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will also remain on the beach all winter. ' COREY IN. DRY DOCK. | The steamer William E. Corey, which went ashore on Gull Island has been placed in dry dock at Superior. She is not as badly damaged as might have been expected, her injuries being confined entirely to the bottom and not extending to the turn of the bilge. About eighty _ plates will have tobe taken off. -The steamer England was also placed in dry dock at Superior. Her bottom is pushed up for a distance of about 150 ft., and a large num- ber of plates will have to be taken off for rerolling. Both the England and Corey will stay in dry dock until spring: Some comparisons have been instituted between the in- juries of the Corey and the steamer Hutchinson' which went ashore near Eagle River three years ago, but it is un- derstood that the injuries are as extensive as those of the . Hutchinson. The 'steamer .Crescent City, which. - was driven ashore near Duluth, will remain in its present po-. sition all winter. The big steamer will have to be jacked off the rocks and the work cannot be done until next spring. The Mataafa, Edenborn and the barge 'Manila } SHIP CANAL FROM CHICAGO TO ST. LOUIS. Representative W. H: > Lorimer, of Chicago, has in- troduced a bill appropriating $31,000,000 for a 14-foot ship canal from Chicago to St. Louis, and thence to the Gulf of Mexico. In urging the passage of the bill Mr. Lorimer "Saic : "The Mississippi valley is the largest and richest of all the valleys of the known world. It is capable of produc- ing more from its nfines, fields and forests than any other -similar area of land upon the face of the earth, Its devel- opment is retarded from the need of cheap transportation _to the seaboard. Water is the cheapest trdnsportation known to commerce. The city of Chicago has construc- ~ted the largest ship and drainage canal in the world at a cost of $50,000,000 to: date, which when completed will have cost Chicago $75,000,000. With the completion of the canal at the Isthmus and the improvement of the Mis- _sissippi Valley waterways, the greatest inland waterway in the world will be created, connecting the Central, Wes- 'tern and Southern States with the Atlantic and Pacific coast states, Hawaii, Alaska, the Philippines, the Orient and every seaport in Europe.' Congress appropriated $200,000 to make a survey of the Mississippi, Illinois and ' Des Plaines rivers from St. Louis to Lockport, Ill, or to the mouth of the Chicago ship canal, to determine the feasibility of establishing a fourteen-foot waterway from Chicago to St. Louis. The survey has been completed and the feasibility of a 14-foot waterway from Chicago to St. Louis has thus been established. It is estimated by the engineering. corps of the war department that the work covered by the survey can be finished for $31,000,000" NATIONAL RIVERS AND HARBORS CONGRESS. With not less than 1,000 delegates in attendance the _ National Rivers and Harbors Congress will convene in _the Arlington Hotel, Washington, Jan. 15, and there is _ every indication that the meeting will result in securing large appropriations for the further improvement of the nation's waterways. Word was received by Albert Bet- __tinger, who has taken a lively interest in the improve- -ment of the Ohio river from Pittsburg to Cairo, that preliminary plans had about been completed by. the exe- cutive committee in Baltimore. It was stated that mes- sages had been received from congressmen in many dif- here «paris. )6©6(Of:«=Clh tthe «~scountry that they intended [46 take active part in convention, and that the nation's legislative body was ready to do everything in its power to further the interests of "324 TRE Marine REVIEW -the different cities and states by assisting in raising the stages of the navigable rivers and improving the harbors. The executive committee has sent out requests to' the governors of every state in the union asking that they appoint their' congressional delegates as special delegates to the two day convention in Washington. The governors are also invited to attend and several have already signified their intentions of doing so. Ac- cording fo the plans outlined each state is to have one of more speakers at the congress, and needed improve- ments in every section will be freely discussed, although action will be taken by the congress only upon the general need of the country for improved waterways and harbors. While the delegates from Cincinnati will devote most of their time to pointing out the needs of the Ohio river, they agree that no action will be taken on special projects and they will have to await the completion of the survey of the river which is now being made under the supervi- sion of the war department. The engineers have completed their work for several miles below Louisville, but it will be almost a year before a comprehensive report can be made to the war depart- ment by the men in charge of the work. They are mak- ing their surveys with the idea of securing a 9 ft. stage between Pittsburg and Cairo, this to be attained by build- ing locks and dams at different points along the Ohio, and it is conceded by all interested parties that it will mean a tremendous outlay of money, although the results will more than offset the expenditure, WHO KNOWS ABOUT CHARLES SCOTT STOWMAN? Editor Marine Review:. I desire to inquire as to the loss of a vessel on Lake Superior. I had a son on the lakes, and the report has just reached me that he was on a boat that went down some time .in July, and the crew of seven were all drowned. I do not know the name of the boat. My son's name was Charles Scott Stowman. While in Toledo he boarded at No. 236 Huron street. I would like to ascer- tain if the report of the wreck is true, and' if so what they did with his body, as I understand that the bodies were re- covered. Hitchcock, South Dakota. F. P. StowMan, The tug Hugh L. Bond, building for the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Co., was launched last week from the yard of the Baltimore Dry Dock & Ship Building Co. The tug is 118 ft. long, 23 ft. beam and 12% ft. deep. The machinery will be of fore and aft compound type, with cylinders 20 and 40 in. in diameter and 28 in. stroke. The tug is named after Mr. Hugh L. Bond, second vice president of the Balti- more & Ohio Railroad. Permission for Col. Thomas W..Symons, New York, former a:de to the president, to receive the Chinese decora- tion of the order of the double dragon, is asked of congress in a letter transmitted from the state department. The 'decoration was awarded to Col. Symons by the Chinese - government because of courtesies extended to Prince Pu Luni on his visit to the United States a year ago. The Dubuque Iron Works, Dubuque, Ia., is to build a car transfer for the St. Louis & Mississippi Railway Trans- portation Co., for service between Vicksburg and Delta. She will be named the Albatross. Moses Maynard, of Hancock, Mich., has been granted a patent on an apparatus to hoist steel plates which is especially applicable to shipyard work.