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DEVOTED..TO pe “COMME ae RCE, ‘ERIN (a INE “VOL. VI. NO. 47. ~ CLEVELAND. O., APRIL 24. 1884 $2.00 Pex ANNUM SINGLE Copius 5 CearTe MROUND THE LAKES. CLEVELAND. The steamer N. K. Fairbanks is loading |! coal for Chicago. The barge Conrad Reed, which was slightly aground at Herson Island, was re- leased without dainage. The steambarge Columbia is in the Globe drydock getting a new Philadelphia wheel, | her bottom calked and a new piece of keel. “Captain T. N. Van Valkenberg, United States supervising inspector, finds many lite preservers that will not bear inspection. The office of Ward’s line of steamers is open ‘to receive freight for Detroit, Port Huron, Saginaw, and. all Lake Superior ports. There is prospect of an abundance of freight for upper lake ports as soon as navi- gation opens. Reports from all merchants are to that effect. The steambargée Cormorant is chartered for coal from Cleveland-to Milwaukee at 70, and the Cumberland, coal, from Cleveland to Chicago on private terms. ‘The Detroit and Cleveland Steam Naviga- tion Company have adopted standard time. Boats will leave here at 8:30, but at 9 o’clock, as heretofore, according to city time. : which left Buffalo on Tuesday night, arrived at this port yesterday morning. She took on fuel at Barnhisel’s dock and sailed tor Chicago in the evening. The report current this week that the car- go tariff is broken has been confirmed. The rate from Chicago to Buffalo is 50 cents on steam and gail alike. It is understood that W.'T. Baker & Uo. ship most of the wheat. | Captain Philip Minch, according to a par- agraph in a city daily isin a bad fix. It says that he made affidavit before a notary that he lost all his charters last fall when the Sophia Minch went ashore. It is to be hoped that it meant charts, as they can be replaced. Local Inspectors B. F, Stanard and T. Fitzpatrick, after inspecting the tug Sprague, departed on similar .business for Conneaut. They will examine the Kasota and Glidden to-day. Messrs. Stanard and Fitzpatrick bave been very busy during the present month, having inspected forty-nine vessels sinee April lst. The following steamers will run in con- nection with the Cleveland Forwarding line, George Chamberlin, agent, No. 1 Superior street, viz.: Atlantic, Flora, Saginaw Val- ley, Oconto, Sanilac, Armenia, Cuba, Cali- fornia, Garden City, Oscoda, S. C. Hall, Kalkaska. and Peterson and freights will be carried with cheap and quick dispatch. The schooner St. Lawrence, Captain Do- ville owner and master, is lying in the river in the victnity of Coliimbus street bridge. She has been largely improved in appear- ance during the winter, painted outside and in; new eails, new gear, new kelson, new ceiling, ete., in fact, thoroughly ready for business, having already brought a cargo of grain from Detroit. An East Tawas dispatch of the 21st re- ported the Ogemaw and her barges, the City of the Straits and Roberts, were at that port. It any barge is wrecked at Point au Barques it must be one of the consorts of the William Rudolph, as three of her consorts broke adrift ou Lake Huron, and the wreck= age which floated down the St, Clair river | may be from one ot them. The schooner Donaldson has arrived at this port. She will be converted into a barge and will tow behind the Cuba. She is load- ing coal for Chicago. The following additional charters have been reported: Schooner S. H. Foster, coal, Sandusky to Milwaukee, 70c; Raleigh and | Lucerne, coal, Lorain to Milwaukee, 75c; Aleona and San Diego, ceal, Toledo to Mil- waukee, 75: Cheney Ames, coul, Lorain to Brockville, $1.25; Swaine, Maxwell and John O'Neil will load coal tor Lake Super- ior ports. The exploded tng Peter Smith has been brought to this port and now lies near the upper end of the old river bed. After get- ting her. into her. present position she was sufficiently hoisted from the water to admit of some examination of her hull. In doing so the body of James Rancour, one of the three men who lost their lives in the disaster, was discovered in the hold not far from the location of the bursted boiler. A libel was filed in the United States District Court, on the 19th instant by Ed- ward’ B. Smith and ‘Townsend Davis, in- surance agents of Buffalo, N.Y., against the wrecked schooner John C. Johnson her boats, tackle, outfit, apparel and furniture . - : now lying at Vermillion.Ohio, in which the The William Edwards, Captain Mallory, | libelant set torth a claim for salvage to the amount of $8000, with interest from De- cember Ist, 1883, and further compensation and reward. ‘The property has been seized by the United States Marshall, and the court bas made an order for the sale of the same at public auction. The sale will take place on Monday next at 11 o’clock a. m. Rosel Downer, submarine diver, who was in Cleveland this week after having com- pleted the work of raising the exploded tug Peter Smith and taking herinto Vermilion, gives a stirring account of his narrow es- cage from a watery grave with his armor on. On descendirg to the wreck he. was caught among the flues of the boiler which present ed much the appearance that a mad_ porcu- pine would, and which caught and held him fast, tearing his suit and letting the water fill his armor. He iminediately telegraphed to be drawn up, but did not reach the sur- face until after he became unconscious. He was lnid out on the deck of a barge and re- storatives applied, when he recovered. With his usual determinination to prosecute the business upon which he was bent, he again descended to the sunken tug and hia efforts were crowned with the success merit de- servea, and which is described above. DETROIT. Special to the Marine Record. Derroir, April 22. Cold weather has prevailed constantly for a week past, and on Saturday night a north- east gale set in with considerable force, which, beyond a doubt, has prevailed throughout the extent of the whole chain of lakes, nndthe results which usually fol- low may be expected, although at this writ- ing nothing strictly definite has come to hand. The steamer Algomah, which met with numerous mishaps in the Straits during the winter, and lastly the loss of her rudder was supplied by a new one sent from this city by rail. Now that the ice will be no longer a source of annoyance, it may be presumed that her troubles are at an end for the pres- ent at least. Captain