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r , completed at Wolf & Davidson’s. HE MARINE RECORD. 5 pounding badly, she will doubtless prove a total loss. The (California was built at Ham- jlton, Out., in 1878, of 860 tons burden, and her valuation may be placed at $25,000, The steambarge Handy Boy, sailed by Captain Robert Furton, with consort Nellie achieved and ia entitled to the credit of mak. ing rapid transit between Detroit and St, Ig- nace and return, with cargo both ways, in the short space of five days and nine hours, This is even better than steamboat time, all things considered. There are soon to be added to the route petween Cleveland and Mackinaw two more steamers. The first, the Messenger will soon commence plying, and another will soon be supplemented, and still the cry is hard times. J.W.H. MILWAUKEE, Special to the Marine Record, he machinery is being taken out ot the §. D. Caldwell. She will go into the lum- ber trade as a towbarge. The schooner ‘Iwo Brothers arrived here on Sunday with a cargo of slabs. She was dismasted by a light breeze below Fox Point andthe tug Welcome went to her telief. Two Brothers is one of the oldest vessels on the lakes, being built in 1838 by Weeks at Prescott, and ig owned by Olson of this port; she is 204 tons burden and is not insured. She has been in commission forty-six years and has paid and repaid for herself a great number of times. Notice is given by collector Hall, that the name of the tug Henry Marshall has been changed to that of Jessie Spalding. She was built at Green Bay in 1888, and ix 26 26-100 net tons. The schooner Emma CG. Hutchinson, of Cleveland, and an unknown schooner, bound up, collided off Sheboygan in a fog at1 o’clock Monday morning. ‘I'he Hutchinson lost her jibboom and ran back here. The other vessel lost her main sail, mizzen rig- ging, and mizzen. mast, but it is not known whether she sustained further damage. The Abnapee, loaded for this port, ran ashore during a fog at Sheboygan, North Point, on the 8th, Her crew escaped. She is on the rocks. Captain Fehrenkemp left for Sheboygan on the 1@th to examine the scow Ahbnapee. If she is found the tug Welcome with steam pumps will go to her. The Ah- napee hails from Milwaukee, is 118 tons bur- den, is classed A2, and is valued at $2,000. She was built at Ahnapee in 1867 and rebuilt and lengthened iu 1876, The City of Cleveland, which received machinery during the winter, as was origi- nally intended, ‘is now one of the finest steamships on the lakes. She discharged a monster cargo of coal at this port and cleared on the 9th for Escanaba. A survey was held on the barge Mears, which was ashore on Point Edward on her trip up. The damages amount to about $1,000. The repairs on the schooner Emma C. Hutchinson, in collision with an unknown vessel running before the wind, have been She re- quired a new jibboom. Had the Hutchin- son been struck square on by the other ves- sel she would doubtless have been sunk. The other, a black fore-and-after, lost her main- sail‘and mizzenmast and it is feared suffered other damage. She has not been heard from, The steamer John A. Dix, of this port, which left here some weeks ago to engage in the excursion business out of Chicago, has abandoned the Chicago excursion busi- hess, and is now running between Chicago and St. Joseph, Mich., leaving Chicago in the morning, and returning leaving St. Joseph in the evening, She was unable to procure a suitable dock at Chicago. The common council did not confirm the appointment of Captain Campbell as harbor master. There were fifteen votes for con- firming him, and fifteen against, nine alder- men being absent from the board. Captain Humphrey holds over until his successor is confirmed. ; Captain John Sullivan is now running the tug Starke Brothers at night in place of cap- tain Larry Riordan, who resigned on account of ill-health, Captain John Drescoll is now on the tug Dexter. Cc. B. PORT COLBORNE. The schooner Pruesia, bound down, and some vessels bound up were delayed in the canal in consequenee of the low water in the aqueduct, caused by the easterly