10 VOL. VI. NO. 10. CLEVELAND. O., MARCH 6,4884 • U.00 Ph Annua Sijroii cown 1 Cuiji XBQUJW TEE LARES. CLEVELAND. The Marine Record will remove to the Leader Building, Superior Street, next week. Captain Lockwood will Bull the J. S. Rich- ards next season. Qapurtn J. P. Hurrow Is rebuilding the stea'tobarge Plymouth. Captnln John Shaw, of Bay City, U In Cleveland on business. Captain Wm. Cnmmlngs, of the Ward Line, will sail the Vienna the coming season. Seventeen marine patients wore treatednt the city hospital during the month of Feb- mary. Repairs to the J. S. Fay will be completed on Friday, after which the Osbom will oc¬ cupy the Globe drydook. The schooner Sweetheart has been chartered -for six trips ore, at $1.10 from Escanaba to Ohio ports. ' Frank Holt Is making n towbarge of the Fiank Perew by taking out her spars. She is owned by Jeiry Green, of Saginaw. • S, P. Caldwell will bo manager of the Western Transit Co., formerly mauagei of the Union SteamboiitrCo. C nptnin Joseph Cottrell will sail one of Ward's steamers until the completion of Mi Morfey's steamer at Mur.ne Cltv, wlien'he will take command of her. The admiralty docket in the United Stntcs District Court will not be taken up for trial until about the middle of this month. There aie many cases on the list. Estimates have been made on the cost of repairing Main street bridge, which has been in bad condition for live months. The city engineer places the cost, with engine and boiler, at $15,000. Morley & Morse have-sold the steamer N. K. Fairbanks to Captain Hugh Hastings, of Milan, O., and Captain J. W. Moore, Captain George Bcrriman and John O. Fltzpntrlek, of tills city. Consideration, (10,000. Captain II. Hastings will sail her He will go on Monday to Marine City to look after her. Messrs. Palmer & lionliiiiii, vessel owners and agents, who have occuplod rooms In the coal exchange building u number of years, will move into the new bank building on the corner of Superior and Bank streets. Tile criminal case in the United States District Court against George Henderson, a seaman on board the schooner Mears during last season, charged with leaving • the wheol contrary to the lawful command of the mate of the vessel, will probably come up for trial somo time during next week. t The suit brought on the 5th of January last, In the United States District Court by Robert Tarrent, executor of the last will and testamont of tiottlelb F. W. Roller, deceased, late of the city of Chicago, 111., ng dust the tug American Eagle of this city for materials and supplies furnished the tug while she was In Chicago in 1882, has been settled and dismissed. The amount claimed was $102.47. ^ The Marine Record will remove to thu Leader Building, Superior Street, next week. , ALI'ENA. The little tug James Anderson burned on Long Lake, near Alponu, on the morning (jt the 10th—the work of an Ine.eiidlarv. DETROIT. Special It the'Marine Rami. 1 Detroit, March 5'. Captain Harry Whltaker, an old lake vet¬ eran who commenced navigating the lakes in 1819 and Who subsequently commanded vessels and steamers up to 1850, Is, lying very ill at his residence In this city. His physicians state that It is an utter Impossi¬ bility for him to recover and a questionof but a few days, perhaps hours, ere he passes beyond the shores of time. He was born In 1801 and there are but few of these old pio¬ neers remaining. The following vessel transactions have taken place within the past tew days: Barges Commodore and Peck to Adolph Perrlt, East Saginaw, price $20,000; .barge E. F. Gould to James Donley, East Saginaw, $4,000; barge B. B. Buekout to A. McLean, East Saginaw, $0,000. B. W. Whltaker & Son have1 purchased the remaining Interest In (he bark Unadllla fioin Morley Bros, and now own her entire. Captain Allen Molntyro, for several years inaBtcr of the propeller Peerless, plying be¬ tween Chicago and Lako Suporlor, will this soiiBon command one of the new Canadian steamers recently biought over from Scot¬ land to run between Owen Sound and Fort William. There Is perhaps no better pilot on Lake Supeilor watera than Captain Mc. Tho promotion will thorefore be held with pleasure by his many acquaintances. The