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‘DEVOTED..TO™ <a ss “COMMERCE ENGINEERING AND SCIENCE. VOL: VI..NO..43. CLEVELAND. O.. MARCH 27, 4884 $2.00 PeR ANNUM SINGLE Copixs 5 CENTS MROUND THE LAKES. CLEVELAND. Erie canal rates are made very low. W. £. Russell, President ot the National Marine Engineers Beneficial Areociation is in the city. Charters were made on the 24th ‘tor -the Queen City, Johnson and Goshawk, ore from Marquette to Ohio ports at $1.20. - It isto be hoped that Captain John Kirby, who is the most efficient and attentive harbor master that the port of Cleveland has ever had, will be reappointed to that position. A number of members.of the board of trade _have made the recommendation and the matter will be referred to the council. The Detroit & Cleveland Navigation Com- pany: will commence opening the route this season on April 1st by the departure of the steamer City of Detroit from Detroit and the Northwest as soon after as she cah be made ready. V. D. Nickerson, marine artist has sold. to Captain Philip Minch his tine pastel paint- ing representing the rescue ot the. Sophia Mineh. ; The new barge building: at W, H. Rad- clifgais shipyard is being, hurried along..as fast as‘possible. Her lower deck frames are being put in and she will be launched not later than June 10th. She will be coneort to the steamer Robert Wallace and they are chartered by the Republic Iron Company for the season to carry iron-ore from Marquette to Ohio ports at $1.35 per ton. The steambarge J. M. Osborne, owned by. H. J. Webb & Co., was iu Pressley & Co.'s drydock getting a new upper deck, thereby converting her into a double-decker. ‘The tug C. E. Bolton. was also in drydock. fora new crank shatt, new steel outboard and fixing up for the coming season. The old case of John P. Clark against the Barge Alice Strong, in which Clark claims damages resulting from a collision between the steamer Alaska and the .barge Alice Strong, on the 28th of June, 1878 abouta mile from the Cleveland harbor, has been again continued. The case of Wm. McGill against the barge Oscar Townsend and barge Edward Kelly, otherwise known as the “Sunrise case’? has been continued until October. The engine for Captain Thomas Wilson’s first (we number them now) new steamer at Quayles is about finished. A spar fifteen feet in length will be let into the breakwater six and one-half feet about twenty-five feet from the enst end, on which will be placed a light. ‘Lhe light wil} hang about fifteen feet above the water. The work will be done under the direction of George ‘Tower lighthouse keeper. We record the first arrival of the season—- the tug James Amadus with barge load of limestone. The steamer Vienna ie in Globe drydock, receive necessary repairs. Captain Cum- mings, last season master of the Osceola, will command her the coming season, We congratulate the Cleveland ‘Transportation Company for securing his service. The case of the Mechanic’s & ‘I'rader’s Insurance Company against the schooner H. P. Baldwin, lar also been referred to Loren Prentiss, Esq.. as commissioner, ; with authority to hear testimony and argue | ments of counsel and make report of 1 is ‘incurred obligations for which they are lin- findings. This is an action for general aver- age and salvage, and arises out of the saving of the schooner Baldwin, which went ashore Opposite the marine hospital on the 7th ot December, 1881. The insurance company claim to have laid out, expended money and ble to the amount of $8,600, and alleged in their libel that on the principles and accord- ing to the law of general. average the schooner should contribute the sum of $2,322.58 of the total expense, and therefore claims a Jien upon the echoooner for that amount. ‘The net proceeds of the schooner | are $2,812.55. ; The case of the John Jenks aguinst the schooner, Montauk has.been heard and sub- mitted to the court fora decision. This it an action to recover wages due and damages caused by peregonal injuries received by the libelant while on duty at the wheel of the Montauk when sheran aground in the Sault St. Marie river in the summer of 1881. The case in the United States District Court of Frederick Botson against the tug John