winds. BUFFALO. Special to the Marine Record. There is no change in coal freights. Rates continue firm with good demand for tonnage for Lake Michigan ports. Coal charters weré quite numerous, Engagements com- prised steamers Monteagle and Avon for Chicago at 80 cents; schooner Saveland and barges G. H. Wand, 8. Clement and Chicago Board of ‘Trade for Milwaukee at 80 cents; steamer Belle Cross tor Kenosha at 90 cents; barge Little Jake for Racine at 90 cents; propellers Nahant and Egyptian to Duluth at 85 cents; propeller John Pridgeon., jr., to South Chicago at 80 cents; propellers City of Rome, John B. Lyon and consorts, Hutchinson and Masten, to Chicago at 80 cents; schooner Consuella and barges Hale, Church, Keating, and Burlington to San- dusky at 40 cents; barge Worthington to Detroit at 25 cents. Rodgers & Brown received a dispatch say- ing that the schooner Maria Martin, coal la- den for Racine, had her canvas blowu away on Lake Michigan, and was obliged to run up to Chicago. It is surmised by some that she is the unknown echooner in collision with the Emma C. Hutchinson, as her loss of canvas, ete., tallies with that found by Captain Hutchinson. ‘he Maria Martin was discovered by the lookout off Chicago harbor in a dilapidated condition, and Cap- taia Groh was dispatched with the tng Un- ion to take her into port. She 1s. not leaking. She will ibe towed to Racine. ‘The Maria Martin was built at Cleveland by Quayle & Martin in 1866, is 568 new tons burden, classed A2, and is owned by the Davidson estate, Buffalo; valued at $15,000, and is in- DULUTH. Special to the Marine Record. June 9—Captain J.J. Hibbard has got his new ferry boat so far advanced that he ex- pects to have her running in about ten days. On the 4th instant the body of L, Erick- son, another of the victims of the Mary Mar- tIni disaster, was found floating near Little & Simond’s mill. The body was taken in charge by the coroner. It was identified by papers on his person and a check for $8. In a communication to the Duluth ‘Lrib- une of the 5th instant, Mr. Owen Ferguson, grain merchant, denies a recently made state- ment of Captain McManus, of the schooner Groton, that there has heen unnecessary de- lay in loading grain from elevator B at Due luth, Mr. Ferguson claims that it is uusafe for prudent shippers to load during heavy, driving rains accompanied with fog, and that for the twenty-four hours during which the Groton waited 2 63-100 inches of rain fell at Duluth, and that she was loaded within a half hour after the rain ceased, and that the rest of the time she was compelled to wait was owing to causes independent entirely of the elements or the elevators. In proof, to thecontrary, of greater than usual expedi- tion at Duluth, Mr. F. cites the fact that the. David Dows received 71,253 bushels of wheat in three hours and forty-five minutes, or at the rate of 20,000 bushels an hour. James Bently, manager of the Sarnia Line, was in Duluth most’of last week conférring with the local agent, Mr. Hurdon, and the St. Paul & Duluth railroad officials as to the measures necessary to be taken tor moving the great quantities of flour now here, con- signed tothem for the Grand Trunk. The sured for $12,500. ; The new steamer Moiteagle has been given temporary papers by the customs au- thorities. Her gross measuremement is 1,273.17 tons, net 1,034.62 tons, She will take on a-cargo of coal for Chicago. She is 230 feet long, 35 feet beain and 20 teet hold, with a double deck and three spars. She has a Trout fore-and-aft compound engine, 26 and 40 by 42 inches, and two of Riter’s steel boilers, each measuring 16 by 8 feet. The Monteagle is expected to be a large carrier for her dimensions. She was built by R. Mills & Co. She is owned by M. J. Cum- mings, of Oswego, and Captain Patrick Grif- fin, who will sail her. Her complete cost is $95,000. After delivering her coal cargo at Chicago she will enter the trade between that port and Ogdensburg, towing the schooners White Star, Blazing Star, and Mystic Star. H. GREEN BAY. The new steambarge Philetus Sawyer, by Hagan & English, was launched on the 10th