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THE MARINE Sh gs eels eeonnmrmnaantncasattitaieen iherer nme Co ie et seinen wainiaanaeretersintinraricaraar asi Cini old tug Goodnow, The schooner ‘I. longer, ‘The tug John Evenson towed the United States steamer Andrew Johnson from Grandon bridge to the lower yard, De- cember 29th, to have new decks and cabins and other repairs, when the new boiler, which is being built by Dick Davis, and will be finished soon, will be put in her. The branch yard of Wolf & Davidson is doing considerable work in calking the top sides of the barges Alta and San Diego, and sev- eral others, Fitzgerald is delng general repairs on the Maréngo and.is also building 2 steambarge for the lumber and wood trade for Chipman & Ralser which will probably carry about 250,000 feet of lumber. ‘The tug Hagerman is aleo at this yard getting a thorough re- build and will come out xs good as new in the spring. The sechoonere Arundel and Lineral have anloaded at this port and have gone ints winter quarters, as the weather is so cold and severe that the owners of the vesgela have given up the return trip to Manitowoc or to Maniatee, and will go into winter quar- ters as soon as their canvas dries out, ‘The tug John Evenson towed both of the above aamed vessels to the lumber market to fin- ish unloading their deckload of hay into teams. The river is frozen over solid and the ice men are hard at work cutting ice ten to twelve inches thick In clear ice. The tug Henry 8. Sill, of Racine, is here, laid up tor the season, and will have a new eteel boiler made for her by Dick Davis, and will come out in first-class shape, as she was thoroughly rebuilt last winter. The steambarge Daisy Day: arrived from Manitowoc and Alinapee with a full load of grain and butter. She was iced up very badly and experienced considerable trouble in’ getting to the piers, as the bay was full of . ice and the steam rising from the water out- , Bide of the ice formed « fog so you could not * gee very far, and the fog whistle was kept blowing all night. On the 4th of January the tug John Even- son cut the wrecking tug Leviathan out of the ice at Wolf & Davideou’s lower yard and towed herto the F. & P. M. dock to ship her pumps and wrecking outfit over to Ludington to the stranded steamer belong ing tothe F. & P.M.R.R. Oo., and was towed back to winter quarters by the same tug, as Captain Kirtland, of the Leviathan, will employ tugs on the east shore and_ not fit out the Leviathan until spring. The tug G. R. Green was towed, on Mon- day last, tothe steam derrick, by the tug John Evenson, to have her boiler hoisted out, which will be thoroughly rebuilt this win- ter, and the hull will be towed to Wolf & Davidson’s main yard to be hauled out and aleo rebuilt. Captain John Evenson, who has been cap tain of the life saving station at this place for the past five years, resigned, and Captain Peterson, formerly captain of the scow J. B. Prime, has been appointed his successor, He took charge on the first of January. Cap- tain Evenson intends to devote all of his time to his two tugs in the future. The small tug Eaton, which has been on ‘Wolf & Davidson’s small drydock boxes getting rebuilt, was ready to be lowered down last Saturday, but the ice is so solid in the slip that it is slow work. Men have been employed to saw and chop the boxes loose, which will be completed in another day, when the tug G. R. Green will be placed thereon, The new pumping works, which are being Duilt on the island at the mouth of the river, are progressing very slowly on account both of the cold weather and the foundation bot- tom, which is comprised mostly of quick sand. The city started to build the pumping works for the purpose of purifying the up- per portions of the river, and intended to have it completed by spring, but it will be impossible to do so unless the weather mod- erates up soon. The life saving station crew and tug men ot this place will give a grand ball about the 1st of February. The steambarge Burrows arrived from Bailey’s Harbor, on Friday, with a load of cordwood, and was iced up very badly. Her deckload was one solid mass of ice, and the stevedores who unloaded her were com- A tin MUON. Tie Whanen Tr Gi poled wo enka etic ie ee Trumpff is getting a new stern from the main mast aft and will be made ten feet — eee pelled to loosen the cordwood with iron bare. Captain Oscar Greenhalgh, of the tug Evenson, will visit the World’s Exposition at New Orleans in February. Harbor