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MARINE REVIEW. 9 Around the Lakes. A. A. Parker and others of Detroit are the purchasers of the steamer Kasota. M. B. Gary, deputy collector of customs at Ashtabula Har- bor, died last week of pneumonia. An error was made in the statement of membership of the Cleveland Vessel Owners' Association printed last week. 'The number of vessels is 305 and the net tonnage 297,125. The Union Steamboat Company of Buffalo has advertised the steamers Nyack, Portage. and Avon forsale. One or two steel steamers, planned after the S. C. Reynolds but larger than that boat, will be built for the season of 1893. The Leatham & Smith Towing and Wrecking Company of Sturgeon Bay is the name ofa corporation taking up the business previously conducted by Leatham & Smith. 'The capital is $100, ooo and the incorporators are John Leatham, Thomas H. Siith and George Nelson. A recent notice stated that the Continental Iron Works, Brooklyn, N. Y., had made a large sale of corrugated furnaces to J. T. Ryerson & Sons, through Messrs. Fraser & Chalmers of Chicago. This is partly incorrect. The furnaces (there were eight of them), were for Messrs. Fraser and Chalmers of Chicago, and the order was placed through Messrs. J. I'. Ryerson & Sons, who are agents of the Continental Iron Works. The annual meeting of the Whale Club occurred on the oth. Officers for the ensuing year were chosen as follows: President, John Saveland; vice-president, William Grange; secretary and treasurer, William H. Meyer; board of managers, M. O. Parker, Conrad Starke, John T. Girmschegd. Several new members were admitted and the club is in good condition. The club's quarters in the Marine block are very cozy and inviting. Marine Engineers' Beneficial Association, No. 37 of Toledo has elected officers for 1892 as follows: Frank, N. Weis, presi- dent; George Butler, vice-president; E D. Lock, financial and corresponding secretary; W. N. Decker, recording secretary; John Marks, ,treasurer; Eugene Passano, conductor; George Reynolds, chaplain; H. Sullivan, doorkeeper; William N. Decker, representative to national convention. Marine Engineers' Beneficial Association, No. 73 of Green Bay has elected the following officers for the ensuing year: H. F. Spencer, president; E. D. Rasmussen, vice-president; IL. P. 'Crandall, past president; Paul Denis, financial secretary; H. C. Wheelock, recording secretary; H. F. Spencer, corresponding secretary; Alfred Larson, treasurer; Joseph Garot, chaplain; Joshua Ritchie, conductor; M. Madsen, door keeper; H. F. Spencer, representative to national association; H. Madsen, L. P. Crandall ani H. C. Wheelock, trustees. In General. S. B. Grummond has bought the steamer De Pere from the Goodrich company for $20,000 William Doxford & Sons, of Sunderland, have an order for a cargo boat to carry 9,000 tons dead weight, on a draft of 25 feet, suited for the Suez canal. oon: Jan. 20 is the date set for a meeting in Washington between the river and harbor committee and the committee of about 100 representatives of commercial bodies taking part in the recent deep waterways convention at Detroit. It is reported that a German engineer has completed plans for a triple expansion locomotive, having the low pressure cylin- _ ders in the center, and the high pressure and intermediate cylin- ~ ders outside, all three connected on the same axle. It is understood that Eddy Bros. of Saginaw will be the owners of the big "straight-back" steamer,--5,000 tons capacity --which the Detroit Dry Dock Company proposes to put down at the Wyandotte yard when work now under contract is fur- ther advanced. ohn C. Fitzpatrick and others, owners of the steamer ental T. Hope, have contracted with F. W. Wheeler & Co. of West Bay City for aconsort. The boat will be 240 feet keel, 4o feet beam and 18 feet molded depth. She will carry about 2,300 tons and will be out in June next. everal yachts are being built in England after the Herres- hoff eer at the Gloriana. The Englishmen claim that the tremendous overhang bow and counter is really an old type new- = fashioned. It is already a favorite with them, however, and is destitied to send center-boards out of fashion again. The blast furnace at West Duluth is now turning out 100 tons of Bessemer pig iron a day. 