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32. | THE Marine REVIEW AROUND THE GREAT LAKES ' The Grand Lodge of the Ship Masters' association will meet at Buffalo on Jan. 30. Mr. A. H. Hawgood, of Cleveland, went to Buffalo last week to look after the repairs of the steamer Harold B. Nye. ~ The Nessen Transportation. Co., Manistee, Mich., has just sent out, as a souvenir, a good half-tone reproduction of the steamer, Manistee. The steamer building at the West Superior yard of the American Ship Building Co. for H. H. Oakes, of Detroit, will be named E. J. Erling. Capt. C. C. Balfour will sail the steamer Abraham Stern building at the Superior yard of the American Ship Build- ing Co., for the Hawgoods of Cleveland. Capt. Charles B. Galton, of the Mitchell fleet, will bring out the steamer Loftus Cuddy, which is at the Lorain yard of the American Ship Building Co., for Capt. John Mitchell. At the annual meeting of the Licensed Tugmens' Protective Association in Chicago last week, resolutions extending moral support to the Lake Pilots' Protective Association were adopted. - Bids for dredging the Superior portion of Black Rock har- bor, at Buffalo, were opened last week, and of eight bidders - the Empire Engineering Corporation of New York was the - lowest, -at $603,154.20 Mr. EL 1. Jenkins, of Cleveland, who has been for the past few years at the head of the lake lodges of the Marine En- gineers' Beneficial Association, will sail on one of the Cleve- land Cliffs Iron Co.'s steamers next season. Capt. W. C. Brown has been appointed to look after the completion of the new 10,000-ton steamer Frank C. Ball recently launched at the Ecorse yard of the Great Lakes Engineering Works for G. A. Tomlinson of Duluth. The big car ferry Pere Marquette No. 17 broke her steering gear in Lake Michigan this week and floundered about in the heavy sea for several hours while temporary repairs were being made. She. then returned to Mil- waukee. 2 | At the annual convention of the Licensed Tugmen's Protec- tive Association in Chicago last week, the following officers were elected: President, T. V. O'Connor, Buffalo; vice presi- dents, A. McAnty, St. Joseph, Mich.,-Martin Cole, of Duluth, Edward Kemmet of. Cleveland; secretary, H. H. Vroman, Buffalo; treasurer, Peter Gagnon, Two Rivers, Wis. The next convention will be held in Detroit. Mr. James C. Gilchrist of Cleveland in an interview in Duluth this week predicted a movement of 36,000,000 tons of ore for the season of 1906. Mr. Gilchrist said, in response to an inquiry, that he did not believe the 600-- footer a very serviceable ship for an outsider to own. He stated that the ordinary shipper cannot furnish a full a cargo for the 10,000-ton ship and that a 6,000 or 7,000-ton ship is better for the independent vessel owner or for the shipper who has not any mines of his own. The Buffalo Dry Dock Co. and the Empire Ship Building Co., of Buffalo, have all the repair work they can possibly attend to at present. At the Buffalo Dry Dock, the Anchor Line steamer Muncy is in No. 1 dock for bottom repairs. The Mutual Line steamer Northern Wave is in No. 2 dry dock for repairs also. The Veronica, of the Tonawanda Tron & Steel Co.'s fleet is in No. 3 dock for calking and the Chili is in No. 4 dock for bottom repairs. The Onoko and Panay are awaiting their turn. -At'the anntial meeting of the Gilchrist Transportation Co., of Cleveland, held recently, the following board of directors was elected: F. W. Gilchrist, Alpena; Mich.; F. M. Osborne, Cleveland; J. C. Gilchrist, Cleveland; F. W. Hart, Cleve- land; J. A. Gilchrist, Cleveland; J. B. Wood, Bellevue; A. J. Gilchrist, Cleveland; W. H. Gilcher, Sandusky, and J. D. Gilchrist, Cleveland. The directors elected the following officers: J. C. Gilchrist, president; F. M. Osborne, vice presi- dent; A. J. Gilchrist, secretary and J. D. Gilchrist, treas- urer. The retiring directors are R. E. Schuek and F. R. Gil- christ. The Dominion Transportation commission has, made a re- : port to the government recommending the nationalization of the three leading ports of Canada and making them free from all charges save those from dry docks and elevators The ports to which this applies are Fort William, Port Arthur and Mission River on Lake Superior; Depot Harbor and Midland on Georgian Bay; Port Colbourne on Lake Erie; Kingston, Montreal, Victoria, Quebec, St. John, Halifax, Syd- ney, Vancouver, the Pacific terminus of the Grand Trunk Pa- ~ cific and the terminus of the Canadian Northern. The commis- sion reports in favor of extending the Iritercolonial into Geor- gian Bay, which would stimulate the exporttrade from the ports of St. John and Halifax. Important improvements are suggested in the harbors of Toronto and Montral. PERSONAL.. Robert Haskins has resigned the position of general freight agent of the Metropolitan Steamship Co. to accept a similar position with the New England Navigation Co. Mr. Frank L. Vance of the firm of David Vance & Co., vessel owners and marine insurance agents of Milwaukee, has been elected a director of the Wisconsin Central. Mr. John Callahan, manager of the Norfolk & Washington Steamboat Co., Washington, D. C., recently visited Newport News to inspect the progress of work upon the new steamer Jamestown, building for the company at the yard of the Newport News plant. . Mr. Wm. G. Mather, president of the "Cleveland Cliffs Iron Co., has left for Europe to spend a couple of months inspect- ing the charcoal furnaces of Sweden, Norway, Austria~-Hun- gary and Germany. He is accompanied by Mr. J. C. Holt, of Grand Rapids, secretary of the Superior Charcoal Furnace Association and Thomas H. Noble, superintendent of the tim- ber operation of the Pioneer Iron Co. Mr. L. W. Powell of Duluth, for many years assistant general manager of the Oliver Iron Mining Co. and lat- terly its general manager, has been appointed third vice. president with a full power of all the affiliated copper com- panies at Bisbee, Ariz., known as the Cole group. To accept this position Mr. Powell has relinguished the office of general manager of the greatest iron mining company in the world. OBITUARY. Mr. C. F. Gildersleeve died at Kingston, Ont., recently. He was for ten years the general manager of the Richelieu & On- tario Navigation Co. Mr. Alexander H. Brown, one of the best known marine engineers on the lakes, died at his home in Buffalo this week at the age of eighty-six years. He was a pioneer in lake traffic and served on some of the earliest steamers of the lakes. : Capt. Robert Todd, a well known lake captain, died at his home in Buffalo last week. He was born in Perthshire, Scot- land, in 1832. During the Crimean war he served aboard the man-of-war Albion, and was awarded medal for gallant ser- vices at Inkerman and Sebastopol. In 1856 he came to the lakes, and for twenty-six years sailed boats for the late Capt. John Perew. In 1873.he bought the John Hutchinson and sailed her for thirteen years. He retired from active service about two years ago.