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MARINE REVIEW. | | ee Around the Lakes. Buffalo line boat managers have agreed to not start any of their ves- sels until April 15. F. W. Wheeler of West Bay City has sold the lumber steamer St. Joseph to Buffalo parties for $10,000. Capt. David Clow, who sailed the lakes for nearly fifty years and was well known to pioneer Milwaukeeans, died on March 19, at Crystal Lake, Ill., aged 71 years. "4 It is expected that increased competition in the steamboat fueling business at Buffalo will hold down the cost of fuel to steamboat owners during the coming season. Harris W. Baker and C. A. Chamberlain have purchased the tug Champion from the Grummond estate, Detroit, and will fit her out for heavy towing and wrecking. Peter Olson of Manitou Island has been appointed keeper of the new 'life-saving station near Bailey's harbor. Capt. Olson has been amember of the life-saving crew on Manitou island ever since the station was established there. At Bayfield, Wis., during the past winter, F. L. Maynard} has been engaged in rebuilding the Booth Packing Co's tug G. W. Currie. She is now practically a new boat, as machinery and hull have both been en- tirely overhauled. During the coming season the steamer Rube Richards will tow the barge H. W. Sage. The steamer Queen of the Westis to tow the May Richards and the Kate Winslow. The J.S. Fay has been given the Warmington and the Sophia Minch. - Capt. Thomas Byrne of Sault Ste. Marie has sold the passenger steamer Ivanhoe to C. H. Newman of Chicago for $14,000, accepting Chicago real . estate as part payment. The Ivanhoe will next season be engaged in ex- cursion business between Chicago and South Chicago. The Canadian propeller Myles will next season be in the same route as last, Duluth to Montreal, carrying flour and grain down and general merchandise back to Fort William and Duluth. She has been replanked at Kingston during the winter from keel to covering board. Senator McMillan has introduced in congress a bill to establish a life saving station at Port Huron, Mich. As the measure will be in the hands of the commerce committee of the senate, it will very probably be re- ported favorably without delay, Senator McMillan being member of that committee. Mr. A. Osier, lake representative of DeGrauw Aymar & Co., New York, was in Cleveland Thursday on his way east. His firm has shipped a car load of anchors to F. W. Wheeler & Co., West Bay City, and among them were two anchors for the steamer Centurion, formerly fitted with another style of anchor. Lake underwriters in session at Buffalo are engaged in the prepara- tion of a schedule of insurance rates on hulls. It is understood that the companies represented by general agents on the lakes have again lost the insurance on both grain and flour business at the head of the lakes, the British & Foreign Co. having made rates on this business almost as low as the figures at which it was secured a year ago. An advertisement found elsewhere in this issue from Major M. B. Adams, corps of engineers, U. S. A., Detroit, calls for bids for furnishing the boilers, machinery, etc., for twelve complete steam fog signals, in sets of two, and for six boilers with fittings. Another notice from the light-house engineer at New Orleans asks for bids on a boiler for the light-house tender Arbutus. Within the coming week Capt. Daniel McLeod, manager of the In- land Lloyd's Register, will have distributed all of the books to insur- ance agents and others who are entitled to them. Reductions in ratings of some of the older classes of wooden boats will prove disappointing to some owners. Probably not more than half a dozen of the canal schooners have secured an A2 class. - For the year 1895 the Richelieu & Ontario Navigation Co., principal St. Lawrence river passenger line, reports gross receipts of $639,468.46, and expenditures $582,730.00, leaving a net profit of $106,437 86. Out of this amount two dividends of 3 per cent. each have been declared, to- gether amounting to $81,000, the balance of $25,437.86 being added to the surplus. Electric lights have been placed on all steamers running on the principal lines. North