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4 i i -I-. -A. 1 VOL. VI. NO. "2. CLEVELAND P., JANUARY 1Q, 1884. 82 00 Fm AKK01I SlNQLl COPJM t CUKTI \ AROUNDTHE LAKES. CLKVBI.ANP. The Strnltn are gorged with Ico In tho vl clnlty of Cheboygnii. ■The propeller Depere, of tlio Goodtlch Lino has gone to Miuiltowoe. Ahea\ygnlo raged nt Grand Haven on the 3d Iiibi. Tlio Mllwiiukco steamers re- mnlneil In port. The Boclnble of the Oswego seamen's un¬ ion was u plensnnt aftnlr and nil present en¬ joyed themselves thoroughly. Oiiptnln W. E. Ransom, of this city, litis purchased the sailing yacht Flying Dutch¬ man of Captain E. T. Whitney. The h lieonors George S. Hazard ntul F. A. Qcoigor were Rold at Buffalo, Saturday for 125.000 ntid $22,000 lespcctlvel),' D. D, Cnlvln lias been elected Reeve el bunion Island by aceliimatloii, and Thus. Hogan whs treated In n blmllnr way by the electors or Wolfe Island. Thc^piopellcr M. F. Butters nrrived In Chicago on the 3d. lutnbof laden from Lml- lngton. She was covered with ice. Ice was making rapidly In Chicago harbor. | Captain Falcon, of Chicago, a w rocket of tlilrty-flve year^' experience, win In Brpck- villo on Mtn^luj^'tliB-laJi, I nut, on the way to visit t'io suidce'li propeller Oneida. lie wiissentby the Cliicago Board of Uudei V riters, and will report as to the possibility: of the vessel being raised. The tinnsfer steamer Algoman was Ins the Ice In inid-strai^son the 3il Instant, be¬ tween St. Ignaco and Mackinaw City. Tlio ice will soon be strong enough In that vicin¬ ity to cross over on. No trains from tlio south for tuonty four hours, and no I ruins fioui up north to-day. The snow causes the trouble. 1'lie steamer Wisconsin, which left for Giaud Unveil, Mich., on the 2d Inst,, after a terrible oxpostiro of foity hours in a tenitlc gale and 6o\cro cold, returned to Milwaukee covered with Ico three inches thick. The captain savs he never experienced a like gale in all his life on the lakes. The thermome¬ ter ranged twenty-three below zero at fi p. m. Captain .Fames Bowen and Mr. II. D Hoot, ol Loiotn wcro In towrt yesterday. Mr Itoot, shipbuilder of I.ornln, has just started a small atemn yacht of the following dimen¬ sions. Length over all, 48 fcot, beam, 11 feet, dopth, 4 fcetO Inches. Slio will ha\o a clipper bow and very line lines, bunt frames 2x4 on the flat, \% Inch oak plank, and will draw 3!jj foot ot wntor. She will also havo a centreboard. Her engine will bo 0x0 with 42 Inch wheel, 5^ feet pitch and 250 revolutions She will be nn open boat with nwrrrng deck and will carry thii ty passen¬ gers. As there has been cous'derablo dlsciiBBlon in regard to what effect wind has on tlio thermometer, experiments have been con¬ tinued nt the signal station for some months past. One theiniouieter was placed on the north side of the slatloii completely exposed to the storm and tlio w Inds, while another wiih equally exposed to the cold but was shielded from (he wind. Dining the month of December observations wero taken scviril times dailj, mid the final summing up shows that the ex¬ posed thermometer varies but two-tenths of a degree from tlio shelteied one. As there lias been much discussion in i elation to this rend with Interest. Followlngnre the read¬ ings of the'rhormoincter dining the present Koverc weather: January4, nt6 a. rn, 4° bolow, rising to B (1.10, January 5, 13° be. low-, rising to 4 3 10; January (1,0° degrees below, rising to ^4 2-10; Jaduary 7. 7° de¬ grees below, rising to 1'2 7-10. This Is the temperntiiie bb given by tlio Government Instruments which yrfe the most perfect made. ' „ , __ . • CHICAGO. Special to Ihe Marine .Record. A one-tourth shaieof the schooner Amer¬ ica has been transferred to li. F. Davldsom and n one-eighth share to Fred Weimar. A new ttig.llno will be formed at Chicago next spnug, under the superintendence of Captain I. A. Sinclair, and will comprise George Oilman's tugs, the Chicago Dredg¬ ing jind Dotk Company's t\igs and some others The schooners Golden Age and J. G. Mn- gill, having had repairs completed have gone out of Miller Brothers' dndocks, and three of tho I'eslitigoTJiiTnber Company's barges have gone Into di} dock to,be robullt Kosol Downer, the mailne diver, hasie- turncd from Cro&B Village, where ho has been Inspecting the schooner Lucy J. Clark, which sank on there In the full. Ho found