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: address, postage paid for $1.00, or with the MARINE ‘vessels on entering the Cleveland breakwa- ; | which arrived in the boat of the life savers, Leaving John | | Everleigh aboard the Johnson, they rigged | a line intending to bling the men-ashore in | ~ abled on Lake St. Clair with a broken shoe. “rode out the storm about a mile out, after “OMMERCE, RING AND S% = _ CLEVELAND O, NOVEMBER 15, 1883. $2.00 PsR ANNUM SinGLe Copies 6 Cen7Ts VOL. V. NO. 46. Vesselmen | SHOULD HAVE i OUR MARINE LAW BOOK, Containing all poinis of MARINE LAW. as de- termined by the United States Courts - ———ON Seamen, ‘Owners, Freights, Charters, _ Towage, Registry, Collisions, Enrollments, General Average, Common Carriers, ‘ Duties of Seamen, Masters & Owners,- Bill of Lading, Wages, &c. ‘The volumn is handsomely bound in stif’ Board eovers, and fine English cloth binding. Books of this kind generally cost $3.00, but we will send it to,an RECORD for one year, both for only $3.00. Address MARINE Racorp. Cleveland 0. AROUNDTHE LAKES, CLEVELAND. To the Kditor Marine Record: You aré authorized to notify captains of ter to go as far-up as possible so as not to blockade the approach, preventing other ves- ° A sels making a safe entrarice. Joun KirBy, Harbor Master; — The storm made quite a breach in the j breakwater. : The damage to the Lizzie A, Law is. esti- mated at $1,200. , The cearch for the barge Merrimac has thus far proved unsuccessful. The tug C. P. Smith, with Captain Brad- ley’s lighters and steam pumps, is being fit- | ted out for the release of the Johnson. Captain Bradley’s tug Brady has been dis- patched to the rescue of the Chisholm, dis- Considerable anxiety is felt in regard to the fate of the Ryan, bound for Fairport in tow of the Ohio, the latter vessel having ar- rived at Ashtabula, her destination, elhe echooner George Sherman came off Smith’s drydock and was towed to J.‘W. Grover & Company’s dock, where she will tie up and be stripped for the winter, The center abutment of the Main street bridge has been undermined and washed out to the extent of six or eight feet. ‘Nhe board of improvements has decided to build a new abutment. The schooner Magnetic which gallantly getting inside got stuck in the draw of the Willow street bridge. She was finally re- | leased by the tugs 5S. 8. Stone and Peter Smith. At Globe drydock, since our last report, the J. M. Osborn received about fifty feet of new planking, the schooner John B. Mer- | ‘at Long Point is doubtless, rill had some calking, leaks stopped anda new rudder stock. ‘he Sophia Minch is now in awaiting survey and repairs, V. D. Nickergon, marine artist, is now at work on a pastel painting which, when com- pleted, will bethe event of the season in the way of marine pictures, [t represents the “Wreck on the Beach,” the stranded schoon- er Sophia Minch being the object, with the river tugs Champion and Moore, and three harbor tugs, at work on her. ‘The picture will be five feet by two and one-half, and | will be finished in Mr. Nickerson’s masterly | manrer. On Sunday evening the schooner Magnetic | and Zach Chandler, ore laden for this port, were caught by the storm when about a mile out and let go their anchors, ‘hey (of her cargo of lumber will be saved. was built at Fairport in 1871 and was valued | | at about $2,500. both .road through the gale gallantly, the Chandler leaking ‘badly, however. ‘She showed a flag of distress when the crew. be- came exhausted atthe pumps. ‘Tug $.8. Stone went out with a rresh crew, who were hauled aboard with a rope. ‘They succeeded j in keeping the Chandler afloat until she was, towed into the harbor on Tuesday. ‘The Chandler is valued at $18,000 and insured for $14,000, She will go into drydock here for repairs, ‘The storm which swept over the lakes on Sunday afternoon and all day Monday and ; Monday night, was perhaps more disastrous to shipping than any previous one for a long number of years. ‘The Johan ‘I’. John- son, Captain Peterson, ore laden from, Esea- naba, under consort of the steambarge Ohio, was let go when about twelve miles off this port, when the storm struck her. She cast her anchor, which dragged, and she wag east upon the beach... ‘The crew of ,the doomed