The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

14 MARINE REVIEW. Around the Lakes, Mr. John F.. Pankhurst of the Globe Iron Works Co., Cleveland, is preparing for a trip to California. James Rooney of Toledo is now the owner of the tug Wisconsin. He bought her at marshal's sale for $4,775. " It is probable that some of the canal boats of the Cleveland Steel Canal Boat Co. will be kept in service during the winter in the coal trade on Long Island sound. At the coal dock of B. Uhrig & Son, Milwaukee, the steamer Fred Pabst, carrying 2,900 net tons of coal, was unloaded recently in 9 hours and 55 minutes, actual working time. _. There are some fears of another grain blockade at Buffalo. During the forty-eight hours ending Monday evening the cargoes of vessels arriving at Buffalo aggregated 3,000,000 bushels. _ The award of the contract for the new Rockefeller tow barges to the Globe Iron Works Co., Cleveland, is proof of the statement that the job would certainly go to the lowest bidder. It was thought that Mr Rockefeller's interest in the American Steel Barge Co. might help that concern to secure the contract, but such was not the case. The specifications demand in every particular a steel tow barge equal to the best that has ever been built on the lakes. It is quite probable that the Leatham & Smith Towing Co. will file a salvage claim in connection with the work of getting the burned | steamer Australasia into shoal water. The published accounts of the accident to the Australasia do not agree with another story that comes from Sturgeon Bay, from which point the tug John Leathem was hurried to the scene on receipt of a telephone warning forwarded from Bailey's Harbor. The captain of the Leathem states that the Austra- lasia was four miles off land when he reached her and had been aban- doned by the crew, the life-savers having taken the latter to Jackson- port. The Leathem, he says, then got a line to the Australasia, intending to take her to the Sturgeon bay canalentrance. Finding this impossible, he claims to have towed the steamer ashore and then scuttled her by ramming a hole through her side. While this may possibly have been the case, it is hardly probable, as no one is pre- pared to believe that a tug could perform such a ramming feat with out losing her stem and in fact shattering her entire bow. . But the towing company will probably file a salvage claim just the same.-- Meine Heping Wisconsin. A Broadside of Search Lights. In the great water commerce display to take place in New York on Saturday evening, Oct. 24, electricity will take a leading part in the illumination of vessels, but surpassing this will be the great dis- play of the Rushmore Dynamo Works, makers of the Rushmore high power projectors. Their seven story factory is on the water front in Jersey City, nearly opposite the reviewing point at the Battery, and on the roof they will have fifteen projectors of the most powerful type, which will be operated by skilled attendants, who have been drilled to work the lights together to produce some wonderful effects. As each projector throws an intense beam extending beyond the range of vision, with the large number all working together the western sky willbe one blaze of light. The large amount of current requiredwill be supplied by a'250 horse power Corliss engine driving a Rushmore dynamo, which by day furnishes power throughout the works. A large number of ships that are to be in the parade are equipped with projectors and the intention is to work both the land and the floatin g lights together to give the best effect from the shore. Porter Bros., Duluth, were the lowest bidders on a job of about 410 feet of riprap eat at Agate Bay,, Minn., on which Major Clinton B. Sears, U. S. A., opened bids at Bhat on the 20th inst. Their bid was $63.17 per running foot of embankment. Other bids were: Wm. H. Randall, West Duluth, Minn., $91.34; Jacob H. Carlson, Duluth, Minn., $71.15; eel ce Duluth, Minn., $84.20; Tulloch Bros. & Mages: Duluth, Minn., $85. 90; is & D. Sang, Dalat, Minn., $89, 25; Jacob rere Dyilash, Minn.., $75.48; Geo. R. King & Hugh Steele, Duluth, Minn, $71.90; oop: & Doubleday, St. Paul, Minn., $157.98; Hlisha G. ea @fieidh, N. Y., $205.00; Wm. McCuray f Houghton, Mich., and Alex. Me- Gar of Palin Minn., $81. 00; Powell & Mitchell, Marquette, Mich., $76.48; Walter H. ingen Dareen Minn. , $85.00. The tone of business letters is entirely in this direction. A Photographic Enterprise. The Marine Review has in hand the results of sending a photo- grapher to the mouth of the. Detroit river, where he remained for more than two weeks taking photographs of representative lake steamers. Some sixty 11x14-inch negatives have been secured, and from them we are having prints made and mounted on 14x17- inch cards, making the handsomest photographs of lake steamers yet published. Orders have been received for a large number of these photographs, and single prints of nearly all of the sixty views are now ready for inspection at the Marine Review office, Perry- Payne building, Cleveland. Any one who orders by mail and is not satisfied with the pictures may have their money refunded. The price for single prints is $1.50, or four prints to one address for $5. In addition to the views of the different boats, there is a panoramic view, 11x28 inches, showing Bois Blane island, the channel, Amherstburg, Lime-Kilns crossing, etc. This is one of the prettiest and best known views on the lakes, and the photographer does it justice. No finer picture for the home of a marine man can be imagined, The price of this picture is $3, and it will be furnished with a neat matt and frame around it for $5. Following is a list of the vessels photographed : Adams, Tom Majestic, Bartlett and two wibleBactee McWilliams, J. J. Bessemer, Sir Henry Mohawk, Centurion, Maricopa, City of Genoa, Nicholas, I. W. Commodore, North Land, Connelly Bros. Northern Light, Chili, Orr, Geo. N. Chisholm, Wm. Owego, Cranage, Thos. Pabst, Fred Curry, 8. 8. Parnell, Chas. 8. Devereaux, J. H. Pontiac, Edwards and barge, Presley, Geo. Fairbairn, Republic, Frontenac, Schuylkill, Gladstone, Scranton, Harlem, Senator, Harper, John Stafford, Hesper, Spencer, Geo. and barge Tosco, Spokane, Tron King, State of Michigan, Italia, Tuscarora, James, H. R. Waldo, L. C. Kearsarge, Ward, Eber Kirby, Frank E. Weed, Emily: P. Marina and barge, Yale, Masaba, Zenith City, It is quite evident that the manufacturers all over the country are expecting a big change for the better immediately after election. In a letter just issued to patrons of the Magi.olia Metal Co., New York, the president of that company, Mr. C. E. Miller, says: "The business men of the country have passed through a trying ordeal for some months back, but we believe that the stagnation and dullness in trade will end with the 3rd of November, and that a new and better condi- tion of things will prevail." Then follows a statement of the busi- ness policy of the company, so written as to indicate expectations of a general return of prosperous business conditions. It is remarkable that prices of Magnolia metal, on account of its worth, have never been reduced during the dull period of two or three years past. The Goodrich line steamer Muskegon, which was wrecked while in dock at Milwaukee, has been stripped of her cabin outfit and will be sold at auction Noy. 10. This course is taken by the Goodrich company -- with a view to sueing the Milwaukee Dry Dock Co. for the difference between what she may sell for and her Inland Lloyds insurance valuation. EF'OR SAL AEG, Naphtha Cruising Launch, 38 feet Jong, 8 feet beam, cabin with four berths, with wash room, ice box, and all modern conveniences, beveled edge plate glass windows, and mahogany finish throughout. Speed 10 miles per hour, bran new last year, and: for sale cheap for cash if taken at once. For further particu- lars address Box 616, Toledo, O, Dec, 1