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"TAE MarRIne. REVIEW 21 through the rivers in all conditions of weather, either day of night, and must have a thorough know- ledge of where the last inch of water is to be got. Last year the vessels of the great lakes carried 44,- 000,000 tons of freight through the Sault Ste. Marie canals alone and in certain parts of the rivers the great freighters, carrying this tremendous trade, had only an inch or two of water under their bottoms Capt. Donnelly attributed the cause of a number of wrecks to a lack of knowledge of the compass and thought the Pittsburg Steamship Co. had done a very wise act in offering free courses of instruction in com- pass correction to its masters. Undoubtedly those who attend Capt. Donnelly's lectures will be well re- paid for their time. NEW STEAMER FOR BELLE ISLE RUN. The Detroit, Belle Isle & Windsor Ferry Co., have just closed a contract with the Detroit Ship Building Co., for a fine new steamer for service on the Belle Isle run. This. new boat will be practically a duplicate in design of the big steamer Columbia of the Bois Blanc route but will be not quite as large in dimensions, however. It will be built. as large as can be conveniently handled at the Belle Isle dock. Her steel hull will be divided into six watertight compart- ments. The main deck and deck houses will be constructed of steel, which insures protection from fire. The officers of the company have realized that Detroit is a growing city, that its people enjoy the river and that nothing increases business so much as good equipment. While this boat is to be rather large for the present needs of the route, the com- pany wishes to anticipate conditions, take good care: of its patrons and be protected for future demands for larger carrying capacity. The new boat will be one of the most _ powerful ice crushers on the Detroit river and on this account will have extra strong hull, heavily reinforced. This provi- sion in construction is made in order to insure the Windsor patronage of good service no matter how much ice may block the channel. Frank E. Kirby is the designer. The general © dimensions are as follows: Length over all, 180 ft.; length between perpendiculars, 165 ft.; breadth of hull, 45. ft.; breadth at water line,. 42 ft.; bec over. guards, 57 1t;; depth of hull, 18 ft.; draught, 12 ft. Engines are triple ex- pansion, cylinders 20, 32 and 50 in. diameter by 36-in. stroke, supplied with, steam from two Scotch boilers, each 13 ft. 3 in. diameter and 12 ft. long, carrying 180 lb. of steam. The steamer is designed to make 16 miles an hour and will have passenger capacity for about 2,7oopersons. The steamer -- is to go into commission July 1 next. AROUND THE GREAT LAKES. Mr. J. C. Evans, western manager of the Anchor Line, has announced the appointment of B. C. Jones as superin- tendent of hulls. The tug T. C. Lutz has been chartered by the Pere Mar- quette Co., to break ice for the car ferry steamers in the De- . troit river during the winter. | = Capt. Wm. A. Searles who sailed on the lakes foe many years died at Unionville, O., this week. He was stricken with paralysis aboard the steamer Tosco about a year ago and never recovered. Mr. Fred D. Philp, chief engineer of the steamer Peter White during the past season, has left for Leadville, Colo-_ rado, to become the mechanical superintendent of a mining company. , The annual meetings of the Lumber Carriers' association and the Lake Carriers' association were held- at Detroit this week. Complete reports of these meetings will be found in the next-issue of the Martne Review. -The new freighter building at the Cleveland yard of the Amezican Ship Building Co., for Capt. W. C. Richardson, of Cleveland, will be named in honor oF Mr. David C..Noz- ton,. of Cleveland: In--an interview in Milwaukee, Supt Foul V. Tuttle, who takes charge of the wrecked and rescued vessels for the underwriters, says that last season was the worst in his experience which covers fifty years. ie The American Ship Building Co. is working with charac- _ teristic energy to rebuild its Bay City plant, lately destroy- ed by fire. It is expected that the plant will be entirely rebuilt within the next two weeks and on a much more ex- tensive plan than the old one. The steamer Darius Cole will probably be remodeled and put on the Georgian Bay route next summer running from Detroit and Toledo to Georgian Bay resorts. Plans to give her about seventy additional staterooms are now being made by the joiner department of the Detroit Ship Build- ing Co. ve Vessel owners believe that the new storm warning station for Devil's Island, Lake Superior, is practically assured by the recent recommendation by the secretary of agriculture that $22,000 be appropriated for the station. The Lake Car- riers' Association will, however, remind congress of the nec- essity for this warning station. The proposed station will be nineteen miles from Bayfield, Wis., and will be connected with the mainland by telephones. The West Superior yard of the American 'Ship 'Building' Co. is crowded with work, and Mr. Robert Logan, general manager of the company has gone there to look after it.. There are at present 1,200 men on the yard's pay roll. One of the two boats to be built for the Cambria Steel Co. will be constructed at this yard. Mr. Logan says that the boats are to be the largest on the lakes, being 2 ft. longer than the 600-footers building for the Pittsburg Steamship Co. . : Mr. A. L. Eggert and Mr. M. Toner of the Pittsburg Steamship Co.'s fleet will remain ashore during the coming season, to look after the launching of the four 600-footers balance for the company, and the installation of their en- gines. The hulls of these vessels will be built at Chicago, but the engines will be constructed at Cleveland. . The annual meeting of the Cleveland lodge of the Marine Engineers' Beneficial association was held last week. The following officers were elected: President, Arthur Hyde; first vice president, Ben Hinslea; second vice president, P. A. Rivers; recording secretary, Ray Belting; financial and corresponding secretary and business agent, Wm. Kelley; treasurer, John M. Kirby; trustees, E. I. Jenkins, John N. Kirby, A. R. Newman; district deputy, John Skelly. E. I. Jenkins, John M. Kirby and Arthur Hyde were elected del- egates to the national convention which will be held in Washington next week. : Thirty-four mates out of the forty-two that were on first class steamers of the Pittsburg Steamship Co.'s fleet last season have been paid a bonus. President Harry Coulby announced last spring before the men went to their boats that all the first mates of the forty-two first class steamers that remained in the. employ of the company during the season would be paid for ten months' work, providing their setvices were satisfactory. The mates usually work about eight months during the season. The mates on first class steamers of this fleet are paid $115 a month, so that these thirty-four men received $1,150 for last season's work. --