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MARINE REVIEW. ? | 14 AROUN® THE LAKES i ree LL [ Ae ccmre : cA oo = ha scoktn\N" AY : Ral sh AN. és se hsp ae | ee s Acme is the name by which the lake tug Music will be known hereafter. She was rebuilt at Bay City. Capt. L. D. Bennett has sold a two-thirds interest in the barge J. C. King to Capt. Latour, who will command her. Capt. Samuel Butman, of Lorain has purchased the schooner _ Smith & Post from the estate of the late Capt. G. E. Mapes, Detroit, for $1,800. _Lumber handlers are also seeking records in the work of rapid loading. At Muskegon a few days ago 250,000 feet of ' lumber was placed on board the steamer M. C. Neff, in five and one-half hours. _ On one of her recent trips, according to data furnished by Chief Wngineer Elliot of the Goodrich Line the steamer Virginia averaged 19 miles an hour for four hours, carrying 150 pounds of steam and making 128 turns. Capt. Burns, formerly in charge of the tug Washburn, and whose license was revoked on account of the collision between _ the tug and the City of Mackinac, has appealed from the decis- ion of the local inspector. Capt. Jeremiah McCarthy of Buffalo who owned and: com- manded the Plow Boy, a small vessel used in wrecking and junk business, died at Erie last week. He was sixty-four years of age and was well known around the lakes. | George C. Baker's submarine boat will be given another trial shortly in Detroit. It is now proposed to operate the boat above as well as below water by electricity. Repairs necessita- ted by the explosion of storage battery cells aboard the boat are being made. 7 The secretary of war will be asked by the Lake Line Agents' Association of Chicago to declare the Chicago river to the extreme limits of both the north and south branches under the war department. 'This step is taken to defeat the construc- tion of an objectionable bridge at South Halsted street. It is again reported that the Lake Michigan and Lake Su- _ perior Transportation Company (Leopold & Austrian of Chi- cago) will build two steel passenger steamers durimg the coming winter for service during the World's Columbian Exposition. This company has been figuring on new boats for two or three years past. An incorporated company, to be known as the Stewart Transportation Company of Detroit has been formed by the own- ers of the new wooden steamer C. F. Bieleman, which will soon leave F. W. Wheeler & Co.'s West Bay City ship yard. The principal stockholders are Albert E. Stewart, C. F. Bieleman, George Peck, John J. Barlum and George H. Lesher. In loading a cargo of 103,000 bushels of wheat at Duluth Tuesday, the new steel steamer Gilbert, built by F. W. Wheeler & Co. of West Bay City comes very close to the largest cargo of grain ever taken from Lake Superior. The steamer Pope's cargo on high water last season was but about 1,000. bushels _ better than that just taken by the Gilbert. The latter will un- doubtedly improve upon her first loads. Oswego's new elevator, to be built by the New York, On- tario & Western Railway, will be of iron and steel and will have a capacity of from 250,000 to 400,000 bushels. __ Its cost is esti- mated at from $250,000 to $500,000. It will have 16 feet of water at its docks and will be equipped with two legs, each hav- ing an elevating capacity of 10,000 bushels an hour, and will be built with a number of car tracks running under, so that from twelve to eighteen freight cars can be loaded simultaneously. July 26, 1891, the steamer City of Berlin was badly dam- aged at the entrance to the Sault canal by a collision with the schooner EK. A. Nicholson, which was in tow of the steamer J. "Emory Owen. Both steamerand schooner were subsequently libeled for $2,000. 'The case was heard before Judge Swan in the United States circuit court at Detroit, and he held both to blame for the collision. 