rs 2£" VOL. VI. NO. 31 CLEVMaND. t>.. JUtY Cl884: •llMPMAAoil SlMOLl Conu6QDTTI f 1 \7 \ 1.1 LAUNCH OF THE STEAMSHIP WIL¬ LIAM CHISHOLM7 '1 ho unqualified success of the Iron stertnv ahip Onoko, built by the Globe Shipbuilding Company, as a large enrrler nnd n safe nnd easily handled bom In all kind* of weniljer, nnd In nil quarter), Induced tlmt firm 10 place<qn the stocks last winter, tp bridge over dull times and to give work to a small army.oj^feeri, another Iron steam- ■hip. n trifle imnller than the Onoko, but which will be n carrier her whole length. ^ Ihe success and profit of theeo large Iron kteamers has been made possible by the Im¬ provement of our lake harbors and rivers. To compete with r»ll*onds it has become nb> aolutely necessnr? to define the time to be occupied In making nHrip and delivering aonrgo, another Important factor also enter> . Ing Into consideration, thai being the quan¬ tity to be carried- It has been demonstrated that the cost of running n small steamship very, nearly equals that of a steamer which r~irtJUiarry a cargo of 2,800 to 8,000 tons, or ^65,000 bushels of grain. The Globe .Ship- building Company has therefore taken the - "bull by the-born»,"-as it were, and nre building id accordance, with these facts. The launch or tWAV'Ulw^ ChJ»h.o]m,. a ^.tide launch, whloh occurred about 8 o'clock to¬ day, wns witnessed nnd applauded by a mul¬ titude of people, lining the river banks on either side und extending far up the hillside overlooking the river on the -south, nnd by the' nuniemus steitm craft congre¬ gated to welcome the eventi AelaustisJ With the launches nt this shipyard, there wna no accident or evidence of anything unthought of to mar the grand occasion nnd the sym¬ metrical Iron tjteamer slid gracefully Into tlie waters of the old river bed, sitting nicely on her lines and showing buoyanoy equal to Die great Onoko, or as n recent correspond¬ ent puts it, the"Bnll of the Woods," in other words the Floating Elevator, In the following llne.9 we give the dlmen- tlonsaof the William Chlsholm: Length over all, 202 tsjUikfln, 247 feet; beam, 87 feet; depth Of iJofrKi feet. She has two decks and six hatches, and will carry three masts. Her main keelson is three feet four, and her door frames one foot six inches deep. She has three floor keelsons on euch »No running fore and aft. Her frames nre of steel 3x4, no entire new feature on the hikes, and which nre of the sumo weight '>» If made of Iroiijthereb} adding greatly t<( >he strong!h ol the vessel. I he uialn deck '" 8Ja and the spur deck 0 I111I11 r. The Iron lilmlng on her bottom and sldis i> J„, J, *& ""d )b Inch In thickness. She has n watir linttiiin capable of holding ddO tons of wnter Mlnst, Which is divided Into time water •Wit compartments on either Hide, a collls- inn bulkhead twenty feet aft fioui the stem "nil curried up to the upper deck,ull of « hlch should be considered by under* titers In making (murine rales on her a* lavora- "Into Immunity from many ol the dangers <>n whloh they calculate In taking risks on '"ke vessels. The main deck fruiritbb bulk¬ head forward, is of l-on and assists In con¬ certing the foiepeak ol the vesjuUirtnt, wa- 'ir tank capable ol holdJnjfone hundred l""s of water, nnd whtcli call be filled when necessary, to trim theficssel In heavy weath- *"■ I'he freight hold/are. dlvldul b) Iron water-tight bulkheap, giving hei five wider light bulkheads, ontj-nt tho collision bulk- ,lc»d», two In the flight holds, one at the fore side of the engine, and one nft at tho stuffing box. Her hutches and hatehoomb- lugs and boiler house nre all of iron, similar In every respect to the Onokoi J he machinery, which is a dupllcato of that built by the Globe Company for Cap¬ tain Thomas Wilson's steamer George Spen¬ cer, and which Is standard for that size, every part k being in proportion*, Is lore and aft compound, 27 nnd 50 by 86 Inch stfoke, with eteam reversing gear. She will carry a Worthington duplex pump, so arranged is to be capable nf emptying the water ballast In two and one half hours, from nny one or | all of the odimwtments, and will have all the latest and mosc-lnpproved machinery tor hnndllng cargo, making sail, etc. She will have a Globe Iron Works steam windlass, the Invention ol Mr. Panfthurst, on which he has recently obtained a patent and the outfit will be furnished by Messrs. Up¬ son & Walton