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VOL. VI. NO: 34, SSvEEAN DO. JURY T1esa Rk ANNUM . SINGLE ‘Copies 5 piers. LAUNCH OF THE STEAMSHIP WIL- LIAM CHISHOLM. _ The unqualified. success of the iron steam- ship Onoko, built -by the Globe Shipbuilding Company, as a large carrier. and a safe and easily handled boat in all kinds of weather, and in’ all quarters, induced that firm to placeyon the stocks last winter, to bridge over dull times and: to give work to a small army: \itien, another iron steam- ‘ship, a trifle. ‘smaller than the, Onoko, but which will. be a carrier:-her’ whole length. The success and profit of these large iron steamers has been made possible by the im- provement of our Jake harbors and rivers, To compete with railroads it has, become ab solutely necessary to define the time to be occypied in making.a trip and delivering a cargo, another important factor also enter- ing into consideration, that being the quan- tity to be carried. It has been demonstrated that the,cost of running a small steamship very nearly equals that.of-asteamer which will carry a cargo of 2,500 to 8,000: tone, or 100,000 bushels of grain. The Globe .Ship- building Company has therefore taken the “ball by the horns,” ag it were, and are building in accordance with these facte, The Inunch, of the “AViMies Chisholm, aside: launch, which o¢curred about 8 o’clock to- day, was witnessed and applauded by a mul- titude of people, lining. the river banks on either side and. extending far up the hillside overlooking the river on the south, and by the numerous steam craft congre- gated to welcome the event. As is usual with the launches at this shipyard, there was no accident or evidence of anything unthought of to mar the grand occasion and’ the sym- metrical iron. steamer slid gracefully into the waters of the old river bed, sitting nicely on her lines and showing buoyancy equal to the great Onoko, or as a recent correspond- ent puts it, the “Bull of the Woods,” in other words the Floating Elevator. In the following lines we give the. dimen- sions of the William Chisholm: Length over all, 262 feet; keel, 247 feet; beam, 87 feet; depth of hold, 22 feet. She has two decks and six hatches, and will carry three masts. Her main keelson is three feet four, and her floor frames one foot six inches deep. She hae three floor keelsons on euch side running fore and aft. Her frames are of steel 3x4, an entire new fexture on the lakes, and which are of the sume weight ax if made of iron, thereby adding greatly to the strength of the vessel. ‘The main deck is 314 and the spar deck 6 inches. ‘Nhe iron plating on her bottom and sides ir 74, 34, 54 and ¥¢ inch in thickness. She has a water bottom capable of holding 600 tons of water ballast, Which is divided into three water- tight compartments on either side, a collis- ‘on bulkhead twenty feet aft from the stem and carried up to the upper deck, all of Which should be considered by underwriters in making insurance rates on her as tavora- ble to immunity from many ot -the dangers on which they calenlate in taking risks on lake vessels. ‘Nhe main deck from the bulk head forward, is of iron and assists in con- Verting the forepenk of the vessel ito a wa- | fore side of the engine, and one aft atthe stuffing box. Her hatches and hatchcomb- ings.and boiler house are allof iron, similar in every respect to the Onokoy : The machinery, which is a duplicate of that built by the Globe Company tor Cup- tain Thomas Wilson’s steamer George Spen- cer, and which is standard for that size, every part. being in proportion, is tore and aft compound, 27 and 60 by 86 inch stroke, with steam reversing gear. She will carry a Worthington duplex pump, so arranged as to be cupable of emptying the water ballast in two and one half hours, from any one or allof the compartmente,and will have all the latest and most approved. machinery tor handling cargo, making eail, ete. She will have a Globe Iron Works steam windlass, the invention of Mr. Pankhurst, on which he has recently obtained a patent and the outfit will be- furnished by Messrs. Up- son & Walton and will include patent an-.