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ase 1 iw TO -COMMERC a | pe aie E, ze “ENGINEERING AND § “VOL. VI. NO. 20. AROUND THE LAKES. CLEVELAND, Since the H. J. Jewett was launched she has had four wheels. ‘The barge Genesee Chief has taken. Eliza’ Gerlach’s place on Smith’s drydock. The river tug William A. Moore will re- ceive a new boiler, made by the Variety Iron Works. The fron tug International, built by the Globe Shipbuilding Company of Montreal, will depart for Buffalo in a few days. The schooner Emma &. Hutchinson will not accept the grain rates at Chicago. She left for Escanaba to load iron ore for Lake Erie. © % A large lumber raft arrived on the 12th from Black River, Mich, in tow of the tug Gladiator, consigned to the Cleveland saw- mill Company. : : Messrs. Quayle’s Sons are building a number of cribs, to he sunk .at the foot of ’ Wilson avenue, for the protection of John Bergman’s ice house, upon which the lake is encroaching. ‘They will form a breakwater 1800 feet. long. The Sophia Minch ‘and John B. Merrill, two of the victims of the. Cleveland harbor of refuge last fall, appeared in port on the 13th, the former-baving completed a round trip to. Marquette,: Jaden with ore. The Merrill has received repairs at the Milwau- kee Shipyard which places her in very good shape and which we described in the Recorp ofa prior date. Captain Colman is still in command, A system of fog signals for steamers is be- ing urged upon Congress by William Wich- man, of Weshirgton Harbor, Wis. He pro poses that steamers blow along blast at first to indicat the main point in the compass toward which they are going, and a succession of blasts, longer or shorter, to follow as an indication-ot the exact bearing they have. One long blast means north, two east, etc.; one long and one short, N. N. E.; two long and one short, E. S. E. ete. The Detroit & Cleveland Steam Naviga- tion Company have introduced x new feature, which will undoubtedly be ap- Preciated by Cleveland and the general pub lic. It- ig practically a series of Saturday night excursions, and is so arrainged that those who wish can take the regular Satui- day night boat, and arriving in Detroit, can spend the day in that city and returnona Saturday night steamer in time for business early Monday morning. In the same ar Tangement like favors are extended to the People of Detroit as well as Cleveland. ‘The new programme goes into effect June 29, and closes with the 14th of September. The three new propellers for the Canadian Pacific Railway company will arrive at Owen sound during the present week, the boats having already passed the river, bound Up. 'The boats are ateel clear up to the rail, With main and promenade decks and two Spars, also of steel. They are ocean steam- ships in every respect. ‘The boats are 270 feet keel, 38 feet beam, 15 feet hold, and 23 feet 3 inches molded depth of hold. Each has Accomodations for 1,000 passengers. ‘lhe engines are fore and aft compound. and de- Yelop 1,700 horse-power. ‘The boilers are of meh Steel. ‘They steer by steam and are lighted by electricity. Charters, schooner §..L. Watson, coal,Cleve- and to Milwaukee, 70c; schooner Jura, pig Ton, St. Ignace to Erie, $1; steamer Raleigh 1 i and consort, Lucerne, coal, Ashtabula’ to Chicago, 75c; steamer John E. Potts, coal, Ashtabula to Portage, p. t.; schooner Monterey, coal, Cleveland to Milwaukee, 75; svhooner Senator, conl Cleveland to Mil- waukee, 75; steamer City of Cleveland, coal Cleveland to Milwaukee, 70, . The latter ves: sel takes her coal of ‘'homas Axworthy and leaves this port on Thursday. Steamer Selah Chamberlin is loading coal at Ashtabula for Port Arthur and will tow the schooner D. P. Rhodes, also with coal, from Ashtabula at Port Arthur. : Captain Cassidy will sail the viaduct draw another year. : The Jobn B. Merrill will take coal at T. Axworthy’s dock for Milwaukee. The telegraph office at. the Sault will-be of much benefit to vessel men. ‘Messrs. Grover & Son will furnish. six range lights for Point Au Bar, on Sault river, The Canada tug Jessie isin Globe dry- dock getting her top sides calked and bottom overhauled. . Slight damage occurred to two or three vessels at this port during the blow of Tues- day night. : The steamer Idaho, of the Lake Superior Transit