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VOL. XV. CLEVELAND, OHIO, JULY 14, 1892. NO. 29 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. BRapury, - = Cleveland. Vice-Presidents : Joun G. Keira, Chicago, Jamas W, MILLEN, - Detroit, W. S. BRAINARD, : Toledo. F. J. Firra, - Erie, R. P. Firzeeraup, - Milwaukee, Tomas WILsoN, - Cleveland. ALEXANDER McDoveaLL, Duluth. P. P. Mivver, - Buffalo, Secretary: CHarixs H. Ker, - Buffalo, Treasurer: Gro. P. McKay, Cleveland, Counsel : Harvsy D. Gounper, - Cleveland, Board of Managers. F. W. Baldwin, - Ogdensburg. Thomas Wilson, Cleveland. F, J. Firth, . - Erie. H. M. Bradley, . - Cleveland, W.E. Chapman, Jas. Corrigan, - Gleveland. C.'T, Morley, ’ - H.M. Hanna, - - Cleveland. Alvin Neal,” - - G P. McKay, Cleveland. James Davidson, H.G. Dalton, = - - Cleveland, Charles A. Eddy, Harvey H. Brown, - Cleveland. Alexander McDougal, J. W. Moore, - Cleveland. F, W. Gilchrist, B. L. Pennington, Cleveland. J. ©. 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, - 4) - E. T. Evans, - Buffalo. Joseph Austrian ot Chicago, James Ash, - Buffalo. David Vance, - Milwaukee. W. Bullard, - - Buffalo. R. P. Fitzgerald, - Milwaukee. J. J. H. Brown, . - Buffalo. W. Livin; ne, Jr, - Detroit. W P. Henry, - - Buffalo. James Millen, 3 Detroit. John Gordon, - - Buffalo. David Carter, = - + Detroit. W.S, Brainard, - Toledo. E. M. Peck, - Detroit. L. §. Sullivan, - - Toledo. D.C. Whitney, - - Detroit. A.W, Colton, - - Toledo HS. Hodge,’ - - Detroit. CLEVELAND, O. Capt. George McLeod, acting for the underwriters, sold the schooner Minnehaha at auction on Wednesday morning. Mr. A. J. Johnson was the highest bidder. and she was knocked down to him for $13,850. About $10,000 will be put in her rebuild. Mr. M. A, Bradley intends to remove his office from the Perry-Payne to the Western Reserve building. Work at the yards of the Cleveland Ship Building Co. has been held back on account of the steel angles being delayed in the shipments from Pittsburg. A large invoice, however, has just been received, and the ship- yard is again busy on the third monitor type freight carrier. The Chase Machine Company have placed one of their compact deck hoisting engines on the schooner North- west, They have also sent to F. W. Wheeler & Co., W. Bay City,two of the Chase automatic fog whistle ma- chines, and completed all the steampipe and boiler coy- yering on the new light-housetender built at the “Globe.” Mr. John F. Pankhurst, who has been out of town all week, is expected here on Saturday. The large new machine and boiler shop being erected by the River Machine and Boiler Works on River street, is nearly completed, and the moving of aportion of the machinery will be begun next week, The official trial trip of the lighthouse tender Lilac, built by the Globe Iron Works Co,, took place on Mon- day. The measured mile was covered in 3 min. 47 sec., showing a rate of 17.3 miles per hour. Mr. Janson, superintendent of construction, and Mr. Walfrid 8ylven, constructing engineer of the lighthouse board, express their entire satisfaction with the boat. She will leave for the coast Saturday in charge of Capt. W. H. Harri- son and pilot Capt. Joe Gorman. Capt. Harrison will also take the Columbine to the coast and then join his own command, the steam yacht Comanche, now being completed for Mr. Hanna. Work on the Main street bridge improvements is sim- ply dawdling along as if no interests were suffering, and yessel men, as well as the business houses on River street, are about disgusted with the slow progress being made. The director of public works has surely a voice in this at the construction work. The new steamer Cadillac, built by the Chicago Ship Building Co., arrived here on Tuesday night on her maiden trip with 2,200 tons of ore from Marquette. Her Officers speak in the highest terms of the easy handling and complete equipment furnished the Cadillac. + Among the vesselman visiting port this week were Mr John Gordon, of the Northern Line; Mr. A. A. Parker: of the firm of Parker & Millen; Capt. George McLeod; compass adjusters; Capt. George A. Simpson, Frank Morrison, Mr. David Carter and Capt. Alex. Me. Dougall, of ‘“whaleback” fame, besides a large number attending the auction of the Minnehaha on Wednesday. In the matter of vaccination, according to the Surgeon General’s request, owners will offer every facility for the crews of their vessels to undergo this preventive opera- tion. No better argument for the location of an aid to navig gation could be obtained than the fact of ship masters voluntarily defraying the cost of placing a lightship off Pt. Peninsula. Thirty masters, according to the latest advices, have contributed a sum of $300, and when a suf- ticient amount is realized Escanaba traders will be en- abled to round the eleven foot shoal with less danger than is now experienced. This aid is being asked for and so far is willingly supported by masters, and not the Lake Carriers’ Association, as formerly reported. What is everybody’s business is no one’s, is clearly exemplified in what would seem to be the studied inat- tention given to this harbor. An honorary board of port wardens would probably find a way to suggest and advo- cate measures for the best interests of the port as the docks are too far away and the business carried on there too foreign for the municipal authorities to deal with. At