Martin, in which the libelant claims ‘| wages due him as cook to. the amount of $85.42 was disposed of last week by a decree fn favor of the libelant ‘or the full amount, and judgment was also rendered against the stipulators upon the bond given for the re lease of the tug. In the case ot the United States District Court of W. E. Chapman, et. al. against the Dalliba Iron Mining Company exceptions to the commissioner’s repert were overruled, the report confirmed anda decree rendered for the libelants for $1,739.27 (the amount found due by the commissioner.) Notice of appeal to the Circuit Court has been given by the respondent and thirty days has been allowed within which to appeal. ‘The amount of the bond to be given being fixed at $3,000. At the Globe Iron Works {is being built the engine for Captain Thomas Wilson’s second new steamer which is well under way at Quayle’s Sons’ shipyard. ‘The en- gine will: be a fore-and-aft compound, cranks opposite, 27x50 inch low pressure by 36 inch stroke, with steam reversing gear, all ot these details making it a duplicate of the engine built by this firm for the Robert Wallace and similar to the machinery they have in the works for Captain Wilson’s oth- er new steamer which is now being made ready to go.into the water at Quayle’s. The steamer will have a hoisting engine on the spar deck with a pony boiler sufficient to run it; the bilge and fire pump to. be operat- ed by the hoisting engine. She will have one return flue boiler, Otis steel, 104g in di- ameter by 17 feet long, with double furnaces and will carry 100 pounds of steam. ‘There will be a wrought iron pan and iron deck beams under the boiler and Beache’s hot alr easing over the boiler. Messrs. Hanatord and Hughes, Assistant engineers of the Internatioral Bridge Com- pany, were in the city last week inspecting the work on the iron tug building by the Globe Iron Works, with which they ex- pressed themselves highly pleased nnd con- sidered her to have the finest lines com- bined with the greatest strength of any craft they had seen, She is about ready for launching and her machinery is ready to go aboard, W. C. Russell, of the well-known firm of Felthousen & Russell, Buffalo, paid Cleve- land a visit this week. ; DETROIT. Special to the Marine Record. Detroit, March 25. The weather, at this writing, is balmy, the sun shines brightly and sailors are basking, in considerable numbers, along the docks be- neath its raye, after crawling ont from their winter domiciles. ‘here is no ice to be seen hereabout and none in Lake St. Clalr, yet the St. Clair river.is reported casmmed with that commodity from shore to shore, drifting in large quantities from Lake Huron. ‘There can be no mistaking the fact that on. or about the middle of April there will be no ice sufficient to impede ‘navigation at any point. The steamer Riverside arrived on her first trip this (Monday) morning from Malden, which may be set down as the commenc- ment of her season’s: business, and before I close this dispatch I may be able to announce the arrival of the steamer City of New Ba)- timore, from Marine City, on the river St. Clair, such being the expectation of the agent here. The tug Torrent, commanded this season by Captain Shep Currey,; arrived up from Trenton on Friday for the purpose of over- hauling. ‘The’steambarge Ida Allen, laden, from Malden, arrived on the same ‘date. Some of the harbur tugs have already com- menced work on the river, shifting vessels to receive grain. ‘The schooner Mineral State has just received.on board 22,825 bushels of wheat for Buffalo at 3 cent rate of freight. The schoongre »Wileox has also taken 25 000 bushels at Tike rate for the sume point. The Hon. Moses Merick, brother of E. G. Merick, Esq., of this city, and one of the oldest and most honored citizens of Oswego, N.Y.. has been visiting the latter gentleman fora few days past. There are but few who do-not know these aged patriarchs of a pust generation, E. J. Vance, steamboat owner of Bay City, made a brief call on Friday, as did also Cap- tain James Davidson, of that place. Captain H. Buckley, for many years a well-known vessel owner and master, passed through here on Saturday, en route to Chi- cago. Latterly