vessel, including six sailors and the cook, stood in the rigging waiting for help, Gaptain C...C. Goodwin. a basket. On the return the boat containing the life savers was capsized, all having a narrow escape from drowning. ‘The mortar was placed in position and the shore end of the crew with the assistance of volunteer ‘ovat, who is always on hand in an emer- gency of this kind, sveceeded in putting a | line over the Johnson, which was skillfully caught by Mr. Everleigh, and the ‘entire crew came safely to shore, saturated and be- humbed with the cold water. ‘They were hospitably treated after they reached the docks and are: thankful tor the warming coffee and other liquics that were furnished them. ‘The Johnson_.is owned by Estus, Ry an & Johnson, and insured for about $16,000. She was built at Huron in 1873, rated A2 and registered 646 tons, She is valued at $19,000. DETROIT, Special to the Marine Record. ; Derrorr, November 13. Saliors’ wages are $4 per day. Ths scow Onward has gone into winter | quarters here.: The propeller Wissahickon, upward | bound, arrived here this morning, Captain McBride, of the steamer Milwau- ; kee, on Lake Michigan, is missing. The steamer City of Mackinac left on Sun- | day at 2 p.m. for Mackinac and way points. The steambarge Enterprise is in the De- troit drydock. The tug Sweepstakes is re- pairing her shaft. ‘The three-masted vessel reported ashore the Siberia, | which has been there for some time, The steamer St.Paul, of Ward’s line, left on her last trip of the season to Like Superior on Friday last, and the ‘Toledo on Saturday, i well freighted for that region. The fine schooner Elizabeth Jones, with 40,000 bushels of corn, is on Racine reef, and report says will be a total loss, She was built in 18573; valuation $29,000, and 646 ; tons burden, The scow Homer IH, Hite has finally been given up as a total loss, although a portion The most lamentable of casualties, so far reported is the drowning of Mr, Orin M. She Chase and six others from a boat oft Petow- sky, Mich, Mr. Chase was the superintend- | ent of State fisheries, his mission being the distribution of fish eggs at various points. The schooner H. F. Merry, which cleared from here on Saturday last, with wheat for Buffalo, went ashore night following at Sil- ver Creek, Lake Erie, and beyond a doubt is broken up ere this, She came out in 1869, built at Sandusky, and 170 tons burden. The Owen is a new craft which made her there is nothing of special moment to report. In the Detroit river, at Fighting Island, the sleambarge Glasgow and tow are ashore, al- so two or three other barges. They will sns- tain no other damage, however, beyond de- tention, and will svon. be got afloat. Another important triumph in the line ot wrecking has been achieved by the steamer Andrew J. Smith, of Murphy Bros. line, in the rescue and getting into harbor of the schooner Starlight, stranded in Georglan appearance here on Friday for the first time, laden with wood, She was built near Chat- ; ham, Ont., is ninety-two tons burden, and | Will cost, when fitted with machinery, $8,000, Captrin Daniel Crow, of the above place, is | the owner, | On Sunday evening there turned up from the northwest what sailors: term an old | snifter, otherwise a living gale of wind from | that quarter, which, up to the present writ- | ing, is still howling with intense coid. ‘That serious disaster will be heard from among the shipping there can be no doubt. The Hon. Charles Howard, a vessel owner and forwarder here in early times, and of whom honorable mention was made in these columns a short time since, died in this city 1 on Wednesday last at the rine age of seventy- eight. His funeral on Friday was largely attended by many of our most prominent citizens, . I give the names of the fo'lowing craft. which are sheltered here for the time being: Steambarge Hiawatha and consort Minneha- | ha, steambarge W. Cowie and tow, propel- | lers Arctic and City of Dresden, tug James | Adams of Buffalo, barge Middlesex, sechoon- ‘ers W. I. Preston, and John Jewett, also ; Plymouth Rock. . The steamer City of Cleveland, Captain | Stewart, arrived Monday morning from | Mackinac, reaching the St. Clair river in the height of the gale. She reports seeing the ' steambarge Pregress