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4 THE MARINE RECORD i “ Published Every Thursday at 144 Superier Street, (Leader Building.) A. A. POMEROY, Editor and Proprietor, TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: One year, postage paid... Six months, postage pai 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 now s dealers.: CLEVELAND, OHIU—G F Bowman, corner ef Pearl and Detroit, streets. CHIUAGO, ILL.—Joseph Gray, No. 9 West Randolph street. BUFFALO, N. Y.—C. Rohmer, Swing Bridge. DULUTH, MINN.—C. F. Johnson, 117 West Supe- rior street. SARNIA, ONT.—D. M. McMaster & Co. EsCANABA, MICH '—William Godley. MANISTEE, MICH.—J. E. Somerville. Articles, letters and queries on all subjects are solici- ted. Michigan street ADVERTISING RATES. ‘Ten eents per line, nonpareil measurement, or $1.20 per inoh, each insertion; tour weeks $4.00; with a liberal diseount on orders amounting to $40.00 or over. Allehecks and drafts should be drawn te the order of A. A. Pomeroy. ‘ Entered at the Post Office at Cleveland as second- class mail matter. CLEVELAND, OHIO, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 11. FURTHER LIGHT WANTED. It is well known to all lake captains that there Is a good light at Peninsula Point; it is also equally well known that there is no e Marine Record. | Notwithstanding the Detroit river, be- | tween here and its mouth, is well lighted and buoyed, there is still a long felt want, to which it would be well for the Canadian ! government to give their attention, and I! refer especially to Fighting Island, where | vast sums are expended yearly by steam and sail craft, which, despite all precautions, frequently strand and are delayed sometimes for days before released. ‘The craft, it is true, may not sustain any injury to hull, but the cost of lighterage frequently sums up to hundreds of dollars. A light should be located on the northwest point, at the head, and the owner of the island intormed me quite recently he would make a free grant for such a purpose. This obstacle once surmounted, I know of ‘no other im- pediment to a tree navigation throughout its whole length. It is hoped that papers will give this matter the attention it so justly deserves, ‘THE primary work, says Science, of our hydrographic office is the publication of charts, based on original surveys of distant coasts, by officers of our navy; but at pres- ent we take only asmall part in. this form of maritime exploration. During the past year, only one vessel has been engaged in such surveys. In unpleasant contrast with this, the review of hydrographic reconnois- sance and surveys published annually in the Engrish Nautical. Magazine, for example, shows how largely our shipmasters must de- pend on British charts in their voyages. ‘The coast-survey does admirable work on our own seaboard; but in addition to this, our government should take its proper share ofthe general hydrographic etudy of the world, commensurate with our wealth and maritime interests. New surveys of the northern coast of South America and of light at Eleven Foot Shoul, which bears south by west three-quarters west from Peninsula Point lighthouse a distance of two and one halt miles, and which has in years gone by, and during the present season, proved most vexatious to vessel masters, they having no means of knowing when they have cleared the shoal except by the favorite resource ot a Yankee, namely, that of guessing. ‘I'he captain who is not well up in this art stands a good chance of bringing up on solid rock bottom, It is trué¢, he has his average speed indications to rely on in ease he is sailing a steamer, but he may often-time be mistaken in these from diverse causes; he also has his time reckoning from Escanaba to guide him, but this also is de- ficient or unreliable; if heis master ofa schooner his facilities for determining when he is clear of the shoal are still less reliable; therefore, it must be seen that the light- house, if we can have butone at that locality» should be on the shoal, at the proper place, instead of on Peninsula Point. Itis said there is quite a good channel between the shoal andthe point where the light is located, on the ccurse to Fayette from Escanaba, but that the needs of commerce do not re- quire its use near as generally as they do the channel outside of Eleven Foot Shoal. In viewing this question, we must consider that Escanaba is by large odds the greatest ore shipping port in the world, and the ton- nage that is compelled to run by this Eleven Foot Shoal under vuess is enormous, there- fore, it must be evident to all that every facility for safety and dispatch should be adopted by the government to insure the above requisites. We will acknowledge that during the busy season a buoy is in position at the place pointed out, but when vessels venture to make a trip in the late fall months into these waters they do not find even the small comfort of a buoy, the exact time when it would be the most useful. We also grant it is necessary to remove the buoys for their safety, and will generously die penee with them at. the point referred toif the government, on the recommendation of J. W. Barlow, Colonel of Engineers, U. 8. A., will build a lighthouse on Eleven Foot Shoal, to receive which a good rock bottom is ready provided. ALL