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10 | MARINE REVIEW. Around the Lakes. Mr. C. F. Palmer, Cleveland vessel broker, is now located on the seventh floor of the Perry-Payne building. Capt. Louis Charbonneau of Bay City died aboard his vessel, the Edward Blake, while on a trip down Lake Michigan, a few days' ago. The contract for dredging Collingwood, Ont., harbor has been 'awarded to Boon, Armstrong & Co. A very Tener dredge will be used on the work. Capt. Wm. Dandy, who is among the old vessel captains of the lakes, was compelled to leave his command, the steel tow barge Aurania, in Chicago recently, on account of illness. Officers of the Dominion cruiser Petrel are: Captain, Edward Dunn; first mate, A. J. Frame; second mate, F Arnold Jarvis; chief engineer, A. J. Brown; second engineer, W. H. Linter. Citizens of Racine, Wis., will make an effort to have the govern- ment build a breakwater out from the point of land known as Wind point, similar to that at Milwaukee, so as to form a harbor of refuge. The Pembroke Navigation Co. has given an order to the Polson -- Tron Works, Toronto, for a small steel passenger steamer, to ply on the Ottawa river etareen ee and - Des J a, to be ready about July 15. The schooner Wadena arrived in Cleveland, Sunday, after having received an extensive rebuild at the works of the Milwaukee Dry Dock Co. Repairs involved an expenditure of about $7,500 and were very well made. Asaresult of the recent race between the steamers Langell and Elfin-Mere while entering the canal at Duluth, the city authorities have passed an ordinance restricting the speed of vessels oe the canal entrance to six miles an hour. About May 15, the fixed red lantern light at the edge of the ee ber, near the lower end of Herson island, St. Clair river, will be moved nearer to Herson island middle light, making the distance be- tween the lights about 525 feet. Petoskey reports a mirage on Little Traverse bay, which deyel- oped Saturday. The Beavers and Skilligalee light-house~ point, thirty to forty miles distant, were clearly revealed in the befuddled: atmosphere, the vision ladnae nearly an hour. Manager Foy of the Niagara Nayisanon Ga nag appointed R. Clapp, first officer of the Chicora, to the captaincy of that vessel, in place of the late Capt. Harbottle, deceased. Captain Clapp has been with the Niagara company as chief officer since 1893. Arthur H. Vogel of Milwaukee was the lowest bidder on a job of 50,000 yards of dredging in Fox river, Green Bay, for which Capt. Geo..A. Zinn of the United States engineer corps, Milwaukee, opened bids, a few days ago. The price was 94 cents per cubic yard. a Vessels in the ore trade are avoiding trimming at shipping ports more so than usual this season. Some of the largest of them are either doing no trimming at all or they are trying different devices of cheap construction, which are intended to partly distribute the ore. W. J. Connors of Buffalo stevedore fame seems to be going into daily newspaper business on a wholesale scale. He has owned the Buffalo Enquirer and the Buffalo Record for some time past, and a few days ago purchased the Buffalo Courier, which he has consolidated with the Record under the name of Courier-Record. Industry and Prodigy are the names of the two big wooden har- bor tugs, built by Capt. James Davidson, and which are to be in the Barry line at Duluth. Two other tugs of this line are the G. A. Tom- linson and Violet H. Raber. The Duluth company is known as the Barry Towing & Wrecking Co. Offices are at the foot of Fifth avenue, west. The efficiency of the passenger service on the Nickel Plate road is meeting recognition on all hands. Solid through trains between Chicago and New York City; elegantly equipped palace sleeping cars; an unexcelled dining service uniformed colored porters on through trains; fast time and rates always the lowest; all combine to make it the most popular line between Chicago, Cleveland, Buffalo,New York and Boston. 49 June 10 Miscellaneous Matters. The project to build a railroad from the Pittsburg terminus of the Pittsburg, Bessemer & Lake Erie Railroad to the Connellsville coke region is again under way. Engineers are making preliminary sur- veys, and work on the extension will begin as soon as the road is com- pleted between Conneaut and Pittsburg. Lieut. Frederick Enblom, an engineer from Stockholm, Sweden, is making a tour of the lakes for the purpose of investigating canal. locks and ice crushing steamers in the interest of his government. In company with Mr. Frank E. Kirby of the Detroit Dry Dock Co., he examined in the big dry dock at Detroit, a few days ago, the ice crush- ing steamer Sainte Marie. The new steel barge Constitution, built by the American Steel Barge Co., has left the ship yard at West Superior in tow of the steamer Victory. Her first cargo will be a load of ore from Ashland, The barge company is making extensive repairs to the steel steamer Katahdin. She is in dock having twenty-three plates taken off and sixty floors and frames fixed up. The steel barge Antrim, which was launched at the ship yard of the Globe Iron Works Co. on Saturday last, and which will tow with the steamer Harper or Nimick, is a duplicate of the Sidney G. Thomas, launched at the same yard a short time ago. Both vessels were fully described and illustrated in the Review of April 29. Tonnage of the Sidney G. Thomas is 3,200.19 gross and 2,912.58 net. Carlos D. Myers of Cleveland, who has been experimenting with diving apparatus intended for deep sea. purposes, and who was con- nected with an expedition that tried to find the sunken Pewabic a year ago, now talks of fitting out a small vessel to go in search of the Menominee line steamer Norman, which was sunk in Lake Huron in August, 1895, by the Canadian Jack, a wooden steamer now known as the Bothnia. Even the fuel docks are making records unheard of in the past in putting coal aboard steam vessels. The steamer V. H. Ketchum came into Cleveland just before midnight, Monday, dropped her tow inside the breakwater and proceeded to the fast plant of the Cuddy-Mullen company for fuel. Eight car loads of fuel, aggregating 155 tons, were put aboard in twenty minutes, and in just one hour after passing with- in the breakwater the steamer was again on her way up the lake with her tow. "* The new coal plant of the Pennsylvania & Ohio Fuel Co. at Mani- towoc, which is to be operated in connection with the Chicago & Northwestern Railway, has 800 feet frontage and is 400 feet deep. The framework of the trestles will be of iron, and in addition to this 500,- 000 feet of timber and planking will enter into the construction of the plant. The hoists will be of the most approved kind, so as to assure rapid handling of cargoes. It is intended to have the plant ready for service about August 1. In view of the great number of aids to navigation which the United States government maintains on the lakes, and in the advan- tages of which Canadian vessels share alike with United States vessels, the officers of the Lake Carrires' Association do not hesitate in asking the Canadian marine department for lights that may be of advantage to American commerce. Just now it is the general opinion of vessel masters trading to Buffalo that a light and fog signal at Point Abino is badly needed, and the Lake Carriers' Association will very probably petition the Canadian government for a new structure at that point. James R. Raymond of the Standard Automatic Releasing Hook Co., Nos. 22 and 24 State street, New York, who has been on the lakes for iit or three weeks past, directing attention to the value of a pat- ent hook that will admit of a naphtha launch, yawl or small boat of any kind being released in very rough weather and again taken aboard without the least difficulty, is meeting with success in the sale of his device at Chicago. The Goodrich line has equipped all boats on the Iowa and Virginia with these hooks, and the Chicago Ship Building Co. bought them for vessels which they are just completing, with the intention also of using them on all vessels which they build in the future. Army and navy charts of the lakes are kept in stock by the Marine Review, Perry-Payne building, Cleveland. a