The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

VOL. VI. NO. 9.-, CLEVELAND, t>., FEBRUARY 28,1884- 8{ 00 Fin Annua1 8lNOJ.il Copiiii 6 Ociiti AM Tim TEE LAKES. OLKyKLA^D. Judge Welkor has returned from Indian¬ apolis. Captain Jolin Cramer, of Tonawnnda, was in the city yesterday. William Prince, engineer of the Sheldon, has been confined to his bed for some time. Captain William Case and daughter have gone on a visit to friends In York §tnto. The penalty Is $100 If a mate or captain is found in charge of a Canadian boat without a certificate. The schooner I. X. Foster has bben sold by Clark I. Botts to E. Chllson and others. Consideration « 8,000. The schooner Geoige Sherman has boen sold by Everett-end otheis to William Jones, of Blaik Elver. Consideration $8,000. The new steamer being built nt St. Clair for Woods, Perry & Co. will bo fitted out by Upson & Wnlton. The engine will be put lu by the Globe Iron Works. Messrs Dewhlrst Bros, and Willlhms have bought the tug R. K. Hanley nt Lorain, of the Lorain, Tuscarawas Valley & Wheeling railroad. Consideration HOOOrShTwlllTje" used in towing at Cleveland harbor. Captain G. P. Leon Is a target before the Common Pleas Court in a suit for damages in the sum of $5,000, brought by Miss Adams, whp was cook on Captain Leon's vessel dur¬ ing tlio InBt senson. —George Henderson.nvho-was a seaman on the schooner Hears on Lake Huron, and who was charged with disobeying the cap¬ tain's orders at a lime when lie had the wheel, pleaded not guild. The case will come up for trlnl In a week or ten days. The suit brought by Messrs. Upson & Wnlton at Buffalo against the Lehigh Transportation Company lias been- decided in favor 'of plaintlHe. It was brought to ascertain how much authority a eaptaln of a vessel has In ordering goods before his ves¬ sel has been registered. Captain Enman, lormerly of the steam¬ ship Hiawatha, will take coinmnud of Cap¬ tain Thomas Wilson's new steamship, now pulldlng at Quayle's Sons' shipyard. The otlior vessel being built at Quayle's will be similar to tiie above and Mulshed for eteiun but will be used ns a consort for the prctent. The suit brought in the United States Dis¬ trict Court In this city by Robert Tarrant, of Chicago, 111 , ttgulnSt tho steam tug Amerl tan Eagle, owned by Edward Dnhlke of this city, In which Tarrant claimed (284.88 due lujn for material, repairs and labor furnished the tug In 1882, while she was In Chicago, has beon settled between the parlies and dis¬ missed. Hosel Downer, sub marine diver, of Chi¬ cago, is in the city lo depose in aeasewhcie- ln Captain P. Finley has sued Mr. Guiles, 6f the Cle\eland Mercantile and Marine In¬ surance Agency, for damages in (10,000, It will be remembered that Captain Plnley was' mastei of the Jane Bell when she went mimic seven miles this side of Ashtabula during the season of 1880. It Is said that Mr. Guiles mado a statement that Captain Plnley ran the schooner ashore purposely. Captain Goodwin and the Cleveland llfe- sitvers leturncirtrom Covington Inst Thurs¬ day after nine days' service with tliQ flood Stricken people of the Ohio valloy. On Wednesday, belore their return, the citizens of Covington, at a public meeting, voted each mcmbci of the crew a ten dollar gold pi^e to be appropriately engraven1, as tokens of appreciation of the value of the oxortlons made by the crew. Volunteer N. Tovat went w'th the crew, iib usual. In the case of collision between the schoon¬ er Minnie Davis and the bargo Harvest In tow of the tug Fannie Tuthlll the details are as follows: On the 25th of O'ctotysr, 1880, at about ten o'clock, a. m„ the scliooner Min¬ nie Davis was lying at the docks on the east side of the Cuyahoga river between St. Clair street and Upson & Walton's store. The lug Fannie Tuthlll about the tame time dime tip the east side of the river having In tow tho lumber bnrge Harvest', and when near the Davis, signaled tho bargo to star¬ board and go clear of the Davis. Instead of obeying the command, however, tho Harvest wont out ol her course nnd to port and not¬ withstanding the effort! of the tug to pull her to starboard, she run into and collided with the Davis cutting into the stern of said Davis about four - feet, smashing the stern and staving it in neaily to the water's £dge, broaklng and cutting the transoms, frames, deck beams, drlUng the cabin and decks forward a foot oi more, and thereby severely stialnlugTiid weakening the after part of the \essel. It is claimed on the part of the llbelluntv, MesBrs. Humphrey, Slsson ni.d Walter Fox, of Alexandiln Bay, N. T., owneisof tho Minnie Dnvla, that the tug was goiug at a rato ol speed too rapid tor such a mil row place In the river, and that both-tttg-aml burge-were-carelesslyaild neg- ligently handled. The ofllcers of the lug claim that the ofllcers of the barge failed to obey their commands, and tho ofHcors of the barge deny this and claim that they obeyed the slgnalB of the lug as they wcro hound In dn. 