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4 - Abram Smith &- Son, / The steamer Gladstone - was eas from Pilot island without injury. , Traffic in the Lachine canal was blocked by a sunken barge for two days last week. Mr. Guy C. Kemp has been appointed agent of the 'Anchor line at ont Ste, Marie, vice S. H. Des. ae Ceased, . eile The steamer Soattish oo a British. built boat Phe was towed through the Welland canal in two sections, will be put together at Buffalo. The steamer Charles Weston, of the Tonawanda Transit Co.'s fleet; left. Bay City oh: her' first trip on eae Capt. Thomas Deringer will sail her. The whaleback barge 117 whieh was tajured: about the stern recently in collision is at' the Ecorse yard oi the Great Lakes Engineering Works for repairs. The steamer Amasa Stone stranded in a fog near the Sault last week. Rescue she was released and proceeded on her way. Capt. Dale has resigned. féom the Thompson line steam- or City of Holland, which runs' between Detroit and up 'shore points, eee st. 'Clair, of Port Huron, succeeds him. i rei eee Capt. Frank Be Chilson has. been so poltded: master of the steamer Francis | Hy 'Robbins in' place of Capt." HG, Haybarger, who will bring out the new peerncy Wm. G. Pollock. - The tug Yosemite and the schooner Annabelle 'Wilson, the former for rebuild and the latter for repairs on ac- count of fire, have arrived at the yard of Abram Smith & Son, Algonac, Mich. : The steamer Robert Holland sank in 20 ft. of water at Duluth this week in a most singular manner. The Holland was going down the bay when her deck load of lumber shifted, causing her to practically turn. After being converted from a package to an eudincey freighter, the steamer Wyoming went from the yard of Algonac, Mich., to Cleveland to load coal for Lake Superior ports last week. Contract for excavating the inside harbor for the new government naval station at North Chicago 'has- been let to Harry E.. Overstreet, of Chicago. The proposed basin is to be about 300 ft. wide, 500 ft. long and to ft. deep. The new car ferry Ashtabula, built at the Ecorse yard of the Great' Lakes Engineering Works for J. W. Ells- worth & Co., of Cleveland, underwent her successful trial on Saturday last and has since been delivered to her owners. Capt. C. H. Sinclair, underwriter representative, has disposed of the coal cargo of the schooner Hattie Wells to JOAN. Thompson, of Port Huron. The Wells which was damaged in a blow on Lake Erie will be vepaired at Port Huron. H. J. Pauly, of Milwaukee, is considering bids from various wrecking companies for the raising of the steamer John Duncan on the bottom of Northport harbor. The wrecked steamer'is in no danger of further damage and in its present position does not interfere with traffic. Extensive improvements at Harbor Beach, Mich. are recommended by Secretary Taft in a communication to congress. These include dredging the harbor and con- After lightering 600 tons tpon the | THE Marine REVIEW structing a, breakwater at a total proposed expense of $970,000. The recommendation is based upon the reports made by Major Lansing H. Beach and Capt. Charles Kellar. Difficulties which have been met with in the construc- tion of the second canal at St. Clair flats were made last week the subject of an inquiry from Washington to Col. Davis, United States government engineer in charge of the improvements. Col. Davis says that the matter is not serious. Two breaks have occurred in the work "but will be remedied by new piling. Mr. Joseph W. Ripley, general superintendent 'of locks 'on the Sault Ste. Marie canal, has been appointed a special engineer for work in designing and construction of the locks in the Panama canal. Mr. Ripley has been in Wash- ington for some time past in consultation with Chief En- gineer Stevens and sailed with the Panama commission on Thursday. of the present week for Panama. Authoritative information has been received from Wash- ington that the construction of another lock upon the site of the Weitzel lock at the Sault is not contemplated. A third lock will be built north of the Poe lock. The im- pression that got abroad that the Weitzel lock was to be enlarged, thus throwing the total commerce of Lake Superior upon the Poe lock, appears to have been er- roneous. Two launchings will occur on Saturday next, the steamer Ishpeming at the Ecorse yard of the Great Lakes Engineering Works for the Cleveland Cliffs Iron Co., and the steamer J. Q. Riddle at the Lorain yard of the American Ship Building Co. for the Milwaukee Steam- ship Co. The Riddle will be. christened by Mrs. Ida R. Pennington, daughter of the man in whose Honor the boat is named. The barge Manda, which stranded on Ballard reef, Detroit river, last week, was released on Sunday after lightering 1,400 tons of ore. The ore was put aboard the steamer Wolvin and taken to Conneaut. The Manda then proceeded to Cleveland, where she will be dry docked. She was badly injured on the rocks and will be in dry dock for some time. Vessel passages down are now being recorded at De- tour for the benefit of the vessel owners. Some vessels in passing at night do not reply to the reporter's mega- phone and vessel owners in general have requested the Marine Review to direct' attention to this fact 'They. request masters to see that the name of the vessel is called out at night while passing Detour in response to the megaphone call. The freighter City of Concord which was:sunk on May 23 just inside the breakwater of the Pennsylvania dock, Cleveland, has been raised and repaired. She left for Port Huron this week. This steamer left Cleveland har- bor May 23 loaded with coal. She sprang a leak shortly after leaving harbor and though Capt. Sewell Moore put back to port with all possible speed she sank just as she reached the breakwater. The steamer Steel King which was in collision with the steamer Manchester and which was onthe bottom at Harbor Beach, is in dry dock at Buffalo. Favorable com- ment is made over the display of good judgment by Capt. Delaney, of the steamer Steel King. After the collision with the Manchester the Steel King took in water rapidly and was drawing 21 ft. with a list of four feet when she settled in shallow water in Harbor Beach.» The saving of the steamer was due to Capt. Delaney's promptitude in getting tarpaulin around the' hole in the steamer's hull and his quick run into shallow water.