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=. ee. THE MARINE RECORD. er resigned the lake agency of the American Ship- s’ Association, and is now compiling a classifica- tion register for iron and steel lake built ships at the request of several of the most ‘prominent owners. The lew book is to be named the ‘‘Reliance.” Mr. J. C. Burton, of Detroit, ‘representing the Cincin- ati Underwriters Fire and Marine Insurance Company, : “spending” a few days in the city this week. Mr. Burton represented the Columbia Insurance Conipany, of New York, in 1864, and is one of the most expert and _ best known agents on the lakes. _ As an indication of the dry-dock and metal shipyard work at this port, it may be stated'that there were six" teen steel vessels ready and waiting for damage repairs to be entered upon during this month. This number did not include the extra work which 1s intended to be put into steel vessels this winter for strengthening pur- poses, quite a few of which are on the list here. "The effects of the recent Carnegie strike is still felt in the shipyards, and quite a detention is experienced at the yards of the Cleveland Ship Building Co. on account of the;slowness at Pittsburg in filling orders for the wi material required in the construction of the two large ie freight steamers now building to the order of Mr. M. A. Bradley and Capt. Thomas Wilson, of this port. Captain Bartlett, the g. m. a. t. w., desires to express his gratitude to the vessel brokers for the Christmas donations received at their hands. Words cannot ex- press his thankfulness to Mr. M. A. Bradley for furnish- ing him a good winter’s home on one of his vessels, and the energetic young-old man is as joyful all round asa two-year-old. ‘Through a recent business arrangement the well known = firm of Bassett, Presley & Train have become the most E extensive dealers in manufactured iron inthe city. A 4 largé stock of iron and steel used in constructive work for vessels and stationary purposes is kept on hand, ready for immediate shipment, and patrons are always assured of prompt business attention and courteous dealings in all the transactions of the firm, domestic or foreign. Capt. E. Dahlke, of the tug G. R. Worswick, is still to the fore and doing a land office business on the river. . He says if he can’t run on water he intends to run on ice and keep nayigation open for the fire-boat all winter, = incidentally, taking charge of winter transportation, moving vessels to and from the dry docks and all other river demands. He is always to be found on deck and is the ‘‘stormy petrel’’ of this port. The Globe Iron Works Co. will build the battery of Belleville boilers for the two large passenger steamers $ ordered by J. J. Hill- The two quadruple expansion en- A gines will also be built at the engine shops of the Globe. The only other multiple cylinder engines on the lakes above the triple expansion are those of the W. J. White’s yacht Say When, built by Herreschoff. These, I under- stand, are five cylinder compound and give excellent satisfaction in connection with a Roberts’ SES water tube boiler. At the annnal meeting of the local lodge of the Ship- masters’ Excelsior Marine Benevolent Association the following officers were elected: Capt. John Lowe, pres- ident; Capt. Joseph A. Holmes, first vice-president; Capt. William Cumming, second vice-president; Capt. ‘Thomas Jones, treasurer; Capt. Frank Brown, financial secretary; Capt. W. C. Goodsell, recording secretary. ‘The other officers will be appointed by the president at s the next meeting. The annual meeting of the grand lodge will be held at Port Huron early in January. Plans and models of the new fire boat are now in the hands of fire director, Gardner. The proposed boat is 80 feet long, 22 feet beam, and draws six feet forward and 7 feet aft. The bow of the boat is spoon shaped and is intended to crush ice by sliding over it and breaking through by sheer weight. The boat if adopted, will be supplied with a double set of compound engines and will have a speed of twelve miles, she will also be equipped with electric search lights. Commodore Gar- dner will endeavor to have the council adopt a plan and authorize him to advertise for bids for the construction of the boat. A Chicago Capt. Harmon, with his ‘‘jack-knife”’ sys- tem of bridging, is urgently required at this port to have moved the present ponderous and unwarrantable obstructions from the middle of the ‘‘wide and commod- ious’ Cuyahoga. It looks as if there was no local mechanical ingenuity or scientific skill at hand to propose any alternative for doing away with the stationary obstructions in mid-river carrying’ the bridges. Each bridge now takes up the room of a 3,000 To ton ship sunk in mid-stream and as we have a trifle more land than water these pile-driven jetties should be 4moved to the banks