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10 "DEVOTED..TO a oe ENGINE VOL, Vin INO. 40: CLEVELAND. O., MARCH 6, 1884 $2.00 Per ANNUY SINGLE Cops 5 Canis AROUND THE LAKES. CLEVELAND. The MARINE REcoRD will remove to the Leader Building, Superior Street, next week. Captain Lockwood will sail the J. S. Rich- ardg:next season. Captain J. P. Harrow is rebuilding the steambarge Plymouth. ; Captain John Shaw, of Bay City, is in Cleveland on business. Captain Wm. Cummings, of the Ward Line, will sail the Vienna the coming season. Seventeen marine patients were treated at the city hospital during the month of Feb- ruary. u Repairs to the J. S. Fay will be completed on Friday, after which the Osborn will oc- cupy the Globe drydock. The schooner Sweetheart has been chartered for six trips ore at $1.10 from Escanaba to Ohio ports.’ Frank Holt is making a towbarge of the Frank Perew by taking out her spars. She is owned by Jerry Green, of Saginaw. S. P. Caldwell will be manager of the Western Transit Co., formerly manager of the Union Steamboat Co. Captain Joseph Cottrell will sail one of Ward’s steamers until the completion of Mr. Morley’s steamer at Marine City, when he will take command of her. The admiralty docket in the United States District Court will not be taken up for trial until about the middle of this month. There are many cases on the list. Estimates have been made on the cost of repairing Main street bridge, which has been in bad condition for five months. ‘The city engineer places the cost, with engine and boiler, at $15,000. Morley & Morse have sold the steamer N. K. Fairbanks to Captain Hugh Hastings, of Milan, O., and Captain J. W. Moore, Captain George Berriraan and John C. Fitzpatrick, of this city. Consideration, $40,000. Captain H. Hastings will sail her. He will go on Monday to Marine City to look after her. Messrs. Palmer & Benham, vessel owners and agents, who bave occupied rooms in the coal exchange building a number of yeurs, will move into the new bank building on the corner of Superior and Bank streets. Thé criminal case in the United States District Court against George Henderson, a seaman on board the schooner Mears during Jast season, charged with leaving the wheel contrary to the lawful command ofthe mate of the vessel, will probably come up for trial some time during next week, The suit brought en the 5th of January last, in the United States District Court by Robert Tarrent, executor of the last will and testament of Gottleib F. W. Roller, deceased, late of the city of Chicago, Ill, agiinst the tug American Eagle of this city for materials and supplies furnished the tug while she was in Chicago in 1882, has been settled and dismissed. ‘The amount claimed was $192.47, \ The Marine RECORD will remove to the Leader Building, Superior Street, week, next ALPENA. The little tug James Anderson burned on Long Lake, near Alpena, on the morning of the 16th—the work of an incendiary. DETROIT. Special to the Marine Record. Derroir, March 5. Captain Harry Whitaker, an old luke vet- eran who commenced navigating the lakes in 1819 and who subsequently commanded vessels and steamers up to 1850, is lying very ill at his residence in this city. His physicians state that it is an utter impossi- bility for him to recover and ‘a question of but a few days, perhaps hours, ere he passes beyond the shores of time, He was born in 1801 and there are but few of these old pio- neers remaining. The following vessel transactions have taken place within the past tew days: Barges ‘Commodore and Peck to Adolph Perrit, East Saginaw, price. $20,000; barge E. F. Gould to James Donley, East Saginuw, $4,000; barge B. B. Buckout to A. McLean, East Saginaw, $9,000. B. W. Whitaker & ‘Son have purchased the remaining interest in the bark Unadilla from Morley Bros. and now own her entire. Captain Allen McIntyre, for several years master of the propeller Peerless, plying be- tween Chicago and Lake Superior, will this season command one of the new Canadian steamers recently brought over from Scot- land to run between Owen Sound and Fort William. ‘there is perhaps no better pilot on Lake Superior waters than Captain Mc. ‘The promotion will therefore be held with pleasure by his many acquaintances. The tug Champion has been purchased by Marshall H. Strong, of this city, for $19,000. She is one of the best of that class of steam- ers on the lakes. She was built at Detroit, by Campbell & Owen, in 1868 for the late H. N. Strong, and is 263 tons burden. ‘The new railway steamer launched at Wy- andotte last fall has been completed and named the Michigan Central. The follow- ing are her dimensions: Length, 275 feet; extreme width, 75 feet; amidships, 45 feet 4 inchee, and is the largest yet constructed tor the purpose for which she is intended. She will carry twenty-four cars of twenty-three feet length. ‘The cost is $275,000. A day or two since she performed her trial trip and gave the hest of satisfaction. Captain Alfred, who was in command of the steamer Great Western, which sunk the schooner John Stevenson, of which you were informed, has been suspended. ‘The work of raising the sunken vessel is now being car- ried out by the railway company, but with slow progress. Captain Westcott, of Marine City, has bought an interest in the steambarge Lowell and will command her the coming season. The steamer Idlewild is undergoing the usual preparations for the season’s business at Port Huron, and will reach here as soon as the way is clear. ° Mr. C. McElroy, vessel owner at Marine City, was in this city yesterday. A new steamer for Captain John A. Sloan and others and intended tor the De- troit and Port Huron route, will have her keel laid about the month of June next, but will not be ready for business before a year from that time. Murphy Bros. are reconstructing the gchooner Harry Bissell, such as new decks, plankshear, ete., etc. The Detroit & Cleveland Navigation Co. have made the following appointments for their boats this season: Steamers City of Cleveland, Captain Albert Stewart; City of Mackinaw, Captain Angus MeKav: City of Detroit, Captain D. A. McLachlan; North- west, Captain Dugald McLachlan. Captain Michael Galion, of Buffalo, paid Detroit a visit the other day on business matters. From Port Huron there also.ar- rived