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1903.] MARINE REVIEW AND MARINE RECORD. 23 LAKE CARRIERS' REORGANIZATION, At the meeting in Detroit today for formal organization of the Lake Carriers' Association practically the entire stock of the association will be represented, although the attendance of members will be confined to a majority of the board of direc- tors, the membership of which was necessarily fixed to a large extent by the committee on organization. 'Ihe adoption of by- laws and the election of the board of directors is, of course, the principal business from a stockholders' standpoint. It is quite certain that the exectitive committee, which will practically have full charge of the affairs of the association, answering only to the directors, and that very probably on rare occasions, will be made up of A. B. Wolvin, Frank J, Firth, H. Coulby, H. A. Hawgood and Edward Smith. Of course there is no certainty of these names until they are announced by the directors. | Names that will probably be found in the board of directors will include these five members of the executive committee, as well as C. W. EI- phicke and D. Sullivan of Chicago, EK. T. Evans and T. T. Mor- ford of Buffalo, Wm. Livingstone of Detroit and John Mitchell of Cleveland. The officers will very probably be the same as last year--President Wm. Livingstone, Secretary Harvey L. Brown, Treasurer Geo. P. McKay and Counsel Harvey D. Goulder. TUGMEN AND EMPLOYERS IN CONFERENCE. The principal officials of the Great Lakes 'Towing Co., as well as the local managers, have been in conference at South Bend, Ind., for three or four days past with officials of the Licensed 'lugmen's Protective Association. 'The meetings are for the purpose of agreeing, if possible, upon a contract for 1903, deal- ing with all labor problems along the lines laid down several months ago when the long struggle between the tugmen and the. Great Lakes Towing Co. was settled. Both interests evidently fixed upon South Bend as a meeting place with a view to conduct- ing their business quietly and avoiding outside influences. Both the men and the employers have felt that a settlement could readily be reached for the coming year, but for the unsettled question of what is to be done with the men who remain with the towing company during the strike and who have not been taken into the union. On this score there is still some doubt of a . settlement. AROUND THE GREAT LAKES. Holland & Graves, Buffalo lumbermen, have bought the steamer Mohegan and consort Mingo. They lost the steamer Charles Hebard last fall. Capt. D. D. Gaillard, United States engineer at Duluth, calls for bids in an advertisement elsewhere in this issue on the steam yacht Picket which he is offering for sale. A dispatch from Duluth says that the firm of Corrigan, McKinney & Co. has leased the Winifred and Laura mines at Hibbing from the Great Northern interests. The Great North- ern will haul the ore. Part of the Erie canal within the boundaries of the proposed Niagara river deep ship-canal, which Maj. Symons announced had recently been approved by the government, may be ceded by the state to the federal government if the latter builds this pro- posed canal. George Plouffe has brought suit in the United States courts at Cleveland against the steamer FE. A. Shores, Jr., for sub- traction of wages amounting to $133 with interest from Dec. 20 last. Mary L. Wheeler has brought suit against the same steamer for $42 wages with interest from Dec. 8. The office of the weather bureau at the Sault is excep- tionally well equipped and is very popular with vessel masters. The popularity of the office is largely due to the efforts of the local observer, Mr. Burns, who is always willing, aside from his official duties, to accommodate the vessel men and who has there- . fore made a host of friends. A Detroit dispatch says that the Algoma Central Steamship Co. (Clergue interest) will next season operate the steamer Ossifrage on the Sault-Michipicoten route with the steamer Minnie M., and is therefore trying to purchase a passenger steamer to take the place of the Ossifrage on the Toledo, De- troit and Sault Ste. Marie route. Mr. John A. Donaldson, who was manager of the National Fuel & Dock Co., recently absorbed by the Pittsburg Coal Co., has returned to the Pittsburg company in his old position as manager of the operating department. N. J. Boylan, who was with Mr. Donaldson,.has also returned to the Pittsburg company, to look after the sale of steamboat fuel with Fred Sall. The Lake Superior Contracting & Dredging Co of Duluth was the only concern that answered the advertisement of Capt. D. D. Gaillard, United States engineer at Duluth, for bids on the work of dredging a pier trench at Superior entry, Wis. The job involves about 130,000 cu. yds. of dredging. The bid of the Lake Superior company was 15 cents per cubic yard. Chicago newspapers have finally concluded that after all there is to be no trust of passenger boats on that lake. There was never any likelihood of success attending the efforts of promo- ters who tried to merge the Lake Michigan lines. They had no financial backing and were therefore unable to get the managers of the lines down to the figures at which their property could actually be bought. : The annual meeting of the Boutell Transportation & 'Towing Co., a lake organization which operates on the Atlantic seaboard the tugs Peter Smith and Sweepstakes and the schooners Annie M. Ash and John C. Fitzpatrick, was held last week. 