19' ~v DEVOT Er D_ T O CO M'M E RC E ,v E N G I N E E R I N G A N D SCI' E N C E . VOL. VI. NO. .16. CLEVELAND. O...APRIL 17,1884 KOO Fn AXKOV SlNOll COPIM S ClMTf tiROUm T$E MKEB. CAUTIONARY SIGNALS. United States Signal Office J Cleveland, 0., April 14, 1884, f The display of cautionary signals will be Tesumed on Lakes Superior and Huron oi May 1st. Persons interested In navigation will please take notice. Wm. Line, Sergt. Signal Corps, U. S. A. CLEVELAND. The propeller N. K. Fairbanks arrived at this port trotn Marine City, on the 14th. Captain H. Cummlngs has gone to Chicago to prepalr the fine schooner Cnmden for business. Inspectors B.. A. Stanartl and T. Fltz- pitrick left Tuesday on a tour of inspection. The business will take them to Sandusky and Toledo. Captain A. B. Foster has gone to Escauaba to take charge of his schooner, the Erastus Corning, recently purchased by S.H.Foster .mil !Y. Arnold. The Ice In the Straits is so soft that a steamer can go through at the rate of six miles an hour. It Is thought that sailing vessels may'got through In about a week. We are requested to state that Captain Ben- ham will ntonqe take oharge of -the body of Captain A. Smith, one of the unlortunate* of the tug Peter Smith, if the Under will no¬ tify him. ' _ r Messrs. Duffy & Bourke have purchased the flue canal schooner J. S. Richards of Corrigan Brothers. Consideration $7,000. Captain LookwoOd vlll sail her this season aid has gone to Escanaba to look after her _rt>out. (- ' "Engineer S. A. Wells Went to Buffalo two weeks ago to'place on the steamer William Edwards a patent reverse gear, manufac¬ tured by the Globo Iron works, which Is found to ^rjvo, great satisfaction. Captain Mallory left this wcok to take charge of the \ e>sel, 1 lie decision- reached by inspettois B. A. Ranald and T. Fltzpatilck In regard to the holler explosion on the tug Peter Smith cor- tobrtrntcs our conjecture last week that the machinery was In charge of "an unlicensed^ * engineer at the time the catastrophe oc- i in red J tic steiimbargo Mackinaw, Captain W K Rice, will go Into the lumber tiude be¬ tween this port and Ilarrisvllle It is thought that Captain Rice, however, will be transferred to the steambarge Keystone, «hich George L. CohveU has recently p'ur- i based, and aiiew master given to the Mack¬ inaw. « Masters have been appointed for the Re¬ public line as follows. SteamerContlnental, Captain C. M. Davis, of Milwaukee; her consort the schooner Magnetic, Captain J. D. Muller; steamer Colonial, Captain John Lamphler; her consort, schooner Specular, Captain Charles Towers; steamer Republic, Captain William S. Mack; her consort, the schooner Grape Holland, Captain II. 6. Rattray ^all the. s uno as last Reason. Several vessels have taken on coal cargoes during the past few UayB. The steamers Jsrvls Lord and Henry Chlsholm for Mil watikee and schooner Emma C. Hutchinson lor Chicago, »tMr. Axworthy's dock; the steamer Fred A. Morse and S, J. Macy are being loaded by Todd, StambaUgh & Co., the' former for Milwaukee and the latter for Chicago; 'the same firm Is loading the schooner G.' H, Worthlngton for Chicago. Captain P. Smith has commenced dredging in the river. The steamers City of Detroit and North. west are making regular trips and good time. The tugs American Eagle and Dreadi naught are out with flying colors and a new coat of paint. The schooner Sophia Mlnclr will have a new set of charts to navigate wlth^thh sea¬ son. ■"" Messrs. Palmer & Benham have sold to Clark I. Butts, the schooner Thomas B. Sheldon. Consideration »1W,000. Judge E. Glaser of Escanaba, In a private | letter to his brother In this city says the Ice at that port Is Arm and solid. We are' glad to learn that Captain Good¬ win, of the life saving station, 1b soon to receive a Dobbins boat that cannot be sub¬ merged. The steambarge Oscar Townsend, which has had her engine compounded at the Cuyahogit Furnace, made a trial trip yester¬ day. V. D. Nlckerson, marine artist, who has had the schooner Niagara on the stocks for .the past week, has just completed her. She will be launched with fitting honor. A number of prominent Cleveland vessel owners are considering the -advisability of forming a pool for thelnsuranpe