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10 , MARINE REVIEW. Officers of the Grand Lodge, Ship Masters' Association, oy ALEX. CLARK, W. A. COLLIER, Ex. Past Grand Prest. Grand Fin. Sec. GEO. MCCULLAGH, GRAND PRESIDENT. W.S. MACK, Grand 1st. Vice Prest. LYMAN HUNT, Grand Treas. W.E. RICE, ; C. E. BENHAM, Grand 2nd Vice Prest. Past Grand Prest. a é { F, J. McCABE, H. F. LOFTUS. F D. WELCOME. C. T. BROWN. C.M. DAVIS, Grand Chaplain. ROBERT YOUNG, Grand Marshal. J, A. HOLMES. DUNCAN STALKER, HENRY ROOT, Grand Warden. J. A. WARD, Grand Sentinel. HENRY LEISK. C. L. WILSON. A. J. McKAY. GEO. A. SHAW. , Officers of the Grand Lodge, Ship Masters' Association. Two groups of officers and members of the grand lodge, Ship Masters' Association, appear on this page. The first group contains the principal officers, while in the second group are the subordinate officers and mem- bers of the association who represented the different lodges as delegates in the last annual meeting at Washington. These engravings were pre- pared for the directory of the association, which is being prepared under the direction of Capt. W. A. Collier of Cleveland, and which will be pub- lished about May 1. Government Ship Building Contracts in England. One very excellent reason why government contracts in England, at least those pertaining to naval construction, are not popular with, nor especially sought after by, some of the foremost engineering firms of that country, has been furnished by the experience that Messrs. Yarrow & Co., the well-known torpedo boat builders, have more recently gone through _ with the British admiralty, and which is about as unique as it is commend- able. Messrs. Yarrow & Co., as is pretty generally known, were the first, several years ago, to turn out vessels of the torpedo boat destroyer type. The success attained by these was remarkable at the time, and more recently, therefore, it was determined by the admiralty to order a large number of them, of the latest and still further improved Yarrow design, and to extend the orders for them to builders of larger vessels in the northern ship building districts, who, it is admitted, did not then have much experience with craft of this kind. Instead, however, of inviting these newer firms to submit designs of their own, the admiralty, with, no doubt, laudable intentions so far as the good of the department and of the country was.concerned,. but with entirely unwarrantable freedom. with some one else's. property,.proceeded,to have Messrs. Yarrow's drawings-- which had been confidentially submitted--traced and distributed among those other establishments. It is not to be wondered at that Messrs. Var- row have most emphatically protested against this strange proceeding, which may well put other builders of original machinery on their guard when dealing with the government. Had the latter acquired property rights in the drawings there might have been no question as to its privi- lege to make any use of them that it thought proper. As it is, however, the admiralty used documents confidingly submitted to them as thongh they were their own. Certainly, no argument seems necessary in this case to convict them of having been guilty of a practice which every right- thinking contractor will condemn, even though he may have profited by it. What the admiralty has done in this instance appears to be but a sample of other similar methods followed by it for years,less seriously aggravating, perhaps, but none the less unworthy of a great government. 'The result is already apparent by the preference which is shown by some of the promi- nent English contractors for the work of other governments, and this pre- ference may be expected to increase largely if the universal distribution system of one contractor's drawings among his competitors is to be fol- lowed in future.--Cassier's Magazine. The REviIEw has been preparing some information re garding bridges at various lake ports, and in doing soit has been necessary to write a number of city and town officials. An answer to one of these letters re- ceived from Mayor Walter Scott of Erie, Pa.,is as follows: 'Iam happy to inform you that the City of Erie is not bothered witha single bridge through which boats have to pass. Erie is blessed with a beautiful nat- ural harbor extending the full length of the city on its northern boundary, and does not depend on a troublesome creek running through the city, to bridge and fight about." Erie is certainly fortunate in possessing a great harbor. Her share of the ore business would probably have been somewhat greater than it is, but for advantages in location enjoyed by a few other Lake Erie ports. The Pennsylvania Company has been waking up considerable of late, however, and Erie will have this year three mod- ern ore docks with capacity fully one-third greater than that of last year. J. M. Egan, who has been connected with the Chicago, Milwaukee & _ St, Paul Railway, has been selected for the vice-presidency of the Lake Superior & Ishpeming Railway, the new ore road in which stockholders of the Lake Angeline, Cleveland-Cliffs and Lake Superior Iron companies are interested.