Maeter ‘Trowell has-sent the fol- lowing report to Mayor Wallber of the ship ping in’ winter quarters at this port on Wednesday, the 7th insta..t, which shows! that twenty-seven steambarges are wintered , here, of which sixteen are grain carriers and eleven lumber and wood carriers. Of eighty schooners here, thirty are grain and fifty lumber and wood carriers, There are, be- side twenty scows which generally carry lumber and wood, and fourteen tugs, includ- lag wrecking boats. The total steam ton- nage is 19,367 and the total eail tonnage 28,- 282, so that the aggregate tonnage of every kind of marine property quartered here for the winter is 47,649, ‘The case of the Phoenix Insurance Com-! pany ve. the Goodrich ‘Transportation Com. pany, recently on trial here, and involving consequential damages of about $200,000, ‘ has been decided against the Plaintift. Claim was made that the burning of Mr. Crandall’s House at Green Bay, Wis., was caused by sparks from the propeller Oconto, then owned by the Goodrich Transportation Company, the loss on which, 46,000, was paid by the insurance company, for which it sought to recover. 0. a. TOLEDO. A gang of men has been endeavoring for a number of daysyto release the steambarge Mills, which was frozen in the ice near Turtle light since the 17th of December and when the ice gave way and moved lakeward a large hole fully 12 feet in length and a foot wide was broken into the barge and her hold was at once filled with huge cakes of ice. Despite the strenuous efforts of the men on board, in fitteen minutes she had sunk in about 8 feet of weter. On board the boat were some twelve or fifteen men, who had been at work attempting to cut a channel through the ice, and, as Captain Ellery re- marked this morning: They thought their time had come, and no mistake. No won- der they were scared. The ice began piling up beside the boat and the darkness made it impossible to ascertain just the extent of the damage. Both syphons were worked at once, but they seemed to have no effect and nothing could prevent the boat’s going to the bottom. What will be done is not now definitely known. Captain Ellery has tele- graphed for instructions, and until they come will do nothing. Owing to her posi- lon and the cold weather it is impossible to get a steam pump to work at her and raise her, a feat which could be easily accom- plished in summer. It now looks very much as if she would have to be abandoned, although the captain, engineer and wheels- man still remain on board, the others hav- ing been taken ashore in the boat’s yaw). The barge is the. property of N. & B. Mills of Marysville, Mich., and was built by James Bowers of Marysville a year ago last June She is 110 feet keel, 2314 beam and 7% hold. She is valued at $13,000. Owing to her peculiar construction Captain Ellery, himeelf a practical shipwright, says he does not see how the break in the hold can be re- paired. In this event she will be practically an entire loss, BUFFALO. United States Supervising Inspector Van Valkenburg gave his decision in the matter of Captain Joseph Criqui, charged with drunkenness and threatening one of his crew with a revolver. The decision is very short and sustains the decision of the local board in revoking his license. The jury in the Dimick case has disagreed. This is not at all surprising as the witnesses for the prosecution in cross examination, had apparently forgotten what they had said in their direct testimony and disagreed with their first statements, It is safe to say that in the future hearing of the case the testi- mony will be greatly curtailed, as the judge is quite overloaded with irrelevant evidence. The jury stood seven for acquitted and five for conviction, The Tioga, the new steel steamehip re- cently launched by the Union drydock com- ; pany, Buffalo, has shipped her boilers, which are the largest and strongest boilers ever} § built in Buffalo for a steamboat. Each has a length of seventeen feet anda shell of ten OGDENSBURG. Chief Engineer D, F. Kelley, formerly of the revenue steamer Bibb, has been ordered to the revenue steamer Corwin, San Fran- ¢lsco, California. The Corwin leaves on the first day of May on a six months cruise in Alaska waters, ‘The Ogdensburg News gives the following list of craft in winter quarters. at this port, Steamers. W. A. Haskell, » Nipigon, Henry Plumb.’ Tugs. W. L. Proctor, G. D. Seymour. Gilbert, Curlew, Sarah Daily, R. M. Fairfield. Steam Yachts. Lotus, Stranger, Raweon, Harry Suith, Florence. U.S. Revenue Steamer. Bibb. Schooners. R. C. Benson, L, Seaton, Riverside, S:. Lawrence, Abbie L. Andrews, — E. '. Beals, . W. Bond, D. G. Fort, Kate ‘Kelly.’ 4 Dolphin. , oe Barges. Middlesex, elbourne, William Wheeler, Charles G. Buell, James Buckley, Tuscarora, Mohawk, Kent, Hattie L. Johnson, Black Diamond, Hope, Michinan, Erie, Argo,: Argosy, Mary. AMHERSTBURG. ‘The Echo ¢ says that the steamer Transfer will receive considerable repairs here at once, so that she will be able to pass inspection. The Transfer has done some great work in her day and has a record which none of the largest boats have been able to surpass, She has ferrled more cars in 24 hours than any other boat. WuaNKvour, Special t the Marine Record, Propeller Geo. D. Sanfort; made a run to Manistee, on the 6th, and returned on the 7th, the first arrival and departure for 1885, The pierhead tight was lit up by keeper Vorce in anticipation of the arrival of the Sanford on the night of the 6th. ‘The tug Slytield is chartered to fish on Lake Michigan and is steamed up. C. B, DULUTH. ‘The Herald says x new dock with a water front ot 100 feet is being built by the Marquis De Mores adjacent to bis cold ator- age dock. Next to that John B. Sutphin is building a dock with a front of fifty feet, which will make 250 feet of dock inside C, H Graves & Co’s warehouse. An approach from Lake avenue to Mr, Sutphin’s dock will be constructed, making in all three ap- proaches to the 250 feet. KINGSTON, Mr. Hovering, of Wiarton, Ont., has been negotaiting fur the purchase of the steamer Hastings. Fire was discovered in the cabin of-the schooner Olivia, recently, while lying at Garvers’ wharf, Picton. An alarm was raised and the land steamer went to the rescue. The cabin was destroyed, without much , damage to other parts of the baat. SANDUSKY, The Portland Boiler Company, of San- dusky, is building a steel boiler, fifty-four inches by eight feet, for the steam yacht now building at Port Clinton tor Seifert & Co. The upper deck of the barge Ryan is be- ing taken off at this port. She will enter the Jumber trade next season, An engine is being built here for the tug Wilcox, of Port Clinton. sh OSE Lh CHICAGO’S LAKE BUSINESS. Special to the Marine Record. Carcaqo, January 9. We present to our readers the annual statement for 1884, of Jesse Spalding, collector of custome at the port-of Chicago, which will doubtless prove interesting, as the great majority of them have, in some capacity, bee! nn identifted with it. The season, froma buainess standpoint, although not so remunerative asin some previous years, has re- turned interest at the rate of 6 to 10 per cent the articles of commerce has been dormant, to carriers. The fact that the movement of the demand being unequal to the supply, caused low freight rates to prevail early in the season, and the depression in business at all points during the later months, due largely to the uneasiness generally incident to a presidential campaign, prevented their recovery : STATEMENT OF THE NUMBER AND TONNAGE OF VESSELS WH. ARRIVED IN THE DISTRICT OF CHICAGO DURING THE YEAR 1 essels in the coast- oreign vessels American vessels Aggregate vessels iug trade. Tonnage. No. January February . September. se October .... November feet, and is made of thirteen-sixteenths tnch steel, STATEMENT OF THE NUMBER AND TONNAGE OF from foreign ports.ffrom foreign ports. Tonnage. arrived, VESSELS WHICH CLEARED FROM THE DISTRICT OF CHICAGO DURING THF YEAR [884, Vessels in the coast-|Foreign ve: ing trade. Months. foreign ports. ssels tojAimerican vessels to] Aggregate vessels foreign ports. ed. Tonnage. | No. No. Tonnage, No. “Tonnage. January........ Behtuary<: < December..-... Total.......- 11.229 MARINE COLLECTIONS DURING THE YRAR AT THE DISTRICT OF CHICAGO, Tonnage, Hospital St'mboat jieht, and) Rec. & Ad, Enr., Fines & Month, dues, dues, fees, |Cl’r fees.| Ovlic’l.)& Licens, Penalties} Total, sonny sees ceferee sees] $184 80] $10 00] $8 50] $20 00 $230 65 272 o1 7 Oo 7 00] 17 00 325 66 53K 04} 312 85} 14 So] 5 99 993 74 3328 58) 2397 75| 600 00] 31 $0) 6617 03 1075 90] 1355 40} 1685 so] 15 40) 4835 69 269 92! 291 60] 1726 25] 9 90 2747 72 217 68) 347 15] 1266 16] 10 oo} 1962 66 463 89] 185 75) 394 45] 8 80) 1143 03 258 29] 177 751 373 90| 11 80! 1027 38 58 44 113 27) 178 50] 306 55| 4 60 687 36 November ..-..] 97 47 89 97/ 33 50] 214 40] 8 a0 453 64 December, .... 9 89] 44 56) 10 00 28 50| 5 80 117 00 Total..... 1$1278 go! $6849 o1)$5297 251$6624 70° 150 90, $659 80) 190 Oo] $21,051 56