VOL. VI. NO: 6. CLEVELAND-O. FEBRUARY 7,4884. 10.00 Pin AHXUlifp tS SlVOLV COPIIIB b CEITTl dROUN® TEE MKE8. CLEVF&AND. Captain C. W. Elpliloke of Chicago, was in Cleveland on Friday last. Palmer & Johnson sold the tug Goodnow to Wolf <fc Davidson for $14,000. W. H. Wolf, of the firm of Woli & David¬ son, shipbuilders, Milwaukee, is in this city. Captain Stephen Xangston of Detroit and William Goudle of Port Huron were in the city yesterday. The schooner J. S. Bichnrds hat beep sold by George Berrlman to John Cojrlgan. Pur¬ chase robnoy $8,000. The Cuyahoga Steam Furnace Company is compounding the engines of the steain- bnrge Oscar Townaend. , Palmer & Benltiim Bold the steambarge Business for Wolf A Davidson, to Palmer, Johnson and ollics, for $02,000. It Is rumored that W. W. Loomis, ship¬ builder at Erie, Intends to_t>ulld a ilrydock ~nTthat place during" the coming season, Cnptaln J. F Pretton, of St. Joseph, Mich., Is In the city with the Intention of purchas¬ ing a steambarge. Mr. Pieston. some years ago, was tlio owner of the Sky L.uk. Captain McCloud, itispectoi toi Lloyd'B reglstcf, who was In the illy last week, in¬ spected the vessels consldeied doubtful only All others »111 remain In the class they were rated foi lust/season. • The admiralty case of Jesse Sims agalnsl the propollu Chicago wis culled, and con¬ tinued, attorneys Interested not being nmdy toi the irlal. Sims asks fur compensation lor one ol his mud stows, which tl epropell- oi demolished in O113 ahog 11 Ivcr Inst season Mr. W. D. Scott 11111] Captain George Qi-irl man have formed a partncishlp by consoli¬ dating their Interests. Tor the past twenty jcars Captain Scott has ghen his attention to lire and marine insurance, and Cnptnin Berrlman lias been largely connected with the Iron ore interests of tlio country, having been for years the Cleveland agent of the Emmettaud other good mines. The Hi m will continue to oiuip) their old quaiters nt U0 Water street, where thej will be pleased in see their friends. We w'sh tile gentlemen as much prosperity as a IIim as nt'ended theiuludivlduaHy Anderson & Bell aio building 11 handsome sloop pleasure yncht Length over all, .15 lii't, beam 11 feet, depth of hold, 4 feet 0 Inches. She will have a uitilu which will extend eighteen Indies above iliodttk, and n 111 bo 15 feet In length and 5 feet 4 inches J!_doj)th2Jn which vCil bo four berths. Her mast will be 42 feet, topmast 10 feet, bow- spi It 22 feet, boom 27 feet, gnfl 11 (tMTholut- ol mainsail 28 feet, a topsail 17 foet on the gall, 21 feet on the hoist, and Jibs In propor¬ tion She will be a competitor at the Fom th of July regatta, and we wish her. enterpris¬ ing young builders great success. She will be named tho Mary Anderson. Two suits in admiralty have been com¬ menced against the tug American Eagle, In thq United States di trlct court. The first was brought by Robert TnrrnnTtof Chicago, a inauufaoturorof marine engliles, who pre¬ sents 11 claim foi $284.88 against the tug for engineer's supplies. Ho also commences the other suit, as executor of the will of Gottlieb F. W. Rollar. Ho sets forth that tho fug owed Mr. Rnllnr $102 47 for mpplles fur¬ nished on contract. The American Eagle Is owned by Edward Diihlke.of this city, but before the boat came to Cleveland ho em¬ ployed her In Chicago harbor** Tho monthly meteorological summary Is¬ sued by the signal officer, for tho month of January shows It to have been nu unusually severe one. With the exception of January and February, 1875, It wib the coldest month that has occurred- here in fourteen years. The menu temperature for the month Is 10.3° that being 7.0° below the average for Janu¬ ary. The amount of precipitation was 1.66 fuches being 1.01 inches below the average. The Velocity of tho wind was much "above the average. The month, taken as a whole, was cold, stormy, and moderately dry. A veiy handsome iron steam fishing tug isiielng built bj J. Chatterton nt 30 West Center street, for II. F Loomis. She is of the following dimensions Length over all, 53 teet; breadth of beam, 0 feet; depth of hold 5 feet 0 Inches. Her frames are of "one anil a half inches steel angle, outsldo plat* Ing of steel three-sixteenths of an inch thick, deck beams of T Iron one and a half Inches, deck of Iron three-sixteenths of 1111 Inch thick. The house, coal bunkers, and all other parts will bo of lion. She will have thrie