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Fara tatiaicab nepsciaein oiesennmcecamneeeain 20 | MARINE REVIEW. [April 19, OPERATIONS IN THE LAKE SHIP YARDS. As new vessels are now quite rapidly leaving the stocks in lake ship yards, orders to put down ships for next year are, of course, expected and considerable figuring is going on. There is some hesitancy about new orders among the managers of the steamship lines, on account of the demand for lower prices that seems to prevail everywhere, especially in the iron and steel industry, and it is not probable that the interview given out a day or two ago by President Gates of the American Steel & Wire Co., who, for some reason, takes a discouraging view of the situ- ation, will do any good on this score. But the ship builders claim that the conditions surrounding that part of the steel industry to which Mr. Gates refers, do not apply to material entering into ships, and, although there has been some shrinkage in prices, it will not extend in any marked degree to the important item of steel shapes, which is controlled by a strong combination. It must be admitted, however, that the waiting dis- position among users of steel and iron of all kinds will have some effect on ship yard orders, notwithstanding the urgent demand that still exists for new vessels. The Canada Atlantic Transportation Co., operating a line of steamers between Chicago and Parry Sound, and whose offices in this country are on Sherman street, Chicago, has asked for bids on four steamers of 6,000- ton package freight kind, and as this company has very strong Canadian backing and has been pressed for ships for some time past, it will not be at all surprising if the order is placed very shortly. The Ann Arbor Rail- way Co. and the Pere Marquette company are both figuring for steel car ferries. It is not probable, however, that either company will contract for more than one boat and there is nothing definite as to when orders will be given. It is said that the Pere Marquette company's new steamer, which will be built for the Muskegon-Milwaukee run on Lake Michigan, will be larger than any car ferry in operation on the great lakes. The car ferry Muskegon has a capacity of twenty-six cars, the Pere Marquette thirty-eight cars and the new car ferry will be able to take on conveni- ently forty cars. This number is sufficient to make up two good-sized freight trains. J. G. Westbrook of Ogdensburg, N. Y., general superintendent of the Ogdensburg Transit Co.--Rutland line of steamers operating between Chicago and Ogdensburg--has had under consideration for some time past the construction of two steel steamers that would be suited to both passenger and freight service on that line. Of course they would be of Canadian canal dimensions. It is understood that W. J. Wood, naval architect of Chicago, was to have begun work on the plans several weeks ago, but the construction of the vessels was deferred until such time as better figures might 'be secured from the lake builders, who are now crowded with work. Gilmore's ship yard at Toledo is a very busy place. The George B. Owen is being calked and her rudder pintle fixed. The floors of the Folsam are being put in good condition and a few minor repairs are to be made. The Mary Mitchell has been raised 4 feet. She has new floors, new decks and new upper works. The tug Goldsmith is being put in shape for another season's work and the tug Marinette will receive new deck beams, covering board and stanchions. The barge Brake and the steamer Saginaw are also being repaired. It is said that the movement on the part of Edward Smith and others of Buffalo to secure control of the stock of the Buffalo Dry Dock Co., which was organized a short time ago when the Mills docks were bought, is connected with the plans of the American Ship Building Co. to under- take the repair of vessels at Buffalo. The Buffalo Dry Dock Co. is capi- talized at $350,000 and the stock is in very few hands. It is more than probable that the steamers Badger State and Empire State, which were engaged in passenger and freight service between Toledo, 'Cleveland and Ogdensburg on the St. Lawrence last season, will be transferred to some other route during the coming season, probably between Buffalo and Green Bay or Menominee on Lake Michigan, taking the place of the Lackawanna line steamers that have given up that route. Charles E. Buroker and J. C. Bennett have been appointed by the Ohio state game and fish commission a committee to supervise the con- struction of a patrol boat for Lake Erie. The boat will cost $12,000 and will be used to keep a lookout for violators of the laws governing the fisheries. Wallace Bros. and Capt. Edward Cunningham of Detroit have sold the wooden steamer New Orleans to Capt. John 'Hall and others of Buf- falo for $70,000, and have purchased in place of the New Orleans the steamer C. T. Morley from W. B. Morley of Marine City for $90,000. The Nipigon Transit Co. has been formed to operate the steamer J. C. Ford and other vessels. The capital of the company is $50,000. Paul Weidner and Alfred K. Keifer of Detroit and Otto L. E. Weber of Port Huron are stockholders. The home office is in Detroit. The steamer H. E. Runnels, lately purchased by Spence Bros., con- tractors, of Cleveland, from Port Huron parties, has been sent to the ship yard of Abram Smith & Son, Algonac, Mich., for removal of upper deck and general overhauling. Representative Alexander has introduced a bill in the house of rep- resentatives to provide for a marine hospital building at Buffalo. The total appropriation called for is $125,000, but only $25,000 is appropriated at 'this session. Capt. Richard A. Davis, who was in command of lake vessels back in the forties and who had no less than forty issues of license to sail the lakes, died at his home in Chicago Monday. White, Johnson, McCaslin & Cannon, admiralty lawyers of Cleve- land, will be located in the new Williamson building, suite 1416 to 1421, after Miay 1. It is announced from Houghton that government measurements in- sure at least a depth of 14-feet navigation in the Portage lake waterways. 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