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1903.] MARINE REVIEW AND MARINE RECORD. 23 AROUND THE GREAT LAKES, Capt. Thomas McGowan of Detroit has bought the schooner Marengo. : Repairs costing about $4,000 have just been completed on the wooden tow barge Biwabik at Marine City. A. Green of Green Bay and Frederick Schwerman of Mil- waukee have purchased the steamer George Burnham. Geo. B. Crites, general foreman at Chicago for the Anchor Line, died at his home in that citv on Friday last of pneumonia. Capt. John Stoner, an old lake master, died at Monroe, Mich., Tuesday afternoon. He had followed the lakes for fifty years. During the present year the North Land of the Northern Steamship Co.'s fleet will run between Buffalo and Chicago and the North West between Buffalo and Duluth. The steel tug Bonita, building for the Graham & Morton Transportation Co. of Chicago, was launched at Grand Haven on Friday last. She is 68 ft. long and 17 ft. beam. Capt. Harris W. Baker of Detroit has sold the barge Colo- rado to the Charlevoix Lumber Co., which will use her for its own business. The terms of the transaction were not made public. ' William S. Manuel has libeled the propeller T.. H. Birckhead in the United States circuit court at Cleveland for contract for coal furnished amounting to $334.13 with interest from Aug. 10, 1902. In backing away from dock No. 4 at Ashtabula last week the steamer J. J. Hill collided with one of the Brown hoists on the Angeline dock and smashed it. The damage will be re- paired as rapidly as possible. It is estimated that shipments of lumber from T'wo Harbors this season will not be less than 60,000,000 ft. The principal shippers are the Tower Lumber Co. and Swallow & Hopkins. The St. Croix Lumber Co. ships its lumber by rail entirely. Anew gasoline launch--quite a large one--building by the Viking Boat Co., Chicago, will shortly be ~ ' Capt. George Brooks and S. Smith of Duluth, who will operate her in the lumber trade. Messrs. Ryan and -Smith are engineers who remained with the Great Lakes Towing Co. during the strike and who were shut out by the settlement. The men have evidently purchased the boat so as to have employment. Capt. Brooks was in one of-the vessels of the Pittsburg Steam- ship Co. last season. On Saturday last the steel steamer C. M. Warner, building for the United States Transportation Co. of Cleveland (Brown fleet), was launched at the South Chicago yard of the American Ship Building Co. She is 390 ft. over all, 370 ft. keel, 48 ft. beam and 28 ft. deep. Her engines are triple-expansion with cylinders of 20, 33% and 55 in. diameter and stroke of 4o in. Steam will be supplied by two Scotch boilers 12 ft. 6 in. in diameter and it ft. 6 1n.:Jone. For invention and ingenuity, Mr. W. F. Herman, general passenger agent of the Cleveland & Buffalo 'Transit Co., possesses talents that would win distinction in the trade of advertising ex- pert. His latest is.a little folder announcing the opening of the Cleveland-Buffalo service. 'The cover is of onion skin. In the center of the frontispiece page is a gold medal, inset upon which has been stamped with a die a picture of the City of Erie, justly called the flyer of the lakes. The schedule observed by the line » is also stamped upon the medal. The effect is quite pleasing. The Marquette & Bessemer Dock & Navigation Co., recently created and owned jointly by the Bessemer & Lake Erie and the Pere Marquette railroad, has taken over the shipping, docks and properties of the United States & Ontario Steam Navigation Co, An issue of $500,000 4%4 per cent. thirty-year gold bonds, with a I per cent. sinking fund, principal and interest guaranteed jointly and severally by the Pere Marquette and the Bessemer & Lake Erie Railroad companies, has been authorized, of which $225,000 has been issued. One-half of the issue was purchased by the United © States Steel Corporation, which owns the Bessemer & Lake Erie. turned over to Joseph [enert of No. 157 E. Division street, Chicago, who will use her in the vessel supply busi- ness, of which he makes a specialty. Work has been started by Hickler Bros. at' Sault Ste: Marie, Mich., on their new marine railway. It will accommodate vessels up to 1,000 tons burden and will be completed by the middle of June. The design is by the H. I. Crandall & Son Co. of East Boston. Capt. Ben Tripp, well known as a lake pilot, has been appointed to the position of traveling district manager . for the large publishing house of the John C. Winston Co., Philadelphia. His district is northern Ohio and he will therefore be in lake towns and cities. Royal Peck, chief engineer of the steamer Manitou, has been provi- sionally appointed inspector of marine boilers to succeed Stewart H. Moore at Chicago. The appointment will _ become permanent if Mr. Peck passes .'the civil service examination after sixty days' work. _ In an effort to secure a share of the steamboat fuel business the Weaver Coal Co. at South Chicago has been furnishing the best of coal and making special efforts to accom- modate the vessels. It is reported that they will also undertake fueling business in the Chicago river. Indiana harbor, under development by Chicago capitalists, is to have a steamboat line. It is understood that the route will be opened by the steamer Ottawa, owned by Capt. E. C. Dunbar of Grand Haven. The terminals for the present will be South Chicago and Whiting, Ind. A Detroit dispatch says that the board of managers of the Lumber Carriers' Association will meet in that city on Tuesday, May 5, and very probably advance lumber rates to a basis of $3 per 1,000 ft. from the head of Lake Superior to Lake Erie ports. The owners of lumber ves- sels say that with increased operating expenses, increased loading and un- loading charges, etc, there is no profit in the present freights. Capt. A. B. Sinclair has_ sold the steamer J. C. Suit to M. Ryan, cbs ', = ee ¢ os 4 rg ee CG o. j H } 7 a, one CS o vs oS German Cruiser Vineta in Dry Dock at Newport News.