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| rHE MARINE RECORD. SS _————_————————————————— nn 5 DETROIT. speotal to the Marine Record, November 18th—The schooner Gunges is at this port, undergoing partial reconstruc- tion at Oade’s shipyard. She waa built by Oades ten years since, and is 330 tons bur- den. Large quantities of supplies for the vari- ous lumber regions are at present being ghipped from here, and hardly a day pusses that vessels are not seen being thus freighted. Murphy Brothers’ stenmer International has recovered the outfit of the schooner La- dy Dufferin, stranded at Cariboo island, and the-vessel will remain there until next sea- son. Fogs and smoke, the present fall, have proven a greater detriment to the shipping than ever before recorded. Lust ‘Thursday night was the densest of the season, compell- ing all manner of craft to lie too during the entire night, even thé railway ferry steam- ers, which claim they can cross the river at all times and under all circumstancer. The schooner EG. Benedict was sold on Saturday by the United States marshal at this port, and brought $1,805, J. M. Jones, of this city, being the purchaser. ‘The claim against the vessel was some $400 above that amount. She was built at Mill Point, Lake Ontario, in 1869, and registers 154 tons. ‘The steamers running to Lake Superior, and now on their last trip, leave with full cargoes, chiefly merchandise and supplies, though but few passefgers. ‘The India, of the Lake Superior Transit, was the last boat of that line for Duluth. The St. Paul took her departure to-day (Monday) and the Arc- tic, now here, will probably complete her cargo to-night, and leave before morning, going no farther than Hancock. Atanearly hour on Thursday ‘morning the barge Plymouth Rock, owned by J.& F. -Hurley, of this city, took fire and was badly damaged. She. will be hardly worth re- building. She was formerly a fore-and-aft schooner of 226 tons, and was built at Os- wego in 1852. The captain of the schooner Starling ar- rived here on Thursday evening and report- ed his vessel stranded near Manitoulin island, Georgian Bay, laden with cedar poste, and in bad shape, She halls from Port Rowan, was built at Robbin’s Mills, Luke ‘ Ontario, in 1878, and registers 248 tons. ‘Che tug Winslow was dispatched to her relief Friday forenoon. Founderings have been less frequent thus far the present Saar many years past, and shipwre ave fallen far below the usual ratio. A rough estimate on the losses on hull and cargo has been placed at $600,000. The figures are not my own, but as the annual statement will not long be de- ferred, those interested can afford to wait and gee what they willsee. , The recent gales have seriously retarded the movements of vessels on all the lakes, and especially on Lake Erie. Several ves- sels weie from ten to twelve days on the passuge from Buffalo to this ppint, The weather yesterday; by telegram from the Sault, was reported quite cold and ice forming rapidly. The tug Phoenix, consumed by fire at ‘Texas landing, was first commanded by Captain B. G@. Sweet. Her present owners are Parker & Millen, of this city, who val- ued her at $12,000. She was insured for $10,000, and was 173 tons burden. Murphy Brothers received a dispatch last evening announcing the release ot the schooner Gerrett Smith by the tug A. J. Smith, at Crawford’s Quarry. The news was a surprise to many, ashe had been re- porced stripped and abandoned. ‘I'he intel- ligence will be welcomed by her owner, Captain Pat Meyers, of/Chicago, The barge Alvina, “while in tow of the steambarge Alleghany yesterday, came in collision with the schooner F. W. Wheeler, which lay moored at a dock below Windsor. The steamer was rounding too with her tow at the time, and, probably for the want of good steering, she took a aheer, and the col- lision ensued. The damages to each willbe about $200. 27: Advices received by the last boat from the Sault river report the propeller India, which left here a few days since laden with mer- chandise and supplies for Duluth, stranded in Mud Lake, A tng and barge had ar- rived from Sault Ste Marie and the work of lightering a portion of the cargo begun. A telegram from Alpena last evening, to Murphy Brothers, of this city, reports the schooner Thomas P. Sheldon, laden with coal for Milwaukee, stranded on Middle Is- land, Lake Huron. At the time she was seeking shelter from the gale Sunday night and heading for Alpena. ‘The condition and prospects for release are not stated. ‘The tug Gladiator is at Alpena, and, as soon as the weather will permit, an effort will be made to get her oft. : The schooner, Unadilla, which arrived here yesterday Yrom Escanaba, reports rough usage during the northeast gale on Lake Hffron, Sunday. Among the craft at present in port is the barge Mary Stockton, ~ discharging cord- wood, She is a veteran of the waters, hav- ing been afloat for 32 yeare,and in her early days was one-of the finest modeled barken- tines on the lakes, She was built at She boygan, on Luke Michigan, 238 tons burden and at present hails from Vicksburg, on the river St. Clair. The schooner A. CU. Maxwell, which stranded at Fighting Island, Sunday, was released yesterduy, aud proceeded on her voyage, The weather was quite sharp yesterday evening and ice formed on the borders of the rivers and lake Huron. Captain George McClure, of Detroit, com- mander