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MARINE REVIEW. VoL. XIV. Another Bridge Fight. It is now quite certain that another fight on the Detroit river bridge question will occur during the coming short session of con- gress. The bridge advocates, encouraged by their success with the senate committee on commerce at the last session, are to make a final effort in December, along the old lines of a bridge with piers in the river, on which the vessel interests will make no compromise. If they are defeated this time, it is not probable that the vessel interests will ever again be called upon to oppose a bridge bill, as the railway people will find it necessary to propose a tunnel or high bridge without piers of any kind in the river. More Contracts--Ship Yard Matters. Orders to ship builders indicate that, although lake yards may not all be full this winter, the number of contracts will be much larger than was expeced. The Inter-Lake Transportation Co., which is the Cleveland corporation owning the steamers Kearsarge and Victory, given an order to the American Steel Barge Co. for a tow barge that will be pracically a duplicate of the Rockefeller barge. James Nasmyth--380 feet over all, 44 feet beam and 26 feet moulded depth. At the yard of the Globe Iron Works Co., Cleveland, two steel tow arges instead of one of the kind recently ordered by the Bessemer teamship Co, will be put down. A purchaser will probably be found CLEVELAND, O., NOVEMBER 26, 1806. No. 22. shortly for this second boat, but if not the Globe company's connec- tion with the Mutual and Menominee transportation companies will Insure operation of the vessel. The Chicago Ship Building Co. has' another order for a tow barge and it will be the largest towing ves- sel ever built on the Jakes. They will build for James Corrigan and others of Cleveland a steel schooner of 376 feet keel, 46 feet beam and 26 feet depth. The Cleveland Ship Building Co. also has another contract. They will build for A. B. Wolvin of Duluth a steamer that will be practically a duplicate' of the Queen City but 6 feet longer. She will have Babcock & Wilcox water tube boilers, furnishing steam at 250 pounds pressure, and alike to the boat building in Chicago if NO DETROIT RIVER BRIDGE WHILE HE LIVES, for Mr. Wolvin, will be fitted with quadruple expansion engines. Engine sizes have not as yet been definitely fixed. - Dae ta ta) Drake & Wallace of St. Joseph, Mich., will build an 80-foot river steamer. Machinery for the new boat will be taken from the old steamer Calumet, which was formerly in service on the Calumet . river. A. Abbey of Port Dalhousie, Ont., will build a wooden tug for Duncan Armstrong of Port Colborne, Ont. A disptch from the Marquette Towing Co. announces that the tug _ Gillett of Marquette will not lay up until the close of navigation.