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) ’ Ghe Marine Record. aS Every Thursday at 144 Superior Street, [Leader Building.] A. A. POMEROY, Editor and Proprietor, TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: 82.00 One year, postage paid...... $2.00 Six months, poStage paid Invariably in advance. Subscriptions will be continued until ordered stop- ped by a written order, or at the publication office The MARINE RECORD can be found for sale by the following news (lealers.: CLEVELAND, OHIO—G F Bowman, corner ef Pearl and Datroit, streets. CHICAGO, ILL.—Joseph Gray, No. 9 West Randolph street. BUFFALO, N. Y.—C. Rohmer, Michigan street Swing Bridge. . SARNIA, ONT.—D. M. MeMaster & Co, ESCANABA, MICH,—William Godleys MANISTEE, MICH.—J. E. Somerville. Articles, letters and queries on all subjects are solici- ted. , ADVERTISING RATES. Ten cents per line, nonpareil measurement, or $1.20 per inch, each insertion; four weeks $4.00; with a liberal discount on orders amounting to $40.00 or over. Al checks and drafts should be drawn to the order of A. A. Pomeroy. ‘ Entered at the Post Office at Cleveland as second- class mail matter. : GLEVELAND, OHIO, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 11. ' SECRETARY FOLGER. Probably no prominent man in the United States government came nearer to the every day life of the mariner than Charles J. Folger. Being Secretary of the Treasury, his name was attached to all the important 1ules and papers governing navigation on all the maters of the country, and it had become so familar as to make the annuuncement of hie death seem, in a measure, like a personal bereavement. We all know that he wasa man of great attainments and of a peculiarly upright character. Both his heart and mind made him a conspicuous figure in the ranks of statsmen—using the word statsmen ina distinctive sense, for he was in no aspect a politician. His eminent ability called him tothe position he occupied under the gov- ernment, in all the duties of which he served above reproach. Fora man like him the devoted admirers of Garfield, who are above the prejudices of party, must bear a tender reverence for special reasons. He was a victim of the great and deep-seated indigna- tion that filled the popular mind because of the wretched deed that murdered President Garfield. The mere fact that Judge Folger was a friend of Garfield’s successor defeated him overwhelmingly when he ran for the position of governor of New York. This was of course, unjust, but that sentiment in the breast of the people could not have been eradicted by any earthly power, until it had wreaked itself on some fated candidate. Itis because it was unjust that the memory of Charles J. Folger, whom Mr. Garfield would have taken into his heart and confidence, deserves a peculiar respect at our hands. Our readers are not particular as to the life history of the deceased cabinet officer. ‘That he was born in Massachusetts and became a resident of Geneva, N. Y., where he died, are almost immaterial facts concerning such a man. He was of the United States and the whole country mourns his loss. ae THE WORLD'S EXPOSITION. It is a pleasure for us to record the interest that is being taken in the World’s Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition that is to be held av New Orleans trom December Ist, 1884, to May Bist, 1885. This enterprise is on a grand scalé and matters have pro- gressed tar enough to insure its being car- ried out on the plan proposed by those hav- ing itin charge. Although the word *cot- ton’’ occupies a prominent place in the name of the exposition, it Is only to show that this chief product of the South will receive full justice and special attention. The object of the enterprise really embraces all of the in- dustrial arts, sciences and manufactures of the whole world. Such an exposition will be of vast benefit to the South, and in fact to the whole country, Next tothe abolition of that listless and half-hearted labor which her very close tothe doorof negligent pen- ury, this great fair will do her most good in the direction of arousing her prosperity by showing her wonderful resources and invit- ing labor and manufacturers to take up their abode with them, It was an appropriate act on the part ot the United States govern- ment to set apart $1,300,000 for the purpose of showing its interest in the material affiairs of the southern half of its territory, and be- side this substantial aid to enable the projec- tors of the fair to make ample preparations. ‘The main building, which is already complet- ed, covers thirty-three acres, being 1,386 feet long by 905 feet wide. ‘The government building for State exhibits is 885 by 565 feet. Horticultural hall is 600 by 190, and the art gallery is in keeping with the others. All are located in City Park, lying between Charles avenue and the Mississippi river, and are accessible by five horse and two steam car lines, while by water the nayles of the world can sail to its very gates. travel from all over the world will be so low that the exposition can not help be- ing a popular resort. Fairs of this charac- ter are great promotors of the advancement ef mankind, but for other and more genial reasons we wish our southern brethren all success. ro Hap there been a fire proof tug on the river Sunday night much of the disastrous conflagration and consequent loss of prop- erty would. have been