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MARINE REVIEW. a Electric Lighting on Lake Steamers. Within the past few years lake vessel owners have given , considerable attention to the equipment of their vessels with electric lighting plants and it is more than probable that some of the plants now aboard the large lake steamers, of both the pass- enger and freight kind, are the finest to be found in the country. A supplement accompanying this issue of the Review presents anight scene on Lake Erie, showing two of the big side-wheel steamers of the Detroit & Cleveland Steam Navigation Company, elegantly illuminated and passing within short distance of each other. The illustration is froma painting made by H. F. Sprague, The electric lighting plants on these boats were put in re- cently by the Fisher Electric Company of Detroit. In the steamers City of Cleveland and City of Detroit No. 2 this company, which _ makes a specialty of steamboat work and has now equipped all but a few of the big boats on the lakes, replaced the plants of two other electrical concerns. The Fisher company's plant on the City of Detroit No. 2 was put inlast spring. Antomatic dyn- amos were put in, the entire lower part of the steamer was rewired and the boat divided into a large number of circuits,which are con- trolled by a combination switchboard manufactured by this com- pany. Success attained with the first boat caused Manager . _ Carter of the steamboat company to cause the plant of another concern on the steamer City of Cleveland to be removed and re- | placed by that of the Fisher company. ; The steamer City of Cleveland is equipped with a r150-light automatic dynamo and a 4oo-light automatic machine. 'The boat has been furnished with new fixtures throughout and lights more evenly distributed. The steamer is divided into sixteen circuits, enabling the engineer to control the entire system from the engine room. Each dynamo is driven by an independent engine and the entire system is arranged to be very flexible and easily controlled. 'The boat has been entirely rewired with rub- ber-covered wire, equipped with standard sockets, snap switches and other appliances and the plant is one of the most complete -and perfect on the lakes. The plant on the steamer City of _ Detroit was operated during the season of 1891 without a dollar's worth of expense,excepting for lamps broken by passengers and | freight handlers. 5 gee Nalak" aphee Detroit-Built Yachts. © : The steam yacht building for Mark Hopkins by the Detroit Boat Works, Detroit, Mich., will very likely surpass in speed and elegance any craft of this class on the lakes. She will be 106 feet on the water line, 120 feet on deck, 16 feet beam and 8 feet deep. 'The frame is of oak, the hull of cedar and the finish- ing will be in mahogany. The 7 by 8 foot Roberts boiler is ex- pected to furnish steam at 200 pounds pressure to the 94, 1474 and 24-inch by 14-inch triple expansion Hodge engine. She - will have an independent condenser. The 96-foot passenger boat building at the same works for V. Doller, Put-in Bay, will - have engines of the same size and -will cost $18,o00.. She is guaranteed good for 16 miles. -- Trade Notes. _ Mr. Phil D. Sloan will represent the Vacuum Oil Company at Ohio ports during the coming season | The Penberthy Injector Company, Detroit, Mich., is manu- facturing a double feed automatic crank-pin oiler that is new and Engineer supply houses would do well to write to them novel. for information. S. B. Hubbard, who has been for the past three years in charge of the business of the Sandusky Coal Company, will be manager of the Hubbard Coal Company of Sandusky during the coming season. The Sandusky Coal Company has quit aes. Boilers and pipes of the steamers Cumberland, Gilcher, Schuck and C. H. Green, are being covered with Magnesia sec- tional covering. The office of M. P. Satterthwaite, manager of this company, has been removed to 26 South Water street, Cleveland. At Wheeler's West Bay City yard the Ossifrage has been lengchened 30 feet and is ready for new cabins, the new boiler and engine having been put in. At the dry dock the tug Music is being rebuilt and will receive a new boiler and engine. The Burlington received stern repairs while in the dock. The gigs and sail boats for the six light-house tenders build- ing at the yards of F. W. Wheeler & Co. and the Globe Iron Works Company, were built by the Detroit Boat Works, Detroit, Mich. This company has orders for fifty life-boats and yawls and roo pleasure craft, one order from» Nebraska calling for sixty row boats. With a dissolution of partnership in the firm of Elsey & King of Detroit, Mr. Elsey goes to the Grummond line and Mr. King has accepted a position with Parker & Millen. The Grummond line will have all the tugs and wrecking equipment of last season and its passenger.service will be improved by the addition of the steamer Depere to the line. Parker & Millen will have the tug Fayorite at Cheboygan all season, and at De-' troit they will have the Canadian wreckers Saginaw and Onaping as well as the Balize which they control. Prof. H. S. Carhart of the University of Michigan, after thoroughly examining all the dynamos on the market, awarded the contract to the Fisher Electric Company of Detroit, Mich., for furnishing the university with a complete automatic machine to be used by the advanced class in electrical-engineering under his charge. This is another evidence that the Fisher Electric Company manufacture one of the simplest dynamos now used. Prof: Carhart has aimed to attain a machine that will operate from full to no load without adjustments, that the brushes will have a fixed point of commutation, the dynamo shall operate without a rheostat and as the Fisher Electric Company's dynamo will fulfill all these conditions, the contract was awarded them by the board of regents. A. W. Colton, manager of the Lake Erie Transportation Company,has awarded contracts tor lighting the steamers Sage and Gault to the Fisher company. 'This com- pany will also equip the steamer Samuel Mitchell, building at the yard of the Globe Iron Works Company, Cleveland. She will have a powerful Fisher search light placed on the stern. Around the Lakes.. Reports from 'Tawas and Oscoda say that the ice extends out as far as the eye can see and it is piled up toa height of 20 or 25 feet. John McGeehan, who has been connected with Upson, Wal- ton & Co. of Cleveland for a number of years, was recently admitted to membership in the firm. ; The Rochester Transportation Company's boats--the pro- peller Northerner and schooners Boody, Morey and Mott--will be managed in Rochester this season by C. H. Blakeslee, a mem- ber of the company. Of the steam vessels to which the bureau of navigation as- signed official numbers during the week, the Sir Arthur is the only craft from the lakes. The boat is owned at Grand Haven and is of 21.38 tons gross and 14.69 tons net. 'The official num- ber assigned to her is 116,477. = Officers of lodge No. 96, M. E.B. A. organized at Houghton, Mich., recently are as follows: kdwin Curry, past president ; Joseph Greenleaf, president; Moses Hebert, vice-president; Wil- liam E. Geary, recording and financial secretary; Edwin W. Curry, corresponding secretary and treasurer; Charles Fisher, chaplain; Peter Gagnon, doorkeeper; George Allie, conductor; Telesphore Beassau, Cyril Carpenter and Emlin Seaginro trus- tees. Capt. James Davidson has sold his steamer City of Paris to toa syndicate composed of Capt. John S. McNeil of West Bay City, Thomas Cranage and J. W. McGraw of Bay City and Ed-- ward Smith of Buffalo. The price is said to be $150,000. Capt. McNeal will sail her. He has sold his interest in the propeller D. -Leuty, which he has sailed for several seasons, to George D. Jackson of Bay. City, and he has also sold his interest in the barge R. Bottsford of that tow.