he has taken up his residence in Her Majesty’s dominions at Fort Erie, Ont. The steamer Pearl is in the Detroit dry- dock for general overhauling, receiving new arches, etc., preparatory to going on the De- troitand Alpena route as last year, com- | manded by Captain John Edwards. It has just been given out that the new Canadian steamers which are to ply between Owen Sound and Lake Superior and com- posed of the Athabasca, Algoma and Cam- pana will be commanded respectively by Captains Anderson, Moore and Foote. Such being the arrangements Captain Allan Me- Intyre will continue as formerly, in the Peerless. ; ‘ Ward’s Lake Superior line will this eea- son make their landings in this city at the large and commodious wharfage at the foot of Randolph street. Captain A. M. McGregor, who last year | commanded the side wheel steamer Spartan, | will have charge this year of the survey steamer on Georgian Bay owned by the Ca- nadian Government, The City of Cleveland will receive her new machinery during the coming week, | built by the Globe Iron Works. | A aail vesgel, name unknown, passed down Mia-chanuel yesterday, apparently from | on Lake Michigan. sone point on Luke St. Clair. As she did not land here the nature of her cargo was | ot ascertained, The new steambarge building by Joha Craig, for Alger, Smith’& Uo., of this city, will be named the Schooleraft and will be ready for launching in about two ‘weeks, ‘The other steamer Mr. Craig has'on hand tor Ira A. Owen, of Chicago, will be called the Midland. She will be framed and ribboned in about ten days. : Morgan & Rice, vessel brokers here, heave received the agency of the Union Insurance: Company, of San Francisco. Captain Paul Harvy, who had. suits: for $5,000 damages because of a fall at the Board of ‘Trade building in this city, in two differ. ent courts, as referred to in my last letter,: was non-suited in both cases, Opinions are mueh divided in both instances as to. the rulings in both courte. ‘The United States eteamer Haze has been newly painted and placed in readiness for the purpose of locating. the buoys on the Detroit. river and elsewhere, and the Dahlia, which attends to the upper regions, is also being placed in readiness for 2 like purpose. : The new barge building at Marine City for the Toledo. & Ssginaw ‘Transportation Co. has been named the Minnie Orton. The barge building at Bay City for Wm. Forbes, of Port Huron, has been named the F. W. Wheeler. ‘The tug Sweepstakes and propeller Ocon- to are’in drydock for general repairs, Later—The ice, which, as above reported, was drifting in large quantities in the river St. Clair, has reached here and is passing in small lots. This will delay the arrival of the steamer Baltimore for a day or so. The steamship Chauncy Hurlbut and the schooner Senator, owned here by Candler Bros., have been chartered for six voyages to freight ore from Escanaba to Ohio ports at $1.10. The schooner G, 38. Hazard has had her name changed to Iron State. The weather continues mild and warm with local rains which will hasten an early opening of navigation. ‘J. W.H, FRANKFORT, Special to the Marine Record, Saturday the tug Boss started to break a channel through the ice that blocked our harbor, and after awhile the large tugD. P, Hall steamed up and smashed a chanrel through, and gave our citizens an excursion In breaking the ice the Hall started a hole in her starboard quarter which is being repaired. She isa powerful tug,as yon may judge from the fact that the ice she broke through was from six to eighteen inches in thickness, The new tug owned by the Shaw Broth- ers (not yet named,) was launched on the 22d. She took to the water like a duck. She is 45 tect keel, 9 feet beam, 4 feet hold, has upper cabin allover, and will run asa ierey on Betsy lake. The steamer Geo. D. Sanfort Jr., left on the 22d for Manistee. She is the first boat out of winter quarters on this shore, and ; will make regular trips herea(ter. ©. C. Miller has received temporary ap- pointment as keeper of pier head light here, The tng Jessie A. Slytield has received a larger engine and a new coat of paint, and locks as fresh as n daisy. The tug L. L. awson is being rebuilt, as is also the tug Ruby.