subscriptions aud renewals for the Manine Reccrp, received at this office dur- ing the month of December, will be reck- oned and credited from January 1, 1885, thus giving the remaining numbers of the pres- ent volume gratuitously to all new subseri- bers, We trust many will avail themselves of this dividend. parts of the West Indies are urgently re- quired, and their execution would be a well chosen initial step toward the desired in- crease of our trade with the Spanish-Amer- icans. Wesee by ‘I'he Chippewa County News that Dr. George A. Harding, surgeon {Continued from Ist Page} BUFFALO. Captain McLeod has returned and he reports that the steamer City of Owen Sound, ashore at Michipicoten river, will be left where she is during the winter. She is in bad shape and the weather is too un- settled to do anything with her. A new tug was launched here last 'Thurs- day. Her length is 58 feet, beam 13 feet, and depth 63¢ feet. She has a fore-and-aft compound engine, built by H. G. ‘Trout, the cylinders being 14 and 22 inches in diameter and the stroke 23 inches. Her complete cost is $6,000 and she is owned bv the Buffalo & Grand Island Ferry Company. She is named 8. Douglas Cornell. he propeller Keystone has arrived at ‘Tonawabda with Jumber for Manistique, Mich. At Detroit she took in tow the schooner Fanny Nei), Jumber laden from Bay City, and pulled her to ‘Tonawanda, It will be remembered that the Keystone and her consort, the C. J. Wells, ran on the reef at Whisky Island, only «few miles southeast of Matistique. The Keystone luckily got off after jettisoning a large part of her deck load, but the Wells remained on and has since proved a total loss, ‘The Key- stone suffered considerable damage, though she did not leak much on the way down. After discharging her cargo she will come to this port to be docked aid surveyed. ‘The Fanny Neil also had a rough experience. She was driven across Lake Huron by a snowstorm and went ashore near Southamp- ton, losing constderable of her deck load. She was released after being on a few hours by the tug International and turned over to the Mocking Bird which towed her to De- troit.. ‘he Neil was also pretty badly dam- aged and she will be brought here to be laid up und repaired. ‘The propeller Wocoken will not go into the Union dock for a new wheel until about next Tuesday. The dock is being reserved for the Keystone. The Ward Line propeller Toledo after all will not come to this port. Her cargo will be forwarded by rail from Detroit, where of the medical hospital at Sault Ste. Mar'e has crossed the dark river. He died, November 20, at the age of 34 years. During Dr. Harding’s residence at Sault Ste. Marie he has filled several important positions with credit to himself, and profit to the city. In addition to his duties as surgeon at the marine hospital atthe Sault he acted as assistant surgeon at Fort Brady. Lake Mis'assinnie, the great new Canadian lake, is located in latitude 50° north, longi- tude 72° west. It is about sixty miles long and about twenty miles average breadth and contains several large islands. Itcommuni- cates with James Bay, agsouthern extension of Hudson Bay. by Rupert river. The ex- plorer who sailed 128 miles on this great lake without seeing the main | body probably sailed in a circle around one cf the large islands. ‘THIs government has received official no- tice that the revised international regula- tions for preventing collisions at sea have been adopted by all the leading maritime powers except the United States, which came into foree on the Ist of September Jast. For the due protection of our shipping interest the provisions of our statutes should at once be brought into conformity with these regulations. Tne Port Huron Sunday Commercial comes to us this week in an entire new dress, the neatness of which reflects much credit upon the taste and enterprise of Messrs. Talbot & Co. They charge it to the election by a pofitical faction, of which Mr. Cleveland is the representative, SenaToR Dorp has introduced a biil pro- viding against the obstruction of navigable streams. If it carries without objectionable conditions mariners at the different lake ports will have cause to congratulate each other. = — Director GENERAL BurkKE, of the World’s Fair at New Orleans, announces that every- thing will bein readiness for opening the exposition on the 16th tnst., and President Arthur has been solicited to start the ma- chinery by electricity from Washington. . she will lay up. ‘The propeller Egyptian, wheat laden, ar- rived Friday at 9:20 p. m. - She left Duluth on the morning of November 23, being twelve and a half days on the trip. She was delayed by bad weather on Lake Superior» and lost some time in towing the disabled propeller Toledo from the Sault to Detroit. She appears to be all right. The eeason of navigation, as far as vessel movements are concerned, is now virtually ended at this port. The schooner Grace Murray, said to be wood Iaden from St. Ignace, has not yet shown up, but there is no doubt of her coming. ‘The schooners Mary and Bay ‘Trader yet intend to leave for near by Canadian ports to lay up. No other arrivals or departures are expected. All ot the line boats are now in their winter porte. MANITOWOC. The tug T. ‘Tl’, Morford arrived here with the schooner Mineral