of the muddy and sinuous creek, Joseph R. Oldham, marine architect and'surveyor, | Fae ee Mr. John F. Pankhurst, vice-president and general manager, of the Globe Iron Works Co., contemplates starting on acruise to the West Indies next week in the handsome steel steam yacht Comanche built for Mr. H. M. Hanna, the president of the company. Mr. Pankhurst has not been enjoying the best of health recently, ow- ing to his close attention to business and. the ertise would undoubtedly re-invgorate the unugally enegetic manager, who, in justice to himself is entitled to a long and pleasant vacation, though, in the absence of the president and vice-president of so extensive an industry, Mr. Luther Allen, the secretary and treaspirer, would probably find himself snowed under, with the pressing - demands of business requiring immediate, skilled and technical attention. It is well known, that Mr, Allen's business capacity is almost unlimited, but, TI believe that before the six weeks had expired, he would be ready to ask for “quarter” or holler peccavi for having even unwillingly accepted the inevitable labor which would necessarily have to be assumed by himin the ab- sence of Mr. Pankhurst. Several marine engineers have applied for a station- ary engineer’s licenses and were told that they were not eligible candidates for examination. On Tuesday an engineer who had held a marine engineer’s license for over twenty years and has had charge of the engines of some of the largest steamers on the lakes, besides having been a machinist before he became a licensed marine engineer, found that under the construction placed on the stationary engineer’s ordinance he could not obtain a license to operate a hoisting machine on the docks. If he attempted to run a two by four engine used to operate a lathe he would be cast into jail. ‘The reason, is, under the ruling of the examiner, that the applicant is not entitled to an examination until he has had a year’s experience with a stationary engine. The engineer desired a license because he expects to take charge of the triple expansion marine engines at the power house of a street railroad company. He was amazed when he learned of his apparent disqualification and urged that he could not get the necessary year’s experience without a license. He was informed that the ruling on that point has been adopted by all the engi- neers who have been in the service of the city. He was not satisfied, however, and appealed to the director of law for a legal opinion, . The director gave him a note to Mr. Whitwell, the Exuminer of Engineers, directing him to examine the applicant and issue a license if he passed the examination. It is a peculiar law which requires a man'to have a year’s experience before he can be examined for a license, and yet he could not get that experience without a license. The Marine Engi- neers’ Beneficial Association ought to petition to have set aside such a burlesque mode of examinations and see that the necessary license is granted fo qualified individuals. ‘To right this one wrong alone would be a fair winter’s work and be a wholesale benefit to the craft. fb ee THE WEEKLY CHICAGO GRIST. Special Correspondence to The Marine Record, Cuicaco, I1n_.—Captains W. H. Rounds and J. J. Rar- don held a survey on the schooner F. L. Danforth last week and assessed her damages at $4,400. Captain James Reid, wrecker, of Bay City, was in Chicago Tuesday. Captain A. M. Elliott, of Kenosha, and Capt. David Crichett, of the barge Ashland, have become members of the E. M. B. A. (Lodge 3), Chicago. Captain L,. Young, of the steamer Pabst, and Capt. M. Finney, of the steamer Frank ly, Vance, passed through here Friday from Milwaukee, en route for their homes to spend the holidays. Both were looking well. ‘The schooner John C. Fitzpatrick finished discharging her cargo of coal at Peabody’s dock Saturday night, and two of Dunham’s tugs towed her to her winter moorings, just below Chicago avenue, on Monday. ‘The Excelsior Marine Benevolent Association, Lodge 3, Chicago, will hold a ball and banquet at Battery D, January 31st, 1893. The committee of arrangements are: Captains J. Calbick, J, Hogan, Geo. McDonald, J. Donegan, Wm. Disher, Thos. Beggs, and Robt. Reid. ‘The steamer C, W,. Elphicke, captain, C. Z. Montague, left Milwaukee at 8 a. m, and arrived here jat 3 p, m. on Christmas day. Captain Montague says ‘they experi- enced considerable ice between Racine and this port. The Elphicke came here to load. The night. before leaving Milwaukee Capt. Montague received, from the owners of the C. W. Elphicke a very handsome silver tea service asa present, with congratulations on his successful season of 1892. ‘The steamer Brazil was chartered last week by Keith & Carr for winter storage and delivery at Buffalo in the spring, and she loaded 99,000 bushels of wheat at Armour’s elevator, at