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10: MARINE Herbert Mitchell. There are few young men on the lakes who had brighter prospects than Herbert Mitchell, oldest son of John Mitchell, well-known throughout the lakes. He graduated from Yale not long since and was recently taken into the firm of Mitchell & Co. He was suddenly killed by an electric car just after alighting from another, last Friday. It was a sad blow to the father, who was very ambitious for the young man's future. He was 21 years of age. Lake Erie Docks Inspected by Mining Engineers. The summer meeting of the Ohio Institute of Mining Engineers, June 15-18, was conducted this year on the plan of an old Greek school of the peripatetic order. In other words it was instruction "on the go" from the morning of the first, to the evening of the last of the four days, and in the course of the journey Lake Erie docks were thoroughly inspected. The party is under obligations to Secretary R. M. Haseltine and President F. A. Ray, for the valuable informa- tion gained. Bay the party, consisting of 134 persons, examined the old methods of loading vessels with buckets and cranes, and inspected the interior arrangements of a whaleback vessel. They also saw the Thornburgh rapid loader, now building by Webster, Cramp & Lane of Akron, O. The excursionists then visited the Rosenbaum elevator and ex- amined the complete appliances, where through the use of an endless belt some 7,000 bushels of wheat are moved per hour. The wheat is carried on the flat belt at a very rapid rate without spilling, and when the turn of the belt is reached, it leaves the belt and pours into the funnel without the loss of a single grain. Wednesday morning the excursionists again boarded the Maud Preston for Huron. Just outside the hay near Cedar Point a curious phenomenon is to be seen. Uncle Sam in building a breakwater there last year managed to arouse the ire of Lake Erie so that within a few months she has washed away some forty feet of valuable land of the peninsula and the result is a big suit for damages against the govern- ment. Experts are unable to explain the action of the lake at Cedar Point if the breakwater is not the cause of it. At Huron the party witnessed the McMyler machine used for handling the mountains of iron ore piled up along the docks, The speed with which this work is carried on is surprising. The buckets being placed near the bottom of an ore-pile are filled with very little shoveling. The ladies of the party were somewhat concerned about the fate of the numerous swallows who burrow their holes in the ore- pile near the top and are destined to be turned out of house and home as the piles rapidly diminish and fall under the action of the loader, At the docks of the Short Line R. R. on Sandusky - REVIEW. at -- At Huron the excursionists also examined the Brown machine fo» loading coal, which is said to have a guarantee of 3,000 tons per day, Some of the party timed the machine while it loaded thirty tons jn seven minutes and eighteen seconds. But forty seconds elapsed fyom the time the railroad car was taken until the coal was dumped into the six buckets ready for loading. These buckets do not look very large a short distance away, but each holds five tons. The apparent ease and rapidity with which these immense masses of heavy material are moved and transferred excited great wonder. Nota moment seemed to be lost and everything moved like clock-work. At Cleveland the party first visited the Cuddy-Mullen plant on the outside of the harbor. At this plant the McMyler side dump is used, but owing to the non-arrival of a vessel, the plant was not in opera- tion, but it is said to be the fastest plant of the kind on the lakes, load- ing 5,000 tons in ten hours and a half. Then the party was taken to the Long car unloader built by the Excelsior Iron Works of Cleveland, and located on the Erie Railway tracks. Through the kindness of President George W. Short, the mode of operation was exhibited. It is stated that by the Long dump a car is clamped, dumped and back on the track in twenty-one seconds, and that only one minute and thirty-five seconds elapses from the time a car is pushed on to the machine until another takes its place. The machine can turn forty cars an hour. Passing up the river the party were shown a machine being erected on the Valley Terminal Railroad of the MeMyler pattern, similar to the one on the Cuddy-Mullen docks. At Ashtabula harbor the party first examined the Brown coal loading machine which was engaged in loading one of the Bessemer 4,000-ton boats. It is said that this machine has unloaded 118 cars in twelve hours. The party then proceeded to the lake shore and ex- amined the first car unloader ever erected at lake ports. It works on the cantilever principle and is said to haye an unloading capacity of sixteen cars an hour. As some of the Pennsylvania guests were to leave the party at Cleveland, an impromptu meeting of the two institutes was held dur- ing the evening in the parlors of the Araerican House at which reso- , lutions were passed thanking individually the large number of per- sons and corporations that had so generously contributed to the enter- tainment and instruction of the members and their guests. The Pennsylvania guests were especially hearty in their praise of the excel- lent management which had characterized the entire trip. There was a general discussion of the points of advantages and disadvantages in the various machines and methods which had been inspected on the journey and views were freely exchanged as to the condition of the mining industry in Ohio and Pennsylvania, and as to the opening up of new markets for the products of those states. The following gentle- men took part in the discussion: President Ray, Secretary Haseltine and Professor Lord of Ohio; Inspector T. G. Evans and Messrs. James Blick, W. D. Wilson, .Wm. Clifford, B. Callaghan, W. E. Fobl, Fred Keighley and others of the Pennsylvania society. Secretary Haseltine, who conducted the party is also chief inspector of mines in Ohio. LAUNCHING OF THE CORRIGAN SCHOONER POLYNESIA AT THE GLOBE _ YARD, CLEVELAND. Photo by W. H. Mack.