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’ 3 a fa ae "CLEVELAND, 0. ‘The new shoal, about five miles north of Squaw island, and recently buoyed by the United States light- house inspector, is named the Lansing shoal. Mr. W. I. Babcock, manager of the Chicago Ship- Building Co., visited this port on Monday, on business connected with the construction work at his ship-yard. Some coal charters were placed Wednesday at the fol- lowing figures: Sault Ste. Marie, 55 cents; Manitowoc, 50 cents; Bay City, 40 cents. After she was docked in the Ship Owners’ Dry Dock, Captaia C. E. Benham, W. J. Miller and William Wat- terson held a survey on the steambarge S. Neff, recently sunk in the outer harbor. The repairs are placed at $7.800. At the special meeting of the Finance Committee of the Lake Carriers’ Association, held on Wednesday, the report of the committee on lightships was held on file and the committee continued, with power to act as future circumstances might transpire in the question of the aids to navigation for which the committe was ap- pointed. The United States steamer Michigan was in port for three days this week and looked as trim as it is possible to make this ancient representative of ‘‘Uncle Sam.’’ She is making a leisurely cruise to Chicago, where she is to report on October 21, when she will be placed at the dis- posal of President Harrison for the opening or dedica- cation of the World’s Fair. Mr. Powers, a well-known pioneer ship-builder, of Kingston, Ont., visited friends in shipping circles here on Tuesday. Chatting, while in a reminiscent mood, in Tur RecorD office, his half a century’s experience on fresh water was more than entertaining. The bungling, ill-advised, and delayed work on the new Main street bridge has at last been brought to a close, and traffic, which has been suspended all summer, is again permitted. It was found, when the bridge swung, that it was only about a foot too short to reach the new piers built out half way across the river. It was also discovered that the city could not appropriate adjoining real estate and dock property, so that while the bridge is permitted to swing, an unlooked for ex- penditure falls on the city in the form of recompense to dock-owners. Take this bridge work all through, it looks as if lunatics conceived it and shoe-blacks pre- pared the plans. : Work at the yards of the Cleveland Ship Building Company is still delayed on account of a lack of mate- rial. The keel for the new Bradley Line steamer is laid and some work is being done on the large freight mon- itor, but at least two hundred more men could be put to work if the iron and steel was sent forward from Pitts- burg. The boiler shops and machinery departments are kept very busy and a large number of orders for stationary work are being executed. The Cleveland Dry Dock Company, are now doing ex- cellent work on the enlargement of their dry dock and it is about three-fourths completed, there is still a small leakage at the cofferdam, but it is expected that the gate will soon be in place, and all danger of another flooding obviated. At the shipyard of the Globe Iron Works Co., the keels for the two new Buffalo-Duluth passenger steam- ers are well along and all possible advantage of the fine steady weather is being taken. Orders tor mate- rial are being regularly and promptly filled so that no delay is atopresent experienced on that account. The handsome steel steam yacht Comanche, built to the or- der of Mr. H. M. Hanna, president of the company, is now nearly completed and will be ready for service in about a week, she is brigantine rigged, hull painted black with a gilt ribbon, which is according to the regu- lation style of fancy yacht tonnage. ‘There is ample time for the yacht to reach the coast before ice makes in the canals or Gulf of St. Lawrence, yet no chances will be taken in this respect, and before the month ex- pires the Comanche will be wending her way towards a port in South Carolina, where the owner and his family will embark for an eastern cruise during the winter months. Lots of honor and prestige will be reflected on this port throughout the cruise of the Comanche. Plans are being prepared for anew Center St. bridge, and it is not a whit before time, although it is probable that no work will be done until navigation opens next spring. Before any such bungling work as was evi- denced on the Main street bridge is entered upon it would be advisable to invite Capt. Harman, of Chicago, to visit the port and demonstrate his jack-knife inven- tion for river bridges, Two of these are now spanning