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COMME — VOL. VI. NO. 49. LAND. O. DECEMBER 4. 1884. $2.00 PER ANNUM SineLe Copixs 5 CENTS AROUND THE LAKES. CLEVELAND. The propeller Egyptian passed the Soo on Saturday. The boats intending to winter at this port . are nearly all in. The City of Detroit made her last trip of the eeason out of this: port Jaet night. The George Spencer and Hiawatha ar- rived at this port yesterday from Buffalo. The life saving station at this port will be closed for the season Saturday, December 13th. . The propeller Egyptian is all right and will arrive at her port of destination in due time. : Captain Lowe, .of the Hiawatha, reports the steamer Scotia is broken in two and that the stern has disappeared. All of the Government range lights on the Lime Kiln Crossing were taken in Monday, , also the island range light near Amherst- burg. : The propeller N. K. Fairbanks, Captain Hastinge, which was weatherbound at Mar-~ quette a few days, arrived at Duluth on the lst instant. | The tug Goodnow has gone to the assistance of the tug Leviathan, disabled at Cheboygan. She will be towed to Milwau- kee for repairs. The Superintendent of the Welland canal . has‘graciously concluded to keep the canal. > open till the 8th, to permit the passage of several belated vessels. The schooner Goshawk, which we re- ported at Cheboygan lust week, has finally arrived at Racine with 500,000 feet of lum ber. She will gu on to Chicago. The river office of the custom house will be open till 9 o’clock during the remainder of this week and will close for the season Saturday night, after which the necessary business will be transacted at the up-town office. Captain R. M. Burrington sends us the information that the body of the sailor lost off the steambarge Chamberlain, in Saginaw Bay, recently, has been buried on the shore, about thirty-five miles from Bay City. Should this meet the eye of any who knew him we respectfully request thém-to so in- form his friends. The schooner Ariadne has arrived sately at Sodus Point, where she will winter. The injudicious, not to say criminal, custom of the daily press, in reporting vessels lost with all hands, should not be continued un- der any circumstance. ‘They should hold their “grave fears’? until it is known posi- tively that the vessel is lost. A petition, largely signed by vessel own- ere this season for the addition of a steam fog whistle on Poverty Island, has prevailed with the commissiouer of navigation, and the whistle will be ready for use by the opening of navigation next season. The success of the measure ie, to a large extent, due to the active interest of H. D. Goulder, proctor in admiralty at this port. Now that Poverty island has received its reward there is no reason why Charity island people should not be entertained with the music of a fog whistle. The Cleveland branch of the seamen’s unton held the sixth} annual ball Monday evening at the city armory. The room was nicely decorated and about eight hundred couples enjoyed themselves to the music of Fischer’s orchestrai Under the direction of the following officers everything’ passed off | ina merry mood: Peter Lynch, president; John Hughes, vice president ; Joseph Swee- ney, second vice president; Christie Mackin, secretary. Floor director, Nieholas Wilkin- son. Floor managers, Michael Howlett, John Gibbons, Andrew Smith, Joseph Clinck, Thomas Bell, William Allen, Mi- chael Furgison, Robert Salter, James Har- mon, James McCune. Reception committee, James McDonald, James Joyce, William Lee, John Holmes and Fred Mitchel]. Com- mittee of arrangements, Thomas Hobill, Daniel Driscoll, Edward Buford, John Rab- shaw, Thomas Sinclair, EAST SAGINAW. Special to the Marine Record. 5 The barge Norway, owned by Henry. Tur- ner, of this city, is being hauled out at Ma-| repairs. son’s shipyard fora general rebuild. CHICAGO. Special to the Marine Record. . The. taking of about 250,000 bushels of corn at Chicago for lower lake ports on Mon- | day practically closed grain shipments at this port for the season. ‘Ihe arrangement takes the Lehigh propellers Clyde, Ovenn- ica, and Fred Mercur to Buffalo again this season, The light which has been displayed from the lightship moored near the south end ot the breakwater for the harbor of refuge, Milwaukee Bay, will be discontinued De: cember 10, next. The steambarge A. R. Colborne, which went ashore at St. Joseph some days ago arrived in port Saturday in tow of the tug Arctic, and went into drydock Monday for A survey will be held on the schooner Danforth. She was ashore at the The ferry boat David Sutton, while at-! Lime Kilns. tempting to godown the river. in the ice, sprang aleak and was compelled to return and will lay up at this port. The boiler of the tug Standard was taken out to-day, and it will be thoroughly rebuilt this winter at the Excelsior Steam Boiler Works. ‘ The only tugs in commission at thie: port are the Anna and Daisy Lee, which are en- gaged in tranefering lighters with salt for the railroad company. The schooner Fostoria and barge Chicago Board of ‘I'rade, are discharging coal at Johngon’s coal dock, prior to going into winter quarters. The former got $1 per ton freight for her cargo of coal from Sandusky here. The steambarge Oswegatchie is at Sagi. naw City receiving a general overhauling, and will come out in the spring compara- tively a new boat. Navigation on the Saginaw river is prac- tically at an end. The M. Line tug Tom Maytham, has handled one thousand and four lines this season, which certainly shows that Captain Fred Barclay, the master, has not been asleep. H. 8S. FRANKFORT. Spectal to the Marine Record. Betsey Lake froze over on the 25th and on Thankegiving day it swarmed with skates. This is the upper part of the harbor; it is open at the lower end and this generally remains clear of ice the year round up as far as steamboat dock. The stea'ner Sanford, is still making trips between Frankfort and Manistee, when weather allows. The propeller J. M. Weston is receiving fron plating and is getting ready for winter work. The schooner Geo. W. Wescott has stripped for winter. It has been stated that two passenger -propellers