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      There are 437 vessels of all types in port at Chicago.

      TONNAGE ALLOWANCE Several days before the close of last session of congress the act was approved to provide for deductions from the gross tonnage of vessels of the United States. A few days ago the treasury department received a letter from collector Spaulding of Chicago asking for ...

      TONNAGE CAPACITY A dispatch from Washington says: The inquiry has been raised by certain collectors of customs whether they should proceed at once to ascertain the tonnage capacity of excepted spaces under the act of August 5, 1882, and make the necessary entry onto marine ...

      A NEAT INVENTION When the captain of a large steamer stands on the top of the pilot house and signals the engineer to go ahead or back, he has no means of knowing whether his order has been properly interpreted until the ship begins to move, and then, if the …

      The Chippewa (Mich.) County News says that when the steam-barge Chamberlain was a few miles from Marquette, a man fell overboard and managed to get ahold of the tow line. The barge was slacked up, but the captain, seeing that unless he kept on his course the slack line would …

      Chicago, August 12. - The propeller Menominee is reported by her captain to have encountered in midlake on Tuesday night a thick cold cloud, which burst on her decks, covering them with snow and slush to a depth of six inches. For five minutes, the atmosphere was like that of …

      The schooner Thomas L. Parker not only takes a sawmill from Grand River to Ontonagon, but a gang to run it. The mill is that of Sisson & Lilly, and it goes where the timber is plenty. The mills are following the timber into the wilderness. Twenty-five men and their …

      The Shickluna-built MERRITT had gone ashore near Grand Marais, Mich., Lake Superior, in 1881. On Sep 15, 1882, she became the American schooner DOT (US#157078), and was wrecked on the beach approximately 6 miles from the site of her previous stranding, on Aug. 25, 1883, a total loss.

      A huge steamship, owned and commanded by Capt. Robert Brendon, draughtsman at the dry dock engine works, was passing along the wharves at full speed (nearly three miles per hour), a few days ago, when an accident happened which might have caused her entire crew (two persons) great inconvenience. ...

      The machinery has been placed in the Nellie Torrent at Milwaukee. She will now paddle her own canoe. She will be employed in the lumber trade between Manistee and Chicago.

      From October 1 to 27 at 9 o'clock 1,455 vessels of all kinds arrived in Chicago.

      CARRYING PASSENGERS ON FREIGHT STEAMERS Collector Spaulding of Chicago has been notified by the secretary of the treasury that he has remitted the fine of $500 imposed on Captain Carter for taking his wife and a few friends for a ride on the lake in a harbor tug. The supervising …

      FEARFUL EXPERIENCE OF THE CONWAY As announced, the schooner L. J. Conway left Chicago on Wednesday morning loaded with corn for Muskegon, and was caught out in the desperate cold weather and northwest gale which set in that night. There was a rumor the next day that she had got …

      STEAMER BURNED On Tuesday evening, shortly after reaching her wharf at Gibraltar and while the crew were eating their supper, the steamer Carrie H. Blood was found to be on fire and in a few minutes after she had burned to the water's edge and sunk. The eight members of …

      PRESENTATION Yesterday at noon an agreeable affair occurred on board the steamer Pearl, of the People's Line, at the foot of First street, which will be long and pleasantly remembered by Capt. John Edwards and the other officers and crew of the steamer. Capt. Edwards, by his ...

      This article refers to the loss of the 23 t. steam tug RUDOLPH WETZEL (US#21944), while in company of the like tug HENRY S. SILL (US#95382)

      It is stated that most of the vessels that have been recently tied up for not having the official number and tonnage "engraved on the main beam forward of the main hatch on the main deck," have suffered through the ignorance of government officials who did the work. Other government …

      While a Detroit tug was at Black River a short time ago, the officers of the revenue steamer Perry boarded her, and took away the captain's papers, because the offical number was not carved on her main beam instead of her strong back, where tugs usually have it. The number …

      The inhabitants of Mackinac are losing sleep over the fear that the Detroit and Cleveland Steam Navigation Company will spell the name of its new steamer with a final "W." They insist on having it end up with a "C."

      MACKINAC OR MACKINAW The good people of Mackinac became considerably worked up when it was intimated that a fine passenger steamer was to be named after their picturesque island, and the fear that the name would not be spelled properly worked on them to such an extent that the ...