'he iron is being shipped to the steel plant at West Superior, and in about two wéeks the Bessemer converters and plate rolling mill will be set at work. The furnace will soon increase its capacity to 125 tons daily. "The Saginaw Steel Steamship Company has contracted to carry coal for two years between Tacoma and San Francisco,and either the Mackinaw or Keweenaw (probably the former will be placed in that service. The Mackinaw is now en route to San Francisco. A letter received from that port says, 'The Keweenaw arrived off the bar at San Diego Sunday night, twenty- three days out from Coronel, Chili, making the same time that the Mineola did, from San Diego here in 60 hours against a very heavy head wind and sea. The engines only stopped once on the whole voyage, and then only 20 minutes. Never hada hot journal or had a drop of water since leaving Valparaiso. Average consumption of coal to Coronel (American coal) 17 tons per day, from Coronel (Chili coal) 20 tons per day.'--Marine Journal. The above item shows that lake builders can con- struct successful cargo ships for the ocean trade. The Mackinaw and Keweenaw were built by F. W. Wheeler & Co., West Bay City, Mich., their engines were built by the Frontier Iron Works, Detroit, Mich., and their boilers by Wickes Bros., Saginaw, Mich., the ships entire being a Michigan product. Fuel Hatches on Lake Steamers. EDITOR MARINE REVIEw:--During the two seasons in which we have operated Smith's coal dock on the Detroit river, our attention has been drawn more closely than before to the various styles and types of coal bunkers and fuel hatches in use upon lake steamers. It is surprising to see the diversity in their shape, size, location and convenience, or lack of it, varying as they do from the old-fashioned sice bunkers with the round man-hole--too small to take a good-sized lump of coal down its throat, and cut through the deck alongside the boilers in a space too narrow for any but the smallest wheelbarrows to travel in, one at a time--to the modern full sized cargo hatch located conveniently to the fire room. This last named and latest style of fuel hatch--a tinie-saver to modern boats and modern docks--while far in advance of the old-fashioned time- killers, may, we believe, be still further improved if built with sides and ends sloping conveniently to the fire room. Our experience as steamboat fuelers has been that boats with large fuel hatches, where several car Joads may be taken from a single pocket in from 5 to 10 minutes, will save enough time in fueling during a single season to justify a boat not so conveniently arranged in making the expense necessary for the change. For new boats, of course, there will be no other style of fuel hatch unless the builders in this respect alone go backward, and we do not believe there is any immediate danger of that. STANLEY B. SMITH & Co. Detroit, Mich., Jan. 12. Fifty Second Congress--First Session. The following bills of interests to lake vessel owners have been intro- duced in Congress during the past week : : H. R. 16, Clarke--For relief of inland navigation, concerning contract with seamen and providing for payment of seamen before shipping commis- sioners. H. R. 11, Lind--To promote the improvement of the waterway from the head of Lake Superior by way of the Welland and St. Lawrence canals and St. Lawrence river to the sea. The resolution provides for appoint- ment of three commissioners to confer with Canadian representatives concerning enlargement of these waterways to the depth and standard adopted for the connecting waters of the lakes. S. 744, Frye--To amend section 4400, title 52 of revised statutes, con~ cerning the regulation of steam vessels. S. 747, Frye--To repeal section 4145 and to amend section 4145, both referring to registry and certificate of registry of vessels. S. 1183, Sherman--To extend privileges of transportation of dutiable merchandise without appraisement to Sandusky, O. S. 1222, Frye--To protect the wages of seamen. S. 1280, Frye--To amend an. act entitled "an act to amend section 4178, R.S., in relation to marking vessel's names at bow and stern and also to provide for marking the draft" approved Feb. 21, 1891. $. 1310, Vilas--To amend section 3117 of the R.S. of the United States in relation to the coasting trade of the Great Lakes. A change of captains has taken place in the F.& P. M. line. Capt. Frank Tierney.has been retired from the command of steamer No. 2, and is succeded by Capt, William Robinson, last season master of the steamer Petoskey,