, 1881-04-17
LOCAL. ,ItfC T{EES.


\. 4. Carpenter are ready for business at
prescn. there are really 1nore tugs than tows.
Yesterday: the schooner Mary E. Cook went
into the Chicago Cornpauys West Side dock.
while tho schooaers Minnie Miller and Live Oak
occupied the South Side dock OF the Company.
The steam barge L. q Peters carries the
chime WHISTLE which has hitherto performed
service on the Wsiliinn Crippcn.
The Yr,u-lltlen schooner HE'D Wing received
all oS her running gear yesterday.
The Anchor Lane propeller LycoHlng had
steam W Yesterday and turned her wheel
All ri the Angle-lTon necessary for The Chicago
Dredging ind Duck Cnmplny's new iron tug has
been received here. It weighs leu pounds to tho
t font.
Capt. Tnomns Pnge will command the schoou-
or Driver this sc,snn. tie has bud the craft
handsomely pninted. antl her stern embel!ished
nf ulnn- Of war. clad ia the uniform ot IL 1ns-
rinc. leaning upon Il huge cannon and glz.itE
earnestly into sp.ee. The conception is calcu,
u1ed hli even the trcsst OF the must cull0used
lumocr-shovcr wirn patriotic cnthusMssm.
Yesterday afic7noon a tug was Obliged to aid
the tenders VI the Win Knrcn street bridge in
opening that structure. The vessel. the Grand
Haven b1rxc e. o. d. had her stuSs"1l bonn
broken by cnisislon with the bridge. but suffered
The stage OF water In the river continues high
and the current very strung.
GENERAL SoTEa.
The schooners Arrow and Potomac went into
dry-dock at Milwaukee on Frluny. The tug
calk,ng.
y new engine has been placed In the 1shinl
tug Alyu Il. Eaton at Milwaukee.
Boiler and engine have been placed on board
OF the new tug ". Fl. Wolf at Milwaukee, and
the upper works now being constructed
Capt. NcGinn has recovered.
Cupr. John Sandbury has appointed as metn-
bcrs Of the Racine lite-snv.ng crew Robert
Rroadben,. Nels Juhnson. Charles Hittle, ChF's
johnson, Charles Larsen. Charles Bcuson, nnd
Andrew Huns.n. The crew are old suilors-
is,icy's tiurbor Is free Of lee
4 wrccklug tuE Gun ns'w reach the schooner
Nu1ob, ashore near Cam. Isl uld-
The ice in the little lake ut Pentwater IS
breaking up rupiGly.
Milwaukee, grim rrim'ncrs will insist upon So
per I.OJJ bushels for trimming. nnd hne members
working below this rate 50
In Il tcw days the tug Gregory will eudeavor
to break Il passage from her dock in Sturgeon
Bay to the canal
The scow Qu,ckstcp, ashore at Washington
Island. is bc:ng r,tsets by 1neans OF SCREWS 5ne
Is III und shape and will need considerable re-
pu1rsng 10 u,ake her scuwortny.
!. .Auuther piece Of the scno.'ner Sweetheart,
winch wHS sunk about Il mile nId a half hhoVe
the uuuth of the st. Cluir River last fall, has
tnAred down the river.
ouyaly rebuilt ut Port Hurun. wa5 successfully
launched II few days siuCe-
Te:ttuS continue crossing Saginaw Bay De-
tween Port Huruil and Cu%etille.
1t Is :reupruliy believed that the Telland Cana!
cunuot possibly bc opened for the passage of
|
The North Hurbor pier at Milwaukee is TO b
repaired. ind the rnuunei between the piers
drelEed 10 an average depth Ut seventeen feer-
Cupr. William Fletcher will ngtin CUn1u1 tuu
the schooner e. S. Huzarl, and Capt B. F. Ro5t-
wick the E. 4. Georgrr.
the new ing the stocks at Buffalo fol
Frankfort, tMicu.) purtie5, will be nuned D.
Hail
/ lfuraeer Holt denies that tho Commercial Linz
hns turned combination with certain rutlrshds
with reference to the carrying Ut through
freight. II will continue an independent luxe
and canstl route. Nu1,uxer Holt reports every
t4ing los,ktng favorable, nnd anticipates pros
peruus se;l,Hl.
ut 81 10 per ton, but compelled by the Seyere
weather 70 winter there. Now she hccepts "a
cents per ton, nnd is dIscharCing the Iron tol
shipment To Chicago by fA!l.
The steuln- barge S. E. Sheldon had only M4
pounds Of coal III her bunkers when sue arrived
at black River.
Tnc large schooner Hallaran has beut her can
yas at Cleveland.
Ira SAUL Ste. Marie correspondent writes under
date OF April 5: No such Quantity and qualify
OF iet. wu5 ever seen In the SAut RivcT."
The ice has gone Uut Ut Thunder Bag TO witnln
about tive miles of ApenA- In the river the Ice
Is rotttuX fast.
Although the Ice In the lake at Erie extends
Us far Us the eye Gun See there nre uny pntt hes
Ut blue water noticeable and N the oay tne ice
h,ta almost entirely Disappeared.
hxThe steamer Ferris, in coming to Saudusky
Friday morning from Putin Bay. encountered
considerable unAt!ng I've and WIS obliged to run
through about six miles OF new Ice q quarter OF
an incn thick. from Ballast to CatAwbn lsiand
The Ice cxreud3 i've to SIX tnlle5 lnto the LAKE,
ueurly all the Way from Huron TO SAnduSKT-