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1899.] MARINE AROUND THE GREAT LAKES. Marine Engineer Beneficial Association, No. 78 of Duluth elected the following officers for the coming year: President, M. Ryan; vice president, W. A. Redher; secretary, L. M. McNamara; treasurer A Harvey; delegate to national convention, James H. Bishop; trustees, A. Harvey, James H. Bishop and R. F. Barrows. Cae W. A. Rogers, who recently added to his Tonawanda fleet the steamer John F. Eddy, has just purchased the steamers Fred Mercury and H. E. Packer for the Iroquois Iron Co, of South Chicago, in which Rogers, Brown & Co. are large stockholders. The Lehigh company sold these boats during the summer to owners of the Union furnace at Buf- falo to help out its season's ore charters, who now transfer them to the Iroquois company. The price is not stated, but is understood to be the same paid to the Lehigh company. Upon complaint from Capt. A. B. Davis of the United States revenue cutter service, who is in charge of the navigation of the Sault river, the treasury department has imposed a fine of $300 on the steamer North Star, due to alleged violation of the river rules, which it is claimed result- ed in the grounding of the Rockefeller steamer Siemens and the great blockade of vessels at the Sault a couple of weeks ago. This action of the treasury department will have no effect on the suit at law that will undoubtedly result from the Sault river accident. Mr. L. M. Bowers of the Bessemer Steamship Co. has been quite REVIEW. 15 gas buoys which might possibly be used to replace private lights on the Sault river have lain in Detroit unused during the past season, for the reason that the inspector of the eleventh light-house district was unable to supply them with gas. It will not be possible, of course, to secure a new tender with gas tanks in time for next season, but the vessel owners will try to induce the light-house board to charter a vessel for the de- livery of coal, oil, etc., to the light-houses of the lakes, so that the regular tenders may give more time to the charging and care of the lighted buoys. The action of the executive committee of the Lake Carriers in selecting the Cadillac hotel for the annual meeting in Detroit is gen- erally approved, as that house is so large and offers facilities so generally suited to the meeting that the members and others in attendance will not be divided among several hotels. All the meetings, the banquet and eee in connection with the convention will take place at the adillac. A NOVEL STEAM YACHT. In the steam yacht Dreamer, which has just been completed at the 2 Crescent Ship Yard, Elizabethport, N. J., Mr. Lewis Nixon has pro- duced a very handsome and serviceable vessel. This yacht, built for Thomas W. Lawson, was designed by Clinton H. Crane and is 182 feet in length over all, 150 feet on the water line, 23 feet beam and 11 feet 'draught. The steel hull is flush plated from the upper turn of the bilge. Steel is also the material used in the deck and house and all exposed > PON Re eens er Tee : THE PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD COMPANY'S NEW FERRYBOAT PITTSBURG--ONE OF THE VESSELS WHICH REPRESENTS THE LATEST PRACTICE IN ORAFT OF THIS CHARAOTER. ill at his home in Binghamton, N. Y., for some two or three weeks past, but it is understood that he is very much improved within the past few days.' No doubt the large and stirring business transactions of the past two months had some effect on the health of Mr. Bowers as well as other men connected with leading ore and vessel interests. It is under- stood that Mr. L. C. Hanna has been advised to drop 'business for an indefinite period and that he will leave Cleveland in a few days to be gone all winter. It is quite probable that members of the Engineers' Beneficial Asso- ciation on the lakes will make a determined effort to deal with the vessel owners for next season on a basis of season salaries, so as to have the matter of their wages removed from the schedule of the Lake Carriers' Association that deals -with all employes aboard the vessels excepting captains. An effort may be made to bring this matter up at the coming annual meeting of the association. If the 'subject is'introduced it is not "probable that the general body will attemptsto handle it? The proposi- ~ tion: would very probably be: referred to a special committee or .to the executive committee of the association. Officers of the Lake Carriers' Association are pleased with the ex- pectation that the treasurer's report to be submitted at the annual meet- ing in Detroit next month will be the best in years. The association has always carried some little indebtedness, but the report this year may possibly show a very small balance in the treasury. A bill has been introduced in congress to reimburse the association for moneys expended on account of private lights, and a determined effort is to be made to avoid all possible private-light expense next year. It is understood that - woodwork is teak. The yacht is schooner rigged, the hull being black and the funnel cream color. The dining room is in the forward part of the deckhouse and the galley is below. At the after end is the deck saloon, with a smoking room and chart room further aft. Above the dining room the sun deck is located and a bridge is situated at the forward end. The owner's quarters, which are below deck, consist of two suites, one forward and one aft of the engine space. There are two staterooms and a bath in the forward suite. The rooms are 17 by 10 and 14 by 12 feet, respectively. Two staterooms and a library of 18 by 12 feet make up the alter suite. Forward of the owner's suite are five staterooms and bath, while aft are two staterooms and bath. The crew's quarters are forward and the offi- cers' quarters in the after part of the yacht... 10, 7 The Dreamer is fitted with triple expansion engines, the cylinders of which are 14, 21 and 82 inches in diameter and 20 inches stroke. Steam is supplied from two water tube boilers, and the machinery is ex- pected. to drive the vessel at a speed of 12 knots under natural draft or 15 knots) under forced draft. The bunker capacity is sufficient to enable the vessel to make a cruise of 5,000 miles. The equipment includes a refrigerating plant, electric lighting plant and steam steering gear. In addition there is an automatic recorder, which registers the time and duration of every blast of the whistle, and a telltale light carried on the bridge, which is connected with the side lights. This telltale is extin- guished when either of the side lights goes out. The Jackson & Sharp Co., Wilmington, Del., has launched the large tug 'building for the National Dredging Co.