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VOL. VI. NO. 9. Mae SCIENCE. CLEVELAND, O., FEBRUARY 28, 1884 AROUND THE LAKES. CLEVELAND. Jndge Welker has returned from Indian- apolis. ‘ Japtain John Cramer, of Tonawanda, was in. the city yesterday. William Prince, engineer of the Sheldon, has been confined to his bed for some time. Captain William Case and daughter have gone on a visit to friends in York State. The penalty is $100 if a mate or captain is found in-charge of a Canadian boat without a certificate. The schooner I. N. Foster has been sold by Clark I. Botts to E. Chilson and others. Consideration $8,000. The schooner George Sherman has been sold by Everett and others to William. Jones, of Black River. Consideration $8,000. The new steamer being built at St. Clair for Woods, Perry & Co. will be fitted out by Upson & Walton. The engine will be put in by the Globe Iron Works. Messrs. Dewhiret Bros. and Williams have bought the tug R. K. Hawley at Lorain, of the Lorain, Tuscarawas Valley & Wheeling railrosd. Consideration $4,000. She will be used in towing at Cleveland harbor. Captain G. P. Leon is a target before the Common Pleas Court in a suit for damages in the sum of $5,000, brought by Miss Adams, who was cook on Captain Leon’s vessel dur- ing the last season. . ; George Henderson, who was a seaman on the schooner Mears on Lake Huron, and who was charged with disobeying the cap- tain’s orders at a time when he had the wheel, pleaded not guilty. he case will come up for trial in a week or ten days. The suit brought by Messrs. Upson & Walton at Buffalo against the Lehigh Transportation Company has been decided in favor of plaintiffs. It was brought to ascertain how much authority a captain of a vessel has in ordering goods before his ves- sel has been registered. Captain Enman, formerly of the steam- ship Hiawatha, will take command of Cap- tain Thomas Wilson’s new steamship, now building at Quayle’s Sons’ shipyard. The other vessel being built at Quayle’s will be similar to the above and finished for steam but will be used as a consort for the present. The suit broughtin the United States Dis- trict Court in this city by Robert Tarrant, of Chicago, Ill., against the steam tug Ameri- can Eagle, owned by Edward Dahlke of this city, in which ‘Tarrant claimed $284.88 due him for material, repairs and labor furnished the tug in 1882, while she was in Chicago, has been settled between the parties and dis- missed. Rosel Downer, sub-marine diver, of Chi- cago, is in the city to depose in a case where- in Captain P. Finley has sued Mr. Guiles, of the Cleveland Mercantile and Marine In- surance Agency, for damages in $20,000, It will be remembered that Captain Finley was Master of the Jane Bell when she weut ashore seven miles this side of Ashtabula during the season of 1880. It is said that Mr. Guiles made a statement that Captain Finley ran the achooner ashore purposely. Captain Goodwin and the Cleveland life- savers returned from Covington last ‘Thurs- day after nine days’ service with the flood stricken people of the Ohio valley. On Wednesday, betore their return, the citizens of Covington, ata public meeting, voted each member of the crew a ten dollar gold piece $2.00 Per ANNUM SINGLE CoPhs 6 CaN7T8 to be appropriately engraved, as tokens of appreciation of the value of the exertions made by the crew. ‘ Volunteer N. Tovat went with the crew, as usual. In the case of collision between the schoon- er Minnie Davis and the barge Harvest in tow of the tug Fannie Tuthlll the details are xe follows: On the 25th of October, 1880, at about ten o’clock, a. m., the schooner Min- nie Davis was lying at the docke on the east side of the Cuyahoga river between St. Clair street and Upson & Walton’s store. The tug Fannie Tuthill about the same time came up the east side of the river having in tow the lumber barge Harvest, and when near the Davis, signaled the barge to star- board and go clear uf the Davis. Instead of obeying the command, however, the Harvest went out of her course and to port and net- withstanding the efforts of the tug to pull her to starboard, she ran into and collided with the. Davis cutting into the stern of said Davis about four feet, smashing the stern and staving it in nearly to the water's edge, breaking and cutting the transome, frames, deck beams, driving the cabin and decks forward a foot or more, and