tug Champion has been puiohased by Marshall H. Strong, of this city, foi $10,000. She Is one ot the bust of that class of steam¬ ers on tl;e hikes. She was built at Detroit, by Campbell & Owen, in 1808 for the late U. N. Strong, and la 203 tons burden. The new railway stenmer launched at Wy- audotte last fall has been completed find named the Michigan Central. The follow¬ ing aro her dimensions: Length, S75fcet; extreme width, 75 feet; amidships, 45 feet 4 Inches, and is (ho largest yet constructed lor the purposo for which she Is tntendqd. She will carry twenty-four cars of twenty-three lect length. The coBt Is $275,000. A day or two since she performed her trial trip and gave the best of satisfaction. Captain Alfred, who was In command of the steamer Great Western, which sunk the schooner John Stevenson, of which you were Informed, liaBbeen suspended. The work of raising the sunken vesBol is now being cur¬ ried out by the railway company, but with slow progrosB. Captain Westcott, ot Marine City, has bought an Interest in thesteambargo Lowell and will command her the coming season. The Bteamcr ldlewlld Is undergoing the usual preparations for thu season's business at Port Huron, and will reach lime as booh as the way 1b clear, • Mr. C. McElroy, vessel owner at Marine Cltv, was In this city yesterday. A new steamer for Captain John A. Sloan and others and Intended lor the De¬ troit and Port Huron route, will have her keel laid about the month of Juno next, but will not be ready for business before a year from that time. Murphy Bros, are reconstructing the eclioonei Hany Blssell, bucVos now decks, planksheur, otc, etc. The Detroit & Cleveland Navigation Co. have made the following appointments for their boats this season: Steamers City of Cleveland, Captain Albert Stewait; City of Mackinaw, Captain Aliens MeKnv City ol Detroit, Captain D. A. MoLachlan; North¬ west, Captain Dugald McL.ncb.lan. ° Captliln Michael Gallon, of Buffalo, paid Detroit a \lslt the oilier day oi) business matters, 'Fiom Poit Huron there also ar¬ rived Captain John Downer, George Green and R. E. Gage. From Greenfield, Mich., Captain Leandcr Waffle, one of the old school lake navigators. Cnptnlu Jnnles Stone will command the new steambarge City of Cleveland the com¬ ing season, and Captain Albert Stone the steambarge Sarah E. Sheldon. As regardB the opening of navigation, since the present cold snap has set In opin¬ ions have considerably changed, and nearly every one Is at sea'on that point. Should the weather contlnuo cold during the month the probability Is It » 111 be deferred until In May, which seems likely. In 1807 navi¬ gation opened at Buflalo June 7th, since, which period It has occurred forty-four times In the month of April, twelve In May ufld but six times in the month of March, During the winter of 18-15 the steamer Uni¬ ted Slates traversed between Buflalo and Detroit, one trip each winter month com¬ manded by Captain II. Whltaker Aside from thlB Incident March 7th was the earli¬ est which was in 1842, the steamer General Scott arriving at that port. The Straits of Mackinac, since 1837 and Including that j ear, has opened forty-live times In the month of April, in March tout times, and May nine times. The earliest passage \mib March 0,1882, and the lug Whitlow with u bargo the flrst to pass through. Through the Sault canal, since 1855, when it was 111 at opened^ the passages wero on twenty-one occasions In May and seven In April, The earliest was In 1878, April 8, when there was a clear passage several days before the arrival ol steamers or vessels. At Cleve¬ land, since 1820, tho prevailing opening month tins been March. Tho steamer Uni¬ ted States arrived there from Buflalo, Jan nary 4,18-15, and on February 1,1831 steam¬ ers and vessels cleared and arrived regularly without any Interference from ice whatever. J. W. II. CHICAGO. Special la the Murine JieconL Judge Blodgetton the 3d Inst., in "the case of Ryerson against the tug American Eagle, decided an lntciCBtlng point of maritime law. Tills was a libel filed by the assignee of a material man who had furnished 'material for repairing the tug, and who hud assigned ills claim to the llbellant, who