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MARINE REVIEW. ee Around the Lakes, The new revenue cutter, Walter Q. Gresham will participate in the unveiling of the Logan monument in Chicago on July 22. Kingston, Ont., board of trade may give a bonus for a second elevator. The plan is to get the Lake Ontario grain trade away from Prescott, Ont. The steamer Douglass has been libeled in the United States court at Toledo by the Second National bank. The amount involved aggre- gates $16,274.68. The big Vulcan steam shovel at the Mountain Iron mine loaded 210 cars in ten hours recently. This is equal to the mining and load- ing of 12,000 tons of ore. An increase of not less than twenty inches in the lake level is noticeable on Lake Erie. Two years ago the water was so low that it seriously inconvenienced vessel captains. Another bottle has been found with a story of a Sandusky-Detroit car ferry scheme blown in it. The man who was pushing the Toledo- Detroit scheme threw it overboard evidently. The recovery of a piece of copper weighing 2,400 pounds from the Pewabic is evidence of success in the greatest submarine wrecking job of the age, the boat lying in 160 feet of water. The barge Miztec discharged at West Superior a cargo of 1,000 tons of railroad iron shipped by the Illinois Steel Company and con- signed to the China and Japan Trading Company at Kobe, Japan. W. Hz. Singer, the Duluth tug man, was calling on business ac- quaintances in Cleveland this week. He believes that success falls to the man who has the best gun, or rather the best tug service. The working of the engines and machinery of the Poe lock is a surprise to the many who, a short time ago, predicted that they never could be gotten to work satisfactorily. Eyerything is now running smoothly. ei The inventor of the Oshkosh sub-inarine boat proposes to run it under water 700 miles in a cruise down the lakes. This is useless. If he can run under water 7 miles: he can sell his boat to most any navy in the world. --_ The new Northern Elevator at Buffalo will be ready for business for the fall crops, as the steel bins are now all in position. The capac- ity has been increased to 3,000,000 bushels, there being thirty bins of 100,000 bushels capacity each. The Myers diving bell and wrecking outfit were sold by the sheriff to A. F. Price of Fremont, John E. Wood of Cleveland and Lewis T. Kline of Alpena. This is the outfit used in attempting to locate the wreck of the Norman. -- ae er Probably the only lake steamer that carries a printing office aboard is the Lake Michigan passenger steamer Manitou. It is used to publish a neat little four page newspaper that gives the passenger list and other information. 'It-is appreciated by the passengers. Six pontoons have been sunk in place by the side of the Cayuga, | 100 feet below the surface of Lake Michigan and Capt. Reid expects the remaining two will be placed by the first of July. He has been greatly delayed of late by the continued windy weather. The headquarters of the Tenth light house district will be removed from Cleveland to Oswego or Bulffalo, and the work will be in charge of Major Stanton, Oswego. The move was made to relieve Col. J. A. Smith, who has a large amount of harbor work on hand. An itemized statement ofthe cost of carrying grain from Duluth to New York aboard ship is as follows: Duluth elevator charges, 4; in- Spection and weighing, +; insurance and exchange, 4; lake freight, 1§; canal freight (and Buffalo charges), 3; loading canal tosteamer, 14. Capt. Charles J. Holmes, formerly in the Wallula, is undertaking an unusual and extra hazardous trip in sailing around the world in a 22-foot sloop. There is no doubt as to his ability as a navigator, but this will not help him keep a small boat right side up in an ocean gale. It is announced that the Wisconsin and Michigan Car Ferry com- Pany is to abandon the route between Peshtigo and South Chicago and transfer its- boats to run from Manitowoc and Benton Harbor, Mich., thus making a more direct lake-and-rail connection to the Seaboard, As the war department declared Chicago river navigable for only . 16 feet the city cannot be compelled to lower the tunnels at present. A depth of 20 feet will have to be approved before anything can be done. This would probably compel the government to pay the ex- pense of the change. Capt. Alex. Campbell has chartered the steamer Roanoke to a circus and will cruise around Lake Michigan. He says that if the cages ever get shifted in a sea and break, and the lions and tigers get loose, then it will be time to pipe all hands to the rigging and try to rig up. the hot water hose. : The Toledo & Ann Arbor Railway company has at last secured a terminal for an all-winter route between Frankfort and the Michigan -- peninnsula by purchasing a line of railway built by the Chicago Lum- ber company from Manistique to within six miles of Munising. A third ferry may be built. The Canadian steamer Queen of the Lakes started from Toronto -- on a particularly long voyage. She has a cargo of corn, which she will discharge in Glasgow, Scotland. The steamer will go direct to Kingston, where part of the cargo will be lightered to enable her to get through the St. Lawrence river canals. This grain will be re- loaded at Montreal. Representative Corliss will insist upon the restoration of Capt. Rioux as commander of the light-house tender Mrigold. He has procured affidavits to contravert the charge that Capt. Rioux is not sober and that he cannot read and write, his evidence to prove that he can write consisting of a letter written by Capt. Rioux himself. The whaleback steamer Christopher Columbus is to be turned into a floating theatre and run between Chicago and Milwaukee. 'In the deep sea, lived a whale," ought to be a favorite. This in connection with the blessing of the whaleback Everett for her yoyage to India by San Francisco ministers shows that they are bound to be popular with all classes. A mad dog took possession of a small schooner from. Halstead street bridge to the lake at Chicago last week. The animal jumped aboard from a bridge and the crew immediately fled tothe rigging. At | the mouth of the river the captain picked up a belaying pin and ~ started for the dog, which was tearing wildly about the deck. A. blow stunned the animal and he was thrown overboard. The Empire City, launched at the Cleveland Ship Building Co's yard, last week, makes a fleet of four first class modern 400-foot steel steamers owned by A. B. Wolvin. This will probably be the last | hull built at this yard, the Lorain yard being nearly ready for work. The christening was gracefully managed by Mrs. James Wallace. _ The Empire City is the second lake cargo steamer to be equipped with" quadruple engines. A well known Cleveland captain with a great propensity for sil- ver writes to a shipper about a load stating that last year the price was -- 90 cents and the year before $1.25 and $1, but this year it is not what I'll go for, but what they will give me. He then gives a recipe for -- English plum pudding to contain such ingredients as con fidence, sound money, gold standard and protection. As a result the opinion is be- ing passed that he will soon undergo a change of heart politically. The new steel steamer Niagara built by F. W. Wheeler & Co. is fitted out and built especially for carrying pulp wood in the most eco- nomical manner. She has eight large hatchways which reach almost across the deck, and each hatchway is provided with a chain wood conveyor. These conveyors are driven by shafting, stretched just be- low the railing of the vessel, running the entire length of the deck. They are so arranged that they swing on a hinge from the shaft, and ~ all the men in the hold have to do is to pile the wood on the conveyors. It is possible to unload at the rate of 100 tons an hour.. Capt. Ed. Mooney was wheelsman on the Pewabie when she sank' and below is his testimony. He says that at the time the mate ordered him to "steady a port;" that he put her wheel a very little a-port; © that he looked at the compass and found that they were swinging to starboard; that the Meteor was near them at that moment and showed her green bright light; that he was then ordered to put the wheel hard a-port, which he did, with the help of the first porter, who came into the pilot house; that the wheel was no more than hard a-port when the Meteor struck them; that he could heave the wheel in twenty minutes with help. Appointments of captains and engineers for 1897, vest pocket size, $1.00. Order from the Marine Review, Cleveland, Ohio.