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14 MARINE REVIEW. Around the Lakes, Capt. Jeremiah Coleman has been transferred from the steamer Selwyn Eddy to the Penobscot of the same fleet. A bill authorizing the establishment of a pierhead light at South Milwaukee, Lake Michigan, has passed both houses of congress. A portion of the sunken barge Sumatra, which threatened pass- ing vessels at Milwaukee, has been blown up by order of the United States engineer. James McBrier of Erie has gone to the rivers of Africa for an- other name for one of his vessels. He has changed the name of the steamer Emily P. Weed to Savona. Owners of the Canadian steamer Sir S. L. Tilley report that she struck last fall, when drawing 14 feet of water, about a half mile from the outer light and on the alignment of the range lights at Port Colborne, Lake Erie entrance to the Welland canal. Capt. C. E. Benham, who is a candidate for the position of col- lector of customs at @lerelead, has the endorsement of practically everybody interested iu vessels, as well as the coal and ore business, at Cleveland, Conneaut, Lorain, Ashtabula and Fairport. Officers of the Mitchell Steamship Co. of Cleveland, elected re- cently, are: John Mitchell, president and manager, Phillip Morris, vice-president; F. Sauber, secretary; Alfred Mitchell, treasurer; Thomas Fitzpatrick and HH. S. Hills, directors with the officers. The Minnesota legislature is considering a bill that makes it unlaw- - ful for any railway to accept a greater sum for forwarding, delivering or transferring iron ore than 7 mills per ton per mile. The measure is evidently aimed against the railroads controlled by the Minnesota Iron Co. and John D. Rockefeller, and is prompted by owners of undeveloped iron mining properties. _ A few of the old-guard engineers and friends of Alonzo Arnold, chief engineer of the Minnesota fleet, are receiving invitations to celebrate his twenty-fifth wedding anniversay at Marine City, Mich., Feb. 12. He is one of the best known of lake engineers, holding his position as chief engineer of the largest fleet of steamers on the lakes by virtue of his practical experience. His first important work was in compounding the engines of the V. H. Ketchum, making an 11-mile boat of her as against 9 miles an hour before the change. Capt. Mal- -lory, commodore of the Minnesota fleet, was in the Ketchum at the time. - It is understood that affairs of the American Steel Barge Co. will be conducted during the coming season just as they were in 1896, the vessels being operated in the office of Pickands, Mather & Co. Mr. L. M.. Bowers, general manager of the Bessemer Steamship Co., was the representative of Mr. Rockefeller in the board of directors of the barge company, but he retired at the annual meeting held in New York, afew days ago, and will be succeeded by Mr. F. T. Gates, who has represented Mr. Rockefeller in all of his large transactions in the lake region, and who has, of course, been as much interested as Mr. Bowers in affairs of the barge company. Another change in the board of directors was the election of Howard A. Colby to succeed H. C. Rouse, who declined a re-election. Mr. Rouse himself had taken the alpae of Mr. Colby's father, the late Charles Colby. The other directors were all re-elected. Colgate Hoyt was re-elected president and treasurer, Mr. Samuel Mather vice-president and R. C. Wetmore secretary. » Although 'the Ship Masters' Association, when assembled in an- nual convention at Washington recently, Paonia a resolution favor- ing the application to sailing vessels of rules similar to those of the steamboat inspection service, the executive committee of the Lake Carriers' Association is opposed to anything of the kind, and they so expressed themselves at a-meeting held in Cleveland a few days ago. Capt. McKay read a letter from Secretary Keep of Buffalo, in which he stated that he had received a copy of a bill from Congressman Miner of Wisconsin, which provides for the inspection by the govern- ment of all sailing vessels of 700 tons or more, and that all officers on such vessels be licensed, which means that masters of sailing vessels would have to stand an examination of the kind that is now given to masters of steam vessels. This matter was to be considered by the legislative committee of the association in Buffalo. The Cleve- land owners instructed Capt. McKay to say to the legislative com- mittee that they were entirely opposed to such a proposition, Trade Notes, The contract for the new power station, to be erected for the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Co. at Berlin, Conn., has been let to the Berlin Iron Bridge Co. of East Berlin, Cones This building is 110 feet in width and nearly 200 feet in length, divided into two equal portions, one side to be used for a bo:ler room and the other for an engine and dynamo room. The engine and dynamo room is provided with a runway and a 35-ton traveling crane. The whole frame work is to be of steel, the side columns being enclosed by brick walls. ~ §. Oterio of the Central American Steamship Co. writes from New Orleans to H. G. Trout & Co. of Buffalo as follows: "The composition brass wheel, which you furnished in February, 1890, for my steamer Pixzeti, has proven to be the finest piece of work I have ever seen, -- After seven years continuous and has given me entire satisfaction. service the wheel looks better today than when we got it, as it has a smoother surface, and it appears to be good for twenty-five years -- more. We have nothing but the highest praise for the wheel and should we peguire others for any of our steamers we will sue re- member you.' A note from Henry R. Worthington of New York regarding the big Chicago water works contract, recently secured, says that it will involve the construction of six vertical triple expansion direct-acting high duty pumping engines. is the largest contract for water works pumping machinery ever placed in this country, The engines will each have a daily pumping capacity of 20,000,000 gallons against a head of 150 feet, and will be supplied with steam at a pressure of 140 pounds to the square inch. They will be of 530 horse power each. This company is also building three vertical triple expansion direct-acting high duty pumping engines for the city of Brooklyn, N. Y., under a contract amounting to $385, 000. These latter engines each have a daily capacity of 20,000,000 gallons to be delivered against a head of 168 feet, and the steam will be supplied at a pressure of 135 pounds to the square inch, each engine -- being of 600 horse power. Some time since the Review had an inquiry for names and ad- dresses of concerns that built or furnished castings for marine railways. We are pleased to state that H. I. Crandall & Son, 100 Border street, E. Boston, Mass., is probably the largest concern of this kind in the United States. This contract amounts to $437,600 and Business men in a number of the smaller lake ports -- have advocated the construction of dry docks, on the claim that dry -- docks will bring business to their towns. Marine railways are not nearly so expensive and will care for very large steamers or sailing vessels. One built at Mobile by this company has had its capacity increased from 800 to 1,300 tons. Plans for arailway capable of haul- ing out vessels of 3,000 tons have been furnished to North Sydney, Cape Breton, parties by Crandall & Son. The sixth-order fixed white light heretofore shown from the tower ° on the bluff westward of Conneaut harbor, Lake Erie, has been dis- continued and will, on or about March 1, be re-established in the struc- ture recently erected on the easterly side of the west pier at the en- -- trance to the harbor, and 815 feet S. by E. 3H. (true) in rear of the pierhead light. With the pierhead light this light will mark a range line parallel with the axis of the pier, to guide to the entrance be- tween the piers. 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 in regular eleva- tors at the principal points of accumulation on the lakes, Feb. 6, 1897: Wheat, bushels. Corn, bushels. ONICHA OO ge et ee eat ees 11,953,000 6,755,000 Duluth Ieee) See, 2S 3,606,000 15,000 NMUIAWICOL ra carrey sh ce ets 305,000 4,000 IDASIROV iis 6 >, sneha ibaa arte ewe eee es 305,000 98,000 OLGA se ee et eee ea 1,097,000 872,000 WA OMmeaearrs ere Poke 1,698,000 112,000 18,964,000 7,856,000 As compared with a week ago, the above figures show, at the sev- eral points named, a decrease of 219,000 bushels of wheat and an in- -- crease of 572,000 bushels of corn,