of ithelr ves, sels, the details of which we will probably be able to give next week when, the measure will have assumed a more definite shape. Captain Edward McGeelinn, whq died at Ann Arbpr, Mich., on the°15th, will be burled from the Franklin avenue M. E. church on Sunday. Captain McGeelinn has long been a resident of Cleveland and Was held in high honor by his friends. Wo stated last week that the firm of Becker & Kelly, commercial brokers and vessels agents, had been changed, but omitted to say that Captain Henry Brock had entered the llrm which is the fact. The name of the tlrfii, now Is D M. Becker & Co. The Bchooner J. T Johnson, whlch-lmd such a mm ions time at this port last tall, In now being repaired by her owners, J. C Gilchrist & I o , at Vermillion. Bcr decks have betn cut down two feet, and she will be made Into a lumber bingo Messrs CJp- bon A, Walton will-furnish her with an en- 'tlre new net of sails Captain William Mack and Messrs. Jiiines and Joliu Corrigan have purchased l|to fljie schooner James Couch, the consideration being $25,000. The Couch will be consort, with the Holland, of tho Btcamer Republic, nnil will be sailed by (Captain A. Bolton in the ore trade. Captain Bolton last season was master of the Maxwell. Gaptaln A. Bradloy'a fine schooner City of Cleveland, after being transformed Into a steamer hy machinery from the Globe Iron Works, vacated the Globe drydock on Tues¬ day night.' The schooner Oomrade now de- cuplcB the dock to have her bottom calked. She has hud her topsldes calked and a new coat of paint and looks quite fresh. Tho charter of the steambarge Cumber¬ land and consort Comrade, wort reported on Tuesday, coal from Cleveland to Chloago at 75c. The schooner Helvetia Is also under¬ stood to bo Joadlng coal for Chicago at the same price. Tho schooner Grace Holland Is also chartered and Is taking coal at the Ohio '& Pennsylvania Railroad Company's dock for Escanaba. Tho propeller Anna Smith and consorts King nod Mead are chartered for coal to Green Bay at 75c. Detroit: SpftfaJ to Iht ttartm Reort. DarnoiT, April 15. In some unaccountable way an error crept In thejjarratjve of Lake Huron In the last Issue ofthe-MKConD which I desire to square with the recerd. The Bteamer Superior, which made the voyage to the Sault in 1822 and the first steamer to visit that point, was commanded by Captain Jcdedlnh Rodgers, and not by Captain W. T. PenBC, as was stated, as the latter gentlemnn did not assume command of the Superior until 1830. I also wish to correct a statement which ap peaicd In the obituary of Captain Geo. B. Dickson, which says the name of his uncle with whom he first sailed wqs Patrick Dick¬ son, bis full name being William Dickson. Yet in those early times there wero some who used the appellation of "Paddy" Dick¬ son as a sort of nickname. - .Thus far the present month the weather has been more than usually cold, notwith¬ standing steamers are trying to force their way as far westward on Lake Huron as pos¬ sible. The steamer Flora succeeded In reaching Alpena on the 12th and returned to the river St. Clair, It Is stated, In good shape. To return to Detroit was simply Im possible owing to the Ice jam at the St. Clair Hats. The steamers City of Cleveland and Pearl made an effort from here to reach St. Clair river, but were defeated in the at- tempt and were compelled to return, the latter with some of her paddles broken. On Wednesday lust the new steamer built at the Detroit Drydock Company's yard was launched in tho presence of a goodly num¬ ber of spectators. The hour appointed whs at i p. in., sharp, and there Is no mistaking tlie fact that Captain J. C. Parker, the su¬ perintendent, had everything admirably ar¬ ranged, and precisely at the hour tho mon¬ ster iraft moved gracefully Into the blue waters of the Detroit rlvei amid the cheer¬ ing of people from all sides and the shriek¬ ing of numerous ste/im whistles bhe was christened the Win, A- Haskell ami the gen¬ tleman whose name she represents may well esteem It high honor In having It waving from the main of so flue n vessel. IIu ex lellent model and general appcuiauLC was. In the opinion of experts, fiiulllci-s and ns to hei superiority in construction, she