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THE MARINE RECORD. b= to The Marine Recora, ny, who has been for 35 years active- service, died at his home on Park Place ning. He was 55 years old, and leaves and four daughters. Capt Kenny was a uiled man, who was liked wherever he news of his death will be read with sor- ymany friends. Capt. Kenny’s last command amer Florida, of the Lackawanna ‘Transpor- ny’s line. in Niland, of the steamer Northern Wave, en Searivuily ill on the down trip, and Tuesday g on his arrival here, a physician was at once who was forced to give the captain mor- et him. Capt. Thos. H. Stafford, formerly. the Wave, will take the vessel for a trip or two. ion Dry Dock Co., are working on the plans g steel steamer to measure 335 feet keel, 355 feet , 43 feet beam and 25 feet depth. ie tug Gee, Capt. Glover, and the excursion steamer of the Gazelle filed a statement of the occurrence g Capt. Glover. The case was heard before In- spector Marion Tuesday. The inspector after hearing both sides, dismissed the case as unworthy of investi- gation. The damage done was very slight. 4 A serious accident occurred on the tug Cheney, last week. While the tug’s boilers were being tested the ever to the pop valve slipped, and escaping steam , Capt. Glover and three other men, None of the “men ere dangerously injured. F Gain cargoes have been weighing out considerably . vet lately. ‘The overruns for the past week were : The Onoko, 113 bushels ; Saginaw Valley, 100; Rosedale, 117; ,.164. ‘The schooner Mitchell was 97 bushels short. "The Onoko’s cargo, including the overrun was 113,829 ‘bushels, and the largest wheat cargo ever br ought into this port. The Gilcher load 3,300 tons of coal for Chi- cago, Which is the largest cargo ever taken out of this “port. Last ‘Sunday the steamer E. S. Tice, while going “down the Niagara river, towing the schooner F, M. Knapp, became disabled through an accident to her machinery and drifted down the river. The tug Inter- natioal got a line to the steamer, but the tow line to the ‘Knapp parted and she went aground on the head of Strawberry Island. 140,000 feet of her lumber cargo had to be’ lightened” before she was released. _ The Union Dry Dock Co., have about as good as given up the contract they secured for building the steamer Calumet for Chicago Harbor, May! 1am" 8 new tug Excelsior came out last week, and ; received the usual christening chorus of whistles. . ‘Vesselmen do not place implicit confidence in the iver Soundings made by U. S. Engineer Maj. Ruffner. The x jor claims a 16-foot channel of generous width, captains defy him to take a vessel drawing 15% eet down to Black Rock. Last Week saw nearly all of the excursion boats lay ie only ones running now are Harrison and bury of the Falls line; the Gazelle, Mascotte and 3 The grain scoopers at the Wheeler elevator threat- ed to quit work Monday unless the boss shoveler was discharged. The men claimed he had been taking mon- every week which rightfully belonged to them. The objec ‘onable boss was fired, and the men went to work The pleasure steamer Oclemena, which has been run Sloan & Cowle’s line this season, has gone back to harlotte, where she is owned. Sloan & Cowle’s steam- _ er Vision has finished a successful season at Philadel- phia, and will be placed on the Bay Ridge route in New ork Harbor, Oct. 1, where she will run all winter. It is said the White Line Excursion Company will nild a good sized pleasure steamer during the winter. Send $2.00 to Smith & Swainson, Publishers THE INE RECORD, Cleveland, O., for a large photo- U picture of the steel steamer “ Western Reserve.” € 22 x 28 inches. or DULUTH, MINN. ecial Correspondence to the Marine Record, The loss of the whaleback steamer Wetmore, which irred on the Pacific Coast last ‘Thursday, was due, ( McDougall says, to the fact that there was a avy fog at the time. The vessel was run full speed sand bar, notwithstanding the talk about her con- although exposed to heavy weather she was woken on Sunday. ‘The facts are that the Wet- as staunch a vessel as ever entered the ocean e vessel has had a gold mine in the coal trade h Pacific Coast, and has cut freight rates n $3.50 to $1.25 a ton. At the latter figure tomed to the dispatch in loading and unloading that is in regular practice on the lakes. ‘The vesselmen of the coast, therefore, are probably not at all sorry for the final misfortune of the Wetmore, and will proceed to put rates up again without delay. Their harvest will not be of long continuance, however, as the Pacific Steel Barge Co., at