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enc ll a ie NGINEERING A N'D SECrENC Ey “VOL. VII. NO. aa $2.00 Pex ANNUM SineLe Copixs 6 Canza AROUND THE LAKES. CLEVELAND. James Clancy will go as chief engineer of the steamer A. Everett next season, William Seamen will officiate as chiet en- gineer of the new iron steamer, The annval meeting of the Vessel Owners’ ssociation was held at the Board of ‘Trade rooms on Monday. The store of Upson, Walton & Co,, ship- ebandlers, wae burglarized by an expert to the amount of $8.60in cash. Quincy Miller, late chief engineer of Wins- low’s line, will next season be chiet engineer of the steamer William Chisholm. V. D. Nickerson bas firished and forward- ed a fine pastel painting of the favorite Chi- cago tug, ‘I. T. Morford, to Captain Boegy. The machinery of the propeller Hiawatha, owned by Captain Thomus Wilson, will be compounded by the Globe [ron Works, ‘The cylinders will be 80 and 48 by 36 inch stroke. Captain Hugh Hastings, of Milan, Ohio, master of the N. K. Fairbanks, was in the city last Monday and Tuesday. He is ‘able to be around, though not entirely recovered from his late sickness. Captain Thomas Wilford will command the iron steamer William Chisholm next season, and Captain Peter @. Minch will the new iron steamer now being built a aie ‘Globe Shipbuilding Co.* We desire to express our thanks to the Marine Engineers Beneficial Association, Cleveland, for invitation and ticket to their fourth annual ball, which will take place on Thursday, the 22d inst., at Langberger’s hall, 688! Pearl street. Blondin will fur- nish the music and Langberg the banquet. The report of United States commissioner Bill, in the case of Henry Walla and othere, against the steamer Saginaw Valley, was filed last night. The suit grew out of a col- lision between the above steamer and the schooner ‘Thomas Gawn, of which the plain- tiffe were owners, Damages aggregating $220, were awarded the plaintiffs. The tug S. H. Hunter, which was carried out into the lake off Vermillion, has gone out of service as a total loss. Also, the tugs Sprague, Relief, Peter Smith, and the steam yacht Olive and the steamer J. M. Osborne have gone out of service, the Sprague hav- ing sunk, the Relief and Olive having been destroyed by fire, the Peter Smith by-explo- sion, and the J. M. Osborne having been sunk by collision with the eteamship Alberta, , The monthly report of the Floating Bethel /ahows that during the month of December 11 families were furnished with coal, 9 with provisions, 6 with shoes, and 8 with cloth- ing. Rent was paid for 4 and Christmas dinners were furnished to 10. There was sickness in each of these families. During the month 85 families were visited, 598 per- sons attended the meetings, 203 arose for prayer, and $12.88 was taken up at the ser- vices to help the sick. A number of ladies and gentlemen held a Pleasant reception at the Floating Bethel on, New Year’s day. The bethel was nicely decorated for the orcasion, and presented a handsome appearance. ‘Two hundred and ninety-four visitors were entertained, and such as desired furnished with retreshmenta, The committee of ladies, composed of Mra, George Slack, Mra. H, MeLean and Mrs, J, D. Jones, were assisted by Messrs, U.P. Co- nant, A, Wise, George Slack, J, McLean, Robert Peace and the chaplain, ‘Rev, J. D. Jones. Messrs. Mead & ‘Thomson are making one of their patent feed water purifiers for the Cleveland [ron Mining Co, As this ma- chine has not yet come into general use, but is destined to become very popular with steam users, it will be well to define tts action. It will bo#l and filter the water, set- tling the deposit, befcre it pusses into the boiler, and separate all the minerals in the water, the water passing in spray through a chamber filled with live ateam, so that the water enters the boiler at the temperature of that contained in the boiler. A maritime case of considerable magni- tude, involving the sum of $2.15, brought by R. L. Willard against the steambarge H. B. Tuttle, Captain J. W. Moore owner, for glazier’s repaire, came up tor hearing before Justice Coates and a jury on Tuesday. The facts in the cuse are that in 1883 the contract | for putting lights in the windows of the Tuttle was made and the bill, presented re- cently, was referred to the then captain of the boat by Mr. Bartow, Captain Moore be- ing out of the city. This not