Is perfection and of the kind the IXtiol) Dry dock Company Invariably turn out. Her dimensions are: Length, 244 feet; breadth, '37 feet fdepth, 10 feet 0 Inches. She Ib the counterpart of the W. J. Averlll, launched a few days since from the coinpan} 's Spring- wells shipyard, and will ply on the route be¬ tween Chlcage and OgdenBburg, In the same lino with tho steamers Walter L, Frost and Averlll, and will bo ready for business ere navigation opens between thoso points.. ' Seamen's wages have been started nt this port at $2 per day. The dispatches which are dally being re¬ ceived here from Cheboygan and thereabout appear somewhat mixed, a» no two accounts seem to- agree. .A'ct tlicro can bo no ques¬ tion there Is still heavy Ice to be dlspond of by old >'Sol,"and no passage through likely to be cflectcd earlier than the 25th Inst. A little law episode took place the other day In, tho U. S. Distilct Court In this City and Captain David Qlrardin was on hand on the occasion. To he brief, the captain, during tho navigation nt 1883, was In com¬ mand of the tug O." Wilcox In the usual business of towing vessels and rafts. On ono'of these trips, with a raft of logs In tow, It Is claimed, tho oaptaln violated the su¬ preme order of things, otherwise harbor reg¬ ulations, at Sand Beach harbor of lefuge, where ho sought protection from a storm and hitched his tow to the snubbing posts with no lights or watchmen on the same, an oversight of which others no dotlbt have been guilty. The case was finished and the captain passed out of the court room without a scar or even # blemish. The steamer Milton D. Ward, Captain Kcuyon, left on her first trip of the season on thlB (Monday) morning for Port Huron and shore points. Should she not effect a passage through the St. Clair flats she will doubtless return or take the north passage, as It is probable the channel there Is clear. Yhe schooner St. Lawrence will take on a cargo of wheatat this port for Buffalo. She has been placed In thorough repair. Captain John Fraser.ot Windsor, has lett for Bay City to again assume command of the steambarge J. P. Donaldson. The propeller Oeonto, Captain G. W. Mc Gregor, haB left on her first voyage to Al¬ pena, and will endeavor to effect a passage through. Large repairs have been made on her, both In hull and machinery, Inulud Ing a new bpller. A controversy has arisen In regard to the schponer Seaman, which, lo, these many years, has been sailed by Captain D. F Flood, who also owned her. To make some repalrB on his vessel he received assistance from J. Miner, a lumberman, with the un¬ derstanding that the vessel was to do freight¬ ing tor the money thus loaned. Mr. Miner, it now appears, wants to take possession of tbeyesscl and put a new master on board, to which Captain F. objects and refuses to give up his old and favoilte emit. The Sea¬ man was built at Cleveland In 1848, and lpis consequently beenvlO years In service. Business here a)ieady assumes quite a lively aspu t hy the arrival of steam and sail , draft from various points The harbor leg* are in active servico in the translei ol ves¬ sels along the river fiont. _ The in w propeller built at M Clitlr by S Lang! 11 has boon jnlmed the Kalkaska. Now let us hint, anothei ami call her the Kiln schatka LnteryMurphy Brothers, marine wreck¬ ers, haw contracted to rebcue the steamer Manitoba, and also tho steambarge J.\. Car¬ ter from the Canadian shore of Lake Huron, whither they wero dilven anil abandoned late hiBt fall The former lies at Southamp¬ ton and the latter at Kincardine, but net seriously damaged thus far. Thomas R. Ryan, for many years a stew¬ ard on board of lake steamers, has retired from that occupation for the residue of his life with on honorable rocord. He has been thus employed for thlrty-ivtne years Captain' C. C. Blodgftt's fleet of vessels have received the usual\repalrs and out lit and will bo ready for business by the 20th Instant. The ne\v steamer W..A. Haskell,launched' ns above noted, measures 1,140 net or custom house tonnage. Captain A. II. Mills, who Inaugurated harbor towing at this port,- commencing 25 years ago, Is about purchasing an- other steamer to add to Ills present fleet [Continued on 4'h pagt.\