inst. She is strongly built, is 157 feet keel, 3114 teet depth of hold amidships, planked outside with 31g inch oak. ceiled inside with 5 inch oak, edge and bolted. She will have one spar; her power will be two engines, each 18 inch cylinder, with 20 inch stroke, and is expected to be ready July 1. The schooner A. J. Rogers cleared for Cleveland, light to load ore at Escanaba. SAND BEACH. The propeller California with 19,000 bushels of corn went ashore two miles north of this harbor early Monday morning. The passengers and crew were saved. ‘The propeller was scuttled to prevent pounding in a heavy northeast gale. She left Chicago on the 6th inst. in command of Captain J. V. Powell. Later—-rhe California must have been badly damaged by the tremendous sea from the northeast which ran all night. The ex- tent could not be ascertained, but an ex- amination with the glass shows her gang- ways stove in and her bulwarks gone, The life saving crew succeeded in reaching her at noon, and will not return before night. She is Insured in the Western Assurance Com- pany, of Toronto, for $25,000, and her cargo of 23,000 bushels of corn by Chicago parties. OSWEGO. Repairs are being pushed on the tug Sum- ner on Goble & Macfarlane’s drydock. Captain Thomas Reardon of Buffalo is au- perintending the repairs on the George C. Finney on Mitchell & Gallagher’s drydock, He has bought the schooner for $2300. TOLEDO. The revenue cutter Fessenden, Captain Samuel Warner, has been lying here since Saturday. steamers City of Duluth and Wallula have been chartered for the down trip and they are exerting themselves to the utmost to get the required tonnage. There are some 250 cars of flour on the side tracks beside full warehouses now waiting to be moved. Captain McDougall is circulating a _peti- tion among marine men for the placing of Yange lines at the entrance to the harbor. ‘Two Port Arthur boats, the Morrison and the Foster, are in port for repairs. ‘The Morrison, tormerly owned at Duluth, is hav- ing new boilers, steel arches put into her, and is beside undergoing a general over- hauling. She is now owned by Smith and Mitchell, of Port Arthur. B. BAYFIELD, The Bayfield Press says this harbor can accommodate the entire marine otf-all the lakes and have room to spare, and claims the daily arrival of two to four large lake ! boats. C. L. Judd of Ashland has purchased the Emma Maria. She will be employed in carrying stone between Bass Island and Ashland. PORT HURON. The propeller Japan arrived down, and and reports that the steambarge Cormorant went through her cylinder top and bottom off Point au Pines, Lake Superior, last Fri- day morning. All craft bound up on the 9th and 10th inst. were compelled to stop here. The propeller Wocoken received orders to tow the disabled steawer Cormorant to Mar- quette for repairs. The tug Moore passed up with a full wrecking outfit for the propeller California, ashore at Sand Beach. ‘The tug Balize will assist her. KINGSTON. Mr. C. F. Gildersleeve and Captains John and Thomas Donnelly will carry on wreck- ing operations on Lake Ontario and the river, whether the wrecking company cease§ to exist or not. The ferry steamer Prince Edward was burned to the water’s edge in her slip at Belleville on the 2d inst. In order to save the mill property her lines were cut and she was allowed to float in the harbor until the fire was almost extinguished when she was towed in and beached. The schooner Monitor, a vessel of thirty- five tons, was advertised to be sold recently at Montreal by order of a mortgagee. When the hour arrived for the sale a number of persons had gathered to look at the craft, but they didn’t at least until several hours later. The Monitor had disappeared during the night, and a big boat was sent down the river after her, overtaking her some distance away. Captain McKay, her commander, and The tug Syracuse, recently burned, is to be rebuilt. | Part owner, it appears, did not relish the idea of losing his litle vruft, und seized the golden opportunity offered by darkness to sail her away. This is something for the owners of American craft to think