water tight bulkheads. Lord & Bowler will sup¬ ply her with a double engine with 0x8 cyl- liideifl J, Chattel ton will supply the bolter which w(ll bo 10 feet In length, 3 feet 0 Inches shell of Otis steel. V D. Nlckcrson, our Cleveland marine ariTst, has finished his very fine picture, five ft^t long by 30 Inches wide, in pasfel, of the schooner Sophia Mliicli, ashore off^ClevtL land Vast of the east pier, on the Olh of No¬ vember, 188,1. The scone leprcs'iits the Hchoonei as she appeared at 11 a m of that day, with tho huge Detiolt liver tugs Cham¬ pion and William A. Moore and the Cleve¬ land tugs Forest Cltj, Mai y Vlrglnius and American Eagle pulling her oil the beach, the lug J. it' Worswlck, lowing a lighter containing 00 tons of ore taken from the Mind), and tho tug Dreadnaught towing a "llglitei, w Ith lOt) men on hoard who had been at work011 tlio Minch Cleveland pleis and the docks and buildings which foi in tlm backgiound of tho picture, lepresents an e\- cellent view of Cleveland from the hike Hie lna\y sen and clouds are very Inith- fullj depicted 'I be picture Is 11 very line^ mirk of art mid Is striking and lenl.and iniinot lull to be greatly nppicclatcd by nil vesscluien, who delight lu tilings appertain¬ ing to theii profession. DUrillDIT. S/wcfa/ to tft* Marine Record Dktiioit, February 5. I foil In " ith a perfect cavalcade of ship owners and masters nt Morgan & Rice's of- the, at No 20Cliainber of Commerce; In this ell), where they make their hoadqiiirlerB to talk over vessel m ittei s In the way of buy¬ ing and selling, but all fighting shy of enoli other. For' the present there is not much push In such matters, save the purchase of one-slxtconth Interest in the steambarge A. A. Turner, bargeB Smith and Star of the North foi $4,000, the purchaser being Cap tain J. W. Surlos, who will command the Btoamor. At latest advices tho Propellers Wisconsin and Michigan, plj lug between Milwaukee and GrandHaven, lay blockaded by Ice some threo miles distant from the latter port, where they have been for threo or four days. The reporled pule of the barge Middlesex for $40,000 (s denied. Ciiptnln Jns J. Kloidnu, marine Inspector for the Continental Insurance Company, of New York, Is In tills city examining vessel propel ty with n vlow to thoroughly revise the marine reglstor of 1883", which will be prepared under his supervision, He has employed marine exports at different lake ports to aid him In the work, -In order to have It completed as early ns possible. CaptaiiiB Taylor and Fleet, of Toronto, are attending to the Inspection ot CnnaJlan ves sels and will publish a separate register. It Is an old adage that if you want to get home news you must go abrpad, which I found exemplified the other day In a west¬ ernx journal, which had a sensational article copied from'the Toi onto Mail, presenting in detail the wreckjm Lake Huron, late last full, of the BteamefTity of the Straits, with the loss of six lives, including the captain and his wife, and the terrible sufferings of tho survivors. It Is n woli gotten up yarn and might be swallowed whole down among the South Sea Islands. But when the fact is known that uo such Bteamer was over on, the lake, and no such Incident occurred bb related, 110 such flapdoodlelsm can be taken I In about heie even if well salted, The stenmei City Of Dresden wlll.ashere- toloie, ply on the samo route as Inst 3 ear, Windsor and Leamington, commanded by Captain Jolin Weston. The Detroit r.ver Is again open and ;itil¬ ers passing withoutdllllciilty. The United State s District Court here Is thronged with admiralty cases, with wit¬ nesses from every point of the compass. Captain Alwi Dodge, who has long been a resident In this cllj, has lemoved to Giaud Haven, having received the appointment at thai placoot United States Inspector of hulls Abram Smith, the well known ship owuei anil builder, of Algoiuie, and C.iptaiu James Hamilton, of Alpeiin, cue lccent vlsitois io tblsilty. The npi ointments of masters of vailous steamboat lines haw) not yet been full} de¬ termined. With some of tlicin there will be little or no chnngc, und the ciibtom of ku p- ing the right mini in the right place will be adhered to. 