Line, arrived yesterday from Buffalo. She took’on some freight for Duluth. The schooner Sandusky, consort of the steamer Superior, arrived at this port yester- day and went into Globe drydock to have a leaks topped. Messrs. J. A. & L. P. Smith will build the lighthouse crib. They being the lowest bidders, It will be 2914 feet high, and other- wise 40x40, built of pine and sunk with stone. : During the panic on Wall street yesterday the steamers Nahant and Commodore cornered the Main street bridge. ‘The new harbor master was sought for but could not be found. f The City of Cleveland, Captain J. Stone, recently converted intoasteamer by the Globe Iron Works, will leave to-day for Lake Superior. Her valves which were ad- justed yesterday, work well. We _ take pleasure in saying that the City of Cleveland is now the finest looking boat in Captain Bradley’s fleet. The steambarge Townsend, an account of the compounding of whose engine by the Cuyahoga Works appeared in a recent issue, has made her first round trip; and her efficers report the working of the new engine as being most satisfactory. While no engine is expected to come up to ifs best duty until it has been run for a short time, the econ- omy of fuel is already very marked. The Townsend is now ‘towing one more large veasel than Just season and yet in spit of the large increase of power required, she is now doing the increased work with a saving of 25 per cent of her former fuel, and will doubtless do much better after running a short time. The following letter from the engineer of the steamer Cumberland, which had a new engine built during the winter at the Globe Iron Works, explains itself: Cnicaao, May 8. ’ bert Wallace: sree Sir: In regard to the working of the new engine on the Cumberland, and which you are doubtless interested in, I desire to say that for a first trip the average given below is good: Steam 90 pounds, vacuum 22 inches, | revolutions %2 per minute, cutting off at 12 inches, with throttle half open, the coal con- ‘CLEVELAND. 0. MAY i5 J 884 $2.00 PzR Annum SINGLE Coprus 5 Cents miles per hour, which equals her speed with- out a tow before the change was made in the engine. The dimensions of the old engine were, high pressure 32 inches in diameter by 48 inch stroke, and low pressure 60 inches in diameter by 48 inch. ‘The present engine is only 30 inches in diameter and48 inch stroke, for high pressure and 56 inches in diameter by 48 inches for the low pressure. The above is a true statement of average and in still weather without wind every- thing works well. Murraew THOMAS. Engineer of steamer Cumberland. The case of William J. Miller against the schooner Franz Siegel, which was some time since referred by Judge Welker of the United States District Court, to Earl Bill, Commisaioner, was partly heard on Monday last, and the hearing adjourned tntil Satur- day morning next. It will be remembered that the suit was brought to recover $268 for material and repairs furnished the Siegel. : DETREIT. Special to thet Marine: Record. ‘ ‘DETROIT, May 13. The propeller R. J. Gordon appears to be left out in the cold this season, at least.so she is unprovided with a route. All the Canadian vessels which wintered at Windsor, opposite this city, are being fit- ted out. * The sehooner Sara of Port Burwell, ar- rived here with wood. . “It is never too late to do gocd.” The schooner Seaman, built iu 1848, took from here a cargo of grain for Buffalo at going rates. A party of experts left this city on Satur- day on board the steamer Saginaw to Wyan- dotte, to witness the launching of the new railroad steamer Lansdowne, gotten up by the Detroit Drydock Company for the Grand Trank Railway. She slid broadside into a slip amid the shouting of a large crowd present. Her dimensions are: 31614 teet long, 41 feet beam, 75 feet over bulwarks, and 163g feet depth of hold. She is provid- ed with three tracks to carry-eighteen cars. The engines are those formerly in the trans- fer steamer Michigan, which has been laid aside. She has sidewheels twenty-nine feet five inches in diameter and is arranged to run either end first. Her route will be be- tween Detroit and Windsor. The tug John Owen, it is stated, has al- ready cleared th's season $1,400. Captain Mills’ harbor tugs have been in active service this