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"TAE MARINE REVIEW 29 AROUND THE GREAT LAKES It is quite likely that the Anchor line will remodel the Tionesta this winter to correspond with the Juniata. The Chicago River Improvement Association made a trip of inspection of the Chicago harbor and river on Thursday of this week. The steamer Puritan, of the Graham & Morton line, is to receive four new Sotch boilers at the shipyard of Johnston Bros., Ferrysburg, Mich, The Canadian cruiser Vigilant was at the shear dock of the Detroit Ship Building Co. last week receiving repairs to her machinery. A new chart in colors of Manitowoc harbor has been issued by the United States Lake Survey Office and is now for sale by the Marine Review. The tug Tuthill which was sunk in St. Clair flats by the steamer D. C. Whitney has been abandoned by the owner, John B. Nagle, of Toledo. Handy .Bros., Bay City, Mich., have purchased the steamer J. Gould, formerly on the. Lake Superior line, and will convert her into a fumber barge. The lumber schooner King Fisher, which was lying at the foot of Wason street, Cleveland, broke away this week in the heavy sea and was pounded to pieces on the beach. The Monongahela River Consolidated Coal & Coke Co. is making repairs to the steamers Samuel . Clark, Jim Wood, Resolute, Ironsides, Robert Jenkins and others. © The customs measurement of the new steamer Wm. G. Mather 'shows that: her gross tonnage is 6,838, which is greater than that of any other vess2l] on the great lakes. The new steamer John Stanton, built at the Lorain yard of the American Ship Building Co. and launched on Sept. 16, left Lorain on her maiden trip on Tuesday of this wee M. A. Hanna & Co., of Cleveland, will. assume canteal of the Pennsylvania chilway docks in Sandusky, after Jan. 1. Minor improvements in dock equipment are contem- plated. Pal a es The barge Soha Minch, lumber laden in tow of the steamer. Badger State; was, nearly cut in two last. week by the. steamer Saxona in collision near Hurley's coal dock in the Detroit river. The new steel Canadian lake freight steamer Glenallah has reached the great lakes from Scotland. She is of Canadian canal size and belongs to the fleet of the Union Steamship Co., Hamilton, Ont. It was necessary to lighter over 1,000 tons of hard coal from the steamer Brazil before she could be released from the rocks off Stoney island reef near the Lime Kiln Crossing. It took three tugs to pull her off. Capt. Claud M. Ennes will bring out one of the Jones & Laughlin steamers, now building at the yard of the Great _. Lakes Engineering Works. Capt. Ennes is at present sailing - the steamer Perry G. Walker for the Gilchrist fleet. 'The steamer D, M. Whitney this week took out the largest cargo of wheat ever shipped from Fort William. It con- sisted of 245,000 bushels. The largest previous cargo was that of the Oliver, which carried 236,000 bushels in 1899. The barge Edward Kelly has been sold by C. W. Kotcher, of Detroit, to Henry M, Loud, of Oscoda, who recently purchased the steamer Badger State from Hugh Havey. The Kelly is 187 ft. long, 36 ft. beam and was built in Port Huron in 1874. A six-year contract for the enlargement of the Toledo Strait channel has just been completed by the Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Co. The contractors ran but five days over the time specified. The channel is now 400 ft. wide and 22 ft. deep for its entire length of ten miles. The annual report of the Lake Superior Corporation for the year ended June 30 last shows a, surplus of $578,- 248, which is equal to 1.44 percent of outstanding capital boats next year, of $40,000,000, Alfred P. Roller was chosen to succeed George B, Turrell, deceased, on the board of directors. The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Co. is making good use of the excellent harbor at Fairport, O., and, as a result of the careful attention given dredging, a very satisfactory depth of water is maintained. The steamer J. C. Wallace with 10,310 gross tons of ore recently came into the harbor, winded and went out without the use of a tug. The barge Noquebay, in tow of the steamer Lizzie Madden, caught fire this week when twenty miles east of Bayfield and was burned to the water's edge. The Madden started at once for shore at Stockton and succeeded in beaching the boat at Presque Isle Point, where the crew was saved. The Noquebay was owned by the estate of T. F. Madden, of Bay City. The managers of the Lumber Carriers' Association have appointed a committee consisting of J. A. Calbick and W. D. Hamilton, of Chicago, and C. T. Williams, of Cleve- land, to prepare a plan for handling freight for the lumber It will be submitted at the annual con- vention of the Lumber Carriers' Association at Detroit next January. The Indiana Transportation Co., Michigan City, Ind) at its last meeting voted to increase the capital stock of the company from $133,000 to $300,000. The company proposes to add a 'new passenger steamer to its fleet. The plans so far developed call for a steamer 285 ft. long and 4o ft. beam, with main, cabin, promenade and hurricane decks capable of ac- commodating from 3,000 to 3,500 passengers. With the ex- ception of the whaleback steamer Christopher Columbus, there is no passenger steamer devoted exclusively to Lake Michigan service, that is as large as this: The Canadian steamer Fairmount is now taking. 2,000 tons of iron ore from Pilley's island, near the coast of Newfoundland, to Washburn, Mich., on the south shore of Lake Superior. There are two unusual features in con- nection with the movement, one is that she carries a cargo of iron ore to one of the greatest iron ore produc- ing centers in the world, the other that the. cargo is car- ried the full distance without transshipment which is very unusual with cargoes from that section. The ore is a peculiar grade different from that found in Michigan and is wanted for a special purpose. It is announced that the Hon. Raymond Prefontaine, minister of marine for the Dominion government, has decided to call in the services of a London expert, in con- nection with designing a new ice breaker to be put on the winter route between Pictou, N. S., and Georgetown, P. E. I. After the experience of the Dominion govern- ment with the ice crusher Montcalm in the St. Lawrence river, it would appear as though they might come to the great lakes for expert advice. Ice crushers have been successfully operated on the great lakes for many years and have kept channels open during the severest winters. The deeds of heroism in saving life on the great lakes are quite-as fine as those on the ocean. The action of 'Capt. W. B. Van Sickle and.crew of the tug Andrew J. Smith in rescuing the crew of the schooner Senator in Lake Michigan was most commendable. The hulk of the schooner was sighted by the tug lying in the trough of the sea with all her rigging gone. The sea was run- ning so high that it was impossible to launch a small boat. After much difficulty a line was thrown from the tug to the schooner, It took two hours' continuous labor to haul the crew of the schooner through the' sea to the tug. By that time it was blowing a gale and it required great courage and seamanship for the tug to land her passengers at Mackinac island. The hull of the Senator was towed the next morning into Frankfort by the car ferry Ann Arbor.