Tonawanda, N. Y., is becoming more prominent as a receiving port for the Lake Superior ore. The Tonawanda Iron & Steel Co. have just completed another large blast furnace, and have added to their equip- ment another Brown hoist, which will enable them to unload during each twenty-four hours three of the average sized vessels which seek that trade. On one occasion last season they handled two 1,200-ton vessels during a day and night. Officials of the Anchor Line, Buffalo, deny the statement that they are trying to sell off their wooden steamers. The steamer Gordon Camp- bell, smallest of the fleet is for sale, and may not be put in commission upon the opening of navigation, but other wocden boats of the line are still suited to handling a large business and will be operated as usual. The tonnage of the whaleback steamer Frank Rockefeller, which is now nearing completion at West Superior, is 2,759.86 gross and 2,013.55 net, and her official number is121,015. Tonnage of the Wilson line steamer W. D. Rees of Cleveland is 3,760.29 gross tons and 2,992.38 net, and her official number is 81,535. Herman Kahlman, Jr., who is well known to vessel men on account of long connection with Detroit river improvement work, will resign his position on April 1 to take up business on his own account. Mr. Kahl- man has always taken a great interest in vessel matters and has been a most obliging official while in charge of the river work. In 18€0 he was superintending inspector on the Lime-Kiln crossirg under Gen. Weitzel ; in 1883 he was appointed inspector under Col. Farquahar, and for twelve years following he was under the direction of the late Gen. Poe, having charge of works at Black River, Port Huron, mouth of Black river, St: Clair river, Rouge river, St. Clair Flats, Ballard's reef, Lime-Kiln crossing and the mouth of the Detroit river. He was also engaged on a survey of Grosse point, a survey from Point Mouillee to Detroit, and a survey from Bar point to Sandwich, Ont. In all of this work Mr. Kahlman has met with approval from army officers of high rank by whom he has been en- gaged. According to a schedule just announced by Gen. Pass. Agt. A. A. Heard, the Northern Steamship Co. will keep its promise and Buffalo will see little of the big passenger boats North West and North Land next summer. They will simply make a short stop at that port as they do at intermediate ports between the foot of Lake Erie and the head of Lake Superior. The boats will leave Buffalo west bound on Fridays and Tues- days, at 8:30 p. m., arrive in Cleveland on Saturdays and Wednesdays at 7 a, m., leaving at 7:30 a. m.; Detroit, arrive Saturdays and Wednesdays at 2:30 p. m., leaving at 3 p. m.; Mackinaw island, Sundays and Thursdays, arrive 10 a.m., leaving at 10:30 a. m.; Sault Ste. Marie, Sundays and Thursdays, arrive 5:30 p.m., leaving at 7 p.m.; Duluth, Mondays and Fridays, arrive at 4:30 p.m. East-bound--Leave Duluth Saturdays and Tuesdays at 1:45 p.m; Sault Ste. Marie, Sundays and Wednesdays, arrive 11:15 a. m., leaving 12:45 p. m.; Mackinaw island, Sundays and Wednes- days, arriving 7:30 p.m., leaving 8 p. m.; Detroit, Mondays and Thurs-. day, arrive 3 p. m., leaving 3:30 p.m.; Cleveland, Mondays and Thursdays, arrive 10:30 p. m., leaving 12 midnight; Buffalo, Tuesdays and Fridays, arrive 11 a.m. Connections with the steamer Manitou at Mackinaw. island will be announced later, as will also the dates that this service will be inaugurated, although present indications point to the opening about June 10. RN 4 ANY WY 4 RNY \\ THE LATE NAT W. PRATT, PRESIDENT OF THE BABCOCK & WILCOx CO. (See page 11, issue of March 19, 1896.) Again the naval appropriation bill as reported from the house com- mittee on naval affairs contains an item of $7,500 for a model tank for testing models of hulls, to be erected on the grounds of the old naval observatory. It is to be hoped that this item will be retained in the bill. On account of the present condition of the treasury, apppropriations for. _ the beginning of work on new dry docks at Algiers, La, Mare Island, Cal., and Portsmouth, N. H., have been removed from the bill since it was. first agreed to in committee,