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THE MARINE RECORD. 5 ers, Chicogo will furnish her fit out, with the exception of the capstan and windlass which will be supplied by the Providence Windlass Company through G. D. Norris & Company, their agents at this port. Captain Crane, formerly of the Lottie Wolf, will command ber and will own one-forth share in her Messrs. Wolf & Davidson, her builders, own- ing the remaing shares. She will be a splendid, staunch craft of which her owners may will be proud, Captain Fletcher, of the propeller New- burg, which arrived here from below, reports that on Sunday morning during a heavy fog the Canadian schooner Rob Roy, while lying off Bar Point, Lake Erie, was struck by the second barge of a tow of barges and cut down, one of her bows to the keel, and dam- aged so badly otherwise that both of her masts fell. A boat was sent to her from the Newburg and her crew taken off and brought ir on the propeller. They were landed at Malden, Canada. ‘'he Rob Roy is a new vessel owned by Captain Wilkinson, and hailed from Leamington and Pigeon Bay. She had a cargo of 60,900 feet of hard wood timber. The schooner Duncan City was run down by an unknown vessel off Bailey’s harbor at 2 o’clock yesterday morning. It is not known how badly: either was damaged, but the master of the Duncan City spoke the schooner Commerce as she passed in the fog, and said he was lowering a boat. The Dun- can City measures 210 tons and hails from Chicago. Was built at Kingston by Thurston in 1852, owned by Parker and is not insured. The tug. Danforth, which went to the wrecked schooner ‘I'hree Brothers, off Lo- rain, has returned to Ontanagon. The ves- sel is on the rocks and full of water. Other tugs and steam pumps have been telegrahed for. C, B. ESCANABA, Special to the Marine Record. May 31.—A ten inch fog-signal has been placed upen the end of the pier near the lighthouse, at Sturgeon Bay. It can be heard “ata distance of six miles, The F. W. Gifford, coal laden, on Friday of last week, ina fog, while hunting for Poverty Island passage, brought up on the reef off Summer Island. Yhe Delta went to her relief, pulled-her off, and brought her in on Saturday minus two hundred tons, jettisoned. ‘Two vessels, the Gilmore and Richmond, light, run aground during the'thick weather of the 23d. ‘Ihe Gilmore on Portage Point, the Richmond on Fisherman’s shoal. No damage was done, yet the Owen and Delta had hard work to pull them oft. Captain Bartley of the Owen stated that the schooner Rich- mond, when he reached her, was strained and making water so fast that he left her where she lay, and came back for the steam pump. Having put it aboard, she was pulled off on Sunday and towed to Manitowoc to be placed in Rand & Burger’s drydock. The Z, Sargisson, the N. Ludington Co’s. tug, has been entirely rebuilt, and is again in commission, towing lighters and logs. The Lady Washington was. withdrawn from her accustomed route and sent to Manitowoe, on Wednesday, to have her stern bearings overhauled and put in order. The steamer Messenger will next week run from Cheboygan, via Manistique and ports on west shore, to Chicago. Induce Captain Ed. Bouchard to touch at Escanaba; we can assure the Captain a good many passengers would avail themselves of such a chance, The schooner Grantham is loading a cargo of{0’Callaghan’s timber for the British mar- ket. It isa daily occurrence ot vessels being fast in the ice off Marquette. ‘Ten vessels Were stuck fast in the ice at the same time last Wednesday. Is Marquette to be a good summer resort, or has the Adams family moved there from Massachusetts ? Shipments of iron ore to May 28 aggregate 356,466 tons, a big months work; 167,837 tons came from the Menominee range mines, the rest from the Marquette district ; 279,701 tons, nearly four-fifths of the whole output Was shipped from Escanaba. The Chapin mine leads with 62,541 tons. The schooner H. W. Sage, ashore on Fisherman Shoal, was released by the tugs Champion and Delta and towed to this port. The Sage is not leaking. i. G. PORT HURON. Special to the Marine Record, Special to the Marine ‘The schooner Chester B. Jones, bound up,| 1 is reported on reliable authority that got aground at the southeast bend of St, | Alexander McMaster will be appointed gov- Clair Flats and stuck twelve hours before | €fM ment boiler inspector in place of Robert she was released. ‘The schooner Mears has| Learmouth, who vacated the office to take also been released at Point Edward by light- | the position of chief engineer of the Anchor ering. line. Mr, McMaster was chief engineer of Another attempt to raise the aunken|the old Commercial line of propellers for schooner Sam Cook is tobe made. A wreck- | sbout eleven years and up to the time when ing expedition has left Port Huron for that | the effects of that line fell into the clutches purpose, of the law. He is a first-class machinest as A raft of 1,500,000 feet ot logs belonging | Well as engineer, is thorough-going and con- to Brooks, Joslyn & Co., in tow of the Ad- scientious, and therefore well qualified to miral D. Portor, of the Moffatt tug Ine, | faithfully discharge the duties of the position BUFFALO. went ashore on Huronia Beach in the gale of May 27th. About 1,100,000 feet were long logs and the remainder short ones. A con- siderable quantity of the short ones escaped inthe storm. The contract for getting the raft off the beach has been let to James Brandimore and Andrew Causley, of this city. P. MANISTEE, Special