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i- 1 Camortave J “DEVOTED. VOL. VI. NO. 6. CLEVELAND O. FEBRUARY /7, 4884. AROUND THE LAKES. CLEVELAND. Captain C. W. Elphicke of Chicago, was in Cleveland on Friday last. Palmer & Johnson sold the tug Goodnow to Wolf & Davidson for $14,000. W.H. Wolf, of the firm of Wolt & David- son, shipbuilders, Milwaukee, is in this city. Captain Stephen Langston of Detroit and William Goudie of Port Huron were in the city yesterday. The schooner J. S. Richards has been sold by George Berriman to John Corrigan. Pur- chase money $8,000. The Cuyahoga Steam Furnace Company is compounding the engines of the steam- barge Oscar Townsend. Palmer & Benham sold the steambarge Business, for Wolf & Davidson, to Palmer, Johnson and others, for $62,000. It is rumored that W. W. Loomis, ship- builder at Erie, intends to build a drydock at that place during the coming season. Captain J. F. Preston, of St. Joseph, Mich., fg in the city with the intention of. purchas- ing a steambarge.. Mr. Preston. some years ago, was the owner of the Sky Lark. Captain McCloud, inspector for Lloyd’s register, who was in the city last week, in- spected the vessels considered doubtful only. All others will remain in the class they were rated for last season. The admiralty case of Jesze Sims against the propeller Chicago was called, and con- tinued, attorneys interested not being ready for the trial. Sims asks for compensation for one of his mud scows, which tke propell- er demolished in Cuyahogs river last season. Mr. W. B. Scott and Captain George Berri- inan have formed a partnership by consoli- dating their interests. For the past twenty years Captain Scott has given his attention to fire and marine insurance, and Captain Berriman has been largely connected with the iron ore interests of the country, having been for years the Cleveland agent of the Emmett and other good mines. The firm will continue to occupy their old quarters at 130 Water street, where they. will be pleased to see their friends. We w'sh the gentlemen as much prosperity as a firm as attended them individually. Anderson & Bell are building a handsome sloop pleasure yacht. Length over all, 35 feet; beam 11 feet; depth of hold, 4 feet 6 inches, She will have a cabin which will extend eighteen inches above the deck, and will be 15 feet in length and 6 feet 4 inches in depth, in which wil! be four berths. Her mast will be 42 feet, topmast 19 feet, bow- sprit 22 feet, boom 27 feet, gaff 14 feet, hoist- of mainsail 28 feet, a topsail 17 feet om the gaff, 21 feet on the hoist, and jibs in propor- tion She will bea competitor at the Fourth of July regatta,and we wish her enterpris- ing young builders great success. She will be named the Mary Anderson. Two suits in admiralty have been com- menced against the tug American Eagle, in the United States di trict court. The first Was brought by Robert Tarrant, of Chicago, a manufacturer of marine engines, who pre- sents a claim for $284.88 against the tug for engineer’s supplies. He also commences the other suit, as executor of the will of Gottlieb F, W. Rollar. He sets forth that the tug owed Mr, Rollar $192.47 for supplies fur- nished on contract. The American Eagle is owned by Edward Duhlke, of this city, but before the boat came to Cleveland he em- ployed her in Chicago harbor. The monthly meteorological summary is- sued by the signal officer, for the month of January shows it to have been an unusually severe one, With the exception of January and February, 1875, it wis the coldest month that has occurred here in fourteen years. ‘The mean temperature for the month is 19.30 that being 7.99 below the average for Janu- ary. The amount of: precipitatiop was 1.55 inches, being 1.01 inches below the average. The velocity of the wind was much above the average. ‘The month, taken as a whole, was cold, stormy, and moderately dry.. A very hardsome iron steam fishing tug is being built by J. Chatterton at 30 Weat Center street, for H. F. Loomis. She is of the following dimensions: Length over all, 53 teet; breadth of beam, 9 feet; depth of hold 5 feet 6 inches. Her frames are of one and a half inches steel angle, eutside plat- ing of steel three-sixteenths of an inch thick, deck beams of Tiron one and a half inches, deck of iron three-sixteenths of an inch thick. The house, coal bunkers, and all other parts will