prevented. Although the tugs Mary Virginia, Patrick Henry and Maggie Sanborn did excellent service, their pumps were not especially adapted to the work,and when the fire approached too near they were obliged to look after their own safety. We respectfully petition for an iron tug of sufficient power to cover-‘an emergen- cy of this nature and protect the shipping and other-interests on the river, front, also that it be equipped and placed on the’ river at an early day. ; a ee eer Tue Ogdensburg Journal says there is complaint that a recent change in customs and marine regulationg by the Dominion government-has doubled the fees of Ameri- can vessels touching at Canadian ports. A good deal of effort has been made by people interested in the commerce of. this frontier to get rid of the fees imposed to obtain reve- nue in the days of the rebellion, which have proved go onerous to vessel owners. Now, when we have partly succeede! on this side of theline it is annoying to have them in- creased on the other. OBITUARY. Mr. Homer Glass, of Racine, who has in his sime been x prominent and influential vessel owner, was called by death to cross the dark river on the 27th of August. Mr. Glass was born in this state on the 20th of April, 1820, and moved to Wisconsin in 1846, locating at Kenosha, where he engaged temporarily in the milling business. In 1848 he removed to Racine, and built the Sage mill. In 1858 he, in company with J.W. Hart,’ built the Racine City mill, which the firm continued to operate until 1864, when Mr. Glass engaged in the vessel business, and erected a number of elevators in Racine and vicinity. In 1870 he estab- lished a wood and coal business, which he: conducted until a few years ago. He was uni- ted in marriage January 1, 1842, to Miss Laura Odell, of Vermont, who, with five children survive him. The children are Mrs. Frank Higgie, of Chicago; Mrs. Coykendall, Mrs. Edward Elderkin, and Mesers. Alonzo and Silas Glass. He was an active member of the Congregational church, anda prominent citizen and business man, until failing health compelled him to retire from social and commercial life. ‘ He owned the brig E. P. Dorr, sailed by Captain C. Glass, his nephew, until she was sold; A. P. Nichols and two or three other fine vessels, including the City of Manitowoc, when she was lost on the Anticosti Is'and, under command of Captain John Higgie, on the way to Leith, Scotland, laden with deals. She had been on two successful trips to Europe under command of Captain Frank Higgie, now Secretary of Chi- cago Tug Associntion. The loss of this fine three-and-after tended greatly to break up Captain Homer Glass, who preceptibly declined in health, and con- tinued to fail and lose his ambition, culmi- Rates of | disease. Homer Glass was a member of Lodge of Emergency of Belle City Lodge No, 92 A. F. and A. M. which held appro- priate ceremonies and attended the funeral in a body. Another evidence of reviving business enterprise in the South is, shown by the establishment of a line of ocean steamers be- tween Savannah Ga., and leading English and French ports. ‘Che ships are purchased and business will begin before October 1. A new through line from Cincinnati to the sea board by the East ‘Vennessee, Virginia and Georgia railroad will be opened ‘before long, furnishing a fresh outlet from Chicago for breadetufts and provisions. INGENIOUS maritime persons now put false bottoms in the vessels which bring sugar from the West Indies, and gave a good deal of molasses which drains out of the hogs- heads. One ship is said. to have saved $1,000 worth on a single trip. a (Continued from ist Page] i CHICAGO. Special to the Marine Record. The schooner ‘Watertown, Captain Con- nell, left Chicago Sunday, the 24th ult., and arrived at Ogdensburg ‘with .corn Sunday, the 3lst, making, it is claimed, the quickest time on record. ; The schooner Nellie Reddington, in tow of the tugs Van -Sehaick ‘and Union, collided with the steamship City of Rome, laying at the conl dock between Erie and Indiana street bridges, on Sunday last, and Jost her jibboom. : : ‘There is a large fleet of vessels‘on the lum. ber market, and very many lower lake ves- sels with coal and merchandise are continu- | ally. arriving, which makes things look very lively and business like all along the river. The propeller J. L. Hurd, of the Lake Michigan and Lake Superior Tranaportation Company has been released by the Levia- than and arrived at Milwaukee on the 8th. She was taken to Wolf & Davidson’s ship- yard for repairs. ‘The rise in grain freights has terded to increase the freights on lumber. ‘This has been long looked for and we hope ‘it will continue, as the lumber vessels have had a very hard time. i The body ot a sailor, supposed to be that of the poor fellow Scanlon, lost when the scow Eugenie Vesta capsized, was picked up and brought tothis port by the schooner B. F. Wade. The members of the sailors’ union buried: the body. The members of the Chicago seamen’s un- ion held a meeting ‘Tuesday evening and re- solved to make wages for union seamen $2 per day, to commence Wednesday morning. The schooner John Bigler, Captain S. Murray, owned by George Finney, of this port, while on a voyage from Nipigon Bay to Chicago, laden with building stone, sprung aleak on Lake Superior, on September Ist, ina gale. The crew worked at the pumps and used every effort possible to keep her afloat and get her