its new Everett shops, has well along the construction of one vessel of the whaleback type and will very soon be at work on more it is pro- posed to launch the first Pacific built whaleback steam- this year. I will endeavor to give the readers of Tur RECORD a full description of the new yard, as well as the parent company’s big dry dock across the bay from Duluth, in the next issue. Wheat is coming in here now in large quantities, and itis of a remarkably good grade. Oyer 570 cars, or 350,000 bushels, were ‘‘on track’’ at the local elevators this week, and the largest receipts for the year. This amount will probably be increased every Monday stead- ily for some time. There are in store at head of the lake elevators to-day 1,423,900 bushels wheat, of which the houses on this side the bay hold 1,165,500. It is probable that this total will steadily increase. Rates to to Buffalo are now dull at three cents and but little wheat was chartered out last week. Most of the log towing to local mills is over for the year, though the Cranberry company will keep its tug, the big Bennet, at work till there is a freeze up. This company has just completed a large booming ground near its mill where it can hold logs ahead so that if the towing season is late in starting it will have a supply of logs. This year the mill was delayed nearly a month from this cause, and, so great has been the volume of business, that it has not been able to catch up since. The papers, in referring to the loss of the tug Paige, of the Lake Superior Stone Co., put the value of the boat at $10,000. She was bought a year ago for $4,000 and has probably not increased in value much since. ‘The boat originally belonged to the Paige-Sexmith Lumber Co., of this city and was an excellent craft When new. Capt. Ira Coburn, of Duluth, now master of the Key- stone, was her owner at one time. Ore shipments from Two Harbors have reached a total nearly as large as last year’s and this week will see the previous biggest year passed. Up to Saturday there had been shipped from the Vermillion mines a total of 825,000 tons, and shipping is going on at the rate of 45,000 tons a week. Ore rates are slightly stronger and are now held at $1.05 to Lake Erie. As the season grows later it looks more and more improbable that there will be any shipments this year from the Mesaba, at least in anything more than sample lots. The ore docks of the Mesaba road are not yet far enough along to warrant any prophesy, though the company assures me that they will be done in a few weeks. It has been decided that these docks will be largely extended the coming winter, and that, starting in with a capacity of 12,000 tons storage, they will have before the season of 1893 opens, a capacity of 72,000 tons. It is possible that the Duluth & Iron Range road will ship a little Biwabic and Canton ore this fall. Lumber shipments increase steadily. Yesterday there were no less than six vessels lying at mills loading, and this ‘is not at allan uncommon sight. While keeping up her western and local trade, Duluth is increasing the eastern shiping business five-fold, a fact that shows how rapidly the lumber trade is getting to the front. Rates are now about $2.75 to Buffalo and Tonawanda and $3.00 to Chicago; most of the shipments are to Lake Erie. Send $2.00 to Smith & Swainson, Publishers THE UARINE RECORD, Cleveland, O., for a large photo- gravure picture of the steel steamer ‘Western Reserve.” Size 22 x 28 inches. rr ESCANABA, MICH. Special Correspondence to The Marine Record. ‘The steamer St. Paul got a little mixed up in the haze which overspread Little Bay De Noc last Sunday even- ing and fetched up standing on the soft end of Sand Point. Her consort discovered the mishap just in time to shift her helm and shear off to starboard so as avoid collision. After manoeuvering around a few hours the St. Paul cleared herself and came to her dock none the worse for her grounding on soft bottom. The ore business of our port is gradually wearing down to a point where, only crafts with season contracts are kept busy, but it may be said that our rivals would even then be astonished if they were to see the contract crafts all in port at one time. The steamer Pioneer which was built expressly for the pig iron trade for the Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Co,, was here last week for a cargo of pig. Allow THE MARINE RECORD man to judge, and I will say that a more pleasant and beautiful trip cannot be made than that which the Burn’s Transportation Co.’s steamer Lotus offers every day. Fora