Captain John Downer, George Green and R. E, Gage. From Greenfield, Mich., Captain Teander Waffle, one of the old schovul lake navigators. Captain James Stone will command the new steambarge City of Cleveland the com- ing season, and Captain Albert Stone the steambarge Sarah E. Sheldon. As regards the opening of navigation, since the present cold snap has ret in opin- tons have considerably changed, and nearly every one is at sea on that point. Should the weather continue cold during the month the probability is it will be deferred until in May, which seems likely. In 1807 navi- gation opened at Buftalo June 7th, since which period it has occurred forty-four times in the month of ‘April, twelve in May and but six times in the month of March. During the winter of 1845 the steamer Uni- ted States traversed between Buftalo and Detroit, one trip each winter month com- manded by Captain H. Whitaker. Aside from this incident March 7th was the earli- est which was in 1842, the steamer General Scott arriving at that port. The Straits of Mackinac, since 1837 -and including that year, has opened forty-five times in the month of April, in March four times, and May nine times. The earliest passage was March 9, 1882, and the tug Winslow with a barge the first to pass through. Through the Sault canal, since 1855, when it was first opened, the passages were on twenty-one occasions in May and sevenin April, ‘The earliest was in 1878, April S, when there was 2 clear passage several days before the arrival of steamers or vessels. At Cleve- land, since 1829, the prevailing opening month has been March. The steamer Uni- ted States arrived there from Buffalo, Jan uary 4, 1845, and on February 1, 1834 steam- ers and vessels cleared and arrived regularly without any interference from ice whatever. J. W. Hz. CHICAGO. e Special to the Marine Record. Judge Blodgett on the 3d inst., in the case of Ryerson against the tug American Eagle, decided an interesting point of maritime law. This was a libel filed by the assignee ofa material man who had furnished material for repairing the tug, and who had assigned his claim to the libellant, who sought to enforce his lien. The respondent objected on the ground that no lien attached in favor of the assignee. It was conceded that the original creditor had a lien under the mari- time laws of the State for supplies furnished, but it) was claimed that the: lien did not inure to the benefit ot the assignee. The Court said there was no doubt dicta to that effect, but the reliable authorities were all in favor of supporting the lien in behalf of the assignee if it existed in favor of the original creditor. That question was dis- cussed in the case of the Sarah J. Ward, 5 Lowell, 565, and the decision was expressly made that the rights of the creditor went, with the indebtedness; that the lien was part of the indebtedness, and went with it into the handa of any one to whom the debt was assigned. ‘The exceptions to the master’s report would therefore be overruled, The Seamen’s Union held its regular week- ly meeting at headquarters Monday evening. The following delegates to the State Labor Convention, to be held in Chicago March 26, were elected: Charles Meagher, John Simp- son, Edward Reiley, James Horn, Richard Powers. A letter from Hon. M. A. Foran, member of Congress from Ohio, was read, in which the writer informed the union that he would endeavor to bring its bill to regu- late lake shipping betore the Heuse Com- mittee on Commerce at once. He favors the bill, but is satisfied that it will be stubbornly contested in the House. The Union authore izes President Powers to visit Washington in the interest of the: measure. BUFFALO. Special to the Marine Record. Captain William Mitchell, of the firm ot Mitchell & Boutell, Bay City, was in the city on Saturday. Henry Greene, who was drowned last week in New York harbor in the collision between the Cunard steamship Cephalona and the tug Glendale, was the son of Oliver Greene, of the humane society in this city. He was twenty-seven years of age and un- married. Wm. Hingston & Son, boat and yach builders, are building tor Mr. Helwig, of Dunkirk, a two-masted fishing boat tor gill net fishing, 27 feet long, 61g feet beam and 233 feet deep. ‘They have coniracted and will commence at once to build for D. P. Dobbins six of his celebrated liteboats of the following dimensions: 24 feet long, 6 feet 6 inches beam, 2 feet 3 inches deep. A company of enterprising gentlemen have purchased the United States. sidewheel steamer Commodore Perry. The sidewheels will be taken off and a wheel at the stern will be substituted, and cabins and every modern convenience will be fitted up so as to convert her into an excellent excursion boat. Peter A. McKinnon and William McCul- lom, who were the first and second mates on the propeller Fred Mercur, at_the time of her stranding near Erie last fall, will appeal against the decision of Local Inspectors Dickson and Learmouth, to Mr. Van Valk- enburg, supervising inspector. ‘The Asso- ciation of pilots of this city have taken the matter up and Mr. Josiah Cook has been ree tained as counsel for the appellants. Superintendent D. P. Dobbins has ree ceived an order from the general superin- tendent of the life saving service at Wash- ington, to have built six of his unsubmergea- ble, self-righting and self-bailing lifeboats. D. P. Dobbins bas arranged with Wm. Hing- ston & Son to build them by May lst. They will be sent to the following stations: One to Salmon Creek, Mexico Bay; one to Oswego and one to Charlotte, Lake Ontario; : one to Erie, one to Cleveland and one to Point Mar- blehead, Like Erie. he stations at Big Sandy, Lake Ontario, and Buffalo and Fatre port, Lake Erie, are already supplied with them, and when the six new boats are com- pleted and distributed all the lake stations in Superintendent Dobbin’s Ninth Districg will have one of his famous boats. ‘They are splendid boats and we hope soon to see them on board of all the passenger steamers on the lakes, Manager Bullard, of the Union Steamboat Company, has appointed the follawing mas« ters tor the coming season: Steamship HH, J. Jewett, Walter Robinson; propeller Roche ester, James W.Moore; New York, John BR. Hall; Avon, Austin Phelps; Bo W, [Continued on 5th page.)