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1903.] MARINE REVIEW AND MARINE RECORD, | 27 APPOINTMENTS OF CAPTAINS AND ENGINEERS. Cleveland Cliffs Iron Co., J. H. Sheadle, Megr., Cleveland: Steamers--Pontiac, Capt. John M. Johnson, Engineer 7. J. Rees ; Frontenac, Capt. G. D. Tulian, Engineer J. B. Hart, Cac illac, Capt. Ches. A. Anderson, Engineer C. H. Menmuir; Choc- taw, Capt. H. H. Parsons, Engineer 'hos. Durkin; Andaste, cen, CB. Sayre, Engineer Wm. Donovan; Pioneer, Capt. Geo. B. Brock, Engineer Wm. Naylor; Falcon, Capt. J. C. Dob- gon, Engineer H. §. Connell. Schooner Chattanooga, A. C. Reimer. sheadle, 'J. H., Mgr., Hopkins Steamship Co., Cleveland: Steamer--Centurian, Capt. S. A. Lyons, Engineer Thos. B. Kelley. Sheadle, J. H., Mgr. St. Clair Steamship Co. Cleveland: are Capt. Thos. E. Murray, Engineer M. A. oyd. Sheadle, J. H., Mgr. Presque Isle 'T'rans. Co., Cleveland: Steamers--Presque Isle, Capt. James B. Lowe, Engineer Thos. Blain; Angeline, Capt. S. N. Murphy, Engineer E. V. Barry. Tonawanda Iron & Steel Co. N. Tonawanda, N. Y.: »teamers--Fleetwood, Capt. O. J. Solean, Engineer sarvey DePuy; Geo. Spencer, Capt. A. C. Hansen, Engineer W. J. Cunningham; C. F. Curtis, Capt. Thos. Deringer, Engineer H. D. Fifield ; John F. Eddy, Capt. C. S. Furey, Engineer Frank Trinkwalder ; Oceanica, Capt. John Hesson, Engineer E. D. Knibbs; Veronica, Capt. Jas. A. Fleck, Engineer A. J. Schryver; Clyde, Capt. A. C. Neal, Engineer EF. H. Parry. 'Schooners-- B. L. Pennington, Capt. W! P. Johnson; Moravia, Capt. Peter Meiscn; N.C. Holland, Capt. J. H. Christie; T. S. Fassett, Capa, R. McCarquodale; ror, Capt. J. J. Carr; Amboy, Capt. F. P. Mc- Greevey. Peavey Steamship Co., Duluth: Steamers--Frank H. Peavey, Capt. C. C. Balfour, Engineer James Patterson; Geo. W. Peavey, Capt. F. C. Rae, Engineer A. L. Roberts; Frank T. Heffelfinger, Capt. L. a. Rand, Engineer TSheo. A. Myers; Frederick B. Wells, Capt. L. W. Stone, Engineer Geo. A. Gardener. Younes, WD, Mer, W. Bay. City, Mich: Steamer-- Arizona, Capt. J. G. Sauer, Engineer W. H. Phillips. Schooners-- Scotia, Capt. Geo. J. Sauer; Plymouth, Capt. John Jorgorson. Kinsman Transit Co., Henry Steinbrenner, Mer., Cleve- land: Steamers--Henry Steinbrenner, Capt. Joseph Lampoh, Fngineer Charles R. Price; Anna C. Minch, Capt: Harry Gun- derson, Engineer Wm. H. Miller. Northern Steamship Co., Buffalo: Steamers--North West, Capt. G. A. Miner, Engineer A. T. Stewart; North Land, Capt. J. J. Hartman, Engineer M. N. McDonald. AROUND THE GREAT LAKES. Capt. Hugh J. Hagan, who sailed the Davidson steamer Bermuda last season, has been appointed master of one of the new steamers of the Great Lakes & St. Lawrence Transporta- -- fon Co, In a few days the light at St. Joseph, Mich., will be re- established and its characteristic will be flashing white every 30 seconds, instead of fixed white varied by a white flash every 45 seconds, as heretofore. Mr. Richard A. Seymour, one of the pioneer lumbermen of Manistee and part owner in the Northern Michigan Transporta- tion Co., formerly known as the Seymour Line, whose boats ply between Chicago and Mackinac, died a few days ago. He was fifty-nine years old. : In addition to the usual large placard containing regulations, rates, etc., agreed upon by the owners of dry docks on the lakes, the managers of the docks have this year issued a pocket folder in which this information is repeated. There is no change from last year in either rules or rates. A Chicago dispatch announces that the work of constructing turning basins in the Chicago river, for which the late congress appropriated $500,000, will be begun as soon as the frost is out of the ground. 'The basins will be large enough for the largest boats on the lakes to turn around in and will add greatly to the facilities of the river. Capt. Frank C. Roe, who sailed the steamer Princeton of the Pittsburg Steamship Co.'s fleet in 1901, but who was in business ashore last season, has been appointed master of the steamer George Peavey. Capt. Wesley Brown, who was in the Peavey last year, will command one of the steamers building for the Provident Steamship Co. ~ The collision case resulting from the sinking near Duluth of the Steel Corporation steamer Wilson will probably be the first action in admiralty to be heard in the United States district court at Duluth, just established, before the new judge, Page ° Morris. The new judge is quite well known to admiralty law- ~ yers around the lakes and is highly spoken of. Package freight lines out of Buffalo are now arranging their schedule of operations. It is their purpose to give a fast through service from Lake Erie to Lake Superior, and only one of the lines, the Anchor, will hereafter stop at Detroit. This line will handle all the business of that city. Other plans for economiz- ing operations by preventing the duplication of service are under way. ee employed in the construction of the rew dry dock of the Collinwood Ship Building Co. went out on strike re- cently, asking for a raise in wages of 50 cents per day. The laborers employed in the construction of the new vessels also quit work without notice, leaving their tools lying about the yard. Owing to the action of the laborers work in other departments