'Ibere aie eeveial mnstcis hole on tlio anxious seat I'he steamer building atJohn Cades'ship- yniel, lu this cit}, Is well advanced. Her di, uic nslons arc 111 feet over all, 1)0 feci beiiin and 10 teet hold, and she will cor-t $.]J,(H)0 She will he pjopeller and not sldewhcc I as lieretolore stated, with a ej llndei Ills iI unci 0 foot whcol ( aplaln nenry Fish, of I'oit Huion, will command the m w steamer building at St Chili, and Is-superlntending hci construc¬ tion. 'lhero were 210 Jays of nnvlgatlnn during the season of 18,10, during which peilod theie arrived nt the port of Cleveland with cargoes 011 sloops, schooners and brigs with an aggregate tomiago of 77,4.15, Dur¬ ing the 6ame time 0S0 arrivals of steamers with passengers. Navigation opened at that port March 15th and doted November 28th At Butlalo, during the same season, 810 steamers arrived nnd.11 like nunibei cicim.il. '1 tie average measurement of these boats was 280 tons with an aggregate of 451600 tons. During the samo period 1,047 slaps, brigs, ec hooners and sloops also arrived and the same number cleared v. Ith jln average of 00 tons each, and an aggregate of '88,400 tons, making a grund total of 012,000 tons. The gotting up of a steamer to make whi¬ ter voyages at Mackln«c nuclei any ami all cliciiuisinncesls a pioblem not jet solved? The steamer Algomnh, although built ex¬ pressly foi that purpose, lias been thoioughly experimented with nndhas proved a failure. In short, it Is lo bo doubted 11 It can ever be ac¬ complished without keeping open a beaten track bv making numerous dally passages, business or no business, and even then there aio grave eloubts. bo far as the Algomnh Is concerned she has been abandoned Cor the winter, The next thing In order Is either a bridge or a tunnel. The former would be fought ngnliist by shippers and vessel own¬ ers from Chicago to Montrenl. The latter assumes the aspect of an impossibility. But as rcgurdB the bridge, the question is asked, Why not? Two open draws of 100 feet span each, with proper lights kept up during the night hours, ought to enable a vessel to pasB through when there are no lieav) sens with ns much safety ns entering any of our small lake hnrbois during tempestuous weather. The question is uoithyol* agitation In some debatable soclutj, and I will leave the sub¬ ject for theli dlscirssion. In your last issue 1 notice an article hav¬ ing reference to tlio "Royal William" ng being the first steamer to cross the Atlantic, which wiglniilly appeared In the "Quebec Chronicle, and places the ciedit of the un¬ dertaking to the Canadians. The statement I notlcsjl taking the round* of the papers some years since, but it Is nevertheless in¬ correct flit llrBt steamer to uoss the At¬ lantic was an American, the steamship Sa¬ vannah, built, owiipcI and na\igntec| by Aniarlcnns, TriuitD Pickett, of New York, hulk liei I'm .Daniel Doelel, and the engines were made by Stephen Vail, of Morrlstown, X J She was Commanded liy (aptnln Moses Rbgers, ami lunlgnltel bj Stephen Itogeis, of New London, Conn she sailed tium Savannah, Gi, on the 20th uf Maj, lblO, and nirived tit Liverpool June 10th, following The London 1 Imes of that |ici iod gives a bilef account of her voyage ovei ami adds "Hie SiiMinn ih, steam vee»el, re¬ cently 111 lived at Liverpool from Anieiica, the first vessel pf the kind that ever. trotted tho Uhinl!(, was chased Xlio whole da) oil 'he conbt ul Ireland, by the Klto, levcnuo cutter, 011 the Coik station, which mistook lu 1 foi a ship 011 Hie " Mic was JjO tons bin den. 1 he stock Is ileal ll nil taken up 111 thin cllj foi the tonsil lie lion ol i side-wheel stenmei to plj between Detroit and Per1 Union. Hci illintn-lons will he nc.iil} the same an the ( ity ol < levehiml, mid the build¬ er Is to guarantee that she will make twenty miles pel hour, to leave Detroit at 7 a m. tand to return the same day at 8 p 111 Af¬ ter her return 6be will bo on hand to make excursions on the river I'liilher details will be given you at another time. Captain Thomas Prlngle, ot Marine City, a well known vesselman, Is a late arrival In this city. The weather Is opon with, a dense fog on tljils, Tuesday, a in. J. W. II. KINGSTON (. aptain Steve Tjo Is engaged In building a wharf for Mr. T Donogluie, In rear of his premises, Ontario street. The w Inn f will bo 300 feet long Edward Oh aril, engineer of the propeller Argylc, lias bee 11 engaged at Clayton to fit out tho steamer Tlowei City. He finds the machinery but slightly damaged In the inajn, but small pints will be replaced by now. [C»iifniiieii"N j'h page].