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ae “DEVOTED:..TO Zw ZA ie ag . “COMMERCE, CrENCE VOL. VI. NO.:35. CLEVELAND. O., AUGUST 28, 1884. PLEASURE TRAVEL ON THE LAKES. One of the most remarkable features of the present summer, cold and unpropitious as it has been, is the large increase in pure pleacure travel on the lakes. A proportionate increase is to be expected as the country grows in prosperity and wealth, but the amount of trave! since navigation opened has becn immensely above any natural ratio, It can be accounted for only-on the sup- position that much of the ocean travel, inter- rupted by cholera and the unhealthy con- dition of the old countries, has been turned in the direction of the lakes. ‘Those, however who can take a trip to Lake Superior, the healthiest and most invigorating of all regions, with its two thousand miles or more oftravel and recreation at a cost so far below that of going to Europe, and involving the consumption of only two or three week’s time, will not be slow to forget the pleasure of sucha trip, and itis probable that a tide of lake travel has set in which will continue to grow as the seasons come round. It has been difficult to secure accom- modations on the Lake Superior ‘Transit Co.’s elegant propellers except by applying some time in advance, and the Lake Superior line from Chicago to Duluth, has been greatly pressed tor room to accommodate the demand for passage. : Ward’s Detroit & L:keSuperior Line stops at intermediate ports, leaving the dock at the foot of Randolph street, Detroit, tri- weekly, and has always been prosperous and a favorite line with the traveling public Hanna, Lay & Co’s well appointed boats ply on the route between Chicago, Traverse City and Mackinaw. The pleasure travel on the shorter lines, more distinctively run for passenger traffic, includes Grummond’s Mackinaw Line. The Atlantic, Captain D. Nickerson, leaves Cleveland every Friday evening at 8 o’clock. During the warm weather and pleasure season the steamer Atlantic will extend the regular trip on to Petoskey, Harbor springs and Charlevoix from the Cleveland For- warding Co.’s office and dock, foot of Su- perior street and which on each day, we are pleased to note, is well patronized. The other passenger boats making their stops at this dock are the Merchanvs line bouts, ply- ing between Chicago and Montreal, the propeller Nashua, which runs to the Thou- sand Islands, the Oconto of the Saginaw Transportation Co., plying between Cleve- land and Saginaw, and which leaves here every Tuesday, and others mentioned in the following lines, the business of which has been in like degree large. The Detroit & Cleveland steamers carry a great number of passengers, and the same trip may be made in the day time by those who prefer a wide awake and interesting day, and the privilege of loitering a few hours at Put-in- Bay, on the steamers Pearl and Alaska, The former runs from Cleveland in the morning to Put-in-Bay returning in the evening, the latter a like trip from Detroit to the Islands where both connect and exchange passengers Steamers also run to the Islands from other cities, and one can easily make the trip by lake to Sandusky, Toledo, ete. No finer short trip can be afforded than that made by the steamer Pearl, and it is encouraging to note that she goes well loaded, every day. The yacht Cyclone also comes in for her share of the short trip business. The steam- er Keweenaw, running between Cleveland and Buffalo, is doing an excellent passenger business ina trade that several years ago was specially confined to one line of large sidewheelere, but which is divided now among the most commodious propellers. From present indications the public is awakening to’the excellent effects of a trip, lorg or short, on the lakee, and the pleasure businees is almost sure to grow. Messrs. Graham, Morton & Co. organized the line between Benton Harbor, St. Joseph and Chicago in 1875, running at that time the propeller Messenger, their own boat. In the year 1879 the Graham & Morton Trans- portation.Company was formed, Mr. H. W. Williams, owner of the propeller Skylark, becoming one of the firm. The Skylark in connection with the Messenger, then made daily trips to and from St. Joseph until the year 1882, when the Lora, the subject of our illustration, came ont and took the place of the Skylark and one year later the St. Joseph replaced the Messenger. $2.00 Pen ANNUM SineLe Copixs 6 Cents John A. Dix, also makes round trips every day between St. Joseph and Chicago, leaving O’Conner’s dock on the northéast Rush street bridge, Saturday and Sunday excepted, at 10 a. m. returning from St. Joseph at 9:30 p. m. On Saturdays the John A. Dix leaves Chicago at 11:30 p. m., reaching St. Joseph early Sunday morning. The John A. Dix has magnificent machinery and is licensed to carry 600 people. Captain D. M. Coch- rane and J. H. Sanderson are the owners. The Star line, under the management of A. N. Moffat, is also meeting with much favor this season on their routs between De- troit, Toledo and Port Huron, stopping at intermediate ports. This line is composed of the iron steamer Idlewild, Captain Mc- Laughlin and the steamer Evening Star, Captain Wm. McKay. It is the intention of the managers to put a new and elegant boat on this route at an early day. THE PASSENGER PROPELLER LORA. The steamer Lora is a magnificent steam- er, costing $60,000, and has 616 tonnage. Her machinery is first class; her length, 174 feet, width 31 feet, and depth of hold 11 feet. Her cabin is full length, without any obstruc- tions. Her speed is twelve