the hull in good condition, and thinks she can be nilsed. Ho succeeded i|i saving the steam pumps and anchors and drains which went down with the schooner. Vessel Owners' Tug Company, held Januaiy 8th, at ITa. m , In their office at 240 Smith Water street, George D, Kirkham, Secre¬ tary ol the company, mado the annual ro- poit ol Its directors, showing that it cost the company $8,432 01 to At out its boats lor seivicc last spring, running expenses of said tugs, $70,03.') S,i, and geneial expenses $11,- 005 38, making the total expense for the season $120,072 75, from which must be dedtictod $12,087, the 20 per c«".t discount ol tlio low bill paid as por tarlll ol 1883, making a net gain over tho season's bus'ucBS for 1883 of $10,357 25 Tho Dlrcc- tois declared a ten pci cent, dividend on the capital stock of the company. The follow¬ ing diiectors were elected J. L. Higgle, A. A Carpentoi, AM. Van Schnlck, Gcocge D. Kirkham, John X Wltbeck, TlVDs. Hood, II. Mlchelson. The dlrci tors met at .1 p in , and elected tho following olllcors J. L Higgle, president, John II. Wltbeck, vice president, A.G. Van Schnlck, treasurer, Goo. D. Kirkham, secretary. DOTIIOIT, Special to Ihe Marine Record Detroit, January 8, That weather-wise individual who gave us to understand that an open winter was at hand had bettor keep mum for all future, as his know ledge of such matters Is no better than that of the common sort, not even ex¬ cepting nn Egyptian mummy. An open winteF,Tudced! 'Ihe Detroit liver, for tho Hist time In t^venty yeitrs, may bo considered as undei blockade/The huge railway boats, it Is true, manngoAo plough through, but tills Is all that can be Bald, for It occupies over one hour to perfoim a dlstanco that otherwise would take but fifteen minutes. As I now write loaded teams can cross the river In the locality of Spilngwells, or at points where the steamers do not keep an open space. ,\iul on the thoroughfare traversed by steam' can cross tho broken tinek with perfect safety. This stnto of thlngsUuis not existed since the winter of 1855, jet the appioaches have been near to lt.^ Aside from what 1 have previously Inti¬ mated but little U going on In tho way of shipbuilding nt Detroit John Oades has on hand the construction of a small steamer for a party-it Green Buy, to cost, when complet¬ ed, about $25,000, and intended for the pas¬ senger traillc In that locality. She will be In readiness for birsrnesB on theHipenlugof navigation. At Marine City Captain W/B. Morley has tinder waj the construction of a sloanrbarge which is Intended to carry (!."),- 000 bushels of wheat. She will be gotten up on first class principles throughout, which Is the waj they do It in these times of ship¬ building. Lester &, ( n., also of Marine City, aie building it low barge to carry 00p,- 000 Icot 61 lumbei, und another barge to enr- 250,000 feet ol lumber, Is also being built by other parties-at that place. At Port Union the barge J, II- Ruttcr Is iindergoliiK- suhstantlji] lepaira In drydock, nltei which the schoonet Young America will bfltltuiidod to. The barge Plymouth is being rebuilt at Algonac. The St. Clali river ia-stlll open to naviga tlnn from Port Huron down to the town of St. Clali. Fiom ihnt point to the Oats, In¬ cluding Lake St Clair, no wutci is visible. Within a day oi tw o past w e have lind sev¬ eral visitors from abroad, among whom may TnrTrniiiml-jilocklioldersiHnePtlng-of--the—be-4iotecMJ»pt«hi-^5errinmt»r0H>ort-IitiTOiT7 matter, tho result of Ihe experiment will be ers, In IIfteen minutes thereafter footmen Henry Beatty, agent of the Canada Hue of Lake Superior steamers, with head-quarteis at Port Sal nia. The two new steamers built In Scotland for that company arc having their cabins put In shape nt Port Colhorne the picsent winter, and when computed It is somewhat boasted they will bo unrivalled anywhere, d&tch are 275 feet long and me not only moved by steam but tho piocess ot linndllug of fieight and also stearlng, will bo governed In llko manner. Captain W P McGiogor, of the steamer Wisconsin, which plies between Grand Ha¬ ven and Milwaukee paid us a visit on Sun¬ day. It will be lomombered that a few I'ajs since that steamer left Milwaukee for Grand Haven, but "owing to bad weather, was obllgcd.to return 10 the placa she started fiom. Her noxt elloit was more successful j yet the captain