thereby severely stiaining and weakening the after part of the vessel. It is claimed on the part of the Nbellante, Messrs. Humphrey, Sisson aud Walter Fox, of Alexandria Bay, N. Y., owners of the Minnie Davis, that the tug was going atarate of speed too rapid tor such a narrow place in the river, and that both tug and barge were carelessly and neg- ligently handled. The officers of the tug claim that the officers of the barge failed to obey their commands, and the officers of the barge deny this and claim that they obeyed the signals of the tug as they were bound to do. Thé officers of the tug further claim that the barge was very hard to tow, not having good steering capacity. Judge Welker,.in the District.Court, decided that both the tug and barge were to blame, and the matter being referred to Earl Bill as commissioner to ascertain and report the amount of the damages sustained by the Da- vis, the commissioner reported as follows: For repair of stern, $100; for repair of bow, $175; for towage for dockage; $35, and for de- murrage, $360. Exceptions were taken to the commissioner’s report by Patrick Smith, owner of the tug, on the ground that the amount allowed for repairs to the stern of the Davis was excessive because she was in a rot- ten and decayed and unsound condition, and he should not be compelled to make her stern ag good as new. ‘I'he court however, con- firmed the report of the commissioner and rendered a decree accordingly. ‘I'he case wae appealed and Judge Baxter, in the Cir- cuit Court, affirmed the decree of che Dis- trict Court. a BUFFALO, Special to the Marine Record. The Marie Recorp can be found for sale at Mr. C. Rohmer’s news stand, near Michigan swing bridge. The Western Transportation Co.’s steamer Arabia is having her upper works rebuilt and boilers repaired, David Bel) is building an iron tug with iron beams, plankshear and bulwarks, 77 teet long, 16 feet beam,9 feet hold: engine, 20x 2214 ; boiler, 13 feet long, 7 feet diameter, to carry high steam, Samuel Gibson, shipbuilder, is building for John KE. MeIntyre, a steam yacht 60 feet long, 12 feet beam, 5 feet hold ; engine 10x10; boller of Otis steel 61% feet long, 4 feet diam- eter. He is giving the tug Newsboy a thor- ough rebuild and the tug Fulton, a thorough overhauling. George H. Notter, ship and boat builder, is building for A. Chesborough, of Toledo a tug 66 feet long, 15 feet beam, 734 feet hold; engine, 16x18; boiler, 11 feet long, 6 teet di- ameter. Also two canal boats and consorts for use on the Erie canal. Captain Case is here from Marine City and is salting down and having some necessary repairs done on the schooner Sweetheart. She has been chartered by Morley & Morse, of Cleveland, to the Menominee Company for six trips to carry iron ore from Escanaba to Ohio ports at $1.10 per ton, and eoal back at going rates, Sutton Brothers, Le Couteul street engi- neers and boiler makers, are building an en- gine 10x10 and boiler 616 feet long, 4 feet diameter for the steam yacht building by Samnel Gibson; an engine 10x12,:boiler 714 feet long, 3 feet 10 inches diameter, for the steamyacht building by Joseph Supple; an engine 18x20 for a steambarge building at Lorain, Ohio, owned by Thew Chapman & Co.; an engine 16x20 for a tug owned by Thos. M. Hubbell, of Detroit; an engine 9x9, boiler 3 feet 8 inches, for a fishing boat owned by E. D. Carter, of Erie. They will also put the machinery Into the new tug building by O’Grady & Meagher for Captain Thos. Maythan. Inspector Dickson Hearmonth’s decision in the case of the propeller Fred Murcur is considered a very just one by the vessel nen here, none of whom are sorry that some of Captain Fred Pope’s enemies have received their reward. The full text of the decision is as follows: Orrice or U.S. Loca INSPECTORS OF STEAM VESSELS BurFao, M. Y., Feb. 20, 1884. We the undersigned, United States local inspectors of steam vessels, Buffalo, N. Y., find in investigating the cause of the strand- ing of the steamship Fred Mercur on Erie peningula, Pa., while endeavoring to make the harbor of Erie, on the afternoon of No- vember 15, 1883, during a heavy wind and snow etorm, and after caretully considering the testimony taken, find the cause of the stranding was owing to the neglect of Mate Peter A. McKinnon and Second Mate-Wm. McCullom in not reporting. soundings to Captain Pope, who was at his post of duty