THE MARINI RECORD The Marine Record. Published Every Thursday at 144 Superior Street, (Leader Building.) A. A. POMEROY, Editor and Proprietor, ‘TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: ee year, postage paid, 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 news dealers.: CLEVELAND, OHIO—G F Bowman, corner ef Pearl and Detroit, streets. CHICAGO, [LL.—Joseph Gray, No. 9 West Randolph street, BUFFALO, N. Y.—C. Rohmer, Swing Bridge. DULUTH, MINN.—C. F. Johnson, 117 West Bupe- rior street. ESCANABA, MICH:'—William Godley. MANISTEE, MICH.—J, E. Somerville. Articles, letters and queries on all subjects are solici- ted. Michigan street ADVERTISING RATES. Ten cents per line, nonpareil measurement, or $1.20 per imob, each insertion; tour weeks $4.00; with a liberal diseount on orders amounting to $40.00 or over. AH ebecks and drafts should be drawn te the order of A. A. Pomeroy. Entered at the Post Office at Cleveland as second- ‘class mai] matter. CLEVELAND, OHIO, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 25. THe Marine Journal, which has been pub- dished in Civesnnati during the last six yeare, announces in ita last issue, December 18th, that it will hereafter be published in New York City, Mr. F. Baker having sold a half interest to George L, Norton, who will assume the business management. Mr. Ba- ker will continue to edit the Journal. Tue steamship ‘Thingvalla, trom Copen- hagen, reports that after a sea had smashed the life boat and injured the third officer and three men, the engines were ‘stopped, and oil bugs hung over the side and the marine drag let go. The ship laid in this way fourteen hours, without shipping any water, the seas breaking in her wake, and keeping the wind one or two points abaft beam. REPRESENTATIVE WILLIS, Chairman of the Committee on Rivers and Harbors, says that Buffalo people will be very well satisfied with the ainount allowed tor the improve- ment of the Buffulo harbor. He declines to say how much has been allowed, howeyer. Anothef member of the committe says that although the river and harbor bill will be made up on a basis of twenty-five per cent. -of the estimates, which would give Buffalo $75,000, the committee recognize this as one of the most important improvements on the lakes, and have set down $125,000 as the amount tor continuing the improvements during the year ending June 80, 1886. Mr. Barker of Sault Ste. Marie who has the contract for the dredging of the mouth of the Kannistique river, the proposed ‘location of the bare of the Canadian Pacific railroad, is pushing the work along with vigor. Although Mr. Barker is an American ‘and was opposed by British bidders he succeeded in securing the contract. Mr. Barker was formerly a sub-contractor of the Sault Ste. Marie canal and previous to that time a contractor and resident on the Erie canal. Many of his old friends in the States will be pleased to learn of his success in this matter, some of whom have entirely lost track of him during late years. Information has been received at Wash- ington that a deep feeling has been aroused in France over the news that the United States has secured a direct concession from Niearagua, authorizing them,in thelr na- tional character, to construct a canal across the Isthmus. The report is to the effect that the French officials expect a general de- mand from all parts of the country and the nation shall protect the holders of the Pan amacanal bonds. De Lesseps’ agents are alrendy here to oppose the Nicaraguan treaty. Holders of De Lesseps’ bonds claim that their government should not stand still and seen numerous Class of its citizene im- poverlehed without making a vigorous pro- test,even up to the point of interference. England may also protest against what the | United States proposes to undertake. [Continued from Ist Page} a MILWAUKEE, Special to the Marine Record. ‘The schooner Arundel arrived here at 4 o'clock ‘Thursday afternoon, a complete mass of ice. Her anchor, headgear and cathead were so covered with ice that it was impossi- ble to distinguish one from the other, and her fore, main and mizzen shrouds were ived up tweuty feet from the deck. Her deckload of hay, for the port of Manistee, was completely covered with ice, so that it was impossible to tell what she was loaded with. She lett Manitowoe for Manistee Wednesday morn- ing and arrived off the east shore, but owing to the fog rising from the lake, was unable to find the harbor, and after beating away for some time they squared away for Mil- waukee. It was twenty degrees below zero at the life saving station all nitght, so you can imaging the time they had in making this harbor, blowing a half a gale of wind from the west. But as bad as the Arundel’s trip | was, the little schooner Lineral experienced still worse. ‘he Lineral is a new. ves- sel and was built and owned by Turison, of Manitowoc. She left Manitowoc at the same time the Arundel did, but arrived here at five o’vlock ‘Thursday morning with twenty tons of butter, oats and hay for Peter’s, of Monistee, and from the tip of her jibboom to the end of the main boom was literally covered with ice. ‘The boat tilled and troze solid with ice while hanging to the davit«. She also had on a deckload of hay, and from the forward tiers