| chors and the goods of the well-known firm of Mesers. Fe!thousén & Russell, of Buffalo; the Nestors of the signal lamp trade in this country. do the plumbing work. | The William Chisholm is owned, two- thirds by the Globe Shipbuilding Company und one-third Company. The. Cleveland Rolling Mill Company furnished the iron which entered into her construction, atid she is the first of two such vessels to be used to transport the ore used by that company. She is named for William Chisholm, president of the Cleveland Rolling Mill Company, who is now in Europe and who is in blissful igno- rance of the honor conterred on him, but which is a fitting comment on a young man of Mr. Chisholm’s public spirit and business ability. We wish the William Chisholm as good fortune as has attended the Onoko, LOSS OF THE JOHN M. OSBORNE. The Canauian Pacific steamship Alberta, Captain E. Anderson, has succeeded in mak. ing herself obnoxious to lake craft, and like the great beer wagons on the streets does not hesitate to run into and damage. any- thing that does not speedily get out of the way of her steel bows. During her short career on the lakes, under the careless handl- ing of her master, many wooden vessels have barely escaped being run down by her. In this respect we may cite the fact of the col- lision with the propeller Pacific, which has just finished her repairs at this port,’ the narrow escape of the Wocoken, Captain Kelley, which only escaped by the coolness and seamanship of the magter, the tug Sam- son with a tow also having a close call, and a few weeks ago the danger to her sister ship the Athabaska, having been run so carelessly as to scrape the paint from her sides and now comes the disaster to the John M. Ostorne Captain Wilford, with loss of life off Whitefish Point, Lake Superior, on Sunday nigbt, Matt Conners, of Cleveland, fireman; Thomas Barnes, Missouri, and another deck- hand named ‘Thomae but whose last name is not known tothe officers of the steamer, as he shipped at Ashtabula for this trip only, going down with the vessel in ter tank capable ot holding one hundred | | twenty seven fathoms of water, the balance of tens of water, and which can be filled when | the crew being taken oft by the consorts nece er, Water-tight bulkheads, giving her five water- light bulkheads, one ut the collision bulk- ssary, to trim the vessel in beavy wenth- | ‘Thomas Gawn, George Davisand Exile. The The freight holds are. divided by iron | John M. Osborne was but two years old, hav- ing been built in 1882 by Moriey at Marine ; City, rated Al and valued for insurance at heads, two in the freight holds, one at the | | $60,000, She was owned in this city by Webb John ‘Thompson, of this city, will he Cleveland ‘Rolling ‘Mill. & Richardeon, Alva Bradley, M.A. Bradley, C. E. Grover, Captain John Nelson, Cuap- tain Thomas Jones, Captain C. KE. Dubois, all of this city, und Messrs.. P. C. and George Ford, of Ashtabula, Ohio, and was inenred for $40,300, of which Brooks & Manning carried 26,000, Scott & Berriman $5,800, and Tisdale $10,000. Itis said that Captain A. Bradley’s interest was not in- sured. The Osborne last winter received ex* tensive repairs, having also been made a double. decker, and her insurance rating raiged $10,000. ‘here is also an insurance on her cargo of little over 1,100 tons of ore. This was taken out with Captain Peter White, of Marquette, and is placed in the Etna Insurance Company of Hartford on a valuation of $4.25 per ton, the ore belonging to the Cleveland Jron Mining Company of this city. Captain Wilford, who sailed the ibaa, is a resident of Lorain, ‘and an experienced navigator, having . beside’ his earlier ex- perience, sailed the schooner Exile as master for six yeare, and this last vessel ever since she came out. His mate, Captain George Cleveland, was algo an experienced seaman, having sailed the lakes for over thirty years and has had command of lake craft, Som ne Alber tachad:a full line-of" “pasetnigers aboard when the collision occurred, and amorg them were many ladies and children. They were all awakened by the shock of the two vessels coming’ together, and before they could be madeé‘to understand that they. were not in any danger they had run out of their state rooms and swarmed on the decks. The skrieking of women and loud cries of men made the boat seem a pertect pande- monium. Many women in their fright fainted away, and the men were too stunned by the eense of their supposed danger to do anything for them. When the crew of the Canadian steamer had completed their in- spection of the damage and had assured | themselves that it consisted of nothing