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ambulance T.F. Newman? While the Hackett office on the dock at Amherstburg will be the headquarters for the tugs, the business will be handled through Parker Bros. Co., Ltd., ofDetroit, local agent for the Great Lakes Towing Co. The steam pump and diving rigs owned by the Hackett Wrecking Co. will also go into the new arrangement and the wrecking equipment atAmherstburg will now beone of the best on the chain of lakes. The deal was consummated in Cleveland several days ago, but the details were not worked out until Monday. Already the letter "G" has been placed on the stacks of the tugs and to all intents and purposes the Hackett tugs are now apart ofthe Great Lakes outfit. The financial part ofthe transaction while emmently satisfactory to both sides, will not be announced. May 5,1905 The str. Columbia will open the Bois Blanc route on Saturday June 10th. ^ °^^^®veland has purchased the wooden tug Erieofthe Great Lakes Towing Co. ofBuffalo. ^e steamers Pleasure and Sappho ofthe D.B.I. &W. Ferry Co opened the r^" between Detroit and Belle Me Sunday. The next trips ^11 be t^ade nMSunday and on May 13 the regular schedule will be started TOe Algoma Central Transportation Co. of Toledo, which contemolates rmg to first steamer between that port and the Canadian Soo about May 25 has SsST"®™™*' ™" ""P &Pbrstin's dock foot of TM tins se^n mstead ofthe foot ofRandolph Street as in previoi^s years ma^eXafXl^r ' Th A Steamer Orinoco ran hard aground on Bar Point Lake Erie hJr Zra Tin ? f ^ uninjured, after lightering part ofhSc:fgo^ afterlloa^fnX StnreeoSav'̂ r '̂ Cooh ofthe tug Co/umiia left last week for during salvage^^tio^!^^ ^ to temporarily hold cargo laL fe, •. >p |U m 1 '1 week. Capt. Cook of the Heckler is in command of the tug Columbia this week. The steamer Cumberland's wheel chains parted Wednesday aftemoon just as she got abreast the head ofBois Blanc Island. The Great Lakes tug Home Rule went to her assistance and succeeded in pulling her off. The Cumberland, which was upbound with coal, proceeded on up the river. Vessel captains who seek to save time by having their ships loaded at mght at grain elevators at the head of the lakes will be disappointed this season, the Canadian Government having prohibited the practice on the grounds that itcannot be done properly. Sunday work isalso forbidden. Early Wednesday morning adynamite cartridge floated out ofthe hole in the rock and exploded in the water about four feet below the drill Tornado, which is working opposite Bois Blanc. One fi-ame was blown from the drill but no one was hurt. Theodore Fox is foreman on the drill and is showing signs ofgray hairs smce. W.D. Robinson, who since 1901 has been marine editor ofthe Detroit Free Press, will join the Marine Review, Cleveland, as associate editor. Mr. Robinson has made a wide circle offiiends among marine men since taking charge ofthe marine department of the Free Press. He has built up apage of marine news, authentic, reliable and embracing matters touching the whole waterways. He was presented with asuitable souvenir Wednesday evening on the steamer Pleasure by the L.S. con. club, of which W.H. McEvoy and J.G. Mullen ofthis town are The big tug John B. Breyman and dredge No. 2of the Breyman Bros, fleet have started towork on their contract atBar Point. Capt. George King, for 45 years avessel master known all over the Great Lakes from Buffalo to Duluth, died suddenly and alone in his room at the residence ofhis sister, Mrs. Charles Maynard, Detroit, Tuesday evening. Capt. King has been ailing for some time with heart trouble but his death was quite unexpected. The day before he worked very hard superintending repairs to the str. Hattie. He was bom in Chatham 63 years ago and since 1861 had been in command ofvessels on the Great Lakes, among the vessels being the Milton S. Ward, Greyhound, City of Toledo, Newsboy and Hattie. His connection with the Newsboy brought him m contact with Amherstburg and he was known and greatly liked by the travelling public and marine men here in aremarkable degree. He was always cheery, with apleasant word for everyone and it is said ofhim that he never lost his temper or became impatient. Capt. King's record is extraordinary. During the 45 years that he has been master of boats hehas never had an accident, a collision, nor lost a