Thomas D, Allen, of this city, has purchased an interest in the sidewheel steam- er Ivanhoe, and is at present fitting her out for a passenger route. She formerly plied on Lake Superior, Captain Allen will com- mand her, but where she is to ply is not yet definitely settled upon, The new steambarge Schoolcraft, built at ‘Trenton, has been towed to this port and is receiving her machinery on board. A new name, entirely out of the. usual routine in such matters, has been found tor anew craft towed here from ])resden a day or two since. She has been called the United | Lumberman and is intended for the lumber trade between Georgian Bay and ports east- ward. She is 150 feet long and 33 feet beam, with a low preesure cylinder 82x32. Her boiler is 8x14. ‘I'revice & Morden were the builders. The United States steamer Dahlia has left en-route westward to attend to the placing of buoys and stakes which belong to. her dis- trict. The ice embargo which prevailed for so long a time at the St. Clair flats has entirely disappeared, We have, lying at one of our docks at this port, a vessel with five masts, otherwise a five-master. Now this, of course, is nothing new, as there are eeveral of them on the lakes. . Yet if there is one absurdity above another appended to a vessel it is the craft which carries that fifth obstacle to her fit-out, and it isto be hoped there will be less of them in the future. In earlier times full rigged ships, to the number of three, all told, were put afloat on the lakes, yet they were short lived and found not to be the sort of craft for fresh waters. The same may be said of barques and brigs, which have almost entirely disappeared. Considerable work has been going on in the repairing of wharves along the river front, which was much needed. It is expected that on the opening of the Straits a large fleet of vessels will be on the passage down, and in view of such an emergency nearly all the tugs have been put in readines to attend to them. gThe opening ot the Welland canal is fixed for the 28th instant, yet itis probable vessels will depart sooner. ‘There were no Cepart- ures last year until May 5th from that port. A Detroit daily, in its marine department, informs the general reader that Captain H. P. Gallina will command the steambarge Annie Smith this season, and almost in the sume breath it announces that Captain J. 1. Hutton will command thesame steam- er. Oaptain J. M. Jones, ship broker at De- troit, and Mrs. 5. E. Hudson, also of this city, have purchased the schooner Grace Murray from Lewis Blain. The price stated was $2,500, a decidedly low purchase. Captain A. P. Collins takes command of the tug John Martin. Latest—The steamer City of Cleveland has just returned to Detroit from her trip to Mackinaw City. Captain A. Stewart in- formed your correspondent that. through much dificulty he succeeded in reaching the ; much desired haven by taking the south pas- sage, and on his return voyage took the north ohannel, encountering much ice on both routes. White at St. Ignace he was informed that two steamers were visible from that point lying under St. Helena, downward bound. ‘The ice, although plentiful for a distance of about ten miles, was somewhat porous, and with a strong wind from either | course, would give way and afford.a passage through. The steamer‘on her return voy- age encountered very heavy weather but saw no vessels in distress anywhere along the coast. The schooner Helvetia, which wintered here. but hails trom Cleveland, has left for the latter port per the tug P, L. Johnson, The propeller Oconto, laden with lumber and lath, reported stranded in the river St. Clair last evening, arrived here this morning all right, en route to her destina- tion, sustaining no damage. Morgan & Rice ef‘ected a contract for the shipment of 20,000 telegraph poles from Poit Huron to Monree, Mich., at 16c each. The first sail vessel to arrive here from the west was the schooner Smith & Post with a cargo of lumber from Alpena. She took her departure from here,as noted in my last correspondence, some days since, meet- ing with no delay either way. ; The steambarge Wm. Rudolph and con- sort passed down this (‘Tuesday) morning, both lumber freighted. The departure from Port Colborne, yes- terday, of the schooners Grace Whitney and Albany was reported hére last last evening, and with the north shore of Lake Erie clear of ice they will doubtless effect a passage through to the Detroit river. A dispatch received here last night from Makinac announces the arrival at that port of the steamer City of Cleveland, and it may be assumed that the passsage through the Straits of vessels from Chicago is near at hand, and possibly ere this isin type the feat has been accomplished. The reports of disasters on Lake Michigan came to hand last evening and this (‘Tuesday ) p- m.. news from Lake Huron are also at hand. he schooner City of the Straits is re- ported a total loss at Point au Barques, hay- ing broken loose from the steambarge Oge- maw, with others, including the schooners Wm. Young and E. C. Roberts. The City of the Straits is 392 tons burden and_ was built at Detroit in 1866, by Captain J. M. Jones. It is not at present Known whether any lives have been lost, but it is rendered al- most certain that the vessel is beyond re- covery. The schooners W. Young arid E. C. Roberts were both well along in years, the former having been 21 years in’ service, the latter 28 years. ‘lhe storm is just about atits terminus, having been in force for three days, and in due course of time fur- ther reports of casualties will come to hand of the first gale of the season. J.W.H. CHICAGO. Special to the Marine Record The shipping office of the Chicago Vessel Owners’ Association, has removed to 53 South Market street, second floor, and E, Miller, their agent, will furnish crews for all class of vessels on short notice, free. Captain Peter Peterson of the schooner Winnie Wing towed over thirveen spar logs on his last trip from Pentwater, for Miller Brothers, The scow Forest of Racine, Captain Sam- uel Mart inwas towed into this port on Sun- day last by the tug Thos. Hood, waterlogged. She was out in the heavy gale Saturday night an@ lost part of her deck load of cedar posts which she had brought from Ahnapee. She was in considerable peril Outside and barely escaped capsizing. Larsen Brothers, yacht and boat builders (Continued on 4'h page. |