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TAE MARINE. REVIEW 37 AROUND THE GREAT LAKES Mr. W. H. Hill, assistant general manager of the Great Lakes Towing Co., has resigned. The Welland canal was lighted by electricity on Friday evening last for the first time in its history. It is reported that the business of the Richelieu & Ontario Navigation Co., of Montreal, shows an increase of $250,000 over that of last year. Work was begun upon the new dry dock at the Lorain yard of the American Ship Building Co. The new dock will be 725 ft. in length and 125 ft. broad. A revised chart in colors of the St. Lawrence river, No. 2, has just been issued by the United States lake survey office and is for sale by the Marine Review. The tug Winslow owned by the Reid Wrecking Co. was damaged in collision with the steamer W. H. Mack near the mouth of the Detroit river this week. The Canadian government has decided to keep its entire system of canals, including the locks at the Sault, open on Sundays from Oct. 1 to the close of navigation. The steamer Delaware building for the Anchor Line at the Ecorse yard of the Great Lakes Engineering Works, Detroit, will be launched on Saturday morning of a week. The new steamer Peter White ran aground just outside the breakwater at Buffalo with its maiden cargo of iron ore. After lightering about 200 tons the steamer was peace with- out injury. The 500-ft. freight steamer building at the yard of the Craig' Ship Building' Co. Toledo, tor. Mr i. S: Sullivan and others, of Toledo, will be named in honor of oe Zimmerman, of Cincinnati. . The steamer George H. Russel 16k out of Chidies last week 235,000 bu. of co: "n and 58, 000 bu. of barley, aggregating 7,972 tons. This is the largest cargo. of grain ever shipped from Chicago. R. C. Brittain, Saugatuck, Mich., a well-known vessel builder and owner, died this week at Chicago following an operation. He was born in Pennsylvania in 1842 and had been engaged in see building and shipping for over thirty years. The-steamer P. H. Birckhead burned to the water's edge at Alpena, Mich.,- last week. She was bound for Racine with a cargo of coal and put into Alpena in a disabled condition. The Birckhead was: built at Marine City in 1870 and was owned by James O'Connor, Tona- wanda,. N.. Y. Capt. tee R: Ross, of Cleveland, was shot and killed aboard the schooner B. W. Parker in Lake Superior this week. The Parker was in tow of the propeller George F. Williams at the time. The man who did the _ shooting, a deck hand, was taken to Marquette and turned over to the police. Col. Charles E. L. B. Davis, United States engineer at Detroit, has notified the Meyers Wrecking Co. that owing to the slow progress being made in the removal of the sunken steamer Linden sunk in the St. Clair river, the government will take charge of the wo-k. Bids will be opened for this work Oct. 7. In an interview at Duluth, Col. Dan C. Kingman, United States engineer with headquarters at Cleveland, predicts that added carrying capacity in lake vessels will hereafter have to be sought through beam rather than length. He is quoted saying that he does not expect the government to deepen the channels beyond 21 ft. Mr. Henry Hess, the chief engineer of the Western Transit Co., of Buffalo, has resigned his position at the age of 70 years, having been with the company since 1856. In 1865 he was made first engineer of the steamer Mohawk, and since that time has sailed on nearly all the steamers of the company's fleet. It is 'Said of him that he never missed a trip. With all her pumps working, the wooden steamer Pro- gress, bound from Ashland to Cleveland with iron ore, put into Detroit with six feet of water in her hold. A 3-in. perch found in the hold showed how dangerously the vessel's seams had been opened in the buffeting ek she did in Sunday's gale on Lake Huron. The Lake Superior & Southeastern has bought a large frontage of harbor land on the Wisconsin side of the head of Lake Superior, in the upper bay, and will improve it for terminals at an early day. The road has not let its contracts for building the section north to Duluth but will do so shortly. Its land contracts for rights of way are being taken up gradually and will all probably be closed during the next thirty to forty days. A number of changes have been made in the masters - of the Pittsburg Steamship Co. Capt. W. K. Hunt, who has been sick for some time, returns to his old boat, the James Watt, and Capt. J. A. Noble, who has been on the Watt, takes. the Maritana. Capt. C. D. Secord, formerly master of the steamer Harvard, whose license was sus- pended for sixty days, has been appointed master of the A. B. Wolvin. My. Toner, who was chief engineer of the big steamer Corey, has been made shore engineer, making three men that the company has ashore im that department. The Bucyrus Co., South Milwaukee, Wis., is desirous of announcing that it is in no way interested in the new - Duluth-Superior Dredging Co. As the company is in the business of building dredges for anybody and every- body, it is a part of its fixed business policy. not to take stock in any dredging company. In its issue of Sept. '14 the Marine Review. stated that Mr. R. B; Knox, brother of the vice president and- 'general: manager of the Bucyrus Co. was connected with the Duluth- Superior. Dredg- ing 'Co,, "and that it. was generally. supposed . that the Bucyrus Co. was interested in the venture. The Bucyrus Co. desires to say that it is not in any way interested. ' An exhibition was given at Detroit last. week of. the Mayo life boat, designed by the Mayo Life Boat Co.. of Toledo. The boat is the invention of Mr. -R. DE: Mayo, . who has been for thirty years or more in. the life saving service on the great lakes. The Mayo life boat is cylin- drical in shape like an elongated barrel with rounded ends and has a seating capacity for forty passengers. - The outer shell of the Mayo boat is steel, revolving around a self-adjusting passenger carriage in which the. passengers sit always in an upright position. Only in case of fire:is it necessary to launch the Mayo boat. In other cases the passengers simply enter the boat and wait for the vessel to sink, leaving the life boat afloat. The lines may be cast off from the interior of the boat. Among the corporations organized in Maine last week is that of the Lake Torpedo Boat Co. Four separate certificates of organization were drawn up, one each for England, Germany, Russia and Italy. The purpose of the company is to manufacture and deal in submarine tozpedo boats, torpedoes, guns and other devices relating to submarine war vessels. The capital stock of the cor- poration is $1,000,000, but nothing appears to have been paid in. The officers are: President, Fred P. Whitney, Washington, D. C.; treasurer, W. S. Lee, Augusta, Me. These with Henry J. Miller, of Elizabeth, N. J., E. E. Penney and A. P. Bibber, of Augusta, Me., constitute the board of directors. The Hamburg-American Steamship Co.'s first turbine steamer the Kaiser underwent a successful trial trip. last week, averaging 20 knots.