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e g MARINE REVIEW. Around the Lakes. Geo. Orr is the name selected for the package freight steamer build- ing at South Chicago for C. W. Elphicke, Arthur Orr and others. The schooner Penokee, which was owned iu Toledo for a great num- ber of years, was sold in Detroit afew days ago by the United States marshal for $3,100. Lieut. Charles S. Ripley, U S.N., is the officer selected to succeed Lieut. Blow in charge of the branch hydrographic office at Chicago. He comes from the coast survey schooner Eagre. Eddy Bros., lumber dealers and vessel owners of Bay City, Mich., have just purchased about 360 acres of timber and iron lands in Minne- sota from the Luther Mining Co. of Illinois for $100,000. .: 'THE NEW AMERICAN LINER, ST. LOUIS. Mr. W. A. Hawgood of Cleveland announces that the firm of Hawgood &-Canfield was dissolved on Jan. 1, and that he will continue a brokerage business in the offices formerly occupied by Hawgood & Canfield, No. 608 Perry-Payne building. Capt. Edward Maytham of Buffalo and Edward Baxter of Fort Erie, Ont., have purchased the old Detroit river ferry-steamer Hope for $5,0(0 cash. The vessel will be rebuilt, to run on the Canadian side of Niagara river between Buffalo, Black Rock and Victoria. W. J. Conners, well-known boss stevedore of Buffalo, has purchased the Enquirer, one of the afternoon Buffalo papers. He has become very wealthy. In addition to his interest in the business of handling freight at Buffalo he is the principal owner ina large brewery and a director in two banks. Little demand has as yet developed in Chicago for vessels to store grain. Corn is not in good condition for handling and there is no dis- position to move wheat from the elevators to vessels. Vessel owners express a hope, however, that this delay may result in higher rates for storage room later on. The two big passenger steamers and all of the freight steamers of the Northern line, except the Northern wave, which is undergoing ex- tensive repairs at Detroit, are laid up-at-the head of Lake Superior. Buffalo certainly suffers quite a loss through the transfer of a large part of the Northern company's business to Duluth. Harris T. Dunbar of Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., has purchased the in- terest of his father, C. F. Dunbar of Buffalo, N. Y.,in the dredging plant and business of Dunbar & Sullivan, which includes the ship building yard and repair shops at Sault Ste. Marie. The members of the firm now are H. T. Dunbar, F. EK. Dunbar and M. Sullivan. It is announced definitely that Wm. Cumming of Cleveland who is the senior commander in the vessels controlled by M. A. Hanna & Co. of Cleveland, will be given the new steamer which the Globe company is building for the Mutual line. Capt. S. Stratton, who commanded the lost steamer Norman last season, will be given the place made vacant by the promotion of Capt. Cumming, No assignment of vessels will be made among the several masters until spring. Grain cargoes at Buffalo have all been disposed of, excepting those which are to be held in vessels during a partor all of the winter. They are the wheat cargoes of the Neosho, J F. Eddy, Roumania and Adriatic, in all 259,000 bushels; the barley cargoes of the M. B. Grover, George Stone, and Iosco, 270,500 bushels; the oats cargoes of the John B. Lyon and Italia, 223,094 bushels, and the flaxseed cargoes of the Sitka and Topeka, 119,824 bushels--a grand total of 872,418 bushels. The work of constructing new docks and improving terminals gen- erally may be expected to increase in accordance with the heavier freight movement for which new ships are being built. Plans are now being made for more alterations and some enlargement of the docks of the Pennsylvonia Co., Cleveland. At Two Harbors the Duluth & Iron Range Railway Co. is to erect another ore shipping dock, the fifth, during the winter. Contracts have been let for this work. The dock will be 1,600 feet long, and about 6,000,000 feet of lumber will be used in its con- struction. : Etna Steamship Co. is the name of the corporation organized by Capt. John Mitchell of Cleveland to control one of the steel steamers that is being built by F, W. Wheeler & Co. of West Bay City, Mich. The vessel will be named Lagonda. The capital is $200,000. Incorporators . are John F. Wedow, H.S. Hills, Philip Morris, Capt. S. Stratton, Capt. John Mitchell and Capt. Alfred Mitchell of Cleveland and Capt. J. J. H. Brown of Buffalo. The vessel is 386 feet over all, 45 feet beam and 28 feet deep, and will be fitted with triple expansion engines having cylin- ders of 23, 38 and 64inches diameter and 48 inches stroke. Her three Scotch boilers will each be 12% by 12 feet. Stocks of Grain at Lake Ports. The following table, prepared from reports of the Chicago board of trade, shows the stocks of wheat and corn in store at the principal points of accumulation on the lakes on Dec. 28, 1895: : Wheat, bushels. - Corn, bushels. CHICAT Oteccsresrecteeaseoreceeceace seceveeee 21,203,000 911,000 Drrluthises ss. tess ckes ccs csscase Sicsccepenens . 8,444,000 were 1,000 Milwaukee......ccsccsscssscecceeees dabeisiets co DOD OUO stir Gu aac c yecue secre WEtnOlticerscerciescscastss Se acc Re ec cee - 367,000 se 29,000 Toledo....... BN. ss Gt csi ctechaet - 921,000 141,000 Buttial Oseccs. sccneece setbactieaies escedoss cassie 3,240,000 167,000 PhoOtalcscscss pesesecaeeees ccceesedesesces 35,110,000 1,249,000 As compared with a week ago, the above figures show at the several points named an increase of 557,000 bushels of wheat and 128,000 bushels | of corn. On Dec. 28 there was afloat at Chicago 205,000 bushels of corn and 61,000 bushels of oats; at Buffalo, 259,000 bushels of wheat, 223,000 bushels © of oats, and 304,000 bushels of barley; at Duluth, 512,000 of wheat; and at Milwaukee 53,000 bushels of wheat. Senate Committees. Of the senate committees that will pass upon legislation pertaining to lake improvements the committee on appropriations and the com- merce committee are most important. It is interesting therefore to note that Senator Allison of Illinois is chairman of the appropriations com- mittee and that Mr. Brice, who has taken a special interest in lake com- merce is a member of that committee. On the commerce committee the lakes will have the influence of Senator McMillan of Michigan, who is directly interested in vessels and in the Detroit Dry Dock Co., one of the SCHOONER FOR FLORIDA PARTIES, BUILT BY W. I. ADAMS, E. BOOTHBAY, ME. largest of the ship building concerns. These two commlttees are made up as follows: Appropriations--Allison (chairman), Hale, Cullom, Teller, Quay, Pettigrew, Perkins, republicans; Cockrell, Call, Gorman, Blackburn, Brice, Faulkner, democrats, Commerce--Frye (chairman), Jones (Nev., Pop), Quay, McMillan, Squire, Elkins, Nelson, McBride, republicans; Vest, Gorman, White, Murphy, Berry, Pasco, Caffery, democrats, SEND YOUR ORDER FOR " PATTERSON'S NAUTICAL DICTIONARY"' ($5) TO THE "* MARINE REVIEW" AT ONCE.