'The follow- ing officers were elected: President, W. H. Becker; vice-presi- dent, Charles O. Jenkins; secretary and treasurer, Capt. John Mitchell. 'These with B. Boutell, C. E. Sullivan and E. U. Pratt are the directors. The annual ball of the Marine Engineers Beneficial Associa- tion, which was held at the Chamber of Commerce rooms in Cleveland on Tuesday evening, was a most successful and enjoy- able affair. ' A great many of the vessel owners and representa- tives of the American Ship Building Co. attended, and the spacious ball room was crowded with a finely-costumed, well- groomed and animated throng. The banquet was held in the cafe on the upper floor. The committee in charge of the affair are certainly deserving of great credit. A marine decision of some importance has been handed down by the supreme court in a case appealed by Manitowoc par- ties. The question involved the ownership of the schooner Emma Neilson of Manitowoc. Charles Reynolds of Sturgeon Bay has.a one-third interest and Capt. Paul Neilson has a two- thirds interest in the vessel. Reynolds appealed to the courts for an accounting, alleging that Neilson was in full control of the schooner. The case was dismissed in circuit court for want of jurisdiction but the supreme court has ordered the sale of the schooner and a division of the profits pro rata. Chief James Foley of the Milwaukee fire department, whose death, announced a few days ago, was due to inhaling with other firemen the fumes of nitric acid, was well known in lake ship building circles on account of his interest in fire boats. He 1s very highly spoken cf by everybodv around the lakes who was favored with his acquaintance. The great honor attending his funeral was evidence from the people of Milwaukee of his worth to that city. Among city officials of Chicago, to whom he was almcst as well known as in Milwaukee, his death was gen- erally mourned. A fire boat for Milwaukee, costing about $100,- coo, is now being built by the Ship Owners Dry Dock Co. of Chicago. Mr. W. J. Wood, designer of the fire boat, says, in referring. to the interest shown by Chief Foley in the vessel, that he has had about roo letters from him since the designs were first proposed, and that the chief had all arrangements made on the day of his death, even to the purchase of railway tickets for a: visit to the ship yard to see the boat in frame. It would certain- ly be fitting to name this fire boat James Foley. The Great Lakes and St. Lawrence river rate committee comprised of representatives of the passenger steamship com- panies and several of the big railroads in the lake district met in Detroit last week and after an extended conference announced that the passenger rates prevailing last year had been adopted with practically no change. Following were the lake and rail lines represented: Algoma Central & Hudson Bay railroad, Algoma Central Steamship Co., Anchor Line, Canadian Pacific railroad, C. & B. Transit Co., D:-& C.'and D. & B. lines, Grand Trunk system, Goodrich Transportation Co., Lake Michigan & Lake Superior Transportation Co., Lake Ontario & B. of Q. S. B. Co., Manitou Steamship Co., Montreal, Rochester & Quebec Transportation Co., Muskoka & Georgian Bay Navigation Co., Niagara Navigation Co., Northern Michigan Transportation Co., Northern Navigation Co., Northern Steamship Co., North-West Transportation Co., Ltd., Parry Sound yacht fleet, Richelieu & Ontario Navigation Co. Rideau Lakes Navigation Co., Ltd., Toronto, Hamilton & Buffalo railroad, Windsor, Detroit & Soo Line, Lehigh Valley railroad, White Star Line, Delaware, Lacka- wanna & Western, Wabash and Michigan Central railroads. An interesting marine case has just been decided by United States District Judge Hazel of Buffalo, involving the right of salvage compensation to a vessel assisting another in distress. The case was that of the Gilchrist Transportation Co. against a cargo of wheat of the propeller City of Genoa. The Gilchrist company owned the Genoa, as well as the steamer Mecosta, which rendered the assistance fOr which salvage was claimed, and sued the cargo of the Genoa on behalf of the Mecosta. The Genoa, grain laden, had broken down on a voyage to Buffalo and had been taken in tow by the Mecosta. When near Long point, Lake Erie, the Genoa was discovered to be on fire. She signalled to the Mecosta and the latter vessel rounded to and came alongside, the flames in the meantime having gained con- siderable headway. 'The crew of the Mecosta worked the better part of the night with hose and fire buckets, and with the assist- ance of the Genoa crew, put out the fire. The judge awards $3,800 for the service--$2,300 of the amount to the Gilchrist Transportation Co., as owner of the Mecosta, and the balance, $1,500, to the crew of the Mecosta, giving the master $240, two mates $150 each, two engineers $120 each and twelve other members of the crew $60 each. The case was tried for the Gilchrist Transportation Co. by Mr. George S. Potter of Buffalo and defended for the owner of the Genoa cargo by John C. Shaw of Detroit and Harvey L. Brown of Buffalo.