Goose island, Monday. ‘They also chartered the schooner Redwing last week for corn for winter storage and delivery at Buffalo, and the schooner James G. Blaine, on Friday, for corn for winter storage and delivery at Port Huron next spring at 3% ae bushel, and she was towed up the south branch Tues afternoon to an elevator to load. where he went in the interest of the underwriter: c examine the schooner Annie Voight, ashore on the © north-east end of the south Manitou island. He found was in fair condition and there is a prospect of sa’ ing a considerable portion of her cargo of Captain Fitch; while at Manitou island, learned that ‘aman named John Swainson reports having gone on came ashore, and that he found conclusive evidence that she had been itt a very severe collision, and he further reports that he found a portion of the wreckage of the steamer-Gilcher near by, which he considered tended to prove that the Ostrich and Gilcher had been in collision. — ‘The recent heavy frost has made much ice in Chicago river and the tugs are kept busy-keeping it broken up sy so that transferring to docks and eleyators may not be prevented. WILLIAMS. pe eete intern a ery SS ee TWENTY-TWO WHALEBACKS TO BE BUILT._NEW ~ SHIPYARD AT DULUTH.—IMMENSE WHARF AND SHIPPING FACILITIES ARRANGED FOR. Special Vane: to The Marine Record, DuLuTH, Minn.—The new shipyard project that has been mentioned in THE REcoRD already as starting in at Duluth, moves on apace, and the company has now contracted for all the machinery, some $20,000 worth, that it will need for the construction of vessels on ai large scale. The buildings that are to protect‘ ‘this: machinery are under way, and the first-vessel will be on the stocks in a few weeks. Shé-will be the only one to” be built this winter. The projectors of this new con- cern do not intend to hurry matters, in fact, have not yet organized, but they are none the less in earnest for allthat. They think that they have a good thing, and they propose to stand by it. It may be stated now that the first vessel will be one of the most shipshape and smoothest vessels that has ever been turned out of a lake yard. Rolls, punches, shears and other iron ship- — yard machinery are all bought and are on the way here. It is quite likely that the Great Western Electric Supply Co., whose location at Duluth and close to the new ship- yard is now assured, and of which Gov. W. R. Merriam, of this state, one of the wealthiest men in the north- west, is president, will have a good deal to do with the shipbuilding company, in the way of furnishing sup- plies, castings, machinery and the like, both companies being closely connected. As the result of negotiations completed last week in New York between the promoters of thé Duluth, Mesaba & Northern road and the Rockefellers, the latter lend the road $1,000,000 for the purpose of build- ing its line into this city, providing ore docks of its own here, and arranging all financial matters in connection with the road and its extensions. As part of the agree- 4 ment, the Duluth, Mesaba & Northern road and themin- ing companies owned by the controlling interests in the road, the Mountain Iron, Biwabic, Miessaba Mountain and others, contract with the American Steel Barge company, in which the Rockefellers are leading stock holders, for the carriage of all ore that they may be able to swing, for a series of years. The deal is the most important that has been made in connection with the new range, as it assures the completion of the road, and its freedom from the influence of the Minnesota Iron company and the Illinois Steel company, and as well is a virtual pooling of the interests, as far as this business is concerned, of the American Steel Barge company with the Rockefeller and other heavy capitalistic inter- ests combined therewith, the Duluth, Mesaba & North- ern road, and the ‘‘ Merritt’? mines of the Mesaba, so- called. This in time will prove to be the greatest con: the American continent. Resultants of the deal are about as follows as far may at present be stated: ‘The $1,600,000 that the r gets will pay the cost of construction, right of wa terminal property, docks, equipment etc., of the en main line of the road, from Duluth to the Mount Iron and Biwabic mines. The present issue of- bo held by the contractors and others, who have been gaged in work for the company, will be at once re ti and the new issue of $2,000,000 put up as collatera: the money. The twenty-four miles of line fro present junction of this road and the Duluth & Wi peg to Duluth will be built this winter, and before middle of January work will have begun on the e sive ore docks of the road on the Duluth harbor which docks are to be ultimately, the larges' Great Lakes. At first one double dock, 2,5( an annual shipping capacity of not.less tons, Beside this, space will be left for a