of hay to her bowsprit, was filled up solid with ice, so much so that it was impossible to find anchor, or anchor ehaius, or windlass, as she was filled up solid to the rail, und could not let go any anchor or let down any canvas, The captain had one foot frozen and the first mate had one cheek so badly frozen that it will be im- possible for him tocontinue with the schoon- er on her trip. The down-haula and other ropes were twice their regular size from frost and ive, and il ever was seen a crew o1 happy mortals, it was when the tug John Evenson steamed up to the little vessel and passed them a line and towed them safely into port. The captain of the Lineral in- formed the captain of the tug Evenson that the Arundel would be likely to make for the port of Milwaukee if she conld not find Manistee, and so the tug Evenson was kept in readiness to start at 2 moment’s no- tice for the lake as soon as any sign of the other vessel was seen. When her captain saw the bow of the tug coming through the fog to his assistance he could not express his thanks too freely for the { by the low prevailed at command th authorities, cause of so tained a qu: into years. stranded or by collision, by other handred on the lakes LAKE WRECK REPORT. Although the season of 1884 Las not been 80 prolific of disasters to ¢raft and lose of life as that of 1883, our measure is quite full | of small losses, principally owing to heavy gales and strandings, the latter being caused cuts, the condition of whieh, we trust, will lakes lies in the fact that appliances for wrecking are still in the crude state that ob- statement we can not fully indoree, as much improvement has been made in wrecking apparatus during the period mentioned, and many powerful wrecking tugs have come existence In classifying the losses of the sea- son we find that one hundred vessels have suffered loss by gule and two by explosion, twenty-eight by tire, thirty-four sunk, four- teen disabled, nine by leak, twenty-three causer, and which are total loss, involving an approxi- mate value of $497,000 and a loss of tononge by new tonnage in 28,713 tons, with a value of $2,771,000 for the season, The navigation of 1884 wag sealed, signed... and delivered up on the 16th instant and everything retired Into winter quarters if we may except a few which may be navigating on lake Michigan, which continues more oy less through the winter term. It is therefore aafe to predics there will be no further losses to include in the season’s estimate, unless it may be a case of the burning of some craft moored for the winter. It has been given out in some of the papers, with the most positive assurance, that $600,000 will cover the losses on hull and cargo on all the lakes, The idea is simply preposterous, as Lake Superior alone will nearly reach that sum, if we take into consideration the wrecks that are strewn about that lake, which are not yet recovered and doubtless never will be, Our estimates, therefore, may be considered as nearly correct us can be arrived at under the cireumstances, after five weeks of over- hauling the records of the season, The last disaster of the season, up to this writing, was that of the propeller Oconto, which, on her return from Alpena with lumber, passed through the St. Clair flate canal on Thursday last, and immediately on entering Luke St. Clair became icebound and immovable. She remained thus until Saturday «fternoon, when she was released by a ferry steamer from Detroit, amd ar rived there the same evening. Her damages, bot yet surveyed, will reach about $200. stage of water that generally theseveral crossings, canals and eeurly attention of the proper It has been said that the real much loss of property on the arter of a century ago, which during the Jast ten gone ashore, thirty-seven have five capsized and twenty-four naking a total of two seventy-six, fertyeight of of 12,650 tons, which is offset LAKE ONTARIO. April 27|Sebr.. April 283}Prop. June 9.. June 17\Tug.. June 17 Prop.. Jane 21 Sehr. June 21 Schr. June 28 Sch timely aid, as he was under the impression that all of the tugs were laid up and that he would have to make the harbur as beat he could, and under the cireum- stances it was not a very encouraging pros- pect. The tug John Evenson has been and will be kept running all this winter for just such work, and, as all of the other tugs have been laid up for two weeks, it is the intention of her owner to keep his boat run- ning for the accommodation of both vessels and steamboats, as the railroad company’s steamboats are run all winter and often experience considerable difficulty in enter- ing the harbor. The John Evenson has been ironed with extra thick iron for this purpose, and being entirely new and one of the most powerful tugs in the river, Mil waukee can safely say that she has gota tug that will not freeze out this winter. The Evenson will tow the two vessels to Manis- tee as soon as the weather will permit. O. G. MT. CLEMENS. The steambarge Windsor, Capt. Scott, was the last boat arriving here, with « load of Captain Sharbnau's yard for the Tonawan- da Barge Line. ‘The work on the new boat is advancing very fast. She is allin frame and they have begun to plank her. G. L. 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