'Iho ofllcers of the tug further claim that the barge was very hard to tow, 'not hnving good steering capacity. Judge Welkef, in the District Court, decided that both the tug and barge were to blame, and tho matter being referred to Earl Bill as commissioner to ascertain and report the amount of the damages sustained by the Da¬ vis, the commissioner reported as follows For repah of siern, $100, for icpnirof bow, $17»; for towage for dockage, (35, and for de¬ murrage, (300 Exception!) were taken to the commissioner's report by* Patrick Smith, owner of the tug, on the ground that the amount allowed for icpalrs to the stern of the Davis was excessive because she w as In a rot¬ ten and decayed and unsound condition, and he should not be compelled to make her morn us good as new. Tho court however, con¬ firmed the report of tho commissioner and rendered a decree accordlpgli. Tho case was appealed and Judge Baxter, In the Cir¬ cuit Court, afllrmod tho decree of the Dis¬ trict Court , BUFFALO. • Special lo the Marina Record. The Marine Record can be found for snlo at iltr. C. Rohmor's newt stand, near Michigan swlr/g bridge. The Western Transportation Co.'s steamer Arabia Is having her upper works rebuilt and bullets repaired. David Del1 Is building an, iron tug with iron beams, piankBheurand bulwarks, 77 feet long, 10 feet bcum.O feet hold: engine, 20x 22)4; boiler, 13 feet long, 7 feet diameter, to carry high steam. Samuel Gibson, shipbuilder, Is building for John E Mclntyre, n steam yacht 00 feet long, 12 feet beam, 5 feet hold; englno 10x10, boiler of Otis steel O^ifeet long) 4 feet-diam¬ eter. He Is giving the tug Newsboy a thor- ongh rebuild nnd the tug Fulton, a thorough Overhauling., * George H. Not'tor, ship and boat bnlldor, Is building for A. Chesborough, of Toledo a tug 60 feet long, 15 foot beam, 7Jb feet hold; engine, 10x18; boiler, 11 feet long, 0 leet di¬ ameter. Also two canal boats and consorts for use on the Erie canal. Captain Case Is here from Marine City and Is salting down and having some necessary repairs done on the schooner Sweetheart. She has been chartered by Morley & Morse, of Cleveland, to the Menominee Company for six trips to carry Iron ore from Esoanaba to Ohio ports at (1.10 per ton, and coal back at going rate". Sutton Brothers, Le Couteul Btreet engi¬ neers and boiler makers, are building an en¬ gine 10x10 and boiler 6% feet long, 4 feet diameter for the steam yacht building by Samuel Gibson; an engine 10x12, boiler 7>£ feet long, 3 feet 10 inches diameter, for the Bteamyncht building by Joseph Supple; an engine 18x29 for a steambarge building at Lorain, Ohio, owned by Thew Chapman A Co.; an engine 10x20 for a tug ownod b.y Tim*. It. If ubboll, of Dotrolt;an engine 0x9, bpllcr 3 feet 8 Inches, for a tlshlng boat owned by E. D. Cartoi, of Erie '1 hcj w III iiIko put the machlnen Into the now lug building by O'Grudy & Mcaghoi foi Captain Thos Maytliau, Inspector Dlcki-on Hearniomli's deiislon In the ca"c of tho propeller F|td Munur Is considered a verj justone by the vessel men heie, none of whom are sorry that some of Captain Fred Popi's enemies have- received their reward. The full text of the decision iBIlSfollOHS. Office op U S. Local iNSPJccfoits op Stlam Vessfls Bupfalo, IT. Y , Feb. 20, 1884. , We the undersigned, United States local Inspectors of steam vessel*, Buftalo, N Y., find In Investigating the cause ol the strand¬ ing of tho steamship Fred Mercur on Eile peninsula, Pa., while endeavoring to make Die harbor of Erie, on tho afternoon of No- venibci 15,1883, during a heavy wind and snow storm, and after carelully couriering tin testimony taken, find the cause of the ►minding was owing to the neglect of Mate Peter A. McKlniion and hitonil Mate Win McCullom In not leportliigVsouiidlngs to Captain Pope, who was at his post of duty on the pilot