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14 Capt. Titus, recently in the schooner Thomas Gawn, has taken command of the schooner David Stewart. Capt. Shaw of Marine City takes the Gawn. The American Ship Windlass Company of Providence, R. I., are sending their goods to all parts of the world in competi- tion with other windlasses and capstans. Local inspectors at Detroit have revoked the license of Capt. George Burns, who was in charge of the tug Washburn when John Hurley and Engineer W. F. Robinson lost their lives through the tug being run down by the steamer City of Mackinaw. 7 A new tug for the Maytham line of Buffalo, now nearing completion at that port, will be 92 feet long, 19 feet beam and 10 feethold. She will havea high pressure engine, 24x28 inches, built by Sutton Bros. The Hand & Johnson line of the same place will also have a new tug ready for launching about July I5. The death of John L. Schrader, marine reporter of the Buffalo. Courier, occurred in this way: He went aboard the Scranton on invitation of Capt. Green, of the steamer, and was going down the ladder between decks when one hook gave way, letting the ladder suddenly swing about and throwing him down the hold. On Wednesday of last week at 8:30 p. m., the new steel steamer Samuel Mitchell left Cleveland for Escanaba and was back again at 3:30 p.m. Sunday with 2,757 gross tons of ore, making the trip, port to port, in 3 days and 19 hours. The Mitchell bids fair to prove the most satisfactory freight boat built on the lakes during the past winter. Emmons Blaine, son of the ex-secretary of state, whose sud- den death was announced from. Chicago last week, had but recently been elected president of the reorganized Chicago Ship Building Company. His death must have been a severe blow to the great statesman and is regretted most earnestly by all who have met the young man in a business way. Samuel F. Hodge & Co., of Detroit, Mich., have adopted the plans of the Berlin Iron Bridge Company, of Kast Berlin, Conn., for their new foundry and have placed the contract with this company for the construction of the building. The general dimensions of the building are 86 feet in width by 161 feet in length. On each side there is a wing 23 feet in width. In the center of the building there will be a traveling crane to run the full length of the building. In the wings of the building are jib cranes, so that when completed every inch of the floor Space will be controlled by power, either from the traveling crane or from the jib cranes. 'The construction will be entirely of brick and iron. The United States lake survey party, with Lieut. C. S. Riche and Herman Kallman, Jr., in charge has been engaged for the past three weeks at Point Pelee, Lake Erie, surveying the outer shoals three miles west of the point. The first shoal they discovered contains 40,000 square feet, with boulders of all shapes and sizes, and the least depth of water over it is 16 feet. The second shoal is 125 feet long and 50 feet wide and is made up of a conglomeration of boulders of all shapes and sizes, and the least depth of water 13 feet 5 inches. 'They also found the wreck of the Nichols, lost in 1872 and loaded with iron ore which is close to the channel and over which there is a depth of 13 feet 6 inches. The party is now at Colchester and has so far located one shoal of large rocks and boulders with water over it to the depth of 17 feet 5 inches. When the six boats now under way at Davidson's West Bay City yard are completed, Capt. James Davidson will have turned out at that place forty-eight craft, twenty-three of which are steamers, seventeen schooners or tow barges and eight tugs. The first vessel was the Kate Winslow, built twenty years ago. The list, exclusive of three steamers, two schooners and one tue now under way and not named as yet, isas follows: Steamers-- MARINE REVIEW. Oceanica, Siberia, George T. Hope, Australasia, Roumania, Bulgaria, Germanic, Britannic, George G. Hadley, 5.5: Wil- helm, Majestic, Alex Nimick, John Harper, Walter Vail, Lizzie Madden, Panther, City of Berlin, City of Paris, City of Glasgow and City of London. Schooners--E. M. Davidson, Laura Bell, « Kate Winslow, Polynesia, John Shaw, Mary Woolson, Mary Be Mitchell, Tokio, Adriatic, Baltic, Atlanta, Nirvana, Celtic, Harold and Wahnapite. 'Tugs--W. H. Alley, Temple Emery, Washburn, C. B. Strohn, Geyser, Andrew McLean and Max- well A. A Valuable Water Level Guage. In times of low water last season a large number of big lake carriers rounded to at the River Rouge and telephoned to Duff & Gatfield at Amherstburg to learn the depth of water at the Limekilns. At considerable expense Stanley B. Smith & Co., who operate the fueling dock near the Rouge, has erected a 4 5 6 7 8 9 J 2 water level guage and connected it with an indicator board 35 feet above the water. 'The board is black and the white figures show- ing inches and feet are r and 3 inches in height respectively, the pointer being painted red. With the aid of government en- gineers the barrel which operates the guage has been set so that the indicator points out the depth at the Limekilns, thus saving deep-laden boats the trouble and time of rounding to, as by means of a glass the stage of water can be easily read from the center of the channel. It is certainly an aid to navigation and the enterprise thus shown is quite commendable, :