being accord- ing to Mr. Willard’s iden of justice, he at- tached the ‘Tuttle, placed a ship keeper aboard and brought suit against the owners for the sum, in a justice court. It is our desire, in. presenting the points in the case 'o.onr readers, that they extract much ben- efit from them,«nd asa matter of paramount importauce, secure to the management of their admiralty cases the legal wisdom that has been shown in the handling of this mat- ter by H. D. Goulder. The court had no jurisdiction; the suit was against the boat by name in the nature of an admiralty pro- ceeding. ‘The suit was brought for repairs furnished the vessel, and it has never been doubted that repairs furnished in the home port were maritime contracts. It is trne, there is a saving to suitors, the right of a common law remedy. But the proceeding, under the watercraft law of Ohio, is in no sense a common law proceeding, nor does it give a common law remedy, especially when the boat proceeded against, which is tied up for the winter, ice-bound, and with- out any means of evading the course of proper and just proceeding, is attached and a ship keeper put aboard at not less than two dollars per day for ten days, with the view of increasing the sum for which this suit has been brought, after a petition has been filed against the boat by name with the clerk, who issues the warrant of seizure. Mr. Willard, by his lawyer, Mr. Groot, has fallen into a common error, as old as the hills, but now dissipated to his satisfaction, perhaps, that admiralty juris- diction in such cases was confined to tide- waters, the fact being that the legislature of this state attempted to create a state admiralty court for certain purposes, and this proceeding in rem was the result, The lien that this plaintif took upon the Tuttle and the placing ofa ship keeper therein, in order to increase the cost to the de- fendant, proves conclusively that a juatice court had no jurisdiction in the case. Mr. H. D. Goulder, attorney for J. W. Moore knowing all these points, bas in a masterly manner, not only succeeded in throwing al] the costs of the prosecution upon the plaintiff R. L. Willard, but has estopped him trom further proceedings, in admiralty, by ten- dering him In the presence of witnesses the amount of the claim, $2.15. As the case is now wetted it is proper to say that Mr. Willard has accepted $2.15 with interest, the amount of his bill, at the hands of Mr, Goulder, and has paid for his experience somewhere in the neighborhood of $35.00. CHICAGO. Special to the Marine Record. The following statement shows the num. ber, class, and tonnage of vessels owned in the district of Chicago, December 31, 1884: Twenty-seven steamers (serew,) 7,019.82 net tonnage; 4 steamers, paddle, 424.43 net ton- nage, 77 tuge, 1.879.97 net tonnage 28 stenm canal boats, 2,033.60 net tonnage, 227 sehoon- ers, 49,765.08 net tonnage; 5 sail yachts 318.17 net tonnage; 4steam yachts under 6 tons, 5.49 het tonnage, total, 372 vessels, 60,941.56 net tonnage. The marine collections made in Chicago during 1884 were as follows: ‘Tonnage dues, $1,278.90; hospital dues, $5,297.25 ; steamboat fees, $5,279. 25: entrance and clearance fees, $6,625,70; recording and official fees, $150.90; measurement, enrolling, und license fees, $659.80; tines and penalties, $190; total, $21,051.56. ‘'welve vessels were built in Chicago dur- ing the year, having a gross tonnage of 498.58; and a net tonnage of 303.09, The body of James Hogan, late engineer of the fated tug Admiral, was found Saturday morning at 10 o’clock by divers in the water within sixty feet of the scene.of the disaster. Notwithstanding the fact that Hogan was in the engine room at the time of the bursting of the boiler his body shown no evidence of mutilation, as did those of his two un- fortunate companions, Captain Greene and Firemen Borne. The remains were taken to the residence of his sister, No. 119 North Green street, from which place they will be buried after the inquest. The funeral of Captain Green took place Sunday from the Lutheran Church, Elm street and LaSalle avenue, and that of Borne from his residence on Indiana and Market streets. The tug Tom Brown will take the. place of the tug Admiral tor towing during the winter months, Thomas Bageley, yacht and boat builder, has contracted to build five steam yachts for Chicago parties, to be completed by the end of March