steamer went down to Tonawanda and towed all three of her big barges, the Harrison, Sunshine and Sweetheart, up the swift current of Niagara river to the coal dock, where they loaded. ‘The Whaler Progress, expected here was p exhibit her in the interest of the fishery commissioners at the Columbian Exposition in 1893. The company are represented by Mr. Crane, cf Chicago, who is makin, ig the et voyage from New Bedford on her, : Fi aia by a company of private individuals in Chicagowho will