on the pilot house directing the movements of the steamer. We further tind that Captain Pope was at his post directing the move- ments of the steamer previous to turning round for Erie harbor, and from that time up to the time of stranding, and we exoner- ate him from blame. We therefore revoke the license of Peter A. McKinnon as first- class pilot and mate, and we suspend for six months the license of Wm. McCullom, sec- ond-class pilot, for gross neglect of duty as pilots in not reporting soundings to Captain Pope, of the steamship Fred Mercur, while attempting to enter the harbor of Erie, Pa., on the noon of November 15, 1883. GrorGE B. Dickson, Ropert LEARMONTH, Local Inspectors Steam Vessels. O8WEGO, Captain James Savage of Wellington, Ont., has purchased the schooner Agnes Hope of Port Hope. John Richards of Picton has completed a model ofa light pressure boiler and will apply for a patent for it. John Elkin and Thos, Bates, the divers who went from this city to endeavor to re- cover the bodies of three victims of the late railroad disaster at Weedsport on the South- ern Central road returned without: having recovered the objects of their search, bably the bodies of the unfortunate men were swept under the ice, DETROIT. Special te the Marine Record. Derroir, February 26. From the St. Clair ship canal throughout to Bar Point, Lake Erie, navigation is un- impeded, and a few more days of mild weath- er will enable a steamer to reach as tar as Algonac, on the St. Clair river. ‘Chis un- looked-for event may possibly arise before a steamer will be in readiness to make the trip, and yet another cold snap would change the program, though hardly probable. The ice embargo at Grand Haven, from advices just received, seems as obstinate.as at any time during the present winter. The propeller Wisconsin lies blockaded one mile distant from Grand Haven and her consort, the Michigan, four miles out, both having full cargoes of east-bound freight. A change of wind is necessary before they can be re- leased. Passengers and: others desirous of reaching terra firma came ashore on the ice. No water is visible as far as the eye can ex- tend. Murphy Bros., of this city, will be pre- pared with eight first-class steamers for the towing and wrecking business the coming season, composed of the following named boats: Balize, W. A. Moore, Gladiator, Kate Moftat, Kate Williams, Andrew J. Smith, Charles Kellogg and Michigan. Captain Boynton, of the steamer Algomah, which has been frozen in at the Straits nearly all winter, reports progress and that there is a probability of her release and reaching her dock in about ten days, which will bring it to the month of March, or in the spring time of the season. She is being moved about 200 feet in twenty-four hours through ice and snow, the latter being about two and a half feet deep and almost as great an impediment as the former. ‘That some strategy must be devised toward crossing this channel during the winter term in the future there is no chance tor argument and the issue is only a question of time. Messrs. Merick & Castleton are having thorongh repairs laid out among several vessels of their fleet, which includes the schooners M. F. Merick, Montgomery and Monterey, which will be done at the ports of Ashtabula and Cleveland, where they were laid up in the fall. The work of placing the schooner Bene- dict in sea-going shape has commenced un- der the supervision of Captain J. B. Malott, who is joint owner with Captain D. Webster, James P. Donaldson & Co., have had pre- pared a draft for a schooner-rigged ‘sailing yacht, which will be by them carried out to completion as regards all the material. She will be 62 feet keel, 20 feet beam, and 7 feet depth. From the drawings shown me she will be of handsome model and a fast sailer, She will be owned by Henry C. Hart, Esq., of this city. J.R. Gillett is desirous of retiring from the tug business and to that end will dispose of the tugs he hason hand as soon ar poss sible. The wharves and piers variously located on Pidgeon Bay are being rebuilt and pre- pared for business ere the time for shipping commences in the spring, A well executed marine painting is on ex- hibition here in the window ot one of our prominent jewelry houses which has called forth much praise from experts in that line. Pro-} It represents a yacht coming head on with (Continued on 5:h page}.