of the schooner Frank Morrie, navi- gated his craft into port at Port Huron alone, his crew, William Clark and John Clifford, having been knocked overboard by a fore. boom off Forester;on Lake Huron, Monday, at 5 o’clock, during a terrible gale. McClure was very much exhausted from exposure and work in saving his vessel. The managers of the Star Line of steamers have come to the conclusion to cut the steamer Idlewild in two and lengthen her twenty feet. ‘The steamer will then be 192 feet long. It ia said the tug J. W. Bennett has been seized at Port Huron on claim of several persons, which amount to over $5,000. J. W. He W. J. Partridge, of Detroit, is constructing 4 $1,200 sail yacht of the following dimen- sions: Keel, 34 feet; length over all,.40 feet; beam, 15 feet; depth 4 feet. The yacht will be completed in the spring. It is said the Western Transportation Com- pany has decided upon having two more steel steamships of the same build and di- ‘mensions us the Albany and Syracuse, and will order their construction during the coming winter. The Detroit drydock com- pany will build the new vessels. ‘The Syra- cuse and Albany have speed, beauty of out- line and proportions, and large capacities ‘for carrying freight, and are provided with large fore and aft canvas, which can be turned to account in the event of their ma- chinery breaking down. In every respect they are nice vessels, and resemble, except in point of size, the large ocean steamships. Their cost was about $200,000 apiece. The new boats will cost about as much. DULUTH. iy Special to the Marine Record. The Kincardine came off the boxes Satur- day and cleared for Beaver Bay to load tim- ber for the Canadian Pacific. The tug Danfefth, which’ has been at Grand Marais €il summer, arrived Friday night with Williams & Upham's dredge in tow, the government work at that place be- ing completed. The dredge will be put to work on the harbor dredging here. ‘The propeller Henry Chisholm, Captain Geo. Stone, made her first appearance at this port last week, and according to all accounts made the quickest round trip on record, ar- riving at Buffalo on Tuesday night, ten days out, with a cargo of grain. The shipments of wheat last Friday were 281,000 bushels, the largest one day’s ship- ment ever made from this port. MARQUETTE. Sunday night the schooner Harvey Bissell, bound up, light, attempted to make this port during a heavy northwest gale. She let yo her anchors just inside the breakwater, but they became foul and she drifted on the beach and now lies hard on, A tug has been telegraphed for, and it is meh mut she will be released without much ¢ uty. The steamer Business and Worthinigten— which cleared on Monday, are the last of the season, the ore shipments having closed. BUFFALO. The seamen’s union were on the peint of raising wages to $4 last week, but as fully one-half the vessels arriving here are laying up, they concluded to let them remain as they are. ‘The Western ‘l'ransit will send out their last steamer from here about the 26th instant, and will then lay up about halt of the vessels here and the rest in Chicago. Their package treight business continues good, The case of R.C. Gunning, of Crosby & Gunning, charged with illegal voting, has been adjourned to December 2d. The cow- missioner was abuut to discharge him, deem- ing the evidence insufficient, but the prose- cution asked for adjournment; which was given in order to submit the register ot the ‘Tifft House in evidence. Some quick work is reported by the Union Steamboat Line. ‘I'he propeller Avon, of that line, broke her rudder off Beaver Island, Lake Michigan, at midnight ot ‘Thursday last. She was rescued by the Mercur and taken into calm water, and towed into Mackinaw City by the Jewett. News of the’ accident reached Buffalo on Friday night. On Tuesday night a new rudder reached her from Butfalo, by the Dean Richmond, and t4a.m. Wednesday the Avon had adjust- ed her rudder,’and left Mackinaw City for Buffalo. Repairs to the amount of $275 have been completed on the schooner Golden Fleece. The steamer M. M. Drake, Captain John Greer, will receive a new deck at this port during the winter. 1t is thought that the Siberia and George T. Hope will be laid up at Bay City, where Captain Davidson intends doing some work on them. The Siberia is to get lower deck bilge braces and a monkey rail, so as to give her eighteen inches more side. ‘The Hope will algo receive a new main deck in. place of one twisted out of shape by hot corn early this season. 3 The Western ‘Transit and Union Linés will each send up three or four more boats. ‘The Anchor Line will probably send back from this port only one more, thongh one or two may be started up from Erie. The Richmond elevator, one of the largest at thig port, Monday closed down for the season, 2nd one or two others will probably Slow this. week, Freights are very dull at 75c to Chicago and Milwaukee. Captain George McLeod left ‘Tuesday for the schooner IT. P. Sheldon, ashore ort Middle Island Reef, Lake Huron, The tug Gladiator was there with steam pump and hawsers. The Sheldon is insured for $17,500 in the pool compantigg. It is the ambition of the Luke Superior ‘Transit Co. to have in their new steel steam- er under construction by the Union Drydock Co. the most speedy and elegant boat on the lakes. It {is thought that she will be ready for launch about the first of