house directing the movements of t|ic steamer. We further llnd that Captain Pope was at his post directing the move incuts of the steamer previous to turning round for Erie huibor, and from that time up to the time of stranding, and we exoner¬ ate him from blame We thereloie revoke tile license of Petor A. McKlnnou as first- class pilot and mate, and we suspend for six mouths the license of Win McOullom, sec¬ ond-class pilot, for gross neglect of duty as pilots lu not reporting soundings to Captain, Pope, of the steamship Fred Mercur, while attempting to enter the harbor ol Krle, Pa , on tho noon of November 15, 1883. Georgk B. Dickson, , Robert Lkaiimontu, Local Inspectors Steam VesBeJs. OBWKGO. Captain James Savage of Wellington, Out., has purchased the scliooner Agnes Hope of Poi t Hope John Richards, of Plcton has completed a model of a light pressure boiler and will apply for a patent for It. Jofin Elklu nnd Thos. Bates, the dLvers who went from this city to endeavor to re¬ cover tho bodies of three victims of the late railroad disaster at WeeiUiiort on tho South¬ ern Central roatl returned without having recovered the objects ef their seal eh. Pro- j bably the bodies ol the unfoitunato men were swept under the Ice. I ditiioit. Special It the fcarlne Jlerord Dktroit, February 20. From the St. C lair ship canal throughout to Bar Point, Lake Erie, navigation Is un¬ impeded, nnd a few more days of mild weath¬ er will enable a steamer to reach as far as Algonac, on the St. Clair river. This un¬ looked-for event may possibly arlso before a steamer will be In readiness, to make, tho trli), and yet another cold snap would change the program, though hardly probable. The lee embargo at Grand Haven, from advices Just received, seems ns obstinate as at any time during the present winter. Tho propeller Wisconsin lies blockaded ono mile distant from Grand Haven and her consort, the Miclngan, four miles out, both having full cargoes of cast-bound freight. A change of wind Is necessary before they can be re¬ leased. Passengers nnd others desirotiB of reaolilng terra llrraa came ashore on the ice.. No water 1b visible as far as the ej o can ex¬ tend. Murphy Bros, of this city, will be pre¬ pared with eight fltst-chiss steamers for the towing and wrecking business the coming season,composed of the following named boats: Ballze, W. A. Moore,Gladiator, Kate Moflut, Kate Williams, Andrew J. Smith,' Chtulcs Kellogg and Mlrl^gan. Captain Boj nton, of the steamer Algomah, w hich has been frozen in at the Straits nearly all winter, icpoits. piognssand that tbero Is irprobability of hei rcleaselmd reaching her dock In about ten da}8, which will bring It to the month of Mat ch, oi in the spi log time of the season. She is being nioied about 200 feet In twenty four hours through Ice and snow, the latter being about two and it half feet deep and almost as great an impediment as the former. That some strategy must be devised toward crossing this channel during the whiter teim In the future there Is no ellanco lor argument and the Issue Is only a question of time Messrs. Meruk & Castloton are having thorough repatis laid out among several vessels of tinIr fleet, which includes the schooners M. F. Mcrick, Montgomery and Monterey, »hich will be done at tho porn, of Ashtabula and Clc\elaud, where they wero laid up in the fall The work of placing Iho schooner Bene- diet In sea-going shape lias commented un¬ der the supervision of t aptaln J B Mulotr, who la joint ow ner with ( aptaln D. Webster. James P. Donaldson & Co , have had pre¬ pared a draft for a schooner-rigged sailing yacht, which will bo by them-oairlcd out to completion as regards all the material She will be 52 feet kiel, 20 feet beam, and 7 feet depth. From tho drawings shown me she will be ol handsome model and a fast sailer. She will bo owned by Henry C. Hart, Esq., of this olty. J. R. Gtllett is desirous of retiring from the tug business and to that end will dUpose of the tugs he has on hand ns soon as pos¬ sible. Tho w liarvcs and piers variously located on Pldgeon Bay are being rebuilt and pro- pared for business cro the time for shipping commences in the spring. A well oxocuted marine painting Is on ex¬ hibition heie In tho window of one of our prominent Jowelry bouses which iiat culled forth miichjiraise from expeits in that line. It represents a) In-lit mining head on with [Continued on £'a fag$\.