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1608 MARINE REVIEW. | ie NOTES IN GENERAL. Seven steamers of 1,100 tons each will be built by A. & J. Inglis. of Glasgow, for R. G, Reid, of St. Johns, Neqio@auiame dye eto will be used on connecting lines between Canadian and Newfoundland rail- ways. Chief Engineer Anderson, of the Canadian department of marine and fisheries, has recommended that twenty-five additional spar buoys be placed in the St. Lawrence channel between Montreal and Quebec, and also six range lights, for which foundations are now being built. The cruiser San Francisco is to be laid up and completely overhauled at a cost of something like $150,000, and she will go out of commission just about the time the remodeled cruiser Chicago goes in as a practically new vessel, with new machinery and armament and ability to make 18 knots speed. An effort is still being made at Washington to remove Capt. Frank Danger, local inspector of hulls at Port Huron. The change, if it is made will certainly not have the approval of vessel men, who are opposed to politics in the steamboat inspection service and who regard Capt. Dange1 as 'one of the most competent men on the lakes. Capt. Geo. P. McKay, treasurer of the Lake Carriers' Association bas been compelled of late to give up business affairs for two or three days at a time on account of sickness. Few vessel men have a wider circle of friends than Capt. McKay. He-has given up a great deal of time and labor for the general welfare of lake shipping interests. The steamer Toronto, recently completed by the Bertram Engine Works, Toronto, for the Richelieu & Ontario Navigation Co., was given Commodore Newberry's yacht Truant is to have a Roberts water tube boiler. While returning from Detroit after making arrangements for this order, Mr. E, E. Roberts, president of the Roberts company, said he would soon take up the matter of getting his boilers into one of the 9,000-ton lake freight steamers; With this end in view he took with him to New York several blue prints of hulls and engines of modern lake steamers. He says his company proposes to put boilers into any of the big freighters on trial, just as they have done in several cases with yachts and tugs. The last issue of the Review contained a short description of the oil tank steamer Atlas, a vessel of 720,000 gallons capacity, building at the Roach ship yard, Chester, Pa., for the Standard Oil Co., and which was launched a few days ago. It was said that this vessel would have wind- lass and capstans from the American Ship Windlass Co., but the most important part of ther outfit, a No. 4 steam towing machine, built by the same company, was omitted. It is surmised that this steamer is in- tended to tow tank barges across the ocean to Europe, and to employ the towing machine for this purpose. H. A. Foss, board of trade weighmaster at Chicago, thas been. visiting - vessel men in Buffalo and Cleveland within the past few days. Alike to everything else connected with the Chicago board of trade, its supervision over the weighing and tallying of grain is systematic down to the very smallest detail. 'We find occasion sometimes," said Mr. Foss, "to have as many as five men looking after a cargo. It may seem strange that so many men would ever be required to look after the loading of a vessel, but we often have cases where it will not do to depend upon elevator em- -- PLAN AWD ELEVATION FOR STR. NO. 75.-- ---- LENGTH, OA 262, BEAM, 42: DEPTH 240 ---- GRAI® SHIPBUILDING Go. Toraoo0. oO. fd] {]> (|e OUTBOARD AND DECK PLANS OF THE STEEL FREIGHT STEAMER BUILDING BY THE CRAIG SHIP BUILDING CO., TOLEDO. a-very satisfactory three-hours.trial a few days since. .. Officers of the Richelieu & Ontario company, as well as the representatives of the build- ers who were on board, expressed themselves as entirely satisfied. Improvements to be made the coming winter by the Duluth & Iron Range road will cost in the neighborhood of $600,000. | These will in- 'clude the entire rebuilding of dock No. 1 at Two Harbors, making it 45 feet high and enlarging the pockets. The present' structure will have - tobe taken down to the water, and the substructure completely over. hauled and rebuilt.. "This dock work alone will cost probably $300,000. - The reorganized ship building plant of the Maryland Steel Co., at Sparrows Point, Maryland, seems to have secured another order. Bids were opened by the navy department Wednesday for the construc tion of a steel floating dock at Algiers, La., for which congress ap- propriated $850,000. _ Only two proposals were submitted. Charles L. Bradbury, of New York, submit ed a pid of .850 000. The Maryland Steel Co. offered to bid on department plans for $837,000, and on modi- fied plans for $810,000. Probably nowhere in the world is repair work on steel vessels done as rapidly as in the lake dry dock plants. The Mutual line steamer Corona, which damaged some twenty plates and sixty frames by stranding at Ashtabula recently, went into one of the docks of the ship owners company, Cleveland, on the evening of Thursday, the 24th, and was on her way up the lakes again the following Tuesday morning. The work of repairing the vessel was not begun until Friday morning and nothing was Bans Sunday, so that the actual working time on the job was little more than three days. ployees. This care is not prompted by a fear of intention on the part of the elevators or their men to be dishonest. Suppose, however, that a man employed in looking after a certain part of the machinery should leave it for a few minutes and come back to find that he could cover up his own negligence by shoveling into a bin fifty or more bushels of grain that had been lost by accident in his absence. Matters of this kind must always be taken into account." , as It is understood that lake shipping interests will be given an informal hearing by the Anglo-American commission in Washington, probably next week, on the quéstion of abolishing tolls on Canadian canals that connect the lakes with the Atlantic seaboard. President Dunham, Counsel Harvey D. Goulder and probably one or two other members of the Association will visit: Washington when the matter of a hearing is definitey fixed. Washington dispatches have referred, within the past few days, to an effort to have the commission take up the subject of joint ownership of a deep waterway from the lakes to the Atlantic by way of the St. Lawrence, Lake Champlain and the Hudson. If anything is being done in thie ra- gard, it is not with the sanction of lake vessel interests. This propvicm is too cumbersome for the practical vesselmen, especially in view of the fact that Canada will have its own system of 14-foot canals through to tide- water next year. The commission will, however, undoubtedly come to some conclusion regarding the construction and maintenance of war ships on the lakes and also the lake fisheries. The regulations which now pro- hibit the building of vessels of war on the lakes will be modified, and a joint agreement for a closed season, regulation of size of nets, etc., will be entered into regarding the fisheries.