about 1 o’clock Wednesday morning, the harbor tug Griffin, owned by the Independent Line, was burned to the water’s edge two miles off Rocky River. The four men of the crew under the charge of Capt. Chas Donahue escaped on the metallic life-raft, but so quick and fierce was the fire that they were unable to save any of their belongings on the boat. Even the boat’s papers had to be left behind. After reaching shore on the raft one of the crew was found to be badly burned about the nands and face, and soothing lotions were applied to his wounds at a neighboring house, ‘The Griffin was a complete loss. She was built in Buffalo in 1874, and had been in service in this port for two years. She was owned by Capt. Wm. A. Creech, mauager of the Independent Line. Capt. George P. McKay, is away on a vacation in one of the company’s steamers which he manages. His rec- ent illness called for a relaxation of business, and he is much too valuable a man to even be laid up. Capt. Me- Kay has probably accomplished more in securing aids to navigation and other important measures affecting the welfare of thelake‘marine fraternity than any other in- dividual, and his absence from vessel circles, if only for a few days, is noticeable. The following is a list of steamers whose inspection certificates expire during the coming week: Karl... .. ---duly 13 | Geo. . Williams...July 21 Siberia «. “ 15] Laura D. ah pil Alethi Be sae |) | Mate E.. eet Wm. Chishom....-. “ 18 Capt. John Sawyer, of Milwaukee, was appointed mas- ter of the barge Churchill, last week. Inspectors Sinclair and Moovre, of this port, have in- spected 162 steam vessels this year to July 12th. The Viaduct Brass Works report a fair patronage in their vessel specialties, and have orders booked well ahead for brass rails, dead lights, bell pulls, etc. All sorts of brass castings are made to order and in the short- est time possible. CHICAGO, ILLS. Special Correspondence to The Marine Record. The Independent Fuel Co. will have their new MeMyler derrick at work this week, working capacity one 5-ton bucket per minute. One huadred buckets will be kept filled, and be run dowmto the dock ona gravity track This will give the company the facilities for the quickest dispatch in fueling] on the upper lakes. The company have recently put in an Edison electric light plant, so that they can work nights as wellas days The steamer Nebraska was at the dock Monday loading 600 tons of coal for fuel and ballast, Capt. Wm. Finnegan, of the steamer Puritan, which arrived Monday noon, informed your correspondent that the body of Peter O’Grady, who was shipkeeper on the schooner Hattie Fisher, and was drowned November 10th Fi 1891, in Beaver Harbor, Mich., was washed ashore last Saturday evening. His remains were interred Sunday by Father Peter Gallagher, owner of the schooner, J. ¥. Pankhurst, vice president, and general manager of the Globe Iron Works Company, Cleveland, arrived here Sunday morning. The V. O. T. Co.’s tug Van Schaick commenced run- ning Saturday with one of the new Beck steam steerers. Capt. G: orge Jewell gave the steerer a severe trial, and is well satisfied with it, and speaks in the highest terms of its working. The Company have two more of the Beck steam steerers here which will be put on their tugs Union and Protector. F. P. Breck, representative of the build- ers of the Beck steam steerers, was here Monday, getting the tug Union in shape to receive one of their steam steerers. The steamer Nebraska arrived Monday morning from Milwaukee, where she has had about twenty thousand dollars expended on her, converting her into a passenger steamer. She makes a very fine looking passenger boat. She will have a Crowley & Johnson steam steerer, and an Edison electric light plant. Next winter she is to be fitted out with Pullman sleeping berths for passenger accommodation during the World’s Fair. She is owned by Capt. E. D. Cummings. Capt. Wm. E. Chateau is in command; Wm. Rice, first mate; George Town, chief engineer; Hill Reid, assistant engineer. She takes a party of excursionists to Ludington Wednesday morning. The new steel steamer Cadillac, recently built by the Chicago Ship Building Co., left South Chicago for Esca- naba on her first trip Saturday. She would have left » week sooner had she not collided with the abutment of the bridge over Calumet river when going out the Sunday previously, which necessitated her going back to the ship- yard to receive some new plates in her bow. There is arumor afloat that Capt. D. M. Cochrane, the owner of the fine side-wheel steamer, John A. Dix, has been offered the general superintendency of the World’s Fair Steamship Company. There are several applicants for the position. The syndicate and the worthy captain’s marine friends consider him the best man for the po- sition, and all hope that he will accept it. Capt. Dan. McLeod arrived here Friday morning from Buffalo, and left in the afternoon for Milwaukee to sur vey the steamer J. C. Pringle, recently in collision with the Morse. The following are the names of steamers in the Chi- cago district, whose inspection papers expire a8 per dates- Adelaide...........July 15 | Frankie... Gypsie..-. feee 16 | Imperial. Effie Greggs.......- 16 | Algie ..... Harry 8. Channon, of the firm of H. Channon & ship chandlers, leaves here Saturday for New — where he will embark on the steamship Adriatie, |