be of iron. She will have three water tight bulkheads. Lord & Bowler will sup- ply her with a double engine with 6x8 cyl- inders. J. Chatterton will supply the boiler which will be 10 feet in length, 3 feet 6 inches shell of Otis steel. V.D. Nickerson, onr Cleveland marine artist, has finished his very fine picture, five feet long by 30 inches wide, in pastel, of the schooner Sophia Minch, ashore off Cleve land. east of the east pier, on the 6th of No- vember, 1883. The scene repres:nts the schooner as she appeared at 11 a.m of that day, with the large Detroit river tugs Cham- pion and William A. Moore and the Cleve- land tugs Forest City, Mary Virginius and American Eagle: pulling her off the beach, the tug J. at. Worswick, towing a lighter containing 90 tons of ore taken from the Minch, and the tug Dreadnaught towing a lighter, with 100 men on board who had been at work on the Minch. Cleveland piers and the docks and buildings which form the background of the picture, represents an ex- cellent view of Cleveland from the lake. The heavy sea and clouds are very faith- fully depicted. Tbe picture is a very fine work of art and is striking and real, and cannot fail to be greatly appreciated by all veeselmen, who delight in things appertain- ing to their profession. . DETROIT, Special to the Marine Record. Detroit, February 5. I fell in “ith a perfect cavaleade of ship- owners and masters at Morgan & Rice’s of- fice, at No. 20 Chamber of Commerce, in this city, where they make their headquarters to talk over vessel matters in the way of buy- ing and eelling, but all fighting shy of each other. For the present there is not much push in such matters, save the purchase ot one-sixteenth interest in the steambarge A. A. Turner, barges Smith and Star of the North for $4,000, the purchaser being Cap- tain J. W. Surles, who will command the steamer. At latest advices the Propellers Wisconsin and Michigan, plying between Milwaukee and Grand Haven, lay blockaded by ice some three miles distant from the latter port, where they have been for three or four days. The reported sale of the barge Middlesex for $40,000 is denied. Captain Jas. J. Riordan, marine inspector $2.00 Pen ANNUM TH SINGLE CopsEs 5 CENTS for the Continental Insurance Company, of | circumstances.is a problem not yet solved. New York, is in this city examining vessel property with a, view to thoroughly revise the marine register of 1883, which will be prepared under his supervision, He has employed marine experts at different Jake ports to aid him in the work, in order to have it completed as early as possible. Captains Taylor and Fleet, of ‘Toronto, are attending to the ingpecticn.ot Canadian yes- sels and will publish a separate register. It‘is an old adage that if you want to get home news’ you must go abroad, which I found exemplitied the other day ina west- ern journal, which ‘had a sensational article copied from the Toronto Mail, presenting in detail the wreck, on Lake Huron; late last fall, of the steamer City of the Straits, with the loss of six lives, including the captain and his wife, and the terrible sufferings of the survivors. It is a well gotten up yarn and might be swallowed whole down among the South Sea Islands. But when the fact is known that no such steamer was ever on the lake, and no such incident occurred as related, no such flapdoodleism can be taken in about here even if well salted. The steamer City of Dresden will, as here- totore, ply on the same ronte as last year, Windsor and Leamington, commanded by Captain John Weston, ’ The Detroit river is again open and stenm- ers passing without difliculty. ; The United States District Court here is thronged with admiralty cases, with wit- nesses from every point of the compass. Captain Alva-Dodge, who has long been a resident in this city, has removed to Grand Haven, having received the appointment at that place of United States inspector of hulls. Abram Smith, the well-known ship owner and builder, of Algonac, and Captain James Hamilton, of Alpena, are recent visitors to this city. The appointments of masters of various steamboat lines have not yet been fully de- termined. With some of them there will be little or no change, and the custom of keep- ing the right man in the right place will be adhered to. There are several masters here on the anxious seat. The steamer building at John Oades’ ship- yard, in this city, is well advanced, Her di- mensions are 144 feet over all, 30 feec beam and 10 teet hold, and she will cost $32,000. She will be propeller and not sidewheel, as heretofore stated, with a cylinder 30x34 and 9 foot wheel. Captain Henry Fish, of Port Huron, will command the new steamer building at St. Clair, and is superintending her construc- tion. There were 216 days of navigation during the season of 1836, during’ which period there arrived at the port of Cleveland with cargoes 911 sloops, schooners and brigs with an aggregate tonnage of 77,436. Dur- ing the same time 990 arrivals of steamers with passengers. Navigation opened at that port March 15th and closed November 28th. At Buffalo, during the same season, 810 steamers arrived and a like number cleared, ‘The average measurement of these boats was 280 tons with an aggregate of 453,600 tons. During the same period 1,047 ships, brigs, schooners and sloops also arrived and the same number cleared with an average of 90 tons each, and an aggregate of 188,460 tons, making a grand total of 642,060 tons, The getting up of a steamer to make win- ter voyages at Mackinee under any and all The steamer Algomah, although built ex- pressly tor that purpose, has been thoroughly experimented with and has proved a failure. In short, it is to be doubted it it can ever be ace complished without keeping open a beaten track by making numerous daily passages, business or no business, and even then there are grave doubts. So far as the Algomuh is concerned she has ‘been abandoned for the winter. ‘The next thing in order is either a bridge or a tunnel. The“ former would be fought against by shippers and vessel own- ers from Chicago to Montreal. The latter assumes the aspect of an impossibility. But as regards. the bridge, the question is asked, Why not? Two open draws of 400 feet span each, with proper lights kept up during the night hours, ought to enable a vessel to pass through when there are no heavy seas with as much safety as entering any of our small lake harbors during tempestuous weather, The question is. worthy of agitation in some debatable society, and I will leave the sub- ject for their discussion. In your last issue I notice an article hay- ing reference to the ‘‘Royal William” as being the first steamer to cross the Atlantic, which originally appeared in the Quebec Chronicle, and places the credit of the un- dertaking to the Canadians, The statement I noticed taking the rounds of the papers some years since, but it is nevertheless in- correct. ‘The first steamer to cross the At- lantic was an American, the steamship Sa- vannah, built, owned and navigated by Americans, Francis Pickett, of New York, built her for Daniel Dodd, and the engines were made by Stephen Vail, of Morristown, N. J. She was commanded by Captain Moses Rogers, and navigated by Stephen Rogers, of New London, Conn. She sailed from Savannah, Ga., on the 29th of May, 1819, and arrived at Liverpool June 30th, following. The London Times of that period gives a brief account of her voyage over and adds: “The Savannah, steam vessel, re- cently arrived at Liverpool from America, the first vessel of the kind that ever crossed the Atlantic, was chased the whole day off the coast ot Ireland, by the Kite, revenue cutter, on the Cork station, which mistouk her fora ship on fire”? She was 350° tons burden. : The stock is nearly all taken up in this city for the construction of a sidewheel steamer to ply between Detroit and Port Huron. Her dimensions will be nearly the same as the City of Cleveland, and the build- er is to guarantee that she will make twenty miles per hour, to leave Detroit at 7 a.m. and to return the same day at 8 p. m. Af- ter her return she will be on hand to make excursions on the river. Further details will be given you at another time. Captain Thomas Pringle, of Marine City, a well known vesselman, is a late arrival in this city. The weather is open with a dense fog on this, Tuesday, a. m. J.W. HL KINGSTON, Captain Steve Tyo is engaged in building awharf for Mr.'T. Donoghue, in rear of his premises, Ontario street. The wharf will be 300 feet long. Edward Girard, engineer of the propeller Argyle, has been engaged at Clayton to fit out the steamer Flower City. He finds the machinery but slightly damaged in the main, but small parts will be replaced by new. (Continued on 5th page}.