lying apparently dis- ' abled, near the Straits, with a tug at hand. | Beyond this there was nothing outside the ! usual routine to report. The Canadian steamer Rupert, which passed up the I.tter part of the week from Lake Ontario with supplies for the Canada Pacitic railway, Lake Superior, was found to be so defective, on reaching Sarnia, as to ‘abandon the trip. ‘The sending ot Lake On- tario boats bere this season has not thus far turned out a success. The misfortunes thus ! far have amounted to some $30,000, Bay a short time since and abandoned as a total less, ‘The vessel had become wedged in a ledge of rocks, and so firmly that others who had undertaken the job gave it up as hopeless. In order to move her she had to be jacked up with screws. She will be brought here for repairs. A large fleet is sheltered at Point au Pellee, at least so reported by passing steamers. Reports are also heralded ot vessels seen at various points with flags of distress, but nothing definite has been received. From the east shore of Lake Michigan it is stated that the schooner Lucy J. Clark, after being released, had rolled over and three of her crew drowned, ‘The schooner Potomac is ashore at Frankfort, Mich. She is forty-one years old, having been built at Cape Vincent in 1842, and is 208 tons burden; valuation sbout $4,000. She is next to the oldest craft on the lakes. I notice some matters referring to early marine history from a correspondent toa Chicago paper. He states that the first steamer to Chicago was the Superior in 1832, He cites the year correctly, but not the name of the boat, which was the Sheldon Thomp= son, Captain A, Walker. He further states the first tug at Chicago asthe Archimeades, which is also incorrect. ‘This, he says, was in 1852. Itis well known to many yet on terra firma that the Kossuth, a side-wheeler, was towing vessels in and out of that port in 1850. There are other inaccuracies men- tioned which I do not care to correct at this time. The death of Captain Heber Squier is an- nounced as having taken place at Philadel- phia on Saturday last, aged sixty-one. He commenced his career of a sailor as early as 1835, and, by “niform uprightnese, arose to the command of several prominent steamers on the lakes, In 1850 he sailed the steam. boat Empire between Buffalo and Chicago, and in 1851 the steamship Brother Jonathan out of New York. fn 1853 the steamer St. There is but little to be said in the line of | lake freights at the present time. Schooners ‘H. F. Merry and EK, Fitzgerald took wheat for Buffalo at 234c. The former cleared on Saturday for her destination. Lumber be- tweer ‘Tawas and Detroit is governed by | Bay City rates, Captain D, Webster reports the schooner Benedict, barley, Kineardine to Walkerville (opposite Detroit), at de. N.S. Whipple, of this city, has purchased the schooner George M. Case, giving as an | equivalent, property here valued at $14,000. She was built at Saugatuck, on Lake Michi- gan, in 1874, has two masts and classes Al. She has been placed in command of Captain ' David Sidney, late master of the Nellie Gardner, wrecked a short time since on Lake Huron. ‘Tuesday, the 13th, the wind has veered to the southwest, and is piping a living gale. the storm thus far are The returns from | coming in, yet the complete statistics will | not arrive for a day ortwo. In this vicinity Lawrence between Buffalo and Sandusky, taking the place of Captain John Shook, who commanded her in the early part of that seas son. In 1854 he was in the propeller Orien- tal and subsequently the St. Joseph and Rescue, and later on, the City ot Cleveland on Lake Michigan. For several years he assumed the agency of steamboat lines re- spectively at Dunkirk and Grand Haven, He was widely known and had hosts of friends. The vessel reported foundered at Colches- ter reef, proves to be the lightship, which, with Captain Forest, the only person on board, has gone to pieces. The tug Swain was sent from here to her relief, but too late to be of avail From Lake Huron the side- wheel steamer Monitoba and the propeller Quebec, both belonging to Beatty’s Line of Lake Superior steamers, are reported ashore near Southampton. The former, I learn, will bea total loss. She was built at Port ‘Continued on 4'h page!