about. The Clarence has been sold by F. Folger to D. Briggs, of Simcoe Island, for $85. Breck & Booth bave chartered the Gran- tham to bring timber from Frankford to Collinsby at $75 per thousand. ‘I’his isa good charter. While the steambarge Enterprise was coming through the canal her discharge pipe berst, allowing the water to get into her cargo. It is thought that she will have 2,000 or 3,000 bushels damaged, FRANKFORT. Special to the Marine Record ‘ June 9—A crew of men are engaged in building the superstructure or crib at the end of South Harbor pier. Harbormaster Collier is seeing that the job is being well done. Mr. Vorcé, the new lightkeeper of Pier- head light, has everthing shining as bright as a silver dollar, and things look ship shape. The lighy was ina terribly dilapidated con- dition when he took charge. An old, unused oil house at the pier caught fire from the sparks of a passing steamer and was destroyed last week. . A party of United States lighthouse’ re- pairers are expected soon to rebuild the walk» carried away by the ice last winter, and move the pierhead light to the outer end as soon as the superstructure is completed. At present the lighthouse stands back 200 feet from the end. : Vesselmen complain of very dull times on Lake Michigan. Cc. B. EAST TAWAS. : A heavy uortheast gale prevailed here oii the 9th. A large steambarge, either the Schoolcraft or Manistique, was making the harbor at dark. ‘he Chappel lost a jib in the squall. ‘he scow Greenback, loaded with posts, lefthere for Bay City last Sunday evening, and is reported capsized in Saginaw Bay, the crew clinging to the bottom of the Bcow. MANITOWOC, It is rumored that captain Charles Gneu- wich of the Canfield Tug Line, who was in the city last week will close a contract with Rand & Burger fora large tug to take the place of the burned Caroline Williams. 'The new tug is to be 95 feet over all, 19 feet beam and 10 feet depth of hold, with an engine 24x26. She wi!l be used by the company for wrecking and towing. SAUGATUCK. The tug Protection is off the beach, afver resting peacefully in the east shore sani! since last November. Her rescue was accom- plished by Captain Downer, the marine diver, and Johnson, carpenter of the V. Q. T. fleet of tugs, without other assistance than asmall steam pump andasmall force of men. The news of the rescue was telk- graphed to Captain J. L. Higgie, president of the asgociation, and he at once ordered that she be towed to Chicago Thursday by the small steambarge R. Douglass. The Protection will be put in drydock at Chicago and will be thoroughly rebuilt before she is again commissioned. ‘The Protection’s en- gine and boiler are undergoing extensive re- pairs, and will be placed back in the boat. The circumstances ot the Protection going ashore are well known to all marine men, but inasmuch as she is the only remaining object of a trio of fatal disasters, it may be ef interest to recount the event. She left Chicago November 10, last to tow the schooner Arab from Saugatuck to Milwau- kee, and while en route to the latter point was overtaken by the terrible northwest gale of Novethber 12. ‘The Arab foundered, ani Captain Williams, Kelley, an old tugman, lost his life. ‘The Protection became disabled by getting a line in her wheel and was drift- ing with the gale when she was picked up by the steambarge H. C. Akeley. Captain Stretch, of the latter craft, took the disabled tug in tow and not realizing the danger of the undertaking, headed his craft derectly for the South Manitou Island, instead of gu- ing for the west shore. The gale increased }1 fury, the Akeley became disabled, and the tug, with her crew of twenty-two persons, was cast adritt. The Akeley foundered, earrying down Captain Stretch and five of his crew, while the Protection was driven on the east shore at Saugatuck, peeing Slane The owners of Lewis’ Wharf, Boston, are putting up this week a set’ of the Winter Patent Wharf Drops from the American Ship Windlass Co., of sume size as those put recently on Foster’s Wharf. Henry G. VENNoR, the Canadian weather prophet, died on Sunday, the 8th inst.