, 1881-12-04
MARINE NEWS.
Over Five Hundred Vessels Of all
Glasses Laid Up at This
Port.
Dock and Other N0teS-Arriyals and De-
parturcs }estcrday-0ther
- Lake Ports.

LAID rP FOR THE WINTER
Never before in p:e history OF Chicago has
Eucu fleet wintered here. There are no" II
port and stripped for the winter over 500 vessels
Of al1 classes. and more still to lay up here
One OF our most prominent hip-chundlers sale
yesterday: The laying I'D IF so many Vessel:
here will do the ship-chandiery business at this
port but little good next spring. The presence
Of SO many vessels will cause early treiEhts 10
he low and many vessels will leave without the
repairs usually made to them and their outfits
in the spring. their owners preferuR 10 have ;he
work dore ut the 11ower-lake ports No sir, ]
du,a't think our business will be rs good next
eprng as many think 1t will oc.'' The river !:
Internationally crowded with vessels, both steam
ana sail, and great difficulty Is already eaperi-
enced in moving the different Kinds o1 craft
around
DOCK AND OTHER NOTES.
Work on Sturgeon Bay Canal has 3cen dIscon-
tinued for the season.
No more boats will leave Buffalo this fall for
any port above Lake Huron.
The propeller James Davidson is In the docks
u the Chicago Dry-Dock Company for bottom
cAlkinR-
The schooner J. B. Merrill was chartered yes
1ertuv to go TO east-sdore port for cafgo or
lumber,
The incrense In the receipts Of lumber at Tom
awanda this season over last year amounts to
y32. .6sa.77l teet-
The schooner Belle Brown cleared for Mus
kegon lust evening, where she will take OIL q
cargo OF lumber for this port
The sailors on tho schooner t. II. Mead quit
the vessel at Sturgeon lay. declaring That they
will not risk their lives on the craft
Harbortnaster Mccarthy spent several hours
yesterday IN strengthening OUT Jam that oc-
CURED at Van Buren, street bridge.
The steam barees Chauncy 1furlbut and Rufus
r KAzlney are in Miller Hr<,ther' dry-docks hav-
ing repairs made TO their ma:hincry-
The Government steamer Haze his tnke, in
all the buoys On the Detroit River and the aeud
OF Luke Eric She vii; lAy up at Detroit
Lieut. Thurston will have charge Of tho rev.
enue steamer Nanhatttn ut Dswc,o this winter,
Capt. BRKer having been ordered TO Washing
ton On special duty
but tho disastrous gales which arc constantly
sweeping over our lakes are Loo much fur il
Tie vusty deep is Il hard fellow to overcome.
Capt. c. W. Goldsmith. who formerly COM
Ridge, o., last Monday. Capt Goldsmith is \
son Ut Capt L. +. Goldsmith, Of the steamship
Pfrgress-
During the past week about 10000 feet of
lu'llher hns beetl washed Ashnl1 In the vicinity
OF Grand Haven. a1ln fears rife that some
uuKno~n cr.1ft With NIL u1s board hals foundcrei.
AS yet no Wfecknxe hls been picked up, unl no
clew to the vessels Lame can be had.
4 petition is being circulated In this city. and
1s betn&. tavorsaby received. ic favor Of AlvAn~
c,ug the wages OF the 1let1 III the liie-savlue
crew. They are required 10 he strong, cOur..-
geous men. ald the sulary ot $f0J per year is
small compensation for the services Of efficient
huuds.
1t Is said that tho cook of a certain lumber
vessel has brought In bit against the owntss
Of the craft for t.. meals Furnished the sailors
On board the vessel the past scGst'n, and thut in
consequence the owners have determined in th41
future 10 only hire sailors tha. can live on
- Rin'l puddinKs-'
The boats ct the Union Steamboat Company
will win;Cr as follows: At HuttIln-Propelltra
81 Louis: Jay Gould, Nyack; paci'c, Atlantic,
Arctic, Blanchard. AT EhicAG>-Propeiiers
Avon. New York Portage. Deaf, !tich,nond. *,a~
Tucca> James Fisk. Se~t,urg. Wurerly. Koches-
1a'r; schooners F. 4. George u. S. liuzAr1
Last weeks Murine Record, al Clcveland O.,
has the following: - We tut Return thinks
to the members IF the Chicago Press CutJ for
their unusually kind attention to wants
whilst in that city recently They fo things As
only Chicagonns can and tho most errNtic need
1ec no t1:scotrforture while undergoing cuur5e
OF treatuIcft ut their elegant club ronrls.''
The Sailors Union Of this port desire to extend
their thanks to Nts5r5. Harry Lay i Co, 1T ]
Traverse ttv, for honCrn:,a draft oT the Enion,
sent for the purpose ct unR Il member ri tho |
Gninn, one OF the shfpwreckel crew Of schooner |
De Couurus, 10 return TO this port The SailurS'
Ciion wish Messas Lay l. t;d. to understand |
that their kindness is most heartily appreciated,
and will te remembered In the future by all the !
members.