Chicago creek, and if I am rightly informed, there is no center abutment the size of a 3,000 ton steamer re- quired to be fixed permanently in the bed of the river to work this bridge on. Barring the great viaduct, the THE MARINE RECORD. only decent span there is on the Cuyahoga is the Lake Shore Railroad bridge at the mouth of the river. It swings to the side, and is clear of all river traffic. The stability of construction is all there too. ‘The following comparative table of ore reeeipts and coal shipments, according to the custom-house records, indicates the volume of district traffic in coal and ore. The figures relating to coal are net tons, and those of ore gross tons: ORE RECEIPTS. August, | August, ||To Aug./To Aug. Port. 1892. 1891. 31, 1892. | 31, 1891. Cleveland........ 345,262| 349,584)! 1,264,671] 664,037 Ashtabula 503,259} 400,036,| 1,009,998] 973,070 Fairport. 174,957| 136,866]) 589,306] 519,170 Wjorain 23s. 26 34,862 45,931 188,271) 182,882 Ota Luis ees oo 1,058,340] 932,417|| 3,652,246] 2,339,159 COAL SHIPMENTS. August, | August, |[To Aug./To Aug. Port. 1892. 1891. 31, 1892. | 31, 1891. Cleveland.. 171,583) 143,768|| 762,383) 626,523 Ashtabula . 62,193 65,798)| 320,534) 244,805 Fairport.. 13,350 4,169 55,321) 48,945 Lorain... 26,771 20,374 104,358 97,266 SEGtal?d car arec 273,897] 234,109]} 1,242,596] 1,017,539 The figures showing the coal shipments from Ashta- bula are far from being authentic. According to the above table the total shipments of coal up to August 31st, 1893, were 320,534 tons, whereas the actual amount shipped was almost twice that. The cause of this discrepancy is the fact that nearly one-half the coal shipped from Ashtabula is taken by vessels that clear from Buffalo for some upper lake port, As they have through clearances, they are not obliged to report at Ashtabula, therefore their cargoes are not shown on the custom house books. In this way Buffalo gets the credit of shipping much coal that is taken from the intermediate port, and Ashtabula is justified in up- holding her record of commerce. rr ce THE CHICAGO MARINE BUDGTE. Special Correspondence to The Marine Record. Cuicaco, In.—The tug W. H. Wolf was damaged by fire in and around her engine room at 3 o’clock Satur- day morning, to. the extent of about $300. The mem- bers of her crew sleeping on board fortunately escaped without injury. Captain Young, of the schooner Conneaut, on his ar- riyal here, Tuesday morning, reported that a fore and aft schooner was ashore between Racine and Kenosha. When he passed her, the night before, he was too far away to make out the schooner’s name. The schooner Radical arrived here Tuesday morning, minus her foretopmast, which was carried away Mon- day night. The Seamen’s Union didnot advance wages at this port, October Ist, to $3.25 per day, as stated in some Chicago newspapers last Saturday. The rate of wages at present is $2.50 per day. The steamer Soo City, Captain Byron Armstrong, of the Vandalia line, between Chicago and St. Joseph, made her last trip of the season last Saturday, and has gone to South Chicago to lay up for the winter. Elphicke & Co. have received advices that $550 worth of the corn cargo of the schooner John Burt, which went ashore near Oswego last week, had been saved. The salvage from the schooner amounted to $700 more. The Burt has become a total loss and has been aban- doned. All the Chicago tug companies have come to the con- clusion after trying all kinds of smoke preventing de- vices for many years, that the only way to prevent smoke and abide by the city’s ordinances is to use hard coal. It comes hard on them, as it costs more than double the price of soft coal and does not do as good work. But they have agreed to use it and save furthur trouble. At Miller Bros.’ ship-yard the steamers Ariel and Charm and tugs Watkins, Meteor, Tom Brown and Dalton were in dry dock for repairs and calking ; the steamers Lawrence and Puritan for new wheels, the steamer Post Boy for a new wheel and repairs to her rudder, the steamer Mabel Bradshaw for some calking, the steamer John Otis for some repairs to stern bearing and drawing bearing, the tug George B. McClellan for some new stanchions, bulwarks and rail, part new wale strake, part new cabin, some new plank on her bottom and recalking. A new fire boat for use at the World’s Fair was launched at Miller Bros.’ ship-yard Wednesday after- noon, September 28, and was named the Fire Queen. Her dimensions are 65 feet over all, 16 feet beam, 5 foot hold. Engine, high pressure, 8 by 8, built by C. F, Elmer, Chicago; boiler, 6 by 10, built by John Mohr & Son, Chicago. Grain freights went up to 2% cents on wheat falo on Monday. « (ee J. H. Randall & Son, yacht and boat builders, building a steam yacht of very handsome mod feet over all, 8 feet beam, 4 feet depth of hold. will be supplied with engine and boiler of large po The schooner Presto is stripping and will go winter quarters at once, 4 George Warrington is building one of his patent water tube boilers, 2 by 3 feet, to be allowed 300 pounds steam pressure for the steam launch Pasatiempo, of the City of Mexico. The boiler he is building for the steam yacht Alcoyne is nearly completed and will be placed on board next week. ¥ ‘The steam yacht Buena took out the members of the Buena Park Yacht Club and many of their friends, ‘Tuesday afterndon, for their last trip on Lake Michigan” = this season. ‘The Buena will go into winter quarters at — once, Mr. McMyler, of Cleveland, was here this week in- — / specting the new derrick erected at the Independent Fuel Co.’s coal dock. wees The following steamers’ inspection certificates run out during the month of October in the Chicago dis- trict: Canal steamer Peerless, October 8; steamer Margaret Olville, October 12; fire boat Yosemite, Octo- ber 12; tug Magnet, October 13; canal steamer Danube, October 15; fire boat Chicago, October 29. 3 Wm. McKittrick, Jr., superintendent engineer of the Buffalo & Niagara River Co., is in Chicago on business this week. hor The Chicago, No. 3, EK. M. B. A., have leased for two years a hall on the top floor of premises at the corner of Market and Lake streets, next door to George C. Finney & Co., ship-chandlers. The hall is 24 by 40, with two reception rooms adjoining. The hall and rooms will be renovated at once and fitted up and far- nished newly for members’ meetings by the close of navigation. , ‘The excursion steamer Post Boy became disabled by the breaking of her rudder stock, off 35th street, Sattr- day afternoon at3o’clock, when returning from the World’s Fair. There was a gale blowing from the northeast at the time, her anchors were let go and she brought up off 39th street. The steamer Adrienne went to her and succeeded in getting a line on board, but the line parted, and as there was a heavy sea, she gave up the attempt to rescue the Boy. Captain St. porwr Peter and his life saving crew went to the steamer soon ~ after she became disabled and got on board and made — fast the lifeboat to her stern and remained on board, ready, in case of emergency, to take off the passengers and crew, until the tug Mollie Spencer went and res- cued her and towed her into port at 11 o’clock Saturday night. ii Collector of Customs John M. Clark has received an opinion from the solicitor of the treasury to the effect that pleasure yachts are exempt from the navigation laws compelling vessel owners to paint the name of their boat on the bows. The question came up inthe case of Major Whitmore, owner of the New York yacht Lurline. 2 ‘The schooner Homer is reported at Milwaukee, with part of her deck load of lumber gone, and the schooner Helen Pratt leaking badly. The Squaw Island light-house, marking the most northerly point of the Beaver islands, in the north end of Lake Michigan, will be lighted for the first time next Monday. This was the light-house which the | Board announced could not be operated until next spring, because no funds were available. Upon its completion, about two weeks ago, vessel-men appealed directly to Secretary Foster, who quickly found a way ; of cutting the red tape of the Board. WILLIAMS, rr THE BUFFALO GRIST OF MARINE EVENTS. — Special Correspondence to The Marine Record. Burraio, N. Y.—Negotiations for the sale of the Crystal Beach Company’s steamer Pearl, were complet- — ed Tuesday, after a party of Chicago gentlemen had_ thoroughly inspected her. She passes into the hands of je Ese the World’s Fair Transportation and Boat Company, of Chicago. The purchase price is said to be but little un- der $30.000. . Hingston & Wood’s drill boat which sunk in Niagara river, has been towed into the Erie Basin and raised. 1a re: A novelty in the canal boat line was launched from the yard of G. W. Hall, at Bast Lockport last week. It will be a steamer driven by two overshot wheels. ‘The projector expects great things in the way of speed. The Seamen’s Benevolent Association has mo from the foot of Main street to No. 59, the same street. The captain of the steamer Onoko, still claims his last wheat cargo to be the largest ever carried on lakes. He says the Gilcher ran short 60 bushels of - 113,885 she claimed, leaving the Onoko’s the largest about 20 bushels. —