season, either in rescuing vessels stranded, or towing rafts and vessels to and from lake Erie. One of them is al- ways on hané for special calls, attended by a reporter to deliver letters or telegrams to passing veseele. ; ; The steamer Northerner, ot Ward’s Lake Superior Line, left on Sunday for Duluth with 16,000 barrels of lime and 800 tons of coal. The Lake Superior Transit’ steamers leave here on regularly advertised time. Mr. 8S. A. Murphy, of Murphy Brothers, arrived home on Saturday from Southamp- ton, whither he had been to examine the condition of the steamer Manitoba, stranded at that place last fall. She lies in a bed of sand full of water, with seven feet of water at the bow and stern and six feet two inches amidships. He does not anticipate much dificulty in raising her. The schooner Heather Bell, ashore there, will probably be abandoned by her owner. The large scow Louisa, lumber laden, waterlogged in Lake St. Clair the latter part of the week, and was towed here bya sumption being 1200 pounds per hour, with the schooner Helvetia in tow, and going nine | harbor tug. The steamship Harry E. Packer arrived here on Saturday with her rudder un- shipped, John Jarvis, the submarine diver, went down and soon put thinge to rights, when she proceeded on her voyage. The United States propeller Warrington left on Saturday for Little Traverse Bay with material for the construction of a ligthouse there, also a fog signal station at the Sturgeon Bay canal and repairs to light. | houses in that region. J. B, Baker takes the position of manager of the Star line of steamers at this port in i the place of R. L. Montgomery, deceused. Mr. B. has been connected with the office for fourteen years and knows the ropes. Early on Sunday morning, as the steamer: City of Detroit was coming up the river, op- posite Springwelle, a party of five persons, crossing the river in a boat, vainly endeay- ored to-cross the steamer’s..bows, notwith standing the whistle was sounded, warning them of herapproach. ‘This, it appears, was. unheeded. ‘The ‘boat was struck and cap- | sized, resulting in the drowning of one of the party named Albert Siloff. The others were rescued by the steamer’s boats and brought up to the landing, The lost man was only 21 years of age. A’ dispatch was received here yesterday announcing the loss of the Emma A. Mayes on Lake Superior, laden with coal. The crew were saved. She was built at Marine City in 1871, 429 tons burden, and was val- ued at $11,000. ‘he present owners are Mitchelt & Boutell, of Bay City, The propeller New York stranded at Bar Point Saturday night but was released after lightering some fifty tons of her cargo, The schooner New Hampshire was sold the other day for one dollar. For a vessel that has been tempest-tossed for thirty-eight yearg wrecked fifteen times, and not a gov] lost, she was deserving of a better fate. There are others of her day and generation on Lake Michigan, notably the Tempest, 36 years; Clipper City, 30 years; Ralph Campbell, 29 years; propeller Buckeye, 28 years; Dread- naught, 28 years; York State, 27 years, and Lone Star, 27 years, allin a fair state of pre- servation. f The steamer Evening Star has commenced plying to Toledo. Latest—Charters: Schooners Belle Hanse combe and Geo. M. Case, staves, Detroit to Buffulo at $4, $6, and $8 per M; schooner Canton, lumber, Saginaw to Sackett’s Har- bor, $4 per M; schooner Jessie, Paving ceg dar, Au Sable to Detroit, $2 per cord; the schooner H. N. Todman, lumber, Fishing Island, Lake Huron, to Walkerville, at $1.50 per M; schooners St, Josephs, cedar posts St. Joseph’s Island to Detroit at 5c each; scow Grace Amelia, lumber, Ay Sable to Chatham, $2 per M; schooner Consuello, coal, Lorain to Sault River at 80¢ per ton; steambarge Henry Howard and consort Sea Gull, coal, Cleveland to Pine Lake, 75e; the schooners Blazing Star and Hartford both discharged coal at Viger’s dock, The new sidewheel eteamer Minnie M,, built during the last winter at John Oade’s shipyard for Ira Owen, of Chicago, coaled up yesterday, and has taken her departure for the waters of Lake Michigan, to ply bes tween Escanaba and Manistique. The barge Susan Ward put in an appear- ance here yesterday with a cargo of lume. ber. To look at her it would hardly be { Contnued on 4th page.}