to the Marine Record. ‘The steamer Ludington collided with the steambarge R. A. Seymour, Jr., while lying at the Government pier, doing some slight damage which $100 will cover. Application has been made to the author- ities at Washington for a fog whistle at this port. It would be of great benefit to vessel men coming in here, also to those going up n Lake Michigan. hoone\ Crawford, owned by R. G. Peters; ad a thorough rebuild and been converted into a three-master. She will make her firat trip this week. The tug Lou Wallace, of St. Joseph, ‘has been purchased by parties at Manistee and Portage for $5,000. She will do towing at Portage Harbor. WT, LORAIN. Special to the Marine Record. for which he is mentioned. Freight at 244¢ per bushel from Duluth to this port is apparently no inducement to keep vessels in that trade, therefore the steamer W, ‘TI’. Graves and schooner G. W. Adame have gone into the coal trade between here and Milwaukee, Also the steamer Iron Age and David Dows. ‘These vessels will probably return with ore from Escanaba. The ‘Tonawanda lumber shippers who are fighting the canal boatmen’s association are suid to be hard. pressed by their eastern correspondents. These gentlemen say that their lumber must be sent on at once. ‘The propeller Onoko arrived from Chicago on Friday with 106000 bushels of grain, making the run in three days and .eighteen hours. She leaves her immense cargo at the Bennett elevator and returns to Chicago with coal at 80 cents. Coal freights Saturday were rather quiet, but rates remained very firm. Charters com- prised. steamers Philadelphia and Onoko, coal to Chicago at‘80 cents, schooner Schuy)- kill to Milwaukee at the same figure, and schooner Florida to Manitowoc at 90 cents. The latter comes here light from Cleveland. (Coal freights continue strong with vessels in We came near having a serious accident light supply. Tuesday: For Chicago steam- at our porton the evening of the 28th. The | &T H. J. Jewett, Juniata, Clarion, coal at steambarge Queen of the West was leaving 80 cents. For Milwaukee, steamers Minne- the harbor, towing her consort the schooner apolis, D. Ballentine, schooner Northwest, Cyclone. Coming in was the steambarge Smith Moore, laden with iron ore, and when about 300 feet from the end of the piers the barges collided. The Moore struck the Queen of the West on her port bow, break- ing several stanchions and opening the butts on her upper deck. The Moore came off little better, having some damage done to her stanchions and to her rail on the port bow. The Moore glanced off and carome on the schooner Mary, which was lying coal at 80 cents. For Kenosha, schooner Narragansett, coal on owner’s account. For Racine, propeller Potomac, coal at 90 cents. The Canadian steamer Niagara is loading railroad iron for Port Arthur at $1.50, free. D.S. Bennett, retusing to come into the Elevator Association on such terms as the members desired, the association has, practi- cally, disbanded for the present. Hereafter gq} no charge will be made grain cargoes for elevating, which savs owners 3 cent. The quietly at the dock. The Moore carried cest to the vessel will be as heretofore. Ben- away her timber heads fore and aft, damaged | her port quarter somewhat, and broke some ! of her stanchions. ‘They proceeded on their way without waiting for repairs. The Queen of the West left in the morning towing her consort. The damage sustained by the Ma- ry was paid by the Moore, a matter of $40. Should think five hundred dollars would cover the dumage done to the three vessels, Expenses were not high considering the fun they had. M.P. ASHLAND, The lost steamer Ozaukee did not sink three miles out in the lake as at first reported. She left Ashland tor Bad river and Marble Point witha large quantity of freight for the south shore fishermen and the Montreal River mines. ‘The sea became very heavy, as the wind had been blowing steadily from the northeast all day. When off Marble Point she rolled so heavily that her steam- whistle pipe broke, letting all the steam escape from her boilers, and leaving her to the mercy of the waves. Her anchors were let go, and the broken steam-pipe repaired. She made an effort to run back to Ashland. The sea proved to heavy, however, and she began to leak. Her pumps were put to work and she tried to make the mouth of Bad river, She struck the bar, however, and the sea tore way her pilothouse and upper works, filling here Wold F etth water. Her hull will be abandoned, as it is worthless. ‘Ihe ma- chinery will be recovered and put intoa new hull, which is already being built. AMHERSTBURG. It is understood that the Dominion Gov- ernment will reduce canal tolls on grain one-half the present figure, as a temporary expedient for this summer only. They pro- pose to remit one-half of the present canal tolls of five-eighths of a cent per bushel, provided others interested reduce charges go as to make up one cent per bushel. ‘The government rate for the present season will therefore be five-sixteenths of a cent per bushel. nett will also elevate free. ‘T'Le fine record of the Onoka on her trip down.and her style of handling her cargo may be added to, in the fact that she took her cargo of 2,600 tons atthe Lehigh docks in eleven hours. Her grain overran fitteen bushels, The shipments of coal thus far from Buf- fulo this season aggregate 226,620 tons, an increase of 16,240 tons over last year for. the same period. The owners of the schooner Groton will lay her up until freights improve. Coal