of the ship yard has been crippled. Capt. James Doner of Detroit has been appointed master of the Provident Steamship Co.'s steamer James H. Hoyt, and Wl. A. Moudy chief engineer. E. P. Houghton, E. D. Ballentine and W. C. Brown have been appointed to command: the three big steamers building in lake yards for the Provident company. The names D. M. Clemson and D..G. Kerr have been selected for two of these steamers but the third one has not been named as yet. Announcement is made that on April 1 James C. Evans, for the last decade representative of the Anchor Line in Chicago, will become the line's general western manager with offices at Buffalo. Mr. Evans succeeds his father, Mr. E. I. Evans, who has been elected vice-president of the company. Mr. W. H. Johnson, the company's agent at Buffalo, has been made western agent with headquarters at Chicago. Mr. A. M. Willard is to be the company's agent at Milwaukee. Alterations which the Lake Erie Boiler Works at Buffalo is making in arrangements attending boiler rooms, dynamo rooms, refrigerator compartments, etc., on the big Northern Line passenger steamers North West and North Land are being hurried and the vessels will be ready for service when they are needed. It is said that they will open the season about June 14 and that one of the boats will trade to Duluth, stopping at the Sault, Marquette and Hancock. The other steamer will be placed on the Chicago route stopping at Mackinaw. . Following its policy of disposing of its break-bulk business across Lake Michigan the Pere Marquette railway has sold its steamer Pere Marquette No. 4 to Gustav Kitzinger of Manistee, who some weeks ago purchased Nos. 2 and 3 of the same line. Tne only remaining break-bulk boat now owned by the company is the No. 5, which will be kept for a time on the Milwaukee- Ottawa beach route. It is understood that a traffic agreement has been made with the Goodrich Line, by which the latter will not compete with the east shore business of the Kitzinger steamers on condition that the Chicago business of the Goodrich Line is not interfered with. Congressman Minor of Wisconsin managed to secure in-the sundry civil appropriation bill passed by the last congress an ap- propriation of $8,000 for telegraph or telephone communication that is to facilitate life saving operations in the vicinity off Death's Door, Lake Michigan. The appropriation item reads: "For constructing and establishing, under the direction of the secretary of the treasury, cable or telegraph line or lines from the mainland forming the eastern side of Green bay, across' Death's Door to the Plum island life saving station, and from the said Plum island life saving station across Washington island, thence to Rock island, terminating at the light house on said island; said line or jines to be operated under the direction of the secre- tary of the treasury for the use of the life saving service; and the weather bureau shall be entitled to the use of said line or lines under such regulations as may be agreed upon by the sec- retary of the treasury and the secretary of agriculture." BANKING BY MAIL. One of the officers of the Federal Trust Co., Superior and Water streets, Cleveland, in which J. C. Gilchrist, Frank W. Hart, F. M. Osborne and other well-known vessel owners are directors, says that his bank has' for some time been doing quite a large business in savings accounts with the men aboard lake vessels, by means of what is known as the "banking by mail" system. This system offers special advantages to the captains, mates, engineers, and in fact all the men on lake vessels who are away from their homes during the greater part of the year. It per- mits of accounts being carried by these men with the most sub- stantial banking institutions of large cities such as the Federal company, and often with even less trouble than is experienced by the depositor who calls with his bank book. In the ordinary practice a trip to the bank is not all the time convenient, while with the mail method there is every assurance of equal security with only trifling additional cost for postage or for mail or ex- press money orders. 'The bank officials say they have never lost a dollar nor heard of a dollar being lost by this method. Of course the success of the "banking by mail" system is due to the ease with which money may be handled by the use of postoffice money orders, express orders, etc. In opening an account any amount from $1 up is forwarded to the bank by postoffice order, express money order, draft'on New York, check on any bank, or if currency, by registered letter. A card is then forwarded by the bank to the depositor for his signature and with it a pass book. 'The card, signed and returned to the bank, is for identi- fication. 'The pass book is afterward mailed with every order and with every request for money to be withdrawn. Very small accounts are encouraged as much so as the large ones and the bankers say that the extent to which the system is used, and the ease and security attending its use, are wonderful. Tours across the continent tri-weekly via the Nickel Plate road. All travel comforts. Very low rates. Apply to nearest agent or address E. A. Akers, C. P. & T. A., Cleveland, Ohio. 22, Apr. 13