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y MARINE The Bessemer Steamship Company Solicits Catalogues, Prices and Discounts from manufacturers and wholesale dealers in Ship Machinery, Brass Goods, Rope, Paints, Asbestos, Packing, Hose, Furniture, Piping, Glass and Crock- ery, antraite! Ranges, Carpeting, Bedding, Life-preservers, Rafts and Boats, Engineers' Supplies and Tools, Carpenters' Tools, Elec tric Supplies, Lamps, Grate Bars, Castings, etc., etc., etc. ALSO QUOTATIONS from Market men and Grocers on the Lakes for Provisions and Meat, best quality only. CATALOGUES without quotations are not wanted. ALL GOODS except provisions to be delivered in Cleveland. Address Ll. M. BOWERS, General Manager, CLEVELAND, OHIO. CLARK'S PATENT LIFE RAFT. COPPER AND HEAVY SHEET IRON WORK, ' McCOY LUBRICATORS, BRASS MARINE WORK. STEAM FITTING, ENGINEERS' SUPPLIES. DETROIT SHEET METAL AND BRASS WORKS. FOOT OF ORLEANS STREET. OPEN DAY AND NIGHT. REVIEW. ' ae ZINCORPFORATED 1704, Insurance Company of North America, CAPITAL, PaidupinCash, - - ASSETS, e Ud) = a = = n . $3,000,000.00 10,023,220.93 eS CHARLES PLATT, President. GREVILLE KE. FRYER, Sec'y. & Trea- "GENE L. ELLISON, Vice-President. T. HOWARD WRIGHT, Marine Sec'y. JOHN H. ATWOOD, Assistant Secretary. Lake Marine Department, S282 ascumy, tae Steamboat Fuel at Ashtabula. Large Supplies of Best Quality. Lighter Carrying Different Grades at ail._.aW Times, MM. A. HANNA & CO., Main Office, Perry-Payne Bldg., Cleveland. Miners and Shippers. Newport News ee Dry Dock (On Hampton Roads.) Equipped with a Simpson's Basin Dry Dock capable of docking a vessel 600 feet long, drawing 25 feet of water, at any stage of the tide. Repairs made promptly and at reasonable rates. SHIP AND ENGINE BUILDERS. For estimates and further particulars, address - Cc. B. ORCUTT, Pres"t, No. {| Broadway. New York. The Rochester & Pittsburgh Coal & Tron Co. REYNOLDSVILLE COAL. Steamboat Fuel Dock. Blackwell Canal at Michigan St. Bridge. Koo feet dock frontage. Steam Elevator and 4 Steam Derricks. Steam Fuel Scow, Capacity 550 Tons. Boats Coaled Day or Night. Modern Car wumping|Machine; 18 cars'per hourzeapacity. OFFICE: 694 Ellicott Square Bldg., BUFFALO, N. Y. TELEPHONES: a poate Bldg., Seneca 871 A. Dock, Seneca 371 D. ¢ a Capt. WM. H. HAZEN, | Dock Superintendent. Youghiogheny River Coal Co., MINER AND SHIFTER OF OOEAN MINE "cas ase stem GOAL. GAS and STEAM General Office, ERIE, Long pant: Tel. No- pte Shipping Docks, RSHTEABULA, (0 ee 6, ; Light VESSELS FUELED **"372s, st OG5AM fight" Sein Lets 4 by a oyu Ls! AN AID TO NAVIGATION that prevents grounding --s_ | --- or collision in a fog, See THE F OPHONE, MANUFACTURED AND INSTALLED BY THE. . EOPHONE CO. BOWLING GREEN BLDG., NEW YORK. It accurately locates the place from whence the sound comes, and shows its bearing on a dumb com- ass, It has been adopted by U.S. evenue Cutter and Light House service, has favorable reports of © board of officers of U. S. Navy and is in practical service on many coast steamers. J 2% JF J St Uf ie This instrument will prove especially valuable in lake navigation on account of the frequency of fogs and thick] weather. 4 s 2 Ae undersigned will receive bids up to April 30th, for the carrying of 45,000 tons of iron ore from Escanaba to Etk Rapids, deliveries to begin June Ist. Cargoes to con- sist of not more than an average of seven _ handred and fifty tons. Depth of water at Elk Rapids fourteen feet. Bidders will name boats intended for the service. Terms free in and out, eeneDt trimming, ELK RAPIDS IRON CO. Elk Rapids, Mich. classin Bl, For Sale---Prop. Westford, cores osove lumber; boiler and engine Al, hull well kept up and in good condition, and consort Monitor, classing A244, capacity 400M lum- 'ber, rebuilt in 1893, outfit and hull in good condition. Both boats are now in commis- sion, Owners are going out of business and offer them for sale cheap MINOR TUMBER Cco., Alpena, Mich. ROPOSALS FOR STEEL-HULLED STEAM TEN DERS.--Mississippi River . Commission, 2732 Pine st., St. Louis, Mo., April 27, 1898.--Sealed proposals,in triplicate, for furnishing five large steel-hulled steam ' tenders, complete with machinery and cab- ins, will be received here until 12 o'clock noon, standard time, May 27, 1898, and then publicly opened. Information furnished on application, H.E. WATERMAN, Cap May 20. Eng' rs, 'See'y,