rates are very strong at former quota- tions. It was learned in the afternoon that shippers at Ashtabula were paying 85 cents to Chicago. DULUTH. Special to the Marine Record. : The propeller Ocean, of St. Ca therines, a Welland canaler of 420 tons burden, isa recent purchase by the firm of Graham, Van Horn & Co., to run with the Prussia be- tween Duluth and Michipicoten. J.T. Rose, formerly of the Collingwood line, is the agentat Duluth. The Lake Superior ‘Transit Company and the St. Paul & Duluth railroad, who have so long pulled together, are now indulging in a little war of their own, and a bitter one. Since the expiration of last year’s contract they have been unable to agree upon terms for a new one, and now the extreme of vin- dictiveness is being resorted to, viz., refus- ing to handle freights consigned by either, to one or the other companies. ‘This of course complicates the situatien at Duluth, and if it continues it can have but one out- come, and that is a new line of boats to con- nect with the St. Paul railroad at this port. Indeed negotiations to this end are already pending. According to the Herald, 1,050,000 buehels of wheat has already been shipped from the port of Duluth this season. The export of grain and flour via Cana- dian lines, through this port this season, bids fair to eclip<e all tormer ones. B. CHICAGO, Special to the Marine Record. The barge Golden Age, the largest sail craft on the lakes, being 1,762 tons, new measurement, was loaded with 94,780 bush- els of corn for Buffalo in two hours and twenty minutes at Chicago. Seven spouts were used at once. The propeller Cuba got » log in. her wheel just east of the open draw ot Rush street bridge on Friday afternoon, and the services ot a diver were required to extricate it. Frank Hill performed the operation with the assistance of a line attached to the Cu-’ ba’s pony engine. A good deal of complaint is made by vesselmen about the frequency with which logs and timbers are encountered in that vicinity. he workmen employed on the structure have been warned not to throw the wasie wood in the water, but they do not seem to heed the warning. More stringent measures should be adopted to prevent them from violating this natural law of common sense. At the Vessel owners’ drydock one of H. Fox & Co.’s dredges is in getting a partial rebuild; the barge R. L. Fryer had her decks calked ; schooner Conquest had some new planks in her bottom and calking; schooner Alice B. Norris got a new sprit aail yard and some repuirs. The schooner F. M. Knapp is in the Chi- cago drydock getting her aft centre box tak- en out and some calking; schooner News- boy is getting a leak stopped; the steam ca- nal boat B. J. Moore went in tor a new shatt and to get a leak stopped; the schooner El- len Spry had her decks calked and anew topmast ; the barge Newcomb got now hatch combings; the steambarge Coffinberry had some repairs, and the schooner Charlotte Raab a new centieboard. At Miller Brothers’ drydock the steam- barge Emma E. Thompson, owned by S. Cobb, ot this port, is being pulled to pieces and will receive thorough rebuild; schoon- er Australia is getting calked; tug Shelby is getting a new wheel; tug M. Brand will have a new wheel; schooner C. J. Magill had her bottom calked, also the barge Pow- ers. The Imperial will have some alterations made, as her present owner, -Mr. Titley, in= tends using her in the sand trade. ‘T. W. The schooner Ottawa, Captain John Ratter, arrived from Grand Haven on Sun- day evening. This is her first appearance at this port since she wason fire. She has received a splendid new cabin, built of red oak, tour new deck frames, some new deck planks, new cabin deck and timber heads, mizzen boom and gaff, all supplied by Dun- can Robertson, shipbuilder at Grand Haven. Dunham & Hoit of Chicago will supply her with a new mainsail and foresail. The schooner Driver, Captain David Miller, owned by the Miller Brothers of Grand Haven, arrived on Saturday night, her first time of arrival at this port since last fall, when her gallant captain and crew saved twelve of the crew of the steambarge Akeley. She has been put in good shape at Dunean Robertson shipyard, Grand Haven, having received new frames fore and att, some new planking new ceiling, planksheer and stanchions, bowsprit, main boom and fore gaff. We are very sorry to add that the United States Government has done nothing to acknowledge the heroic conduct of the Driver’s captain and crew. SANDUSKY, The schooner M. R. Warner received a new rudder stock at this port. THE STEAMER CUMBERLAND. CuicaGo, June 1, Editor of the Marine Record. Dear Sir: In your paper of the 15th of May I see a letter from the engineer of the Cumberland in which he describes the engine as doing wonderful work. and of which I wish to correct a few statements. As I was engineer of the Cumberland Jast year [ama little interested. He claims she tows a schooner taster now than she run alone be- fore, which I deny. We towed the schooner Helvetia nine miles an hour, cutting off at 11 inches witha'l'rout wheel 11 feet 10 inches diameter, 14 feet pitch; average revolutions 70 per minute, with 85 pounds of steam; the wheel she now bas is 11 feet 3 inches diameter, 14 feet pitch; and the old engines towed that wheel 76 revolutions run- ning light with schooner in tow. Her fuel consumption is very good as compared with last year. Credit where it is due is all I aske Hoping you will find space in your journals Henry G. Paynk, Engineer City of Rome.