nioré| than a twisted stem, they devoted them- selves to restoring the confidence of the pas- sengers, and it was a difficult task, because the 200 passengers had become panic-striken. The only wonder is that many of them did not leap overboard. ‘The crew of the sunken barge Osborne who were saved were taken aboard the Alberta and are e being well cared for. The stezmer Evening Star, of Moffat’s line, which plies between Detroit and To ledo, has been well patronized this season, contrary to the opinion of many when she first started in thespring. It could not be well otherwise, as she has excellent accom- modations and gentlemanly offleers, Captain William McKay was upward of twenty-five years a veteran commander in the Detroit and Cleveland line, hig latest command there being the steamer City of Detroit, and it is unnecessary for me to add thatin him the sailor and the gentleman is splendidly com- bined. Mr. A. N. Moffat, the proprietor here, is very attentive to the business pat- ronage of the route, and spares no pzins to please all and to offend none. ee Again we have another chapter from Lake Michigan on tidal waves. One of these days those buncombe writers will discover, to their utter amazement, that no such things occur on fresh water, and there is not a gov- ernment engineer who will acknowledge such nonsense, days ago while’ gowns Toys Ole AROUND THE TAKES, CLEVELAND. ‘The new steambarge George Speneer has arrived at Washburn with coal.” The tugs Chamberlain and: International made their appearance here on Monday. The tug American Eagle, Captain Dahlke, measured speed with the tug S. S. Stone, and secured the Moonlight ae a reward. Mr. A.M. Barnum, of Buffalo, well known: in marine circles as the: publisher of. Bare num’s cireular, was in the city last week. The iron steam yacht Tempest, owned by Messrs.- Toomis and Chatterton put in here minus her wheel and shoe. She will go into Globe drydock for repairs. The steambarge Jim Sheriffs arrived here yesterday morning in tow of the tug Levia- than with broken «crank pins, which. will be repaired at the Globe Iron Works. While the schooner ‘Thomas Gawn was.’ lying at Port Arthur her Captain, John ‘Nelson, fell into the hold and was seriously: injured. He was left at the Sault and. will recover. The steamyacht Tempest returned ftom: Vermillion yesterday for a NeW. Ww. and. shoe, having, lost the: one» put.on ae Vermillion. PAE A telegram from the Sault river ‘states. the schooner Garbildi has been released from the Sister Rocks and that she will be towed direct to Sarnia by the tug Resolute. The extent of the Garibaldi’s damage is not known. : The old case, in the United States district court, af John P. Devney against the tug Fannie Tuthill, familliarly known as the Kittie case, has finally been settled and adjusted, the damages and costs being paid in full by Patrick Smith the owner of the tug. The river tug Gladiator has been char- tered by Smith Brothers to take the place of the Sprague, recently sunk and abandoned to the underwriters. The Gladiator will have in tow the schooners Volonel Cook, Selkirk, H. P Beldwin and C. H. Burton. The fleet will load coal for Lake Linden. Recent charters reported indicate that freights are still at low ebb, being 70 cents on coal Cleveland to Chicago, 60c Buffalo to Milwaukee; ore, Marquette to Ohid ports $1 10, Escanaba to OL io ports 80@85c; lum- ber, East Saginaw to Buffalo, $1,621¢ ; East Saginaw to Ohio, $1.50; Bay City to Buffalo, $1.50; Bay City to Ohio, $1.25. William Purden, was bound over at Ashtabula in $8,000 for shooting to death one of the union men who attempted to tuke possession of the crew of the Selkirk. The shooting being done in self defense, Purden has been discharged and has again taken his berth as mate of the Selkirk. H. TD. Goulder, Erq.. conducted the defense, The case in the United States district court of John E, Botsford and others of De- troit, Mich., against the barge Saginaw, has been finally disposed of by an order of the court, making a distribution of the proceeds of the sale. The claim of Botsford & Co. was for $500 tor towing the barge from Port Huron to Cleveland, ‘The boat was libeled on the 11th of June and on the 12th ot July she was sold to Captain E. M. Becker for $165.50. ‘The proceeds of the sale pay the the cost of suit in full, and $25.88 on the claim of Botsford & Co. (Continued on 4th pace.