miles an hour. Passenger berth accommodations, 140. Cap- tain Stinee, an experienced and careful navi- gator, Is commander of this elegant steamer and Mr. Shinn is the courteous clerk. The steamer St. Joseph is under the com- mand of Captain Alex. Elton, a skilled mar- iner, and cost the sum of $50,000. She has 464 tonnage; length, 166 feet; depth, 1114 feet; width, 28 feet. Her cabin is con- structed on the same plan as the Lora. She has sleeping accommodations for 100 pass- engers, and her dining-room service, like that of the Lora, is first class. Mr. E. D. Cooke is the accommodating clerk of thie boat. These steamers have become great favor- ites with the traveling public because of their splendid accommodations, seaworthiness, and excellent management. Incidentally it way be well to mention here that these steamers were specially constructed for this line. These boats leave daily from their very centrally located dock footof Wabash avenue, 10 o’clock a. m,. except Saturdays and Sun- days; Saturday boat leaves at 11:30 p, m. giving excursioniste all day Sunday to visit the popular Eastman Mineral Springs, truit orchards ete, at St. Joseph and Benton Har- bor. Fare each way including berth 50 cents. The new and elegant side-wheel steamer DULUTH. Special to the Marine Record. The repairs to the Canadian propeller Kincardine are completed and the Isle Royal will take her place in the boxes to have her hull ironed. There threatens to be a flour blockade here; in fact there is now. The flour sheds are full containing some 30,000 bbls. ‘There are in the yards 150 cars and 90 care more on the way, all of which is consigned to the Northwestern Transportation Co.’s line of Sarnia. The local agent of the St. Paul & | Duluth railroad claims that the Trans- portation Co, ought to find tonnage for it ABHTABULA. Special to the Marine Record. The tng Red Cloud has completed her re- pairs and is in commission again. Captain Samuel McCune, arrived here yes- terday to go as master of the schooner C. J. Wells, instead of Captain P. Langdon. The steambarge C. H. Green, while enter- ing port ore laden, swung to far too the west side of the channel and got aground in trying to work herself off. She broke her air pump | a protion ot which had to be sent to Detroit for repairs, She was released by the harbor | tugs and towed to her dock. A sailor was drugged and robbed of $30 and a gold watch, in a Budge street saloon Saturday night. No clue, ERIE, The Georger, laden with coal for Marquette and which was aground at the hard coal | dock on account of low water, was favored AROUND THE LAKES, CLEVELAND, The.steamyacht Tempest took on her fifth new wheel for the season at Globe drydock. The new iron steamer William Chisholm measures 1581.08 gross and 1246.40 nat ton- nage. : The bill of $3,061, for which the schooner Geo. Sherman was libeled by Cleveland par- ties, has been settled. Messrs. James A. Dumont Van Valken- burg arrived in this city last week on the propeller China on the way to the upper lakes. Jacob Thompson,a deck hand on the steamer Corona, was drowned on the 18th while attempting to go aboard his vessel at Sturgeon Bay. _The tug O.J. True, Captain Benjamin Tiffany, was examined and passed by In- | Spector Stanard and Fitzpatrick on Monday. She has been at work at the harbor at Bay- City and will go on a contract to Sandusky. Coal rates are dull at 60@70, cents trom. Cleveland and Ashtabula to Milwaukee and ore at $1.00@70 cents trom Marquette and Escanaba to Ohio ports. Wheat from Chi- cago to Buffalo is quoted at 2c and corn at 134. The tug Pacific, recently exploded, was. built at Buffalo by the Union Drydock Co. in 1875. ‘There was a propeller Pacific, 766 tons, built in Cleveland by Peck & Masters in 1864, which is now owned by A. Cheese- brough et al. of Detroit. The tug A. W. Wright of Saginaw, adver- tised for sale in the MaRINE REcorD, hag been purchased by W. R. Burt, formerly a Saginaw lumber dealer, but who now owns an extensive lumber yard at Buffalo. The Wright will be used in his business at Grand Marais. w Local inspectors will hereafter refuse to issue original or renew old licenses to any officer of a steam vessel, except upon evi- dence satisfactory to themselves, that the persons applying for such licenses are citizens of the United States, either by birth or naturalization. CHICAGO, Special to the Marine Record. The schooner Lincoln Dall, arrived here Saturday last tor the first time since her ree build at Wolf & Davidson’s, Milwaukee. A very large quantity of coal continues to arrive from lower lake. ports, and makes things very lively at all of the coal docks. There has been a good number of arrivals on the lumber market this week, and vessel mien are under the impression that things | will soon look up some. Miller Brothers have accepted the agency in Chicago for Pearson’s improved propeller wheel. H. C. Pearson, of Ferrysburg, Mich., is the patentee, and Wilson & Hendrie, of Montague, Mich., are the manufacturers. It is claimed that it is the best propelling and backing wheel ever known, At the Chicago Drydock Company’s dock the schooner Harriet Ross had a leak stopped, | the steambarge D. M. Wilson had her stern- bearing fixed, the barge City of Grand Rap- ids had her bottom calked, the tug Rebel got anew wheel, the schooner Minnie Mueller got new fore and main gaffs, Under direction of the engineer in charge of the government work at Chicago, snother with a rise, and with the aid of the Kellogg got off Tuesday morning for her destination. | 100-foot erib was aunk in Place on the 22d, [ Contnued on 5th page.|