and \ylll Include patent an¬ chors nnd the goods of the well-known firm of Messrs, Fe'thousen & Russell, of Buffalo, the Nestors of the signal lump trade in this country. John Thompson, of this city, will doJhej>lumbInj£_work, -____ The William Chlsholm Is owned, two- thirds by the Globe Shipbuilding Company ancf one-third by4h«a«v«tand; Boiling ailU Cmtipuny. the Cleveland Rolling Mill Company furnished the Iron which entered into her construction, nnd sTio is the first of two such vessels to be used to transport the ore used by that company. She is named for William Chlsholm, president of the Cleveland Rolling Mill Company, who Is now In Europe and who Ib in blissful Igno¬ rance of the honor conteired on him, but' wh|ch Is a fitting comment on a young man of Mr Chlsholm's public sp'rlt nndbiiBiness ability. We wisti the William.Chlsholm as goud fortune as has attended the Onoko. LOSSflF THE JOHN M. OSBORNE. The Cnfmuian racitio steamship Alberta, Captain E Andorson, has succeeded in mak. ing herself obnoxious to lake craft, and like tho great beer wagons on tho streets does not lieBltnte to run into and damage any¬ thing that dees not speedily ge^ out of the way of her steel, bows. During her short career on the lakes, under the careless hnndl¬ lng of hor muster, many wooden vessels have barely escaped being run down by her. In this respect we may cite the fact ol tho col¬ lision with the propeller Pacific, which has just finished her repahs at this port, the narrow escape of the Wocoken, Captain Kelley, wUA-h only escaped by the coolness and seamanship of the niuBlcr, the tug ham- son with 11 tow also having a close cull, and a few weeks ago the danger to her sistet ship the Athilbnska, having been run so carelessly us to sernpe the paint from her sides and now conies the disaster to the John M. Ostorne Captain Wllford, with loss or life off WhltefUh Point, Luke Superior, on Sunday night, MattConner*, of Cleveland, fireman; Thomas Barnes, Missouri,and nnothei deck¬ hand named 1 nomas but whose last name la not known to (lie offleeis of the s|cainer, as he shipped nt Ashtabula lor this trip onlv, going down with the \e«sel In twenty seven fathoms of vt ntei, the balaiieeof the crew being taken oil by the consorts Thomas Gnwn,George Diii'lsnnd Exile. T]ie John M O.borne was but two year* oldf'lini- lug been, hullt In 1882 by Morlej at Miulno Clt\, rated Al and valued for Insurance ut $00,000 She \t as on iicil in this city b) Webb <Ss Richardson, Alva Bradley, M. A. Bradley, C, E. Grover, Captain John Nelson, Cap¬ tain '1 borons Jones, Captain C. E. Dubois, nil of tliia cllv. and Messrs. V. C. nnd George Ford, of Ashtabula, Ohio, nnd wns insured for (40,800, 'of which Brooks & Manning carried 26,000, Scott & Bcrrlmnn $o,800, and Tlsdale $10,000. It Is said that Ciiptaln A. Bradley's interest wns not In¬ sured. The Osborno last winter received ex¬ tensive repairs, having1 also been made a double decker, and her Insurance rating raited $10,000, Thore Is also mrJnsurnnce on her cargo of little over 1,100 tons of ore. This wits taken out with Captain Peter White, of Marquette, nnd Is placed in the .-Etna Insurance Company of Hartford on 11 valuation of $4 25 per ton, the ore belonging to the Cleveland Iron Mining Company of thjs city. Captain Wllford, who sailed the Osborne, Is n resident of Lorain, and an experienced navigator, having beside his earlier ex¬ perience, sailed thesohooncr Exile ns mnstet for six years, and this last vessel ever since sho came out. His mate, Captain George Cleveland, was also an expeiieneed seaman, having sailed the lakes for oVer thirty years apd has hail command of lake craft. - TTilrAlbe'i ta had a fulMlne-or f nsrtngers aboard when the collision occurred, and among them were many ladles and children. They v> ere all awakened by the shock of the two vessels coming together, and. before they could be made to understand that they were not in any danger they had run out of their state rooms and swarmed on the decks. The skrleklngof woiucn^iind loud cries of men made the boat seem a perfect pande¬ monium. Many women In their fright fainted awuy, and the men were ton stunned by the sense of their supposed danger to do anything for them. When the crew of tho Canadian steamer had completed their In¬ spection of the damage and had assured themselves that It consisted <of nothing more than a twisted stem, they devoted them¬ selves to restoring the confidence of the pas- sengors, and it was a difficult task, because the 200 passengers had become panic-striken The only wonder is that many of them did not |leap ovoiboard. The crew of tho sunken barge Osborne who were saved were taken aboard the Alberta nnd are being well cured for. 