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10 MARINE ., Around the Lakes. Dennis Lynn of Port Huron, well known around the lakes, died at his home in that city Tuesday evening. Capt. Thomas Hawley, well known at Lake Michigan ports, died at his home in Green Bay a few days ago. He was sixty-four years of age. Alexander Milloy has resigned his position as General Traffic Man- ager of the Richelieu & Ontario Navigation Co., after fifty-two years service with the company. Capt. R. M. Wagstaff has been compelled, because of illness, to resign as custodian of the Sand Beach harbor of refuge. Capt. Wagstaff has served continuously since his appointment in October, 1882. (Capt. C. B. Galton, master of the steamer Lagonda, has been ap- pointed to the command of the Hendrick S. Holden, the new Mitchell steamer building at the yard of the Globe Iron Works Co., Cleveland. Capt. C. McD. Townsend, who has been in charge of the river and harbor work of the east shore of Lake Michigan with 'headquarters at Grand Rapids, has been transferred to the Rock Island district, vice Col. King, recently deceased. The steamer building at the yard of the Globe Iron Works Co., Cleve- land, for Capt. John Mitchell and others, and which will be launched the latter part of next month will be christened Hendrick S. Holden, after the prominent coal operator of Syracuse, who is one of the principal stock- holders. Joseph Wolter of Rieboldt, Wolter & Co., ship builders of Sturgeon Bay, Wis., sustained serious injuries from a fall into the hold of a vessel building at the ship yard. At last accounts Mr. Wolter was improving but will probably not be able to give attention to business for several weeks. The passenger steamer Eurydice, which has been the subject of considerable litigation, has been sold by Sylvester Bros. of Toronto to (Campbell & Rosenecke of Buffalo. The consideration is given as $6,000, and it is said to be the intention of the new owners to run the Eurydice as an excursion steamer between Buffalo and Chippewa. Capt. M. M. Drake of the Lackawanna line and G. W. Maytham, for ten years secretary and treasurer of the Maytham tug line and man- ager of the Republic Steamship Co., have formed a partnership for gen- eral insurance and vessel brokerage business, and have opened an office at No. 1 Main street, Buffalo. Their business will include both lake and canal consignments. : Shingle manufacturers at Seattle, Tacoma and other Puget Sound points were recently visited by Ira M. Bramwell of Minneapolis, repre- senting the Northern Steamship Co. in an effort to increase shipments to the east by the combined rail and lake route. The Northern Steamship Co. has made provision for ten car loads of shingles in the cargo of each liner leaving the head of the lakes. Tonnage of the Cleveland & Buffalo line side-wheel steamer City of Erie, which will soon leave the ship yard of the Detroit Dry Dock Co., is 2,498.92 tons gross and 1,280.41 net. Her official number is 127,242. Tonnage of the new Wolvin steamer Superior City, which has just left the Cleveland Ship Building Co.'s works at Lorain, is 4,795.40 gross and 3,693.90 net. Her official number is 116,820. Reports from Buffalo show that shipments in grain and flour are pro- -portionately quite as large as the heavy movement that is known to be under way in coal and ore. During the month of May there was reported at the Buffalo custom house 31,479,582 bushels of grain, as against 23,944,- 600 bushels for May, 1897. An increase is shown over April receipts of 3,370,628. Total receipts of the month are as follows: Wheat, 11,779,473 bushels; corn, 9,811,312; oats, 6,778,064; barley, 413,720; rye, 1,069,500; flour, 1,567,783 barrels; feed, 206,108 sacks; lumber, 21,294,000 feet; shin- gles, 21,146,000; iron ore, 74,758 tons; copper, 18,387 tons. Shipments were as follows: Coal, 1897, 169,450 tons; 1898, 229,812 tons; salt, 1897, 89,502; 1898, 137,674; cement, 1897, 111,579; 1898, 111,706 packages; sugar, 1897, 160,871; 1898, 188,088 barrels. Maumee Bay Straight Channel. The Review is informed by Assistant United States Engineer Wm. T. Blount that the south turn-out around the crib range lights in the straight channel, Maumee bay, Toledo, thas been completed to its full width of 200 feet and a depth of not less than 17 feet at mean level. There is now a clear channel on each side of these crib lights, and boats are requested to follow the "rule of the road,' whenever practicable, to show their port ~ side to the crib. The outer junction with the straight channel is marked by black spar 13 and red spar 14, the inner junction by black spar 15 and red spar 16, and the outer edges of the turn-out, midway of the length, by black and red spars respectively. Dredging is in progress along the south edge of the channel inside the cribs, and boats are requested to avoid in- terfering with the marks. A meeting of the stockholders of the William Cramp & Sons Ship & Engine Building Co. at Philadelphia last week resulted in the election of the following directors: Charles H. Cramp, Thomas Dolan, Clement A. Griscom, Theodore Seligman, William H. Barnes, Henry W. Cramp, Samuel Dickson, Ernst Thalman and Morton McMichael. Mr. Theodore Seligman of New York, who succeeds his brother, Henry W. Seligman, is the only change. The directors organized by re-electing Charles H. Cramp as president, and Henry W. Cramp