holds that winter navigation I Is not as onjovablo as many would suppose. In short, not without (OiiBiderable suffering He leturncd to his* hunt on Monday. The schooners J. C. King, Alice Smith, L. Hammond and Mineral Stnto have taken on hoard cargoes of grain for winter storage at this port. In the record of quick trips dining the season just closed It may not be out of place to recall to mind one of the olde'h time. In -July, 1825, the schooner Mariner, In com mand ot Captain Chesley Blnke, took on a cargo ol supplies iat Detroit for Mackinaw and lelt on the Oth'of that -month. She was dotalned by head winds In the fii, Clair river twenty-six hours blie in rived at hei destl- nation am) reloaded with furs,mid after fur¬ ther detention In the St Clair arrived nt De¬ troit In less than a week from Hie time of her depaitiiie. She was ohnrleied lor tf400 the ioiiikI trip and made the quickest trip on record dining that period ot navigation, and even I nw there are few thai can do bet¬ ter. While at Mackinaw tho schooner Gen. Jackson, Captain Meriltt, was wrecked near macklnaw and the crew saved bj the Mariner niul brought to Detroit. Dining ■ lint early | erind it tuny be noted that the sloop Huntington, the llrst vessel built nt Black River, Ohio, was wrecked ten ^ullea above Erie, freighted with ashes, anrT 1n 1825 the schooner William was lost at Grand River, Lake Michigan, In March. Thereeoidof lost vessels in early days was not kept complete, as tunny were of small dimensions;. During 1827 tlio schooner Sin pi ise, Captain Philip Secord, 'was found waterlogged eight miles above Bnllnlo, and the captain found dead near the windlass fouled in the tigging. '1 wo men nnd a boy, who constituted the crew, were also lost. At the same time John Q Murdoch, engi¬ neer of ihe steamboat Superior, was drowned in Unftalocteek, May nth. On the same date iheschiinnci Young i.lon wa« launched at Black Itoek and pliuid In command of Captain Chnries Burnett Noiton & Bliss weie the owners, With relcrence to late lake navigation It la nn record i hat on Xu\eiubor23, 1827, the steamboat Ohio Wnsthe last steamer to leave Bnllnlo loi Detroit. She schooner Napoleon in lived at Biitlaln December 15lh, same year, and tho Antelope January»ttli, dealing again on the 7th ol tho same month. Mr He?eklnh Wlnslow, thj; wpll-known vessel owner of Cie.vfelrui(Vlyliiso demise took pluco in Paris, Franco, on tho 31st tilt, was widely known tliroiisrliont the hikes, It was quito a surprise to all ol his ucqualut- imces here.--------------■----- Two barges of la.rgo dimensions an In piouosi of coiibtiiiction at Bay City, In ad¬ dition to the Bleainer for Captain James Da¬ vidson At St. Clali on the rivei St. Clnlr, a stenmbarge Is also bolng built, of which more definite paitlciilais will ere long ho sent jouv Theie ure on the lapis some vessel sales of which the parties interested arc somewhat reticent In giving out, for tho reason that they have not been full) completed nnd tho money is not yet paid oven I hoped to bo In possession of full' particular before send¬ ing oil this dispatch, but am disappointed. They, however, will come In play at another time. To day (I'liesdnj) the wcalhcr Iihb some¬ what uloderatetl, ami we aie having an old- fashioned snow storm lionj the noithvasf Commencing, at an eaily per(pd I will en¬ deavor lo give In my next communication a iccord ol names of vessels which have been lost on tlio lake6, by taking each -year sepa¬ rately, as well as portions of other early marine history which have not appeared for the paBt lialf century, Captain W. B, Jlorlcy.of Marino City, Is tho latest murine arrival in this -city, with nothing important to communicate, Tlio ferry steamer Victoria, pi) ing bc- tweoii Detroit, Is an Ice boattoall Intents und purposes, as she passed through Ice ten inches thick, and made a dlstanae of half ti mile In twenty minutes. B. Whituker & Son have bargained for the Bale ol u one-fourth Interest In tho schooner Sweetheart for $5,000, nnd tlio whole of the stenmbarge Mary Mills As Ihe negotiations have not been Hilly gonn through with furthui paitlculars cannot at pieseut be made known, x M. E. B. A No. 2, of Detroit, hold Its elec¬ tion on Wednesday evening, December 20, tho following gentlemen being elected (or 1884 Charlis E. Soloun.mesidont; William [C'oiiliiiueiloii S'lt page].