'The case was then referred to a com- missioner to assess damages, Capt. Chris. Smith of the lake tug Sumner has again cov- ered himself with glory. He hada very serious time of it on Saginaw bay during the gale of last week, when several rafts were lost. The Sumner put out two anchors, faced the wind and sea, worked her engine to the utmost and saved a raft of 2,- 500,000 feet from going ashore about three miles from the beach west of Port Austin reef. The raft dragged for about 20 miles, but the property was saved and landed at Sand Beach. Of course the story of a note being found from one Patrick McCarty, who proclaimed himself a member of the ill-fated crew of the schooner Finney, lost with all hands on Lake Erie last fall, was a fake. Officers of the Seamen's Union, who had a record of the membrs of the Finney's crew, say there was no Patrick McCarty among them. The idea of a man being intel- ligent enough to write a note asking that his wife be informed of his fate and then give his residence as "Michigan'"' was ab- surd on the face of it. It was simply a bottle yarn, to which no publicity should have been given. A life-boat described in the last issue of the REVIEW was the Dobbins boat, which is in use at every station in the Ninth district on the lakes. Itis also being adopted at other lake stations, three having been recently completed in Buffalo for stations at Holland, Michigan City and Grand Haven. It has | replaced the Beebe boat on the lakes and also on the coast, a Dobbins boat being shipped to California last year. The boat - proved so successful that the superintendent of the coast service induced the patentee to permit coast boat builders to manufac- ture the boat by paying a royalty. Hence the boat that is at- tracting so much attention on the coast is the same as thosé in use on the lakes. Capt. Dobbins is building a life dinghy for the Cleveland statiom. An Old-Time Marine Temperance Society. A few old-time lake-faring men will remember that there was formed over a half a century ago the Cleveland Marine Total Abstainance Society, July 6, 1840, being the date of its inauguration. 'The first officers were: J. G. McCurdy, presi- dent ; A. Holmes, Capt. Wm. Lacey and J. Proudfoot, vice- presidents ; J. W. Hall, secretary. A committee consisted of Capt. Guyles, D. McIntosh, Mr. Downie and J. Turnbull. In 1854, when the last record of the society appears, over 8,000 persons had signed the pledge and had their names added to the roll "on the windlass." Judging from this and the fact of the ~names of nearly all the schooners on the lakes in those days being represented by the master, mate, seaman or cabin-boy signing their names, temperance must have been popular. Among the names are found schooners C. I. Marshall, Havre, Free Trader, Express, the Pacific, Wm. B. Guyles, master, and. the schooner N. Biddle, D. P. Dobbins, master. The schooner Express was "dry," master and crew having pledged against red liquor, Michael Driscoll of the brig Toledo, crew and cabin boy of the Queen Charlotte, and Reuben Turner, '"'an old sea dog", are prominent on the roll. That wives of captains were. eligible to membership is shown by signatures of a number of women. Among the signatures are some names that are still prominent in lake marine: Geo. Warner, Geo. McKay Jr.. Thos. Quayle, John Quayle Jr., M. W. Warrington, Thos. Pennington, J. Hallenbeck, and Harriet M. Avery. Six of the Gabb family and four Duttons pledged themselves to lake water. | One of the modern lake freight carriers, owned by the North- west Transportation Company is named after S. R. Kirby, for a long time connected with the Detroit Dry Dock Company, that name still remaining with the company in the person of his son. This lends interest to the following inscription on the roll: | Allen Kirby, master schooner Morgiana; Stephen R. Kirby, seaman, schooner Morgiana. A seaman on the schooner Huron set a good example in swearing off, for the names of master and crew follow that of the seaman's. 'The two books of record of the society, in possession of Chaplain Jones of the Bethel, con- tain many names that would waken memories of other days among lake men who have grown up with the business. The fine arts were not neglected then, for some master contributed a fair piece of verse telling the objects of the society, which during the winter of 1845 boasted of a comfortable reading room in the Commercial block, "open Wednesday and Friday evenings." Following is the first part of the captain's rhyme : " Our temperance ship is ahoy, is ahoy, All hands at their post, from captain to boy, How grand and majestic she rides on the wave, The true ark of safety--the drunkard to save,"