as vice-president and treas- urer. Charles T. Taylor was elected secretary, to succeed John Dough- erty. Mr. Taylor has been employed for several years as confidential clerk. Work on the Japanese cruiser Kasagi at the Cramp yard is being pushed. Her boilers have already been tested. The Dorothea, the pleas- ure yacht purchased by the United States government from the estate of the late Thomas McKean, is all but completed, and work on the monitor Ajax is also well under way. : ' The Aurora Iron Mining Co. has-just paid a dividend of 50 cents a share. REVIEW. The Hardest Blow in Lake Storms. The June weather chart from the United States weather bureau con- tains a diagram that will interest lake vessel masters. It is well under- stood, of course, that on the lakes the vessel interests are informed of storms by a system of signals that are displayed at numerous passing points throughout the lake region. This is in addition to the more exten- sive service at offices of the weather bureau in all the principal lake ports, Then there is also a telegram sent daily to each displayman during the season of navigation, advising him as to weather conditions and, in the case of threatening weather, of the location and expected movement of the storm center. The information thus obtained, in connection with the out- ward signs of falling weather known to every experienced navigater, will, in general, be amply sufficient. The few facts about storms that should be kept in mind are as follows: . 1. The violent winds are confined to the central portion of the storm, and this central region is generally as large as the lake itself, hence there is nothing to be gained by altering the course of the ship to avoid danger- ous winds, as might be advisable on the high seas. _ 9. The hardest blow almost invariably occurs with the shift of the wind to the southwest or northwest, as the storm center passes tie vessel. Whether the wind shifts from southeast to southwest, or backs from north- east to northwest, depends upon the position of the vessei with regard to the storm center. In the diagram A and B are vessels on the right and left of the storm's path, respectively. The successive positions of the storm center are shown by the figures (1), (2), and (3). The winds at A, when the storm center is in the position marked (1), are generally from a north- easterly quarter; at B, from the north-northeast. As the storm center ap- ~ proaches and passes the vessels the wind at A shifts around by east and south to southwest, the hardest blow coming, as above stated, with the shift to the southwest. The wind at B backs to the northwest and west, and the hardest blow is generally with the change from north-northeast to northwest or west. The change of the wind takes place when the storm center in its course northeastward passes the vessel. Passenger Boats for Lake Ontario Service. Improvements costing full $40,000 are being made in the passenger steamers Badger State and Empire State, recently purchased from the Detroit Dry Dock Co. by the Northern Transit (Co. of Cleveland. The vessels, which have been in dock at the Ship Owners' plant, Cleveland, for three or four weeks past, have each been stripped down to the keel of every bit of material that was in the least unsound. Frames were re- newed in some parts of the vessels and their ends are entirely new. New decks and new deck beams were also put in, and the appearance of the ships will be materially changed. by extending the pilot houses so as to provide quarters on deck forward for captains, mates and wheelmen. An electric light plant, suited to 200 lights in the case of each vessel, has also been provided. Cabins are being entirely renovated and remodeled and the furnishings will be new throughout. Messrs. W. A. Collier and C. E. Grover have given personal supervision to all of the work and have not spared expense in fitting up the vessels so as to attract a profitable trade. It was finally decided not to change the names of the vessels. They have been successful as Badger State and Empire State and these names will be retained. The Empire State will be first to enter upon the Toledo, Cleveland and Ogdensburg service. She is expected to leave Cleveland for Toledo about Thursday next. She will be commanded by Capt. H. J. Hagan of Detroit. The Badger State will be commanded by Capt. Charles Wilson, also of Detroit. Traffic arrangements for the new line have been made with the Clover Leaf at Toledo, New York, Ontario & Western at Oswe- go, Vermont Central at Ogdensburg, and also the Richelieu & Ontario Navigation Co. for Montreal service. 'At Cleveland the company will deal with all of the railways and with other steamboat lines. Jeremiah Head, representing English stockholders in the Otis Steel Co. of 'Cleveland, is here to arrange for further improvements in the Otis plant. He is accompanied by A. P. Head. _A dispatch from San Francisco states that Irving M. Scott of the Union Iron Works has gone to St. Petersburg, presumably to consult with the Russian government relative to the building of warships. Home Seekers' Excursion via Nickel Plate Road. Special excursion tickets for home seekers' to designated points northwest, west and southwest, also to designated points in the south, are offered via Nickel Plate road, June 7th and 21st at lower rates than via other lines. Ask agents. No. 55. June 20.