'the steimti L\enlug Star, of Mnllnt's llui, which piles bctwteu Detroit nod 'lo ledo, line been well pntroulzsk this season, coujrary to the opinion of many whon=»he flint stnrud In ihesprlng. it could not be well otherwise at the has excellent accom¬ modations nm! nemlelnunly otHi ere. Captain William Mi Kay was upward ol twemv-flve years a leiernii commander in the Detroit and Cle\eland Hi e, his latest conimand'there being the steamer City of Detroit, and it Is unnecessary for me to add that In him the sallorjind the gentleman is splendidly com¬ bined. Mr A. N. Motlat, the proprietor here, Is very at'entlve to the buslines pat ronnge of the loute, nnd spares no p?lus to plense all nnd lo otlenil none. j Again we h»\e mini hei chapter from Luke -Mulliganon tidal waves. Oneof these dnjs those buncombe witters will discover, to their niter auinicnifiit, that no such things occur on I roll nnter, nnd there la not a gov¬ ernment engliicu who will acknowledge such nonsense dBQVJW TEE LAKES. CLIAFIAND. The new Btetimbnige G«orge Spenter has flrrl\ed at Washburn with conl. . The tugs Chamberlain and Internationa! made their appearance here on Monday. The tug American Engle, Captain Dahlke, measured speed with the tug- S. 8. Stone, and secured the Moonlight as a reward. Mr. A M. Barnum, of Buffalo, well known In marine circles ns the publisher of Bar- num's circular, was In the city Inst week. The iron stenm yacht Tempest, owned by Messrs. Ldomis and Chntterton put In heje minus her wheel and shoe. She will go into Globe drydock for repairs. The steambarge Jim Sheriffs arrived here veBteiday,morning In tow of the tug Levia¬ than with broken crank pins, which will be repaired at rue Globe Iron Works. While the schooner Ihomas Gavn wsb lying at Port Arthur her Captnln, John Nelson, fell Into the hold nnd wns seriously Injured. He was left at the Sault mpl will recover. The steamyiicht Temjiest returned from Vermillion yesterday for a n»w wJwtf nnd shoe, having lost the one pq* -1 * days ago-while gWtfnjrToSrfoirtf' VermllMop. t A telegram from the Sault river states the schooner Gnrblldi has been released from the Sister Rocks nnd that she will be towed direct to Snrnia by tho tug Resolute. The- extent of the Garibaldi's damage is not known. The old ense, In the United States district court, ol John P. Devney ngnlnst the tug Fannie Tuthlll, fumllllarly known ns the Kittle ense, has finally been settled and adjusted, the damages ant] costs being paid In full by Patrick Smith the owner of the tug. 'lherlyer tug Gladiator has'been char¬ tered by Smith Brothers to take the plaee of tho Spraguc, recently 6unk and abandoned to the underwriters. The Gladiator will have In tow the schooners Colonel Cook, Selkirk. H. P Sddwlnand C. H. Burton. The fleet will load ooal for Lake Linden. Recent charters reported Indicate that freights are still at low ebb, being 70 cents on coal Cleveland to Chicago, OOo Buffalo to Mllwa11k.ee; ore, Marquette to Ohio ports $1 10, Esuinnuu to Ol lo pdrts 80@S5o; lum¬ ber, EnBt sngliuiw to Buftulo, $1,02',); East Siginiiw to Ohio, $] 50, Bay City to Buffalo, $1,50; Bay ( Ity to Ohio, $1.25 William Purden. was bound over at Ashtabula In «8 000 for shooting to death one of the union men who attempted to take possession nfr the crew of the Selkirk. The shooting, being done |n self defense, Purden has been discharged and has again taken his bet th us mute of the Selkirk. H. D. Gotilder. Esq.. conducted the defense. The oase In tho United States district court ol John E. Botsford nnd others of De- nolt, Mich , against tho barge Saginaw, has been finally disposed of by an order of the com t. Jiuiklng n distribution of the proceeds of the enle Ihe claim of Botsford <fc Co. w ns for |500 toi towing the barge from Port Huron to t Icvihuul Ihe boat was libeled on the 11th of June and on the 12th ol July she was sold to Captain E M Becker for $105.50 Ihe proceeds ol the sale pay the Ihecostof suit In lull, •cud $258^ on the claim of Botsford & ( o ' ■y*- l C. h(h it I i ■) h ;i(i c.