sought to enforce his lien. The respondent objected on tho ground Unit no lien attached In favor of the assignee. It was conceded that the original creditor had n Hen under tho murl- tlme laws of the State for supplies furnished, but It wiib claimed that the lien did not inure to the benefit ot the assignee. The Court said there was no doubt dicta to that effect, but the reliable authorities were all In favor of supporting the lien In behalf of the assignee If It existed In favor of tlie oilglniil creditor. That question was dis¬ cussed In the case of the Surah J. Ward, 5 Lowell, 505, and the decision was expressly made that tho rights of the crcditoi wei|t, with thu indebtedness; that thu lieu was part of the indebtedness, and went witli it into the hands ot any one to whom the debt was assigned. The exceptions to the mantel'a report would therefore be overruled. The Seamen's Union held Its regular week¬ ly meeting at headquarters Monday evening. The following delegates to> the State Labor Convention, to be held In Chicago "March 26, wqre elected: Charlos Meagher, John Simp- ion, Edwaid Ridley, James Horn, Richard PoWeis. A letter from Hon. M. A» Foran, member of Congress from Ohio, was read, in which the writer informed the union that lie would endeavor to bring Its bill to regu¬ late lnke shipping betore the Hvuse Com¬ mittee on Commerce at once. He favors the bill, hut Is satisfied that it will be stubbornly contested In the House. The Union authors Izes President Powers to visit Washington In the* Interest of the measure. BUHFAIO. Special to the Marine Record. Captain William- Mitchell, of the firm oi Mitchell & Boutell, Bay City, was in the city on Satuiduy. Henry Greene, who wbb drowned last week In New York harbor in the collision between tho Cunaid steamship Cephalona and the tug Glcndalc, was the son of Oliver Greene, of the humane society In this city. Ho was twenty-seven years of age and un¬ married. Wm. Illngston & Son, boat and ynch builders, are building lor Mr. Helwlg, of Dunkirk, a two-maBtcd llshlng bout tor gill net tlBljJng, 27 feet long, «)£ feet beam and 2)., leet deep. They have compacted and will commentu at once to build for D. P„ Dobbins six of his celebrated llleboats of tho following dimensions 21 leet long, 0 feet 0 inches beiun, J teut .1 inches deep. A company ot enterprising gentlemen have purchased the United States sltlewheel Bteamci Commodore Perry. The Bldewheela will be taken oil and a wheel at the stern will ho substituted, and cabins and e\ery modern convenience will be fitted up so as to convert her Into an excellent excursion boat, Pctor A. McKlnnon and William McCul- lom, who were tho flrst and second mates on the propeller Fred Mcicur, at the time of her stranding near Erie last fall, ivlll appeal agulnBt tho decision of Local InspcUois Dickson and Learmoulh, to Mr. VanValk- enbnrg, supervising Inspectoi. The Asso¬ ciation of pilotB of this city have taken the uuittei up and Mr. Josiah Cook hub been re¬ tained us couiiBel for the appellants Superintendent D 1*. Dobbins has ro» ceived an order from the general superin¬ tendent of tho llfu sa\ lug service at Wash¬ ington, to hnvc built six of his iinsubmcrgea- blc, Bclf-rlglitlng-and self-balling lifeboats. D. P. Dobbins has arranged with Win. Illng¬ ston it Son to build them by May let. They will be sent to tho following stations. One to Salmon Creek, Mexico Bay, one to Oswego and one to Charlotte, Lake Ontario; one to Erie, one to Cloveland and one to Point Mar- blelicad, Luke Erie. The stations ot Big Sandy, Lake Ontario, and Buffalo and Fair- port. Lake Erlo, uro already supplied with them, and when the six now boats are com¬ pleted and distributed nil the lake stations in Superintendent Dobbin's Ninth, District will iiuve one ot his famous boats.' They are splendid boatB and wc hope soon to see them on hoard of all the passenger Ble.uners on the hikes. .daiiagci Biilluid, ot the Union Steamboat Company, lias appointed the following mas- tuis, tor the coming season Stcaijisliip II, J. Jewett, Waltei Robinson, propeller 11m Ik ester, James W.Mooie, New York, John B. Hall; Avon, Austin A. Phelps, 1! W. [L'(ititi»iici(>in J'/i patje.|