next. Three of the yachts will be 33 feet long, 73g feet beam, 8 feet 10 inches deep. The other two will be 88 feet long, 7} feet beam and 3 feet deep. It is said that one of the tug line compa- nies at this port has awakened to the knowl- edge that they can not make a living with- out the schooners, and intend next season to lower the towing rates for schooners to the same amount they have charged, hither- to, for barges, and they also intend not to make any extra charge for towing a schoon- er beyond South Halstead street bridge. This will prove a great boon to the owners of schooners, and will enable them to live again. We have been informed, by captatus whose schooners carry about 250,000 feet of lumber, that last season they were offered a, number of charters to deliver lumber at the yards’ at Mud Lake, Thirty-ninth street, ete,, but they were forced to decline them, as {t was impossible to make it pay in con- sequence of the heavy tow bills, and a large lumber firm who had their yards up in that part of the river were last year compelled to hire a steambarge to bring along their own lumber, instead of employing their own two schooners, In accordance with a resolution adopted at the last annual meeting of the Chicago Yacht Club, the members of that organiza- tion, last Saturday evening, tendered an in- formal and enjoyable banquet to the retiring commander of the club, Mr, H. F. Griswold. ‘The supper was served in the dining room of the Calumet Club, which was appropri- ately and handsomely decorated in honor of the event. The table was laid in the form of an anchor, and some fifty members of the elub and eight or ten invited guests assem- bled to partake of the excellent menu. Com- modore A, J. Fisher presided, and the ex- commodore sat upon his right, and Mr, C. E. Cramer, of Milwaukee, a, guest of the club, upon his left.. After the banquet an oil-painting of his yacht Cora was presented to Mr. Griswold, and speeches were made by A. E. Storrs, John Prindiville, and othe era, W. H. Wolf, of the firm of Wolf & David- son, shipbuilders, Milwaukee, was in the city Tuesday. He informed us they had contracted to raise the propeller F. & P. M. ‘| No, 1,sunk off Ludington piers, and deliver her at Ludington for $8,000, or at Milwaue kee for $9,000. Captain Kirtland had gone to Ludington with the tug Leviathan to proceed with the work ot salting the pro- peller without delay, The steambarge Monitor, with gravel from Kenosho, and the propeller Depere, of the Goodrich line, Jaden-wiit eundries-from west shore lake ports, are the only arrivals at this port since the 1st of January. The steambarge Maine went out of the Chicago Drydock Company’s west side dock last week, and the tug Mary McLane went in for calking agd some necessary repairs. Captain W.J. Fagan, who formerly com- manded the propeller William Edwards, ar- rived here on thy, morning of the 2d instant, from New Orleans, and left again the same night for ouudusky, Ohio, at which place the charge of threatening brought against him by Valentine Fries, of Milan, will be gone into on the 6th instant. Captain Fagan laid up his steam yacht at New Or- leans. The southern climate seems to agree with him. He is looking well and feeling well. In the case of the Phcenix Insurance Com- pany vs. the propeller Avon, for colliding with and sinking the barge Scott, which was anchored off Milwaukee, was decided in fa- vor of the insurance company by Judge Blodgett, on Monday, the judge holding that the. Scott was anchored ina proper place, with sufficient room on either side for the passage of any craft and that the look- out on the propeller Avon was incompetent. The Avon was compelled to pay $5,500 and the costs of the suit. An appeal was allowed upon a bond of $10,000. Robert Rae, attot- ney tor the insurance company, and ©, QO, Clark and Williams & Potter for the Avon. The schooner Angus Smith is loaded with 39,000 bushels of corn for Kingston at 7 cents for storage and freight, The schooner Emma C. Hutchinson is chartered to carry 52,000 bushels of corn to Buffalo at 4 cents, including storage. The capacity of the grain elevators at this port is 27,400,000 bushels, In the collision case of the propeller Tem- pest, 'T. Stewart White and others, own- ers, against the propeller Boscobel and barge Peshtigo, the Peshtigo Company, owners, the damages were equally divided between the three vessels, T. W.