reasonable sum port to the extreme end of beautiful Little Bay De Noc and return, thus making one continuous ride, which pre- sents to the traveler's gaze an ever changing panorama of delightful scenery throughout the entire season. Gummond’s steamer De Pere is meeting with a good trade. She arrives here with a full load of merchandise once every ten days and she exchanges it for a load of pig iron. The steamer Liberty, owned by C. A. Freeman, of Green Bay, is here towing the gravel scows of O’Brien & Sullivan, while the street work holds out. The Goodrich Line boats are carrying their usual large number of passengers to and from Escanaba. There has been several instances of late, where berths were in great demand, and so much so, that the demand was greater than the supply. The service will be in- creased another season. Hannah, Lay & Co’s steamer, City of Grand Rapids, has already built up a business that she is unable to handle, anda charter has just been made which will lighten her task somewhat. A large number of tray- elers are daily availing themselves of this short route to the South and East. Capt. John Coffey came out last week with his new tug Anabel, hailing from this port. This boat was built by the enterprising firm of Burger & Burger, at Mani- towoc, and gives Capt. Coffey acraft that piseese him in every detail. Capt. George Shipman has had new upper works built on his tug Allie Shipman, and now she is a passenger craft plying twice daily between this port and Rapid River and intermediate points. Policies are being written on grain from the “Soo” railway elevator at Gladstone, with a clause thus: “In case of loss under this policy, the adjustment shall be made on the price of wheat in Buffalo, less freight charges from Buffalo.’ This form will no doubt be re- jected by the companies, because under such an agree- ment, the assured would be enabled to obtain more than the actual value of the grain. This method of adjust- ment was attempted last fall when the elevator at Gladstone burned, and had it been successful would have cost the companies several cents a bushel more than the Minneapolis prices, plus the freight charges. “We Despise the Blacklegs.”’ ‘Our Price is Just 4 cts. a Ton.’’ ‘These are the words of a banner that was car- ried by the Trimmer’s union in the labor procession last Monday. Uno. © Send $2.00 to Smith & Swainson, Publishers THE MARINE RECORD, Cleveland, 0., for a large photo- gravure picture of the steel steamer “ Western Reserve.” Size 22 x 28 inches. TED OO or THE COAST WEST LIGHTSHIPS BUILT AT BAY CITY. The third of the fleet of lightships built at the yards of F. W. Wheeler & Co., West Bay City, for coast seryice, has been completed, and she is now on her way to the coast via the St. Lawrence system of canals. No. 54, as the last new vessel is known, will be stationed in the _ sixth lighthouse district, off Port Royal entrance, out- side of Martin’s Industry Shoals, South Carolina, about ; fifteen miles from Tybee light, Georgia. She is provided with two large mushroom anchors, one weighing 2,000 and the other 2,500 pounds. The cables for these anchors are of unusual size if consid- ered for lake service, and 120 fathoms long. The steam windlass which handles these chains, weighs 20,000 pounds. i The first vessel completed, which is now known as Cornfield Point light vessel, has been delivered, and is— located in the Third distrist, off Cornfield Point, at the mouth of the Connecticut river. ‘Ths second vessel, which is now known as Pees Island Shoal light vessel, is located on the Fenwick _ Island Shoals, off the coast of Maryland. No. 53, which is yet to go, will be located in the First. lighthouse district, off the end of Frying Pan Shoals, off Cape Fear, N. C., about one mile beyond the end of the 18-foot shoal. ‘The construction of all these boats has been under the supervision of Commander Oscar F. Heyerman, late of the Eleventh lighthouse district. “SOO” RIVER NAVIGATION. Capt. Read, U. S. N. District Light House Inspector — has just completed a five weeks’ cruse through the eley- enth lighthouse district. Referring to the navigation of the St. Mary River at night the inspector says th lights are nearly all in place, and judging from the number of passages he thought there must be a lar; number of vessels going through at night, although is a very risky piece of business. It not only requi1 skill, but daring and good judgment. Altogether lights have been placed, including the two at the foot pected that the tubular lens lantern on Round 1 will be burning inafew days.