State, which stranded on the Ford River reef some days ago. The Morford left Manitowoc for Good Harbor to release the schooner ‘Three Bells. It is elaimed that the Three Bells is a total wreck but an effort will be made to release her, just the same. , ALGONAC. The steambarge Missouri is reported to be aground on Ruseel’s Island, River St. Clair, The steambarge was bound up and was light. [tis thought that she ran aground in the fog early Wednesday morning. ‘The steam- barge Cleveland, which was rground half amile below Algonac,in the same river, has been released and has passed up. CHEBOYGAN, The tug Swain has returned from the schooner U. J, Wells, on Whisky Taland, having taken off-the two pumps she put aboard and ‘all the sails, rigging, running gear, anchors and chaing, and all that could be removed, and ubandoned the vessel as a total wreck. Everything was tn readiness and favorable for her release, when a gale sprang up Tuesday and knocked the bottom all out of her. Lumber is washing ashore. DESERONTO. A light appeared for the first time in the new lighthouse erected by the Government on the end of the steamboat dock on the 29th of November. It waa lit by gas. DETROIT. Special to the Marine Record December 9.—As far as the condition of the lakes and rivers is concerned, naviga. tion is as yet unobstructed, and vessels might even pow proceed from Buffalo to Chicago, or on a short trip in the lumber trade, with perfect safety, that is, if treights ruled sufficient!y high to make the venture, This is as I predicted some two months since, ag you Will doubtless remember. But the time has arrived when it is customary for all kinds of craft to retire Into winter quarters regardless of the ruling of freights, It has been otherwise in times past, and on one or more occasions steamers have ventured to Lake Superior with supplies, owing to bad weather preventing the shipment at an ear- lier period. : The tug Martin Swain, which went to the reliet of the schooner C. J. Wells, but finally abandoned her, is expected here to-day. The Wells, which has become a total loss on Whisky Islind, came out as one of the finest burkentines on the lakes, was built for Cap- tain Frank Perew, at Cleveland, in 1866, was 549 tons burden and cost about $40,000. She has had various mishaps during the latter part of her career, for which there were good and sufficient reason, ‘The tug Swain was the last boat to visit the wreck of the propeller Scotia, stranded on Keweenaw Point, Lake Superior, at_ which time she was vxdly broken up from her stern up to amidsips., and nearly all of the iron plates had fallen off from her bottom for that distance, 39 that all hopes of her re- covery in the spring are thus set aside, and this fine craft is now taking her final rest. Quite unexpectedly to her owners, the propeller ‘Toledo returned from Lake Su- perior, but did not proceed on to Buffalo with her cargo. She laid up at this. port and her freight was sent on by rail. Ice commenced running in the Detroit river November 25th, during the cold’snap, but has since disappeared. The propeller Riverside, which plies be- tween Detroit and Malden, will continue to run until prevented by ice. Baring one or two accidents, she has had a very succcesful season. The Detroit and Cleveland. line of steam- ers are snugly moored for the winter at this port. The City of Detroit has performed 105 round: trips between the two ports, and the Northwest 100 round trips, neither of them meeting with a mishap, which speake volumes for the management of the line aud the skillfulness of the officers of the boats, and the same has been the record for the past two seasons. Captain James Davidson was in this city yesterday, en route to Bay City. The steamer City of Cleveland, plying be- tween Detroit and Mackinaw, has made 66 round trips, and the City of Mackinac 60 round trips, with a record on a par with the Detroit and Cleveland line. The revenue steamer Fessenden did not strip for winter quarters until to-day, as was premised, It was thought best to hold on for a few days longer in anticipation of what might happen. The propeller Oconto and the steambarge Mackinaw with consorts are at present ab- sent to Lake Huron for lumber to bring to this city. A dispatch was received from Charles Whitaker, of B. Whitaker & Son, shipbro- kers, this city, dated at Manitowoc, stating that the schooner Mineral State had arrived there, was not leaking a drop and that $2,200 would cover all repairs. The tugs Andrew J, 8m‘th and Gladiator, of Murphy Brothers’ line, are both absent on duty. The former has been successful in releasing the steambarge Erin, which strinded on Keweenaw Point, Lake Supe rior. The latter left the Sault a day or two since to rescue the schooner Mary Battle, ashore at Eagle Harbor, She is a vessel of 375 tons burden, owned by J. Battle, of St. Catherines, and worth $15,000. ‘This rea- son Lake Superior has shown up her share of marine casualties, and the total loss of property on that lake will be proportionately larger than any of the others, The schooner Harvey Bissell, owned by Murphy Brotherg, of this city, 1s ashore at Marquette, and will remain there, it is prob- able for all future time. Notwithstanding a channel was dredged to her, she could not be moved. It {a safe to predict that not one