into Marquette, until the night of the 3d, when, finding the water gaining upon them, they took to their boats and, after some hours’ hard pulling, gained the shore at Pine Point. The Bigler must have gone down about twenty-five miles off the land some thirty miles north of Mar- quette. The captain and his wife and the crew arrived at this port on the 6th, all well. The John Bigler measured 357 tons, was built at Detroit by Jones in 1866, received large repairs in 1878 and was classed AQ, with a valvation of $7,500 for insurance, At the Chicago Drydock Company’s yard the schooner F, L. Danforth was in drydock for a new piece of keel; the steambarge Nel. lie ‘lorrent for a new shaft and stern bear- ing; the barge Uranus for bottom calking 5 the schooner Alaska for a new stern and some calking; the schooner Gibraltar to get a leak stopped; the schooner White Star got a new jibbooni and dolphin striker; schoon er Oliver Mitchell a new foretopmast and new trestle trees; the schooner C. J, Wells, some repairs; the schooner W. H. Rounds, some new stanchions and bulwarke; barge Bay City, some new stanchions and bul- warks; propeller Peerless, some repairs; the schooner Flying Cloud, some new plank; schooner Julia B. Merrill, a new dolphin striker, At Miller Brothors?’ drydock the barge Brunette was in for calking; the tug G@. W. Gardner for calking; the tug John Gordon for some repairs; the seow Eugenie Vesta, TT aN eee Sy Leen Bae ae i aS a to get a leak stopped; tug Flossie Thielcke for a new wheel; tug A. Mosher to have q | leak stopped; canalboat Whale for a piece | of new plank and calking. The steambarge Hats W. Snook is in drydock getting a rebuild comprising new stanchions, stringers, rail, covering board, three strakes ot new plank all around, new deck and deck frames, The fine new irou steamship Willian Chisholm, Captain Peter G. Minch, recently launched by the Globe Shipbuilding Com. pany, Cleveland, arrived at this port last week on her maiden trip. She ‘brought along 2,175 tons of coal on an average draught of 14 feet 8 inches. Her machinery worked perfectly on her voyage up, Averag. ing 85g miles“per hour with a strong head — wind all the. way from Milwaukee. to Ohi. cago, and her captain: says she stears and handles like a yacht. A great many vessel men paid hera visit ard all speak in high praise of her handsome appearance and fine construction, Robert Wallace, of the Globe Iron Works, was on board, looking after the working of her machinery. The steamyacht Tillie M. will be ready for business by the 20th it is believed. Freight rates are a trifle easier, on a basis of 2!ge for wheat and 214¢ for corn to Buf. falo. Shippers are holding off to some ex- tent. It was stated, though not. verified, that a steambarge and her tow had been chartered for Buffalo on the basis of 23¢¢ for wheat. : T. W, 4 ASHTABULA. Special to the Marine Record. ’ The tug Dexter has gone to Cleveland to have her sternbearing repaired. Four hundred and ninety thougand tons ‘of ore have been received here this season to September Ist. ‘Ibe schooner Persia is loading oak timber for Montreal. The Brown hoisting and conveying tres- tles ure working, but not with much success as yet, In a copy of the Niles Weekly Register, published in Baltimore, Md., and dated Oc- tober 4, 1816, is the following regarding the Jaunch of a vessel at Ashtabula: “We have an account of a schooner being launched at Ashtabula, O., which had on board 120 per- sons, who were all thrown into the lake, the vessel being upset, by which seven were drowned. Where is this town capable of furnishing such a company? It must have sprung up within these few days, A The Erie Herald had considerable sporta. few years ago calling our harbor a frog pond, | ctc., but now begins to cry for mercy, claim- ling Ashtabula is getting all the ore and leaving them in the shade. Judging from present prospects, the Herald will yet have better cause to cry out. J.P, MIDLAND. The schooner Emily B. Maxwell arrived from Chicago on tke 9th with a part of her cargo. The other portion is floating around Lake Huron. Last Friday night, while com- ing down Lake Huron, the Maxwell en- countered a dense fog, and in attempting to make the passage into Georgian Bay rau ashore on the south end of Fitz Willlam Island. It was 4 o’clock Saturday morning when she went on, and her signal of distress was not sighted until the following day. Fortunately there was but little wind blow- ing or the stranded vessel might have . pounded to pieces. Sunday the Canadian Government steamer Bayfield hove in sight and discovering the unfortunate vessel’s predicament went to her assistance. She pulled on her for several hours and succeeded in getting her afloat a9 o’clock Sunday evening, but not untila considerable portion of her cargo had been thrown overboard. The Maxwell is owned at Chicago by Cap- tain Mullen and is well insured, as is also the cargo. SANDUSKY. The tug Myrtle, of Sandusky, which ran on to Chicken Island reef, capsized, and sank, and which was raised and towed to Sandusky, where she was hauled out at Mouk’s shipyard, has been recalked and overhauled, and will be ready for business again to-day, ST, CLAIR, Special to the Marine Record: In a six-mile contest of speed recently, be- tween Marysville ard St. Clair, the favorite steamer Mary defeated the steamyacht Wia- ifred by about one-half mile. Send the Cyclone up to try the Mary. 5.