December. She will be 801 feet 6 inches long, and 38 feet beam» andof about 8,000 tons. ‘The Jewett is now called the “race-horse,’’ but as the new steam- er has better lines, the same power engines, and 25 per cent more boiler power. She is ex- pected to be stilt faster and to make fifteen miles an hour. Her cabin will be 41g feet wider (han that of the Nyack, and will be finished in cherry. The hurricane deck will be fitted up as a promenade deck, with the smoking room forward of the mainmast, and she will accommodate 200 passengers. Everything will be fitted up in the best style pussible, and she will be made the finest boat on the lakes. ‘She will carry three spars, which will rake slightly and her smokestacks are to be put nearer amidship than is usual on lake craft, and will also rake so that she will look much like a gcean steamer. Passenger Agent Carpenter intends to have her started in the spring, and have her run to Mackinaw and Port Arthir. A change will thus be made in the running of the line, and two boats weekly will run to Port Arthur, the others going to Duluth, On Tuesday night, while being towed up from ‘Tonawanda, the barge Levi Rawson, light, fetched up on Horseshoe Reef and went out about a foot, The tug J. H, De Graff, which had her in tow, could not pull her off and she remained all night. She was released the next morning by the tugs Williams, Dorr, Alpha and Moore. ‘tug was acomplete mass of flames. AMHERSTBURG. ‘The schooner A. C. Maxwell, laden with grain, from Detroit to Oswego, in tow of the tug Shaughraun, ran aground on Fighting Island during the dense tog Saturday night. She is eighteen inches out, ‘The tug Inter- national, with lighter aud the Shaughraun, with lighter, are at work on her. The fog was very thick and everything was brought toa standstill. The tug Phoenix, formerly the I. U. Masters, owned by Parker & Miller of Detroit, .was burned to the waters edge Monday morning shortly § afier 7o’clock while lying at the wharf at ‘Texas landing just below the Limekilns. The fire originated in the starboard bunker while the crew were at breakfast, and the flames spread so rapidly that in five minutes the whole upper works of the tug were in fire. The crew were unable to get at the hose and commenced dashing water into the hold with buckets. ‘he propeller Marsh, which was lying at a wharf just below the Phosnix, brought her hose to play on the burning tug, but to no purpose, and in a few minutes the The dock at which she was laying caught fire, and the owners ordered the tug to be towed away to save it. he tug Shaughraun at- tached a line to the bow of the Phoenix and run her on the beach a short distance above the wharf, where she now lies, a total loss. ‘The crew state that the fire was so sudden that they were unable to get their dunnage out, and that a steampump and two 250 foot hawsers were lost. ‘I'here was over ten tons of fuel on board the tug at the time, which, when it got rightly on fire, warped the ma- chinery so that it will be entirely useless. ‘I'he Phoenix was valued at $12,000 and was in- sured for $10,000 in the pool. ‘he owners had stationed her at Texas Landing to assist vessels over the Limekilns -during times of low water. ‘The Phoenix, of 20 tons, was built at Cleveland by Peck & Masters in 1862 and classed B14. ALPENA. The schooner Thomas P. Sheldon went ashore on Middle Island Reef, Monday morning at 3 o’clock, during a snow squall} She is loaded with coal and bound for Mil- waukee from Cleveland. She is full of wa ter. Her captain says if the wind holds in ite present position her chances are good for getting off. Further advices from the schooner Thomae P. Sheldon reports her in good con- dition. ‘The Captain of the tug Gladiator says she will experience but little trouble in reaching here if no bad weather sets in. She is in 18 feet of water, and is making water. ‘The Gladiator will await the tug Moore with a pump, and then go to work. ‘The wind has gone down. The'Sheldon is valued at $19,000, rates A2!%g. She was built at East Saginaw by Crosthwaite in 1871, measures 669 tons and received extensive re- pairs this spring at this port under the di- rection of Clark J. Butts, her owner. The Sheldon is insured in the pool companies for $17,500. OSWEGO. One of the Donnelly scows which got adrift Monday, went on the beach and was there this morning. ‘The scow was too close in shore after the line parted for the tug to reach it and the life saving crew went down and took a line from the scow to the tug and got her off. Saturday night the cabin of the steamer Thompson took fire and considerable damage was done before it was extinguished CROSS VILLAGE, The small steamer M. W. Wright is ashore in the Straits. She was bound from Beaver Island for Charlevoix with a cargo of fish. She encountered a severe gale and was blown on the beach near Cross Village, where she is rapidly going to pieces, and will prove a total loss, Her crew and pas- sangers were saved. The boat measured only thirty tons and was engaged in the ex- cursion business at Charlevoix all summer, She is valued at $3,000 and is owned by Cap- tain Chamberlain, She was built at Grand Haven by Elliott in 1878 and hails from Charlevoix, ESCANABA, The amount of ore shipped from Escanaba this season up to November 13 is 1,340,321 tons. The P. 8. Marsh was the only arrival on the 15th, She departed on the same day,