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6 | MARINE REVIEW. 'Around the Lakes. W. I. Babcock of the Chicago Ship Building Company is a graduate of the Morgan Iron Works, New York. The Craig Ship Building Company of Toledo expects to have its new 400-foot dry dock completed about May 1 Capt. Robert Hamilton, veteran master of Canadian vessels, died at Hamilton, Ont., Monday, aged seventy-three years. The tug that is being built by the Union Dry Dock Company, Buffalo, for O. W. Cheney will be about 75 feet over all and will have an engine 22 by 28 inches. A year ago the grain afloat in lake vessels aggregated 7,275,000 bushels; now the amount is 4,912,114 bushels, of which 4,065,215 bushels is consigned to Buffalo. The Wolverine Electric Company of Detroit will equip the small passenger steamer Arrow, being built by the Detroit Dry Dock Company, with an electric plant, which will include 125 lamps and a Huntington search light. Lockerbie of Detroit failed to take the contract on a bid of 10 cents, which he made, the matter has been hanging fire in the city councilas the result of an effort to give the contract to the next lowest bidder, Messrs Tage. & J. A. Smith of Cleveland, but the executive branch of the city government has finally made the point of calling for new bids. When Detroit river lights are placed in operation shortly, the lights of the Grosse Isle south channel range,which mark the line for running the main channel of the Detroit river from Lime-kiln crossing to its inter- section with the line marked by the lights of the Gross Isle north chan- nel range, will be exhibited each from a square, white pyramidal, inclosed wooden tower, with a gallery with black hand rail at the top of the square part, and surmounted by an octagonal lantern having three Sides glazed and acopper roof. The characteristics of the lights and their geograph- ical position will not be changed. 'A cargo of 152,000 bushels of corn has just been taken on by the big steamer Centurion at Chicago. This is 4,188 bushels more than the cargo of corn carried by the Centurion from Chicago to Erie in September, 1898, and is probably sufficient to maintain the corn record for the Cen- > + 2° @:@, 0,0, 9,0. "@ © Half Sectional Elevation on AB WalP Outside Elevation with casing oF : "CLYDE" WATER TUBE BOILERS OF CANADIAN GOVERNMENT STEAMER ABERDEEN. Hon. Amos Townsend of Cleveland, whose death occurred a few days ago in Florida, where he had gone for his health, represented the Cleve- land district in congress at one time.: He not only secured liberal appro- priations for Cleveland harbor improvements but was one of the most successful workers in behalf of river and harbor improvements generally throughout the lakes. The big sheet containing regulations for the government of pilots on the lakes, and which is usually framed and hung up in the pilot house of steamers, has been revised in accordance with the act of Feb. 8 providing special rules for the navigation of lake vessels and is being sent out from Washington to local inspectors. An engraving of the Northern line pas- senger steamer North West adorns the top of it. A Buffalo correspondent says: "Buffalo is short of facilities for handling the great amount of miscellaneous freight that comes here, and the return of better times must see more warehouses built, especially for handling and storage of flour, which now comes in at the rate of 10,000,000 packages aseason. 'here is a long line of water frontage now protected by the breakwater, but which will not be accessible till there is a bridge across lower Main street somewhere." : Cleveland's public works department is again to advertise for bids on harbor dredging to extend over a period of five years. Since Contractor turion until some of the big 400-foot steamers now building are given an opportunity to test their capacity in the grain trade. The S. S. Curry is loaded in Chicago with 246,603 bushels of oats, and it is expected to put in another jag that will make the cargo more than 250,000 bushels. It is unfortunate that the Centurion could not also be given a cargo of oats in order that a definite comparison might be made of the carrying capacity of these two boats. Charles W. Ward of Charleston, W. Va., who is in the business of making tubulous boilers, secured at the last meeting of the United States board of supervising inspectors of steam vessels, approval for three types of tubulous boilers. They are known as Ward's torpedo boat boiler, Ward's torpedo boat boiler No. 2 and Ward's straight tube launch boiler. Improvements on the Roberts safety water tube boiler, made by the New York company of the same name, also secured approval from the board. A COPY OF THE PHOTO-GRAVURE SUPPLEMENT OF DIRECTORS OF THE LAKE CARRIERS' ASSOCIATION, TOGETHER WITH THE LARGE ENGRAVING OF THE STEAMER NORTH WEST, BOTH OF WHICH WERE CONTAINED IN RECENT BIG ISSUES OF THE REVIEW, WILL BE MAILED IN A PASTEBOARD TUBE TO ANY ADDRESS UPON RECEIPT OF 50 CENTS IN STAMPS.