will be put on the route between Chicago . and Ludington and Manistee next summer. ‘This is important, if true, as it will open up a valuable field of commerce which has heretofore been controlled by lines of steamers operating out of Milwaukee. It is not known which steamboat‘ line intends to operate the steamers, but it is intimated that the Goodrich Company is at the bottom of the scheme. ‘The tug G. W. Gardner was damaged by ‘fire to the extent of $1,000 last Sunday night She is insured for $1,500 in the Hudson and Fire insurance companies. She will be re- paired during the winter. ‘The government buoys have been removed from Racine reef. ‘The Western ‘l'ransit Company’s propeller Syracuse arrived from Buffalo on Saturday, and the Albany on Sunday, with merchan- dise. The Chicago and Arabia are the last boats of this company tocome from below this season. All four will lay up at this port. The propeller Calumet, Captain R. E. Graves, arrived from Buffalo, Friday, with 1,700 tons of coal. This is her first trip to this port, and it will be her last for this sea- son, a8 he will lay up here. She is a hand- some ship. Her officers say she is a splen- did sea boat, and that she van hold her own with any wooden propeller on the lakes in speed. The propeller Avon, of the Union Line, left this port for Buffalo on the 27th, She was the last boat of that line to go down this season. The Starrucca arrived on the 28th. The H. J. Jewett, New York and Rochester will be the last boats to come from below, and all four will go into winter quarters at this port. The schooner Glad Tidings arrived from Chicago, on the evening of the 28th and the schooner Graham Bros. from Manitowoc, on the 29th. Both were laden with winter sup- plies. The tug D. P. Hall, towed them to South Frankfort, where they are unloading. She had to break ice four inches thick to bring them there. The tugs Jay and Sharly Butler have lald up. The tugs D. P. Hall and Jessie A. Sly- field still in commision, All the saw mills have shut down. Cc. B. 1’ ANBE. The propeller Erin, which left Sunday morning with lumber for Huron Bay, {8 ashore at Gull Rock In a critical condition. The captain with crew arrived here and re- port having abandoned her to the inaurance company. The passenger and freight steamer Min- nie M., Captain John Colwell, arrived on Sunday from Escanaba. She will lay up here and will have her engine compounded during the winter. 8. Cobb’s fleet of lumber steambarges, which run between this port and Muskegon, have been laid up. The George C. Dunbar, Captain Turner, made 83 round trips; the Annie Laurie, Captain Ladner, 80 trips; the Emma E. Thompson, Captain Phelps, 63 trips. The latter was at Miller Brothers’ shipyard nearly seven weeks during the season, getting rebuilt. Her pilot house will be shifted forward during the winter, The propeller Silvanus J. Macey, Vaptain M. Gotham, arrived Sunday night with 885 tons of coal from Erie. ‘'his is her second trip to this port this season. She will lay up here, Of the tenders for furnishing the city with a tug to run to the water works during the winter J. 8S. Dunham’s bid was found to be the lowest. ‘The steambarge Rhoda cleared from this port for Sarnia with 30,000 bushels of corn at 4 cents on Saturday last. At Miller Brothers’ drydock the propeller Jesse H. Farwell was in drydock for a new stem and wheel, the steambarge J. M. Al- mendinger to’ get her stern bearings fixed, the schooner Moselle to get a leak stopped. The schooner has had her mainmast taken out.. She will have a partial rebuild and be converted into a three-and-after. The steam- barge A. R. Colborne, which went ashore at St. Joseph, was in drydock for temporary repairs to enable her to go to Michigan City to discharge her cargo. Further repaire will be made on her return to this port. ‘The schooner C. C. Barnes, lying ata dock near Halsted street bridge, was dige covered on fire Thursday morning. Her- cargo'ot coal had been discharged and she- was being laid up, Four men who had no right on board had taken possession ot the forecastle for the night and had built a fire in the stove, trom which the fire originated . They were pulled out of the bunks half suffocated. The damage is estimated at $700. The passenger and freight propeller Oneida left here last Thureday night, in command of Captain J. F. Smallman. She will run between Milwaukee and Grand Ha- ven this winter, her owners having hired her to the Grand Haven and Milwaukee Railway Company for that purpose. She had been Jaid up at this port. The steamer Sheboygan, of the Goodrich Line, left ‘Thursday last on her last trip for this season. She will go into winter quar- ters at Manitowoc. The steamer Chicago is the only Goodrich boat now running. The Lake Michigan and Lake Superior Company’s passenger and freight propeller City of Duluth, Captain Lyman Hunt, ar- rived from Lake Superior on Sunday. She is the last of that Company’s boats to arrive and lay up at this port. The Anchor Line propeller Lehigh, Cap- tain Hogg, arrived from Buffalo, Monday, with a cargo of merchandise. On Sunday, when oft Racine, one of her boiler plates gave out, and she put into that port while repairs were being made thereto. ‘The Le- which will considerably improve her carry- ing capacity. The Dunbar will recetve ex- tensive repairs this winter, high is the last Anchor Line boat to come up thia season, and will be the only propel- ler of that line to lay up here this winter, Dunham’s wrecking tug ‘T. 'T. Morford, which left here last week for Ford river, succeeded in getting the schooner Mineral State off the beach near the mouth of the river on the lst, ‘This is the Morford’s firet wrecking job, and it fs a great success. ‘The Morford will go to Good Harbor to release the echooner ‘Three Belle, ashore there, The Lake Michigan and Lake Superior passenger and freight propeller Peerless was discovered on fire about 6 p. m., of the 26th of November, at their dock, where she was laid up. The fire originated from an over- heated stove in the ship keeper's room. ‘The fire department succeeded in subduing the flames, but not before some $5,000 or $6,000 [Continued on 4:h page.)